Cognitive Biases in Software Development

Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development by loopz on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:26AM (#22736042)

  // TODO it works, but it's ugly, rewrite
  function init() {
      // some code
  }

What is ugly, what would rewrite accomplish? Excellent example of bad commenting. Comments are ideally unnecessary, so bad comments just litter code and stink it up even more. No code will live forever anyways, and it says something about someone when they falsely believe in perfection.

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Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development by dajohnson89 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:39AM (#22737921)

I write similar comments sometimes, although a little more descriptive. It's to acknowledge that this snippet has some issues and could be improved, but for whatever reason not now.

I also go back sometimes and do just that. without the comment I forget 95% of the time.

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