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By bloid
via chalain.livejournal.com
Published: Jan 11 2008 / 08:03

How do you teach honesty in coding? I'm not really sure. Yesterday I reviewed some code that was dishonest from top to bottom.
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reido56 replied ago:

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Read the "dishonest" in the title as "misleading". It's about code readability/transparency.

The title misled me into thinking this would be a post about programmers grossly underestimating the amount of time to implement a feature (iteration, whatever), and therefore being dishonest.

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dzonelurker replied ago:

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"My greatest strength, I think, is being able to give a team of really brilliant programmers a completely different way of thinking about a problem."

He is obviously a genius. How could he chose the wrong word?

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Ricky Clarkson replied ago:

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I think you mean 'choose'.

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Topnotch replied ago:

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Fantastic article! It should be posted in the cubicle/office of every english speaking/reading programmer in the world! If I had a nickel for everytime I looked over a broken codebase and recoiled in horror at the inaccurately named methods and BUGGY code I'd be richer than Bill Gates.

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