topic Re: humorous code comments in BreakPoint

humorous code comments

jcarmody — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:24:02 GMT

This answer to a serious question makes me believe there are more examples of comments that you wrote/found that could brighten someone else's day.

I put this into a brute-force OCR VI I wrote before NI released a property node to get the event selectors in an Event structure:

I'm often tempted to write "If it was hard to write it should be hard to read.", but the minions here might take it seriously.

Please share your humorous code comments.

Re: humorous code comments

Hooovahh — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:08:13 GMT

"This comment is for future Brian. Screw you."

Re: humorous code comments

wiebe@CARYA — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:20:58 GMT

Turns out most of my comments (actually feedback for improvements) isn't funny.

Sadly, this is the funniest.

Re: humorous code comments

Kyle97330 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:48:10 GMT

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams. So you are not limited to text comments.

I can't post the actual thing here because of company confidentiality, but my favorite useful one so far is where a fellow developer just straight up took a cell phone picture of a whiteboard that had a complicated diagram on it showing the process and the calculations involved, and just pasted that in with an arrow pointing to it as a way of explaining the calculations that the VI it was in was doing.

To be silly I would occasionally put "reaction meme" images in code that I was reviewing from another developer to show to them later. That never gets committed to source control...

Re: humorous code comments

JÞB — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:10:17 GMT

@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams. So you are not limited to text comments.

I can't post the actual thing here because of company confidentiality, but my favorite useful one so far is where a fellow developer just straight up took a cell phone picture of a whiteboard that had a complicated diagram on it showing the process and the calculations involved, and just pasted that in with an arrow pointing to it as a way of explaining the calculations that the VI it was in was doing.

( #Busted)

In my defense, there had been a multi-hour meeting of the engineering team to explain, and agree on the algorithms and no one captured it on paper. I had the whiteboard signed and dated by each responsible engineer and manager.

Re: humorous code comments

wiebe@CARYA — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:48:24 GMT

@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams. So you are not limited to text comments.

Just don't paste images of LabVIEW code into the diagram 😊.

That gets really confusing. Although you can resize the image, if you really insist on having LabVIEW code pasted as an image.

Re: humorous code comments

JÞB — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:23:45 GMT

wiebe@CARYA wrote:

@Kyle97330 wrote:

If you didn't know... LabVIEW supports pasting images onto block diagrams. So you are not limited to text comments.

Just don't paste images of LabVIEW code into the diagram 😊.

That gets really confusing. Although you can resize the image, if you really insist on having LabVIEW code pasted as an image.

#Busted again

It's getting to feel like a "Pick on Jay's code thread"!

Should I even admit that I have stuck documentation on a Global VI Block Diagram?

Re: humorous code comments

jcarmody — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:31:42 GMT

It's funny that the default is the old, broken way.