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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I don't get this meme at all... What am I expected to see in this picture? Or how am I supposed to interpret it?

I've found the origin and an explanation, and I think I do get what message this meme should convey, but I'm still confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you don't work on software projects with other people then it won't make any sense to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've been doing it for 2 decades, still don't get it. So maybe you can enlighten me what IT has to do with naming stuff in code?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IT isn't software development. Are you in programming, or IT?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wtf, I've just written above: I've been doing software projects with other people for 2 decades. 🤦

I know what IT is, hence my claim that I don't know what it has to do with naming variables. I know the answer: nothing. It's a rhetorical figure. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You actually wrote

I've been doing it for 2 decades, still don't get it. So maybe you can enlighten me what IT has to do with naming stuff in code?

You capitalized "it", so I thought you meant IT, as in Information Technology, as in device management and shit.

Anyways, idk if I can offer any insight that you haven't read already. But naming conventions are a small detail that people get really passionate about. Additionally, when people don't follow the agreed upon naming convention for the project, then the pull request ends up turning into a big argument about renaming shit, rather than an actual code review. This will sometimes spark an even bigger conversation in slack, which can turn into a meeting, and waste a lot of time.

Its usually junior engineers that don't follow it, because they're using all of their mental faculties to solve the problems, and then senior engineers see the deviation from convention and call it out. If you don't have a team style guide, then that call-out can turn into a big ol argument between the senior engineers about different philosophies. It's annoying, but it's less annoying than working in a project with no agreed-upon naming convention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Homer (IT dept) is quietly watching his neighbours (dev team) from his window