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MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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  • Yup...i can confirm that

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  • Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and aa rot13 transformation.

    Lol. You're not wrong.

  • Yup...i can confirm that

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  • I'm kinda jealous. I don't miss maintaining production Perl code, but Perl was more fun to code in.

  • Things could be worse

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  • Maybe they're just very careful never to promote anyone from engineering to the bridge crew...

  • Yup...i can confirm that

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  • Lisp is the more logical choice.

    Relevant XKCD. Python has replaced Perl, but things have otherwise changed quite little.

  • New fear unlocked

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  • The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn't.

    Or, considering that they're mostly introverts, if they look approvingly in the general direction of your shoes...

  • OpenAI's $150B valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources

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  • Oh gosh! Someone bet the farm on something they didn't understand and is using their massive influential resources to try to turn a bad bet into a good one?!

    I'm glad this is the first time that ever happened. (/sarcasm)

  • Friday the 13th [War and Peas]

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  • like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it

    Yeah! Without a proper backspin toss, it's not going to land in their palm correctly, or in time for their next throw.

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    Boeing risks losing billions as 33,000 workers vote to strike

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  • This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing's primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing's workers, away from it's current leadership.

    Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing's leadership lately has.

    The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing's customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it's Armed Forces.

  • Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working

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  • I think they forgot to pay themselves to use their product.

  • Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working

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  • You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

    I've been told that, as well, but I'm not sure I see it... Seems like a lot of effort... (This is sarcasm. Or is it just too much honesty?)

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • Thank you for this. This is awesome.

    shittingTurtle and victimTurtle are going into one of my professional slide decks as soon as I think I can get away with it.

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • I love it!

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • All great code started out as a shitty work-around that happened to work.

    (I say this as someone with one of the more prestigious pedigrees in "not writing shit code". All the theory I've learned helps, but at the end of the day the most important qualities of a line of code are: whether it got the job done, and whether is was obviously correct enough that the next developer left it alone.)

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • At this point I think there is no software dev topic that is somehow not devisive.

    Now I want to try something:

    "Boolean variables don't suck."

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • Wow. "peak shareholder value" is what I shall now call "multiple inheritance", from now on.

  • My friend suggested I use different names for variables..

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  • Thanks. I hate it.

    I consider myself a collector of programming anti-patterns, but I didn't have this one yet.

  • Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming

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  • I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

    They did.

    And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

    Yep.

    And when high-level languages started appearing.

    And yes.

    That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.

    So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.

  • What's better than a "double dumbass"?

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  • At first I thought these were really good photoshop, but then I remembered his episode in Voyager.

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  • I'm in. I wonder what the actual numbers on this are.

    Am I gonna be out the thousands I've been promised by the "UBI can't work" crowd, or is it going to be like seven cents (total, for my lifetime) because I have no real concept of what a billion dollars is compared to what I earn...