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a macbook with a numpad. AI is smarter than you think
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https://twitter.com/soychotic/status/1622624342688268288
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lol lemme take a picachu, codebade
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been there
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I would have a blast at a job like that, it's like silent Hill or Myst or something but in job form and I've got to assume the one dev would be fairly privileged since there's literally no better alternative than just letting them do whatever they wanted
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at the same time they will get all the blame for everything that was ever wrong with the entire codebase
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oh no way, work loves a good scapegoat and they've got like eight of em on deck, it's perfect
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yeah my next job, if i have a next job, will be somewhere where i find some non-tech centered company that needs a guy like me to do what needs to be done. Being the only programmer seems like a good gig.
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rotor posted:yeah my next job, if i have a next job, will be somewhere where i find some non-tech centered company that needs a guy like me to do what needs to be done. Being the only programmer seems like a good gig. I don’t think I could handle working for Elon though.
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rotor posted:yeah my next job, if i have a next job, will be somewhere where i find some non-tech centered company that needs a guy like me to do what needs to be done. Being the only programmer seems like a good gig. Ya being able to work on your own little walled garden as a senior rules. No one to know or care what you're up to, just the computer wizard
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Corla Plankun posted:I would have a blast at a job like that, it's like silent Hill or Myst or something but in job form my first dev job i was 22 years old and actually hired on as a "marketing assistant," doing spreadsheets and some design and just generally being an office grunt. because i knew a little bit of HTML, i was also going to be trained to help the "website guy" with day-to-day things. about a month into my job, that guy got fired, and so i became the "website guy," and inherited a horrible e-commerce platform that was so mangled that it couldn't be upgraded to a new version, along with a custom php app. this was a company that was doing millions of dollars in sales nationally, and they expected me to handle this poo poo. it loving sucked. i was given a lot of leeway in terms of being able to hire consultants to fix the poo poo i couldn't, but most of the time i was trying to figure out badly written php and the impossible beesnest of proprietary ecommerce software templating. i had never even heard of version control, so every update happened in production. i mean maybe if i knew how to code it would have been a better job. anyway that was my intro to programming and decades later it's still my only marketable skill haveblue posted:at the same time they will get all the blame for everything that was ever wrong with the entire codebase this was a problem
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Yea I sometimes fantasize about being the only IT-knowledgeable guy in a public sector office but that dream was only realistic for a brief period until everyone born before computers entered the workspace retired. Now those small places that only have one person in that kind of role expect full services on every level from running cables to frontend dev. Instead I survive by knowing a lot about goddamn excel and a little bit about most other things, hiding in the bureaucracy of a huge data-centered government agency.
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jeebus bob posted:everyone born before computers entered the workspace retired my wife had to help a coworker troubleshoot "i plugged the monitor into itself and its not showing my laptop" a couple weeks ago
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my favorite job ever was to be The Programmer for academic researchers. you're a wizard, everyone is chill, you work in an environment where everyone is learning things all the time, you get to go to conferences and get your name on papers it's not a great beginning-of-career position (the pay isn't great and you aren't learning things that get you future great pay) but i'd love to return to it as an end-of-career position
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1623366187655606272
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lol nice
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Corla Plankun posted:what country is this? i want to go there Denmark, but we started digitizing public sector stuff super early so it's not as impressive as it sounds. I realize now I meant to write "everyone who started working before computers entered the workspace" which shaves a few decades off...
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https://twitter.com/NITE_JP/status/1623199954545299456
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raminasi posted:my favorite job ever was to be The Programmer for academic researchers. you're a wizard, everyone is chill, you work in an environment where everyone is learning things all the time, you get to go to conferences and get your name on papers that was my first job and it was pretty fun. the pay was bad but i had no meaningful supervision, lots of time out of the office, and i learned a lot. now I'm the academic and i wish i had a programmer to write my code for me
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https://twitter.com/TechBurritoUno/status/1623399682612289538?t=stREqv0lK4Ukd86f_k0ZtQ&s=19
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https://twitter.com/bradneuberg/status/1623845162408611841
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Hell yeah I used to love blindly typing in basic programs I didn’t understand.
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tk posted:Hell yeah I used to love blindly typing in basic programs I didn’t understand. I remember some that turned out to have (simple) bugs in them. I always wondered if it was on purpose to force you to try and understand them. I remember one that was missing a print to clear out a moving "sprite" made of characters so you had to understand the program enough to figure where to add the missing print and at which screen position
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https://twitter.com/annearchet/status/1623201592273997826 Capturing this one in image format for posterity: ![]()
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the french speaking world needs to know English
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they know the english and i hear, historically, they're not fans
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english is the new lingua franca anyway
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https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1623509916848914432
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https://twitter.com/chmonke/status/1623937400748797953![]()
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words to live by, really. I'm the only one who matters, everyone else is a simulation.
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i'd go a step further and say that regex is not a tool that can parse anything at all. well at least not in any manner that is remotely supportable.
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The joke in that one doesn't come through because embeds don't embed long-form tweets. Click through for the whole thing.
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regex being garbage is less a joke and more a harsh reality
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I don't like that tweets can be long now
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Pile Of Garbage posted:i'd go a step further and say that regex is not a tool that can parse anything at all. well at least not in any manner that is remotely supportable. we've got an email regex in our application and it's definitely not the *actual* email regex so i'm gonna lol if someone comes in with a valid email that trips it up
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https://twitter.com/cultstartup/status/1179230278360940544
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parsing html with regex is fine. it’s fun, even
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I mean you can lex HTML with regexes, probably.
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can’t really go about scraping without some tangle of regex. everything is ‘normal enough’ in that it conforms to a set of rules which can be mapped out. good enough
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# ? May 29, 2023 05:53 |
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https://twitter.com/HakitaDev/status/1624345981792706560
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