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[Request] Looking for resources on terrible algorithms, architecture, and design (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 7 months ago by nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Hey folks! I think this request is right up this comm's alley. I'm sure that we all know bogo sort but, what other terrible/terribly inefficient algorithms, software architecture, or design choices have you been horrified/amused by?

I, sadly, lost a great page of competing terrible sorting algorithms, but I'll lead with JDSL as a terrible (and terribly inefficient) software architecture and design. The TL;DR is that a fresh CS guy got an internship at a company that based its software offering around a custom, DSL based on JSON that used a svn repo to store all functions in different commits. The poor intern had a bad time due to attempting to add comments to the code, resulting in customer data loss.

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[โ€“] gramie@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you should look at a few years of https://thedailywtf.com entries. Enough to make the staunchest man (or woman) weep.

[โ€“] Mesa@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/gotta-catch-em-all

Dear God.

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