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What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by ntaso »

namuol wrote: post #20

Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt): https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code

So, HN's hate-child PHP is funnier, more beautiful, less ugly and less confusing than sexy JavaScript. Although Python rules them all.

Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by DCKing »

ntaso wrote: post #21
namuol wrote: post #20

Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt): https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code

So, HN's hate-child PHP is funnier, more beautiful, less ugly and less confusing than sexy JavaScript. Although Python rules them all.

To be fair, PHP has a well-known problem of a lot of people not being able to properly judge the quality of the code they write ;) [1]

[1] Of course I don't mean you, my dear PHP writing comment reader.

Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by paddyoloughlin »

ntaso wrote: post #21
namuol wrote: post #20

Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt): https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code

So, HN's hate-child PHP is funnier, more beautiful, less ugly and less confusing than sexy JavaScript. Although Python rules them all.

Python seems to get a leg-up on the beauty stakes thanks to the popularity of the BeautifulSoup library :)

Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by jobigoud »

pnngndclsng wrote: post #16

Simple question: does "ugly hack" mean "a quick fix before relase" ?

It usually means that something out of your control is acting strange and you don't know or can't properly fix it, but you have found a weird workaround that should probably not even work, or an very contrived way to achieve the result.

As one obviously only writes extremely elegant code, it is important to notify the programmer coming after that you were forced to write it this way.

Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by chdir »

namuol wrote: post #20

Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt): https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code

If you actually look at the details, these terms aren't used in the same context as we might imagine. If there was a way to filter out useless projects, this would get interesting.

Re: What happens when you search 'ugly hack' in GitHub

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Post by int19h »

namuol wrote: post #20

Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt): https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code

There's plenty of work for C devs!

https://github.com/search?q=todo&type=Code&ref=searchresults

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