Mum starts weight-loss jabs 4 weeks after birth after putting on 2.5st
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
Who, Me? Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…
The most affordable place to live in Britain: England's 'first railway town' of Shildon in County Durham has average house price of £82,500 and mortgage payments of £325-a-month
Can you beat Wall Street? IG game tests your investing knowledge - with £1,000 up for grabs WEEKLY
Free Easter holiday activities at Essex shopping centre with puzzle trail and prizes
As the moon enters Gemini, one sign may receive upsetting news, says JEMIMA CAINER...while another is being asked to exercise flexibility
Is Meghan Markle planning an Aussie cash grab? Duchess makes big move ahead of her trip Down Under after her Netflix deal comes to an end
CodeSOD: Completely Readable
It is eminently reasonable for companies to have "readability standards" for their code. You're writing this code for humans to read, after all, at least in theory. You need to communicate to future inheritors of your code.
But that doesn't mean readability standards are good. Tony's company, for example, has rules about returning boolean values from functions, and those rules mean you are expected to write code like this:
public bool Completed () { if (completed == true) { return true; } else { return false; } }It's more "explicit" this way. Which I certainly would have explicit things to say if I were told I needed to write code this way. Also, what's with the non-indented return statements? Is that also part of their coding standards?
The Essex school where smartphones are banned during the day
'World's sexiest footballer' reveals the huge falsehood that almost drove her out of the sport
Rock legend looks worlds away from his onstage persona during low key supermarket shop with his girlfriend
Timeline of events as search for missing woman Vitória Barreto continues
Tory councillor apologises after serious allegations of code of conduct breach
Some Microsoft Insiders Fight to Drop Windows 11's Microsoft Account Requirements
Read more of this story at Slashdot.