Tag: computers are evil

I had an interview last night and they asked me to do a coding exercise on a Mac with no mouse, a custom trackpad layout and an Australian keyboard layout. It took me longer to figure out how to use the damn thing than it did to do the exercise. I have come to the realization that using a mac is like driving a really, really shiny car with a manual gearbox that has only one pedal. It looks good on the outside, but you need to throw out everything you’ve learned about driving a car out the window because if you want your pedal to be a clutch, you need to use the indicator stalk and if you need a break pedal, you need to wiggle the wiper stalk.

Is this thing on?

Update: that’s better… stupid facebook API.

Software developers are a whimsy bunch. Sometimes, the long hours and tiredness makes your brain go bye-bye. This is the result:

/**
* For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones,
* the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest,
* fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men,
* I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down,
* never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry,
* never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
*/

// 
// Dear maintainer:
// 
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42
// 

//When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing
//Now, God only knows

stop(); // Hammertime!

//Dear future me. Please forgive me. 
//I can't even begin to express how sorry I am.  

//private instance variable for storing age
public static int age;

options.BatchSize = 300; //Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!

//I am not sure why this works but it fixes the problem. 

//This code sucks, you know it and I know it.  
//Move on and call me an idiot later.

// I am not responsible of this code.
// They made me write it, against my will.

// drunk, fix later

#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers

I’m probably guilty of a few similar ones myself. Makes me giggle :)