You could save about half the code by only listing one boolean value and having the other as a default return at the bottom.
Sometimes my genius is almost frightening.
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But this way your buddy in QA can build extra test cases and pay you back when he wins an award for most test cases created or some other corporate nonsense.
You don't get it. This was made in GameMaker Studio 1.4, which doesn't support a modulo operator. You know nothing about this specific framework. I have 8 years of experience and hacked governments. There's no reason to update it now, because it runs on a smart fridge at maximum capacity.
I worked at Blizzard. I worked at Blizzard. I worked at Blizzard.
After working at blizzard for 51 years, I finally found an elegant solution by using the power of recursion
private bool IsEven(int number){
if (number > 1) return IsEven(number - 2);
if (number == 0) return true;
if (number == 1) return false;
}
assert IsEven(-2);
I removed the tail recursion for you:
private book IsEven(int number) {
if(number > 1) return IsEven(number - 2) == true;
if(number == 0) return true;
if(number == 2) return false;
}
I didn't get this.
Why return book? Does that have some Blizzard reference?
And why would number == 2 ⇒ return false? This is a function for getting true when the number is even, right?
Haha, you're right. I've now learned two things:
- I should not write code on a mobile
- I should not become a proof reader
At the end of the day i just wanted the function to be worse, by causing stack overflows
This isn’t his actual code, right? Like this specific code pictured here? I’m aware of the “drama” surrounding him currently.
Nah.
Someone added him to an existing meme.
But, if this was his code he would defend it and condescendingly tell you that he is correct, you are not knowledgeable enough to understand and let you know he worked at Blizzard for seven years.
Did you know that he worked for Blizzard for seven years? Not only that, but he was Blizzard's first second-generation employee. He grew up in Blizzard. An extreme accomplishment to be certain. Thank you based and blizzpilled Pirate Software.
I wonder if he was the one stealing the breast milk. After all, I've heard he can be really childish.
Second gen blizzard employee
this is an old meme about yanderedev
At least this madness is isolated to this function. It can easily be fixed.
Pirate’s code is just cluttered with magic numbers everywhere. Hard coded numbers that are referring to a big ”story array”, or characters. It’s just a giant web of complexity. The only fix is to start from scratch.
Inaccurate, it should be return 1 and return 0 for the true 20 years at Blizzard quality.
Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we're programmers! That's what code generation is for.
If it works it works. You mathematicians just don't understand the pragmatics. What is tech debt?
Better/fastest approch would be to check the last bit of the int and return the result. Second use modulo.
This? Dev should burn in hell. Who created this?
Alternatively you can divide by 2, turn it into an int, mtiply it by 2 and check if both numbers are the same.
Yandere Simulator Dev. Spaghetti code throughout
or another stupid, but viable way to do it,
if number = 0:
return true
runloop = true
while runloop:
if number > 0:
number -= 2
else:
number += 2
if number = 1:
return false
runloop = false
if number = 2:
return true
runloop = false
still very shitty amature coding, doesn't depend on modulos, or anything that I can think of that some languages might lack an equivelant of.
I pretty much did this at my first coding job lol I was building an online menu that you flip through with the keys lol
I did his "optimized" shading trick for a game my friends and I built for a coding project in school.
Because the project was due in three hours and we realized that we didn't have any menus. So it was a matter of getting anything functional as menus(stage selection, button mapping, main menu.)
So the game itself capped at 60fps on the potato school computers, but the static menus only got 20fps.
The fact that this probably doesn't even optimize to a lookup table just gives me pain.
Lol the amount of bullying this guy is getting lately. I've seen similar spins and bends that looks somewhat legit, making people believe he suck at coding
Definitely a vibe.
Try coding chess next time
See ya in a few years
Not to take from all the funny answers ... but
bool IsEven(int i) => (i & 1) != 1;
(C#)
Though, obviously I had to come up with some ridiculous solutions:
bool IsEven(int i) => ((Func<string, bool>)(s => s[^1] == 48))($"{i:B}");
This one works without conditionals :)
bool IsEven(int i)
{
try
{
int _ = (i & 1) / (i & 1);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return true;
}
return false;
}