Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer

Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by PopeDotNinja on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:59PM (#20796202)

I enjoy seeing a bit like of humor in the code, especially silly-but-clear comments and names less important parts of code. For a one shot task, why name it ScheduledObjectStorageDownloader when you can name it AutoCloudStorageFileYoinker?!

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by OJFord on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:44PM (#20796422)

Because someone might grep for 'schedule' or 'download' but, quite reasonably, not think of 'autocloud' or 'yoink'?

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by richardxia on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:40PM (#20796401)

While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name that uses slang like "yoinker" will be understood by someone who doesn't know English as a first language.

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by sundvor on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:19AM (#20800046)

I've been using English as my first language for nearly 20 years and am unfamiliar with "yoinker".

Just googled it and, ... nah, I wouldn't approve that PR!

(Have never heard it used down here in Australia. We've got plenty of other sayings that are local to us though.)

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by PopeDotNinja on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:21PM (#20804708)

Hehe, I never googled yoinker until just now. I originally heard it on The Simpsons. Here's a SFW Simpsons supercut of "yoink":

https://youtu.be/CJh1hmmLLzw

I suspect there are a lot of words that used to be safe that are less so now :P

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Re:Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer by PopeDotNinja on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:40AM (#20797686)

That is a fair point.

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