Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

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Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

ohgodwhat posted:

"Java is a lot better than Python for real code because I can make it so it doesn't crash"

He's right.

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:11

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

Volmarias posted:

Having waffles for breakfast nearly every morning, an in-building coffee shop with baristas who do pour overs, a competent help desk, the assumption that a new coworker will be competent, HR and legal departments with a sense of humor and proportion, and generally being treated as a grown up is pretty nice. You can take the mercenary BFC approach of "more money = always more better" but I'm extremely happy at Google, even though someplace like Bloomberg would probably pay much better.

The salary fixing thing is an issue, but there are reasons to work somewhere that aren't just financial.

You left out the freaking slide and ball pit!

# ¿ Aug 20, 2014 17:59

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

Scaramouche posted:

For server names that I control it's always been Alpha, Beta, Delta, etc etc. in the order they were created. When I worked at Telus (big regional telco) Windows servers were named random string bits and Unix servers were named whatever the suspendered neckbeard felt like. Eventually an alpha-neckbeard wrestled control and changed all the names to DEMONXXX where XXX was a random number. >HIS< server of course, was DEMON001. It was also the server that hosted and processed all of the x.y.binaries newsgroups; I swear the only reason that telco did newsgroups was because that guy wanted to get his porn on.

Who was DEMON666 though

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 21:24

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

TinTower posted:

Java is poo poo, full stop.

Java is actually a decent language. It's just that a lot of people using it are awful.

# ¿ Dec 4, 2014 21:36

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

I think the horror is using the ViewBag that much or even at all.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 19:04

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

Jsor posted:

So you know that really dense version of strcpy that relies on the fact that in C the "=" operator sort of returns a value?
code:
while(*(s++) = *(t++));
The class I'm TAing -- an intro level data structures course let me remind you -- has this as the answer to a quiz question. I don't mean as a possible answer and you could do it by incrementing an array index and checking the character or something. I mean the only way to interpret the constraints of the question force you to write that exact thing, and it is in fact that way on the solution sheet. However, the constraints only clearly point to that if you're already familiar with that particular construction. (Okay, actually it's strcat instead of strcpy, but it's similar enough, just add while(*(s++)); on there). It also has a bunch of questions that try and trick students with weird application of pre/post-increment operators.

She's basically just testing the worst of the worst C minutiae*. I'm not saying that way of writing strcpy isn't valid, but on a timed intro-level quiz it's kind of assholish.

* Okay, that's not true. I haven't seen void* yet.

It's testing whether or not you read K&R which you should

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 04:11

Chill Callahan: Nov 14, 2012

HardDisk posted:

Just how do you program without using variables?

Very carefully

# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 21:18

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