Have you ever read a piece of code, an undocumented piece of code that you didn’t quite get? Not to say that at first glance you had absolutely no idea what it did or was supposed to do, why it was there at all?

Thought so.

Imagine that someone that wrote code as described above has the twisted idea that it actually shows skill to be able to write working code that only he/she understands. If you don’t have to imagine, I’m sorry, I know how it feels mate.

A guy called Steve wrote in a comment to the article The Next Programming Skill You Should Learn:

I think some developers get an ego boost out of it. It gives them a (false) sense of skill/power that other people need their help to quickly see what their code is about.

Um, guys, anybody who knows anything about programming isn’t impressed. People can’t read my sloppy handwriting either, that doesn’t mean what I wrote is brilliant just that my handwriting isn’t as good as 5th graders.

Well put.

Coffee bars like to push why their coffee tastes better than anyone elses. I think this place has a funny selling point. At first I thought - why send baristas to a training course in Australia? But then I realized that it says that the baristas are trained by someone from Australia, not that they’ve actually trained there.

When did Australia become famous for good coffee?