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How programmers comment their code (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (15 children)

I write such comments because I have to.

Company policy.

Also we have to specify every line of code and what it should do.......

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I feel like I am going to have to do the same thing in the end, to get my hand-over accepted.
Should I just copy the line of code and make a comment next to it with:

// It does <paste line of code>

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Do you license every comment of yours? If yes, why? Tbh i'm just curious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not every. The quick, very-low effort ones, I just leave.

Why:
I saw another post with "Anti Commercial AI License", then wen on to read the license and went, "Neat!".

It makes it easier for anyone to decide what to do if they want to use my comment/post (in cases where it actually has something useful)
It makes life just a bit harder for people data-mining for AI
- That way, some data entry worker will probably ask for a raise and probably even get it and maybe some entrepreneur going "AI everywhere!" will think twice.
- Or there will be a chatbot spouting "Anti Commercial AI License" or "CC By-NC-SA" in their answer text, which would be hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How are you inserting your signature? is it manually? Do you have some kind of keyboard shortcut to insert it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For now, I have just saved it in my clipboard application, so I copy-paste.
When it goes out of history, I just open a file, where I have saved it and copy from there. So it's pretty crude.

I was hoping that either the KDE Social web interface would add a "Signature" feature or I would pick some Lemmy application that would allow that, but for now it's just this.

Perhaps, if I feel like it's being too frequent, I may set a compose key for it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's cute that you think data miners give a fuck about the license of anything they scrape.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's unfortunate that despite explaining as properly as I could, my point was misinterpreted as me relying upon someone caring about licenses.

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