Yell globally

Canadian Issues

Renaming variables is like...

Declare variables not wars,
Build packages not walls,
Execute programs not people,
Throw exceptions not stones.

My senior dev, shortens “analytics” into “anal” variables. Iam literally dying while Reading through the code!

Making Variables

what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Making my Sass variables...

Sassa Grey

Imagine all the variables...

Variables vs Deadline

Wk1 : int Store_Account_Balance ;

Wk3: int StoreAccountBalance ;

Wk5: int StoreBalance ;

Wk7: int storebalance ;

Wk9: int balance ;

Wk11: int bal ;

Wk 13: int b;

Math: the imaginary unit is i.
Electrical engineering: no, it's j.
C hacker: hands off my loop variables!

Make variables like "a" "b" "c" so its more easy to use. Smh.

DevConfession

I often google names for my variables to see if I find a betrer fitting synonym that reads better

In all honesty, if there was a course on giving variables good, informative and not completely stupid names... I would take it.

When you dress up your flaws

Programming Challenges

Just finished writing a script with all the classes and variables named after the characters from Sherlock Holmes. I regret nothing.

DevOps is like development, except there is zero test coverage, everything is a race condition, and there are a million variables declared as global. 😡

Why else would PHP variables start with $?

Please for the love of god name your variables in a sensible way! How the FUCK am I supposed to read your shitcode if you decide to write 6 (!!!) nested loops with variables each named by exactly one character. With no comments whatsoever!

I would rather crack password hashes than this nonsense.

Some milk. 😇😀

Improving an old JS code, replaced all 'var's with 'let's. Previous guy wrote a comment above his variables, which is now saying:
"letiabes"

how they name variables in other countries ...

"I don't want to learn about variables and stuff, I just want to build an app."

Just spent the whole day rewriting a 5,000 line function with variables like num55 or num287. These variables constantly get re-used for different purposes and overwritten at will.

Everything is now broken. Including my spirit.

"How to name your variables and functions so they can be understood by other humans" should be a mandatory lesson right after someone writes their first ever computer program.

It's official, guys! .NET bool variables can now have only the values true and 1!

Credit : Foss bytes

When you have trouble naming variables, begin writing the comment for what it should do and the name will come to you :)

Idealistic goals:
1. Learn python
2. Start a project and see it through

Realistic goals:
1. Learn how to initialize variables in python
2. Make plans for 2019

The hardest thing about coding is variable naming

Been there, done that

CTO wants all variables in file to be same length. You cant have "start" and "stop". You must have "start" and "cease".

Declare variables only :))

Reduce both global warming and global variables.

"...but for now, make all variables lowercase for simplicity."

Yeah teacher, no. Never.

The pains of coming up with short but meaningful variable names 😣

What has happened to the world.

"Declare variables, not war"

#peace

Windows environment variables dialog. What the actual fuck. For like 15 years you couldnt change the size of the fucking window.

Who prefers long descriptive variable names compared to variables that are acronyms?

I cry every tiem ;_;

I just love when someone writes variables in Polish/German/Russian/Chinese/Esperanto/Klingon or any other language that is not an English

That moment when you already used i, j and k for variable names in your loops.

Old but gold: The importance of capitalizing your variables

To all the programmers calling “ToString()” on variables that are already of type String....

Please stop.

Never name variables with single letters. Make them at least two characters, so they're searchable

Much needed!

Sometimes deciding name for them variables is the toughest part of coding :(

why the fuck people name variables endig with numbers? why? how the hell do you even figure out what's what?

checkStatus1
checkStatus2
checkStatusMyAss

Met a fellow dev who still name variables as single letter characters. :/

I absolutely hate when people name local variables something like temp or tmp. I was working on a project with a guy who did this with almost every local variable and it was really confusing to have like 7 variables with the same name in the same class.

Please use informative names!

Unless you had a horrible accident where you lost most of your fingers, I don't understand why anyone would do this. I had to double check I wasn't looking at obfuscated code.

```
String a;
String flag;
String tp;
String n;
String chn;
String lt;
String lg;
String bid;
String d;
```

You know the code is in bad shape when you see variables starting with "get":

Integer getDataBlockSize;

Deciding a domain or project name, got to be the next worst after naming variables and exposed method names

Name variables correctly!
(┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻

If naming classes, methods and variables in your (not english) native language seems like a good idea, please get another job.

Global variables in JavaScript everywhere... Being accessed by every file, every function every class... Everywhere....

If your language supports private member variables

And it's not part of the language style guide

DONT START PRIVATE MEMBERS WITH AN UNDERSCORE.

Shit is ugly as fuck.

The -> to call functions in PHP and the $ before variables.

Declare variables not War :0
Execute programs not People :p

Use Meaningful variable names, they said.

Classmates having trouble with their mess of spaghetti code and improperly named variables (I saw variable names like "poop" already).

Never name two different variables with the ALMOST same name or It will stop your work for a hours. I named one "lang" and anothers "langs"

Not doing a very expensive course on how to name variables.

Use profanity labelled variables... like the $penis I just used in my code... (makes coding fun, until u get "undefined variable: cannot find $penis on line 31")

I like developers who are good at Naming variables and writing a good commit message!

Don't you feel confused if someone in your team declares variables like this?

TextArea textarea1, textarea2;
Component component1, component2, component3

textarea2.setText(textarea1);

It's an identifier for a reason, make yourself identified!

Even if interdimensional monsters are looking for you... never forget to naming your variables!
#Bob

Well, not wrong though..

Confession time.

I mix naming styles in my code. Some variables will be camelcase, some will have underscores, some will be all lowercase.

Classes are always title case though. Anything else is barbaric.

Is it even legal to code with accents on your variables? 🤔

Angular: the only fucking place where you have to import a module to use global variables

Worst project I had was when I was asked to just copy-paste code and change the names of variables. Yeah, that's it, nothing more than that.

Best Practice: variables with meaningful names.
Me: variables named after stuff from the Marvel universe.
End result: Debugging after 6 months. WTF is mjolnir6 ???

Document your code, Don't give your variables silly names. Use git !!

javascript... the language where your code works even if you forget ';' and declaring your variables.

wtf

You know what they say what happen in vegas stay in vegas 😂

Naming variables and functions.

Programming challenges:

Easy: Hello World!
Medium: Matrix multiplication
Hard: Artificial intelligence
Impossible: Coming up with meaningful names for variables and scripts...

Those dang variables lol

Step by step here:
1. Choosing a stack
2. What to put where(folder structure)
3. Naming stuff(variables, classes etc etc)
4. Finish what I started.

hate it when people name variables like:

test1
temp1 temp2

-_-

While debugging I hate unused variables.

Declare variables ... Not War! #peace

Sometimes naming variables and classes. Because the name should be relevant, short and understandable. 😊

Declare variables, not war

I hate when people use foo and bar in sample codes as names of variables.

Hey, I´m through with the Win10 update.
That was fast. And no problems! Everything seems to be working.

Wait...
Android SDK not found...
Java not found ...
Seems all my environment variables are gone.
Even better all the standard variables are wrong too.
My Home Drive is now "H:" ?
What the hell?

naming variables like this:
$a, $b, $b1, $_b

Who even uses signed variables for usage counters?!

Naming variables with meaningful names

the number of ++ in devrant and the -- in stackoverflow I get , are random variables with equal distribution.

Var X1 = "" ;
Var X2 = "" ;
Var A = "" ;
Var A2 = 1;

...why. Just why ever name variables like that.

Last night I had a panic attack and woke up in cold sweats because in the dream I had I was constantly using the wrong variables in the wrong places...

What kind of variable conventions do you use?

timesincereseat
TimeSinceReseat
timeSinceReseat
TIMESINCERESEAT
TIME_SINCE_RESEAT
time_since_reseat
global{'tsr'} # so nobody can read it :)

*Java*
Friend: So I can have variables on interfaces?
Me: Yeah, just that they are final and static
Friend: ...

Parents - It’s so hard naming kids you know.

Me - At least it’s an one time job, try naming VARIABLES.

Welcome to PLC development! Your first thing to do is find out whta these dozen global variables do that are used by several tasks in odd places.

Using sass variables like:
$color-green-00ff00-used-in-header-only: #00ff00;

Superpower to instantly create variable names every time I need to declare a new variable based on the perfect matching with the code being written..

Add CSS variables with JS 🤓🤓

People who name variables totally inappropriately and without comments should serve time in prison

When you spend so much time using PHP that you start naming variables with $ in other languages without releasing.

bool $haha = true;
if (haha) ...
haha is not defined.

People who reuse variables.
Yeah, sure, let's just go declare
number1 = g * 86;
Oh and 10 lines down let's reset it
number1 = 0;
I WILL FIND YOU. I WILL DESTROY YOUR SMALL RAM 'ed THING YOU CALL YOUR COMPUTER.
Variables should be made for one purpose and one purpose only.

ah yes, i'm a VERY kinky Java dev

my favorite NSFW act is naming my java variables shorter than their data types

What do you call a group of variables that go to a gym? - A training set!!

My Windows friend: They say I need to setup Environment variables!!

Me: Oh! I've done that before.

After 5 minutes...
Me: How do I get into that Advanced Settings???!!!

I love that JS allows for variable swapping,
thanks to structuring / de-structuring.

```JavaScript
[ a , b ] = [ b , a ]
```

Thats all, lol.

Someone failed to replace variables

Api key and secret on js variables...

I hate people who put underscore at the beginning of private variables names in Typescript. And I don't care if they have their reasons, I just hate them.

Some people in the company (3000+ people) didn't know how to use static variables (c#) in a thread-safe manner which resulted in production problems.

Only possible way to solve this in management's mind?:

Disable the usage of not read-only static variables via quality control...

Why the fuck do these little shits use variable names like p,q,pq?
Wtf are you? Babbler Baboon !

Being a programmer and had to read scientific papers is the worst. the way they name variables in the pseudocodes making me puke.

Challenge☕️💻🎊
_________________________
Changing value of two variables without using third variable.

Because sessions are too complex

Guessing about 98% of devs on here use all lowercase for their usernames.

A project at work which is based on blindly copying other projects, empty catch clauses, a static class for global variables, and incompetence.

You know whats hard? Naming variables , school didnt teach me this stuff

When I was in first year, I let my classmate copy my source code for our VB program in order for him to save the semester. We both agreed that he should change the variables, etc first before submitting the project.

GOOD NEWS: He literally changed the variables.
BAD NEWS: We had the same interface on our project.

It sometimes haunts me, until today.

Keeping my layer names as clean and explicit as my variables when I am designing.

I will never leave an "New Layer 1" untouched!

When folks install Bootstrap and then continue to hack directly in the Bootstrap source files instead of just overriding the Sass variables...

Use names for variables which describe what you store in them, writr comments and always git!!

I legit had an interview once where he said
"Ok next question. Static variables...are they good or are they bad"

The funny thing is I can totally relate to working with someone who thinks static variables are bad but it's sad to see this is how far we have fallen.

My definition of hell?
Being forced to debug nested callbacks abusing global variables & closures generated from from reflection...

just saw a production level code, all the fucking variables in the code are in capital letters🤪😵😵😵

I named an alias variable feedItem in my database query but I keep accidentally typing feetItem. I have no one to blame but myself.

I was writing some migrations and I had to do THIS. Could I have named my variables differently? Didn't wanna... 😈

To all the grown up devs. Since you have had quite an experience of naming variables and side projects, did you find it easy to name your own child? 😃

when i put the same name to two variables

Nothing like finding camelCase, php_case and DotNetCase variables all in the same file...

naming servers >>>>> naming variables

!rant
What do you name variables with no meaning

Windows 10 likes to set my Temp variables back to C after an update, as well as enabling Superfetch and Prefetch. I made a batch file fixing all that shit...

Spend two days struggling with environment variables not being available in python script running on a docker container, tried providing environment variables directly, not working, tried providing a env file, not working
.
.
.
Turns out I was passing variables to the wrong container fml

Your preference is?

1. int tmp = 0;
2. int temp = 0;

Not using getters and setters and accesing variables publicly.

I feel naughty when I put variables half way down a function in javascript. C is so strict it makes javascript a joy ride 😂

Naming variables x z y . And of course my all time favourite xx.🤐

300 global variables.. THREE HUNDRED FUCKING GLOBAL VARIABLES?
Are you for real?

Now let me check the line numbers again..

hmm.. line 97 to .. yep line 410, just a few new lines to seperate some of them or.. group? Idk, I've given up on trying to understand those.

Now you may ask "But ThatPerlDeb, where did you see this and what was the intention?"
Low and behold, take a chair and I may explain this to you.

First of all: Fuck the dev that wrote this!
Second: Fuck all the devs that kept up with this practice or whatever you want to fucking call this!

Now, the application is our POS system that our customers can use for a monthly fee (That this piece of garbage even requires payment is disgusting) but anyway..
The global variables sometimes are declared for labels, sometimes for some frames, sometimes just for random values to be there.

We're using Perl for the POS system and Perl ain't the best at OOP, so in the dev's defense I can understand why you'd use a few global variables, but not fucking 300!! FUCK OFF WITH THIS BULLSHIT!!

So now I'm going through this torture slowly but surely deleting globals and putting them into some sort of scope and always MANUALLY test if something broke. Again, this company sucks ass and there's nothing that could even be considered a "unit test" or something like that, so fuck that, too.

After two hours I've brought down the count of global variables to about 260, so there's progress being made..

But then, there comes more!

"But how???" you may ask, and you're right, I've asked that myself.

Now to resolve the global stuff in each file some of the initial globals are used, we got about 20-30 files which do different stuff, all fair and square, at least there was an attempt at seperating functions but god this mess is so fucking fucked up. So in order to "safely" delete a global variable I have to check if any of the variables are used in another file, and if so, in which scope and how they are used.

Spaghetti would be a compliment for this fucking disgusting piece of utter bullshit.

Let alone the code quality of this "code"
Indendation? Dafuq is dat?
Scope? Nah, we got everything global anyway
Function size? Well, some are 5 lines, some are 900 lines, who cares anyways, right?

I'm so fucking glad once I leave this shithole, for real.

Yay ...
No more !important in SCSS...
All colors pulled from variables...
Such code ... Very clean 😂

Only just noticed that CSS has variables - when the fuck did this happen and where the hell was I when it did!!!!

Creating a json in Swift!? Not a joke. Real code I had to deal with... (just changed variables and text)

I think the best moment of writing a code is removing curses from comments and renaming variables from like "FUCKING_ITERATOR" to something more normal after everything finally works.

Prefix variables with his name, andy1, andy2, andy3. Hilarious naming scheme

I'm angry today. The customer's code reviewer blocked my delivery because variables of type "Context" are abbreviated as "ctx".

When a trainee used long long for all variables/members, I showed her this. She had a laughing fit

This Safari Bug is sooo bad, really hard to find it. (It initializes new variables with the element where id and variable name is the same, why?)

Can someone explain what's so wrong with CSS?

My only issue is you can't set media query variables - which is totally not an issue with cssnext or similar..

I suppose I should stop randomly naming variables and keep the randomness throughout the whole project

example: int psnhiwovb;

...I still have a project with such random names.

When you spend more time renaming variables, class names, properties etc.. to achieve perfect code and patterns rather than actually solving the problem. I'm bored now...

Declare variables,
Not vars!

Sorry!

COBOL, Clipper, DBase, FlashCode, DOS 3.30, Novell, dot-Printers ... Now learning Swift... Emojis for variables! ... I'm to old for this..... Damn millennial languages.

Naming variables is easy

When you are supposed to debug old code, and find these loacl variables

This quote made my day.

"Dependency Injection" is a 25-dollar term for a 5-cent concept. [...] Dependency injection means giving an object its instance variables. [...]."

Passing variables by reference in nested functions using PHP.
If you miss an ampersand your afternoon is very long.
😝😝😝😝😝

TIL pointers are slower than normal variables, and it makes a lot of sense, when previously I had thought the opposite.

Being assigned an old system that has scarce/cryptic documentation and uses global variables for everything. Not a maintenance nightmare at ALL.

Well I program in PHP, JS and C#.
Weak typed variables are literally the worst thing ever.

In C# I particularly hate the way callback as handled

today when I was asked to fix some code I couldn't help but count if those variables where used more times :D

University: "It is important to distinguish between read-only variables and editable variables. They make it easier to find bugs if you're changing a value that should not be changed"

Me: changes all `const`s and `val`s for `var`s every time I get a re-assign error.

has java test right after Python, forgets to initialize variables in java -_- #fml

please for the love of all that is right in the world...name variables something useful. ll_j does not help me.

How can you explain variables concept to 10year old kid, with simple basic examples??

if(isset($form_state['concert_fieldset_container'][$key]['concert_fieldset']['broadcasting_fieldset']['features']['comments_conditions']) && !empty($form_state['concert_fieldset_container'][$key]['concert_fieldset']['broadcasting_fieldset']['features']['comments_conditions'])) {
$variables['concerts'][$key]['field_concert_comment_conditions']['value'] = $form_state['concert_fieldset_container'][$key]['concert_fieldset']['broadcasting_fieldset']['features']['comments_conditions'];
$variables['concerts'][$key]['field_concert_comment_conditions']['fieldDefinition']['label'] = $this->give_label($type, 'field_concert_comment_conditions');
}

THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL! FUCKING BURN DRUPAL TO ASHES AND SHIT ON THE TOP OF IT!!

God fucking damnit 3 months left before I leave this place.

Variables as single letters or numbers, just why????

Being forced to rush code, then waiting for merge approval from your US based approver at 3am while they add comments to the review complaining variables aren't final.

Shower thought: Most variables don't actually vary

*writes programs with variables for arguments*

Runs.. Crashes

*removes variables places exact same code in parameter list*

Runs.. Succeeds.

I don't understand you my GPU

Having a static class in C# with 20 variables of generic type: ArrayList with zero documentation to know type of array content 😒

Ever felt like swapping variables?

a, b = b, a

It is the small things that count

Today's comment of the day:

# Begin OMFGWTF
...

# End OMFGWTF

10 completely separate variables all set to the same damn constant value.

Datetime variables are my least favourite variables.

When someone needs a fucking course on naming the variables.
Yeah that would be me.

Turns out our environment variables are not managed by environments but putenv/getenv instead ... great!

"I don't think we should be playing with our privates {variables} like that" - framework designer

= context =
It was noticed that we have too many setter functions to change private variables just to do unit tests. So we had a small meeting to discuss what to do about this.
Options:
- don't do the test
- ignore till another time (ie: keep the functions till its a problem)
- put the variables into a provider
- use reflection (the above quote was a reaction to this option)

This Udacity course I'm taking for Android development thinks I'm too fucking retarded to use Variables. They also "taught" me that i++ exists. Java Knowledge is required for the course.

Stop taking names for variables and functions which makes no sense

Excessive usage of linters is harmful for your grammer.

While writing a big program i always get worried about naming variables.

Unclear variables. It hurts.

- int varX;
v/s
- int varX = 0;

makes a shit ton of difference 😖😖😖

Always remember to initialize.

Stop. Debug time!

If I have four unknown variables, x, y, j, and k, but know the values of x*j, y/k, and k/j, and x*j == y/k

How do I go about getting the values of the individual unknown variables?

FML having to take on and support a python test framework that looks like it was written by a junior C embedded dev without a mentor.

- Imports everywhere in the code
- No abstraction or OOP
- sys.path.append fest (broken imports of course)
- Global variables fest
- No docstrings
- No readme
- Somehow mixed with a jUnit test framework as well
- Uses Windows environment variables profusely
- Pycharm has a stroke when I open files from this project

"There is a reason that we keep our variables private. We don’t want anyone else to depend on them. We want to keep the freedom to change their type or implementation on a whim or an impulse. Why, then, do so many programmers automatically add getters and setters to their objects, exposing their private variables as if they were public?"
-Uncle Bob, Clean Code.

The first fruits of almost five years of labor:
7.8% of semiprimes give the magnitude of their lowest prime factor via the following equation:
((p/(((((p/(10**(Mag(p)-1))).sqrt())-x) + x)*w))/10)

I've also learned, given exponents of some variables, to relate other variables to them on a curve to better sense make of the larger algebraic structure. This has mostly been stumbling in the dark but after a while it has become easier to translate these into methods that allow plugging in one known variable to derive an unknown in a series of products.

For example I have a series of variables d4a, d4u, d4z, d4omega, etc, and these are translateable now, through insights that become various methods, into other types of (non-d4) series. What these variables actually represent is less relevant, only that it is possible to translate between them.

I've been doing some initial learning about neural nets (implementation, rather than theoretics as I normally read about). I'm thinking what I might do is build a GPT style sequence generator, and train it on the 'unknowns' from semiprime products with known factors.

The whole point of the project is that a bunch of internal variables can easily be derived, (d4a, c/d4, u*v) from a product, its root, and its mantissa, that relate to *unknown* variables--unknown variables such as u, v, c, and d4, that if known directly give a constant time answer to the factors of the original product.

I think theres sufficient data at this point to train such a machine, I just don't think I'm up to it yet because I'm lacking in the calculus department.

2000+ variables that are derivable from a product, without knowing its factors, which are themselves products of unknown variables derived from the internal algebraic relations of a product--this ought to be enough of an attack surface to do something with.

I'm willing to collaborate with someone familiar with recurrent neural nets and get them up to speed through telegram/element/discord if they're willing to do the setup and training for a neural net of this sort, one that can tease out hidden relationships and map known variables to the unknown set for a given product.

The moment you're declaring variables but keep writing "ASS" because you're typing too fast...

Happy Monday!

Found two different variables used in two different ways "profileCard" and "porfileCard" Sweet baby jesus

I don't get why annotations are even allowed for local variables.

Reflection doesn't even work for local variables.

What's the entire purpose to annotate!!!
Am I missing something!!!

I have this classmate in college that names all his variables and classes like this: "seosX". I once spent an afternoon of my life helping him with this weird error he was getting running his program and the class name and file didn't have the same name...

I blocked him from all social media and my life. My IQ has doubled since.

I think for my next project I will give my classes and variables interesting names, so when anyone views the source - they can be entertained.

Just found a crystal subreport with 33 shared variables. For those who don't know what that is (lucky), they're super global variables that exist everywhere.

Please send help. I'm supposed to refactor this...

short variables names, long variable names, nonsense variable names

Erlang... variables you can't vary? WTF!

Writing JS two weeks later...
const a =1
const b = a + 1
Why would I ever assign over a? Pfft.
const c = b + 1
...

I seriously hate ppl that write vague variables name. It makes so hard for me to understand ur code !