The rant starts here

Being paid to rewrite someone else's bad code is no joke.

I'll give the dev this, the use of gen 1,2,3 Pokemon for variable names and class names in beyond fantastic in terms of memory and childhood nostalgia. It would be even more fantastic if he spelt the names correctly, or used it to make a Pokemon game and NOT A FUCKING ACCOUNTANCY PROGRAM.

There's no correspondence in name according to type, or even number. Dev has just gone batshit, left zero comments, and now somehow Ryhorn is shitting out error codes because of errors existing in Charmeleon's asshole.

The things I do for money...

Programmers: Always use descriptive variable names.

Mathematicians: Single letter variable names always, ideally from obscure/dead alphabets.

Src: Twitter

Trying to come up with function names when it does more than one thing.

My boss just revised my report and sent it back with new file names. Memes have officially infiltrated the workplace.

Some ideas for variable names. Thank me later :))

1. bool sheet;
2. int entionally;
3. char mander;
4. double penetration;
5. string cheese;
6. long schlong;

At least they made it easier to keep track of names?

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.

Anyone ever noticed the names Github gives to their releases for Github Desktop?

When you want to go home from the airport but some morron names his hotel "at home"

Ah, PHP's misleading function names.

Just registered two domain names just for the pun I can make with them.

😅😊

I am entitled to changes

These are some of the team names for my University's System Programming class. Thought you all would enjoy...

Take a look at the Linux kernel names on Wikipedia, thank me later.

Funny SSID names?

When your floor names a room Galileo and you have @bachmanity as a co-worker...

Worst part of being a dev. Figuring out names

Bad things should happen to people who put spaces in table names and fields.

Meaningful variable names

Favorite development tool: Thesaurus.

Method/variable names are difficult dammit.

Coding nightmare -> the guy who wrote this application I guess wanted job security? At the VERY least to be a pain in the ass to anyone else who touches his code....WHO NAMES THEIR VARIABLES PEOPLE NAMES?!?!? do I know what "Beth" or "Sarah" stand for? ummmm....no 😢

Naming contest:

These two 'new' servers need hostnames.
Names must be within the following constraints:

* Names must be female
* Names must be pronouncable and writable in ASCII standard set of characters.
* Names are preferred to reference to duo's, like sisters, twins, dynamic duo's like chip and dale, but female.

Previous servers were name 'tairu' & 'mairu' (heroic age) and 'karen' & 'tsukihi' (nisemonogatori)

Let's see if the devrant community can surprise me.

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Big names here on DevRant...

AWS is so complicated, it could be a full-time job to only understand all their names and stuff

Just got picked up for a project. 20,000+ code base, no comments, no docs, variable names like x, xx, xxx, no function name conventions, and a mishmash of Czech, French and English class names.

I thought this job was too good to be true. #fml

Getting really sick of brand naming conventions these days, Youtube just suggested me a video called "Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max!"

Like what are those, Transformer names? 🙄

Girls are like Internet domain names,the ones I like are already taken.😕

Indian code. Check out the variable names. What a mess.

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

If you ever come across a Java codebase with capitalized method names, RUN. I should've taken this advice years ago.

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

User: “I’ve tried hundreds of different names. How come all the usernames are registered?!😤”
Developer: ”I’m quite confident about my code. Can’t find any issue in this login form.🤔”
QA: “It passed all unit tests. We did a comprehensive testing on live server by registering all the possible names. What can go wrong?🙀”

The kind of method names you get for making me go to work on Saturday

Just wow...

Just so you know.
In node js.
You can use emojis as methods names. For real.

FUTURE 😄

My co-worker gave me assets for my project with names like- layer_1, layer_1_copy, layer_1_copy_copy...

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

Worst part about being a dev is figuring out good variable names and function names.

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

When someone writes class names lowercase and methods uppercase in Java.

Variable names DO matter.

Thought Amazon servers went bonkers seeing these names. Later realized these are episode names for TV series, Mr Robot.

Friend : I know how to program!
Me : Cool! What language do you program in?
Friend opens notepad and names file program.bat
You have disappointed me

Use Meaningful variable names, they said.

Not sure if those are real song names or Spotify is trolling me when I try to trigger a "no results" UI in my app.

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

You know a Repo is fucked when you have to rely on global text search to find and rename symbols like method or class names.

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"

That moment when coding all day makes you... Creative... Hmhm.

Giving functions exciting names so you can feel like a Bond villain while programming:

execute(); destroy(); fire(); isDead();

Apple’s new iPhone lineup has confusing names:

- iPhone extra regular liquid liquid crystal display
- iPhone extra small
- iPhone extra small maximum

Naming shit is truly the hardest part of coding.

Some people say they use dark themes because it looks cool, but we all know it's for when you're up late programming and don't want your eyes shot to pieces.

When you have been anonymously voted for the team leader and you know only two names from your 80 people class.

Pet peeve of the day: People littering code with comments that repeat already obvious method names.

// Submits public key password
SubmitPublicKeyPassword(string psw)
{
//...
}

I use variable names so bad that even i forget what they mean

Name ideas for this girl? (I know she's a girl, I checked.)

Why did I mix English and Swedish variable names?

Was my prev dev fucking high or what?
Who names an UPDATE Query as delete.
That shitfuck deserves a special place in hell.

I think yesterday I was drunk or very tired

You can only use letters and spaces for names...
WELL FUCK YOU!
FUCK YOUR STUPID DEVS!
FUCK THIS!
(still a cool service tho)

Found this on the internet. credits to the artist

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

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

So since JARVIS (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System) is out.

Only ALFRED is left.

*popular AI child names*

If I had a penny for every time I misspelt 'nginx', I'd be richer that Bill Fucking Gates.

Could you have picked a more typo-prone name!?

Some people need to understand commit names

hearing many of these companies names, for the first time

For all those lazy people who hate writing long domain names: DDG is now available also on duck.com domain

Had to download eclipse ide for a project
Latest release is called neon
Guess they ran out of cool planet names
😀

Programming challenges:

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

What docker means:
Sorry pal, service names mustn't contain spaces

What docker says:
desc = name must be valid as a DNS component

I CANT PICK NAMES FOR ANYTHING UGH

That moment when you run out of names in games

I'm doing my own sci-fi D&D story and need some new weapons! So why not use programming names? 🤔

So far:
voidpointer
nullifier
destructor
finalizer

One player is also a dev and I want to trigger him as hard as I can 😈

Start building first! You can think about variable names later 😜

Naming variables with meaningful names

dfox and trogus are devrant++ users but there names are not listed in devrant++ supporters list..
You both missed to add your names.. or took the privilege of being the founders and developers..

When your dev's copy and paste code and don't bother changing the (completely irrelevant and misleading) variable names.

Just me who cringes when people replace brand names they don't like with things like "winshit" or "shitter"?

Not defending any brands though, obviously.

Figuring out where to put my devRant stickers is like picking variable names.

Except you can't refactor stickers...

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

Just inherited a project from a "senior" with the variable names 'gggg' and 'ssss' in it...

I bought this beer just because of it's name. Is there any whiskies or other drinks with geeky names?

devRant I want you to meet Stressy the Stressball.

What did you name yours?

Had to consume a soap webservice which spits out a XML of 5000 lines with ambiguous node names and a shitload of data that needs to be parsed.

Built a ORM model to hold all the data and I already built a Xmlparser which works like a boss.. untill now..

I've been debugging for 3 hours, cursing every God man ever made up. Swearing at my screen like a madman... but this particular set of nodes just didn't got saved properly to the DB...

Alright, so my ORM definition is fucked... nope... Alright, so my XmlParser is fucked... nope...

Whaaaaat the fuuuuck...

Oh wait, I've been checking the wrong table for hours....

Hooray for ambiguous tables because I followed the ambiguous structure.

I am going to get drunk now.

X

who the fuck names their table aliases a, b, c, d... in a long query

Descriptive variable names and method names > comments

Giving interesting names to boring projects to make them sound cool and get others interested.

Unintuitive APIs, with poor documentation and terrible parameter names. It's like they don't want me to use it

"What kernel version do you use?"
"Hurr durr I'ma sheep!!"

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..

When you are tired of adding features and now out of names for classes

when you're copying code from stack overflow and you have to change the class names

New PM thinks it's a great idea to start micromanaging my team's (private) repo names. Can't wait to hear his opinions on our class and variable names! 😭

When you earn your HOT new stickers from the DevRant team!

When u send ur code for review and instead of getting comments for logic u put in, u get 10+ comments regarding variable names , extra lines and formatting.
LMF

Something about those names is bamboozling...

Previous dev needed to validate new user names as unique. His solution? Query Top 1000 rows and do a string comparison. Totally scalable, amirite?

Developers who think using cryptic variable names (like acronyms) is better than long descriptive variable names.....but then feel the need to document/comment the variable name rather than just naming the variable properly in be first place.

// Current CGRect to draw into
let ccgrd = self.currentCGRect()

Instead of just

let currentRectForDrawing = self.currentCGRect()

Someone needs to make a site that generates cool project names because I swear it's the hardest decision to make.

I really hate api response variable names like this. I mean why type "targetitemid" when "target_item_id" is so much more readable?

When you mad with your manager so make all object names in your code the names of the seven dwarves.

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

Holy shit the commit names on cimg library are insane

how does windows explorer sort by names

Sometimes I spend way too much time on variable names xD

Such variable names
much helpful
very wow!

Either I need to download sdk source code for var names to show up correctly or I need to memorize which is for what :\

So my girlfriend was Gavin wifi problems and she calls me to fix it with vague description of what's happening (not even enough to google).
"But I'm a programmer?"
"And?"
"That's networking, they're quite different"
"It's computer stuff it can't be that different"

Please, please for the sake of your born/unborn child, check whether the names of the entity attributes are not valid sql keywords.

My wife often listen my rants about stupid clients, she thinks that I hope to much from them. Like image as actual image not fucking embedded in word document.
Today she agreed to help her friend and make name cards for tables. Got list of names ;) one photo of paper with hand written names on it :D

Today on GitHub: this must be the new "autopilot", probably slackbot's brother, suggesting me slightly funny arbitrary repository names.

"Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about shiny-fiesta?"

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

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

Just another day of trying to figure out The purpose of a public method with zero documentation and cryptic variable names🙇🏼🙇🏼🙇🏼

One of the things why I like working with Linux, you get to see cool names lol

So my real name is jason and I got the habit to use Json as my nickname as a little Dev pun.

I think I overdid it

When you are done with classic variable names and decide to get creative. F#ed up names.

It's only in computer science you hear funny names for technical problems.
Sleeping barber 😂😂

My boss: Can you write something to append the product names with their descriptions?

Sure. Sure you want that?

Yes. Asap please.

Okay, I'll finish it this today.

*Done

Finished it, want me to publish this to production?

Yeah.

(One week later)

Did you put those name changes online?

Yes, why.

Oh damn, your co-worker, D. Trump, has changed a lot of the names so they index better on Google. You should check those kind of things before changing it online.

Right..

Concerns a few thousand products. Long story hah

Tldr; updated many product names overriding many hours of manual labour.

Development time : 1 month
Architecture: 5 days
Writing code: 5 days
Testing: 5 days
Deciding variable/service/entity names: 15 days

I worked at a startup that indulged in pair programming thing. Where as a junior, you'd be partnered with a senior developer.

My mentor, always insisted on having shortest variable names possible, so that the "size of codebase" will be very small.

It was a nightmare going through his code and understanding what's he's done. Best part, no comments as well.

In a way it has primed me to go through any codebase possible.

When people don't comment their code and user arbitrary variable names 😡😤😡

I'm working with dictionaries today so naturally all my variable names are making me chuckle:
threshDic
saveDic
cutDic
Etc. you get the picture, it's the little things that get you through a Friday slog.

Favourite CSS color name?
Mine is teal

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

And then I said: my children's names shall be
Travis
Json
Typhoeus
Ethon

project#2.1

who the fuck names a php login script 'entry.php'

I just wasted 2 hours trying to figure out why the properties of a destructured object returned undefined, even though everything was fine in JSON format. Tried to request data on the frontend from my server with a database attached. Tried accessing each object of my array separately, it worked. In a loop: dataArray[index].propertyX ... undefined??
Turns out I used the wrong property names to access the info inside each object.
🤦

Something I'm working on at work needs a code name. How do y'all come up with code names for your projects?

Not using the ide's autocompletion and always writing out the whole goddamn names.

Just going through some old code from git repo's and code examples and I have a message to every dev out there after seeing some of the code quality...

Never... ever... ever fucking give variables with names like vx, tr and sq.

Give your variables names that explain what they are, it is so fucking hard trying to follow code that has 2 letter variable names and there is a special place in hell for you :-)

Spelling and grammar errors in variable names, function names and comments.

JS method names I still can't remember, even after 6 years of writing in it:

append is called concat,
any is called some,
all is called every,
contains is called includes

I always have to pause for a good long while or look it up when I need to use any of these is annoying, but my brain refuses to adapt to these names.

After @BobbyTables asked for super hero names, I'm curious for some supervillains.

I'll start with DOM Corleone

If Skype 4 Business could stop changing the control names for their input fields, randomly, that'd be great.

Can't someone just write some sort of Programm that gets project adjectives as input and outputs some nice project names. That would be super awesome. How do you create your project names?

Does anyone know why the ads on YouTube have so strange names?

Ever been thinking about something only for someone to call your name and get you out of your train of thoughts?

Names a variable Y, names another Q, yet another U. While still writing looks back at Q. What's Q supposed to mean? Closes laptop and walks away.

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_Files; // Recently used files

why not just use:

class XXX
{
public:
std::vector<std::wstring> m_RecentlyUsedFiles;

FFS

I'm so used to camel casing variable names that when I wasn't concentrating properly just now I called a variable "outPut"

Stickers came today. Thank you guys @
@

Please help me find the 2 guys I should thank for that. YES I FORGOT THEIR NAMES.

When people use one character variable names in their code I'm just like:
How do you guys live like this... 😰

Reading documentation started feeling like reading a novel…

…but there are thousands of characters and they all have 3 letters names!

Saw a counting variable in code. It was a necessary counting variable, so that is not what this is about.

However, this is a US based company that has a somewhat PC (no cursing) and professional cultural facade.

This variable was called "cnt". How the hell did that one not get caught in peer review? I have gotten dinged for having "possibly offensive" variable names (think Point5Hit though I have never written that as a variable name). It was funny. But I have changed it because that's just lazy.

Considering most IDEs can autocomplete basic things like function names, would it be beneficial (for learning purposes at least) that a language avoids ENTIRELY any abbreviations?

For example, let's take some of C's printf family.

Instead of fprintf, printf and sprintf, the new function names would be something like print_formatted_to_filestream, print_formatted and print_formatted_to_string respectively.

When you have a dev domain, yet your senior developer coworkers still add "Dev" to their app names..

I love the names of computers...

I needed to update this function to add some more functionality​. And this is what i did.( I did added more functionality though)
Will I be fired?

Stop taking names for variables and functions which makes no sense

Remember to check file names when using cp😥😭

When an Oracle procedure from commercial software uses very meaningful variable names...not! SMH

Fuck this shit. My mind ran out of class names.

now taking server names for our live backend server, most +1d's by tomorrow arvo i will name our server that.

People that argue that anyone who doesn't understand their one or two letters long variable names are idiots.

"I walked into this room full of law enforcement officers and said "' Do you guys recognize any of these names ?"' I read of a list of the names, one federal officers explained "' Those are the judges in the U.S. District Court in Seattle."' And I said "' Well, I have a passed file with 26 passwords cracked ."' Those federal officers about turned green."
Don Boelling, Boeing Aircraft

Funny team names? A team at my comapany cant call themselves the "super high intensity team" so they gotta find a new name.

Me:put proper variable names so that i can remember later what this loop does
After writing some good names
Me: i will remember it i am just gonna put initials
After a week or two.....

Me:wtf these a,b,c,d,i,j,k,l variables do

I've been working on an ERP system for several years and we had a module to record your presence time.
The code was absolute shit but at least the method names matched.
The method to record the end of your work was named "outhouseRecord".
One translation for outhouse seems to be a toilet outside.

Just found my first little game I wrote in c++ and opengl(like 5yrs ago). Need to rename over 300 file names, class names and for each class their members names and function names now because ewww how can you call vars in programming like that. Porting it to Linux now. Library linking is working yet. I remember how awful it was to do that shit in vs. In Linux its ez. Also wrote a makefile because vs always compiled my whole project every time I ran it (for whatever reason).

I think that's what I'm going to be doing as a side project this week.

The idiot who has taken it upon himself to break into my unfinished, unused, unknown website only uses male names. I'm tempted to change the login process to let female names in (the site is empty so the difference will be a 200 instead of 401) just to see if he ever figures it out.

onEnlightControllerActionPostDispatchBackendPluginManager

Who needs docs if you've got such speaking method names.

Does anyone else include greek letters in their JavaScript variable names just to fuck with co-workers?

Don't use keywords as variable names, you're going to have a bad time.

So my current PC is named the tesseract for its power and squareish case shape.

I just had a thought that if I ever seriously upgrade it or build a new PC, I should name it Thanos...

Out of variable names

PyCharm's Warning: "Function name should be lowercase for PEP8 naming conventions."

Do Python developers not like camel case function names?

Why developer of c# (Anders Hejlsberg) when developing (TypeScript) not implemented method overloading and interfaces' methods implementation with same names.

Looks familiar?
I really need to start giving more descriptive names when I test code..

Var that=
Vat thatt=
Var thattt=
....
Func workFFS=

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.

When one of your co-developer attach style rules to element tags instead of class names.

Product manager keeps fucking with my Jira board, changing names of tickets that he's not even the reporter of and none of his names make any sense. I keep thinking my tickets have disappeared. He doesn't understand how Jira works and confuses the shit out of me.

Why can't corporate printers have logical names?

short variables names, long variable names, nonsense variable names

Does anyone use emojis for variable names?

I have friends married to girls from the Philipines. If there are some people from said country in here, would you mind telling me why their FB names, instagram names or whatever are things like:

"Cee La SomeShit still Trying <white dude surname>"
"Beauty Hope LoveThisSwag <whatever last name>"
"Leyla StillHaveDabooty <white surname>"

Like wtf, just put your fucking name, shit sounds SO fucking trashy

Startup: Kids buying cheap domain names worth $1 from their pocket money and explain Who they are, and What they do!

What does my current job hate descriptive names? Like to the point of active antagonism? We're a subscription based service. Why is SubscriptionExpiration the date you log in? Why does SubscriptionStatus only contain the name and id of product you're subscribed to and nothing to do with an actual status? All I need is the date a user subscribed. Why is this so hard!?!?

When you reach a moment when you can't come up with more class names, you just name them randomly

Nothing like having to work on a codebase which has most of the class and variable names in a language you don't speak :/

To the people that mistake i and j in nested loops: Have you considered giving these different names?

Bruhhh why you use random single character in your variable names in javascript src code? Do you have uglifier installed in your brain?

Wound up talking about baby names with a friend

Apparently wanting to name my hypothetical future daughter Buffy is ridiculous

IDK why I get annoyed by underscores before private member names... Is i it useful or just an old relic?

I can set Emoji as GET parameter names and it works. Not sure if I rant about that or not.

My surname is also a common firstname, so sometimes people mix them up and call me by my surname. I'm never offended and just answer by calling them by their surname too, so they understand... usually.

Today, the following e-mail exchange happened:
(Following are made-up names)
Me: Alexander William
Colleague 1: Kurt Richardson
Colleague 2: Amy Lopez

From: k.richardson@contoso.com <Kurt Richardson>
To: a.william@contoso.com <Alexander William>
Cc: a.lopez@contoso.com <Amy Lopez>

Hi,
Could I have an USB-C to HDMI adapter please ?
Thanks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: a.william@contoso.com <Alexander William>
To: k.richardson@contoso.com <Kurt Richardson>
Cc: a.lopez@contoso.com <Amy Lopez>

Hi Kurt,
I'm currently remote-working but if you are on premises tomorrow I could give one to you.
If you're not there tomorrow, I'll just drop it on Amy's desk so you can get it from her.

Regards,

Alexander William
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: k.richardson@contoso.com <Kurt Richardson>
To: a.william@contoso.com <Alexander William>
Cc: a.lopez@contoso.com <Amy Lopez>

Hi William,
I'm working on premises every thursday.
Regards.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: a.william@contoso.com <Alexander William>
To: k.richardson@contoso.com <Kurt Richardson>
Cc: a.lopez@contoso.com <Amy Lopez>

No problem, Richardson. As I said I'll then drop it on Lopez' desk.

Regards,

Alexander William
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: k.richardson@contoso.com <Kurt Richardson>
To: a.william@contoso.com <Alexander William>
Cc: a.lopez@contoso.com <Amy Lopez>

Good evening William, [Editor's Note: this was received at 14:23]
Thanks.

Is he fucking dense or what?

I made this site which is nice. Its a nice project plus I made this for my own. So I decided to book a domain for it.

Turns out every possible name is booked and it started pissing me off. I mean how positive people are for startups.

They made this a real-state business. Saw land acquire it. You never know which one will be next facebook ha!

Then I hit git.com which was parked too. I thought god bless you and your money.

Funniest variable names?

I read today:
Switch that;
And in the constructor:
that = this;

That moment when your brain can't think of new variable names

Disappointment of the day- Spaces in column names of tables in SQL!!

Using single character variable names.

It's fucking hard to find software names... I hate it. I feel like ever fucking name you can think of is already taken.
How do you guys find names for your software?