codinghorror

Coding horrors

  • Subsetting data and using the wrong indices
  • Read in files with numerical names in the wrong sort order (1,11,110,…)
  • Duplicated code
  • Duplicated code where one duplication is a little bit different than the other
  • Detecting the correct text coding of a file
  • Global variables
  • Script files with names which have absolutely nothing to do with their content
  • Variable names which have absolutely nothing to do with their purpose
  • Quick modifications of recursive functions
  • Time zones
  • Reading/Writing contents of PDF files
  • Assuming that someone will create required system setup that you need in your code (do it yourself!)

Coding hints

  • Improve CPP performance by avoiding the heap
  • codinghorror.txt
  • Last modified: 2016/12/29 23:35
  • by phreazer