while reverse engineering, the eternal question of

"am i misunderstanding what the code is doing or is whoever wrote this really fucking stupid"

@lizzy

Or, when considering code that I wrote myself, both.

@lizzy or a secret third thing: the compiler is doing something seriously fucky

@lizzy

@rk @lizzy I'm sorry there's just too much meme potential in this post!

@lizzy As someone who has had to do many code audits over the years, always assume the latter.

@lizzy also applicable to regular, forward engineering

@lizzy @foone me, every time I'm looking at the code I wrote two months ago.

@tithonium @lizzy @foone s/month/week/

@semifor @tithonium @lizzy @foone day.

@gsuberland @lizzy or a secret fourth thing: all of the above

@lizzy "really fucking stupid" and "really fucking lucky" is something very difficult to tell apart.

@charette yea, true. a lot of the code just works by accident

@lizzy I'm getting a lot of that atm, but at least I know it wasn't me, the code is up to 20 years old and I've only been there six months. It could be either crap or really "clever" use of SQL for all the business logic.