but why would you want to?
but why would you want to?
I visited a company that outsourced its IT to India. We were delayed 24 hours because the guy who could whitelist our computer on their network was asleep. It was the middle of the night where he lived.
Me: <starts a heredoc>
jetbrains: This heredoc goes on FOREVER!
Me: I’m going to close it…
jetbrains: <dies>
In an interview, Douglas Adams said after lengthy consideration John Cleese picked 42 as the least interesting number.
If you work at the same place long enough, you’re forced to remember over and over again.
What’s the meaning of a fractional “Degree of Kevin Bacon”?
Good article, but I’d guess the reality is more like 25-50x as much work as non-technical people assume, and a good interface takes about 5x the work of everything else.
They don’t merely underestimate the non-interface work, they greatly underestimate the interface work as well.
Yeah, there’s no reason it should take an hour no matter how long the tape is.
PHP is a sturdy club. You aren’t going to take over the world with it but you can reliably put a dent in something.
[flips safety off[
Last bits are: “Would you like to see files on”
“1. Secret moon base”
“2. Captured alien space craft”
“3. ELE asteroid headed for earth”
Pretty broad statement from a charcoal-brain.
I’m in this meme right now.
I just made a tiny change that somehow broke a major feature in testing. The disbelief is real.
Ancient Art of War. Really old RTS where food, morale and exhaustion are all-important. You’d think it’d be a micro-management nightmare but it plays smoothly. Unfortunately not multiplayer and never remade or even imitated, for some reason.
Notepad++ is the only thing I miss from Windows.
FIRMware is just SOFTware that’s HARD to INSTALL.
If you don’t use a vertical monitor I don’t consider you a real programmer.
Di is just good functional practice. I’m not sure it’s a super importent idea to someone who knows how to write a good function.
Edit: “a function should do one thing and its operands should be passed as arguments” for the OO world.
True, but the 10 line change can me merged two weeks from now and it won’t make any difference. If you let the 500 line merge languish for two days you’ll have screwed up the work of three other programmers.
Maybe AI will boost open source development more than commercial development since open source devs don’t have the privacy concerns.