cf. nitter.vloup.ch/devcurmudgeon/st… when someone says "My code is too clever/complex for you to understand" it can be related to a number of things. They might honestly think that they are cleverer, they might be ashamed of the quality or legality of the code. What do you hear?
0% we are cleverer than you
50% we're ashamed of our code
0% we're afraid it's illegal
50% other (comment below)
2 votes β€’ Final results
Paul Sherwood @devcurmudgeon
30 Aug 2018
I'm getting rather sick of folks saying "our code is really complex, you won't be able to help/understand". We're Codethink, for fuck's sake!

Aug 31, 2018 Β· 8:08 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
"Our code is an amalgamation of developer idiosyncrasies that would take a several months of initiation. We're not ashamed of it, although we have a sinking feeling that we should be, but we can't articulate why because we've never seen robust composable abstractions."
Replying to @dsilverstone
*Just once*, I hand-wrote a gnarly optimisation so obtuse and specific that the comment was basically "This does X and is ultimaintainable. If you need to change it, rewrite from scratch."
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