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Ian Douglas ScottAll engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.
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@ids1024 me compiling my code into assembly so i figure out what my arbitrarily named function does
Shane Kerr
kabdib@ids1024 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented."
The Doctor@ids1024 Do you mind if I quote you on that?
Gordon Oliver@ids1024 you could have left the tautology off the end.
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spaceape :nonazis:Standard documentation be like
.header {
background-color: green; // makes header-background "green"
}
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Wildduck@ids1024 Everyday in my workplace ๐ญ
leap123@ids1024 All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things too much
Paul L@ids1024 My colleague Stefan had the habit of just writing readable code; I kept writing documentationโฆ
Turns out that readable code was much more liked by othersโฆ
Readable method names and easily refactorable code are much impactful than documentation!
Turns out that readable code was much more liked by othersโฆ
Readable method names and easily refactorable code are much impactful than documentation!
JamesMy company bought a company where all of the software was documented in Dutch.
Management: Horrors! We are doomed!
Me: I think I can handle this.
The software was in Visual Basic. I read German - from 20 years ago high-school lessons. I think I had to open a German-English dictionary twice.
Kimberly Jones@ids1024 everything is open source if you are good enough at reverse engineering
Analoger Widerstand@ids1024 The same for aerospace.
Dragon@ids1024 or if someone else documents things poorly enoughโฆ
Diane Bruce@ids1024 That sounds like some device drivers I have had to write.
llewelly@ids1024
put another way: bad documentaion sends engineering into reverse
put another way: bad documentaion sends engineering into reverse
Farooq Karimi Zadeh@ids1024 I believe doccing is at least as important as doing the actual thing if not more important.
niconiconi@ids1024 OpenBSD calls the act of "reading Linux kernel driver source code to understand how the hardware works (because there's no public datasheet) in order to write an independent one" as "reverse-engineering from source code".
Dmitry Mazin@ids1024 We are part-time engineers, part-time Slack archeologists :-(
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mjec@ids1024 and with enough contributors, all documentation is poor
Roger Lipscombe@ids1024 me using wireshark to figure out the network protocol for some code I wrote (and still have the code for...)
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