Kode Vicious
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Dear KV, My co-workers keep doing really bad things in the code, such as writing C++ code with macros that have gotos that jump out of them, and using assert in lower-level functions as an error-handling facility. I keep trying to get them to stop doing ...

Dear Kode Vicious, I have this problem. I can never seem to find bits of code I know I wrote. This isn’t so much work code--that’s on our source server--but you know, those bits of test code I wrote last month, I can never find them. How do you deal ...

Dear KV, Whenever my team reviews my code, they always complain that I don’t check for return values from system calls. I can see having to check a regular function call, because I don’t trust my co-workers, but system calls are written by people who ...