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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • Are you a nerd? [Bob the Angry Flower]

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  • If we need to ask whether something belongs on this list, the answer is yes.

    Except Babylon 5. For Babylon 5, the answer is a new language concept called a triple-yes.

  • Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely

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  • If you're thinking about it in terms of quantity you're already doing it wrong.

    You're ignoring that simple principles make great guidelines for not overthinking things.

    And you're doing so in the context of an article about the dangers of overthinking things.

    You've over thought an article about the dangers of overthinking, while alienating potential collaborators with a condescending tone.

    You're coming across like one of the rookies who need this warning.

    Consider counting to three, before applying DRY. It works.

  • I really can't stay...

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  • Right. Becubs my node id cyogged.

  • Zero Bugs

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  • Is this website broken, or just empty? Did I miss the joke?

  • Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely

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  • There are plenty of bad abstractions in the wild and novices applying DRY is a common source of them.

    You're both saying the same thing though. Novices aggressively apply DRY the moment a second bit of identical code appears, while experienced developers often wait for a third copy and then think about whether DRY fits.

    That said, I think "don't apply DRY too aggressively is the whole point of this discussion, and the person you're replying to was kind of needlessly disagreeing.

  • Let's Cook!

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  • Planet Money podcast did a bit where they followed up with people who fell for buying cheap pharmaceuticals from spam emails.

    The assumption was that people paid the too good to be true prices, and then never got anything in the mail.

    The weird twist was that everyone interviewed was really satisfied with the product they received.

    Now, all disclaimers certainly apply: don't trust a spammer with your life, there's nothing to stop imitator scammers from joining the legitimate?! spammers, and people's satisfaction is a poor measure of drug safety and efficacy.

    But it does seem like a sign that someone is doing some of this already.

  • 10 things that block your Happiness

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  • Yeah. I knew better, but it just didn't occur to me until I was confirming my backups later.

  • Guns

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  • Yeah. Absolutely. Even having been robbed a few times really messed with my head. I would hate to have to live with worse.

    But I still figure people have a right to seek a safe place to be, and cornered people have a right to use violence, to reach a safe place.

    I'll allow there might even be other times when violence might be moral, since life can get pretty complex, but I hope to live my life without having to make that call.

    But I believe that when cornered is the only time a human can use violence with a totally free conscience.

    It's why Sun Tzu advised we always give even our worst enemy an escape route. It's much better to not have to fight at all, than to have to win a fight with a desperate enemy.

  • Guns

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  • Honestly, not much difference between that and chihuahua. Fight to kill out of fear.

    Yeah. Everyone has a right to pursue a safe place to be.

    If someone or something puts me in an unsafe enough position, I might have to go through them instead of around them to get to safety.

    There's no shame in that. It's also nothing to be proud of. It just is.

  • Empathy Training

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  • North America is just the Continental United States, now.

    Canada and Mexico have gone into witness protection to avoid getting wrapped up in our bullshit.

  • The Borg are eating well now!

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  • "Sounds Swedish."

  • Fingerprints

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  • Later, baby's first words were: "Look, ma! I want to cut you in on the take, but you gotta help me be sure you won't squeal when the feds come around."

  • Hallmark

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  • Yeah. I'm imagining Sharknado production levels and Sharknado pacing, but following the Hallmark formula, and with really mundane absurdist details.

    • Those fragile little precious moments figurines and limited edition Star Trek ornaments need to be a recurring favored snack for the competing love interests who are lovable but wrong for our heroes.
    • One of those little Christmas village decorations sets needs to turn out to be an undiscovered life saving medication, when ground down to a fine glittery paste. Feeding it to someone's niece gives her the strength to learn to walk again.
    • Someone's talent for cross stitch needs to solve a decades old mystery about someone else's estranged and now tragically dead parent.
    • A poorly gifted and then ignored-for-years art set needs to be part of the big "they truly love me" reveal moment.

    I think we have a potential masterpiece, here.

  • NSFW

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  • That's why I buy myself projects that frustrate me for several days, before they make me feel better for a day or less, and then I go back to how I did before.

    I really get my money's worth that way...I guess...

  • "AI is gonne take our jobs." The AI:

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  • This is like interviewing the child of a programmer and hiring based off of that.

    I could land a job that way, but I'm just that fucking good. Lol.

  • 10 things that block your Happiness

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  • Pro tip: Copying a Postgres database while live transactions are interacting with it frequently results in a corrupt backup.

    Thankfully I test my Luanti backups.

    Edit: I should clarify - My dangerous backup method was a naive file copy. I'm sure there's a different correct way to do a live backup. I just haven't checked into it yet, since stopping my Luanti server for a backup is no big deal.

  • Removed

    Avatar is about capitalism

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  • Oh! The bit where they fire dozens of rockets at a giant tree was also an allegory?!

  • Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera - Yahoo Sports

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  • Yeah. Fuck this noise. I'm boycotting the Hornets. You won't catch me at a Hornets Football match!

  • What's the deal with Klingon painstiks?

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  • Yeah. I mean, Q definitely is a bully. He has learned no healthy ways of interacting with anyone.

    He's just a bully who also loves Picard.