awful programming: feature flags and suffering

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mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

born to script
type safety is a gently caress
eval em all 2018
i am js man
410, 757,864,530 ignored warnings

# ¿ Jul 29, 2018 04:30

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:05

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

JawnV6 posted:

so every little thing where the professor was trying to explain, say, flow control with a for() loop, this guy would break down in tears at how much heavy lifting the language was doing for him

joy or frustration?

# ¿ Oct 16, 2018 03:18

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Corla Plankun posted:

while we're on the topic, i have a question that has bugged me for a while:

what the gently caress is the point of the default behavior of vlookup (i.e. the 'will pick a nearby row somehow and give you that value instead of saying not found if your item isnt found)? does that match any conceivable use case that isn't just insanely sloppy scripting?

I've used it to get a letter grade (including pluses and minuses) from a total score. Needs suited.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2018 06:39

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

as someone who learns by example are there demo pages or whatever that have demo code and tests for it, with explanation of how the tests were chosen and why the test runs the way it does

I understand the purpose of testing and I've done some, but I always draw blanks on what to do when I'm actually in the thick of it.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2019 04:23

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

3/imperative feels the most natural to me when reading through anything

With 1/past tense, we already know it happened in the past, time is linear

2/Present tense also reads weird because it's not constantly happening, it happened at a specific point in time

Using the imperative also asserts dominance over the computer, therefore delaying a skynet scenario

# ¿ Feb 17, 2019 20:36

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Boiled Water on May 13, 2019 posted:

Why didn't they go to amazon? I mean who knows for how long google can keep focus on cloud hosting

finally caught up on months of this thread and this is hilariously prescient

# ¿ Jan 26, 2020 15:10

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

eschaton posted:

(see if you can spot the bug!)

turn your monitor off

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 09:55

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Blinkz0rz posted:

i hate jenkins

our jenkins/slack integration is named leeeeeeeeeroy jenkins because we have to laugh so we don't cry

# ¿ Feb 25, 2020 04:34

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Captain Foo posted:

Comment why, not how

one service i wrote has only one comment:

code:

// I don't understand either, but if you
// don't unset this it won't get changed
// on the next iteration

it was the only one the intern needed when they had to go change something

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 04:56

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Cold on a Cob posted:

js has like 3 commonly used litners tho right? lol. glad i don't do node/js/etc

just feed it through all of them

change the order based on the day of the week

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 18:17

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

DrPossum posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dDtOHH5ExY

honestly expected this to just be 420 seconds of 69 rap airhorns

# ¿ May 15, 2020 02:16

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

eschaton posted:

deployed to space

huh turns out there is something to strive for even in our hellworld

# ¿ Jun 13, 2020 03:29

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

my company has both a github and gitlab instance is there one i should prefer if we�re shaking everything up? right now we�re in a place where we can quasi-greenfield our workflows

# ¿ Jun 14, 2020 17:41

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:05

mod saas: May 4, 2004; Grimey Drawer

handle posted:

writing a goddamn browser extension to reduce manual entry of chownow orders, and there is cloudflare ddos protection on internal administration pages. behind your restaurant administrator login credentials. what legitimate employees would ever look at five orders at once?

no idea what sweet sweet funding you lose out on if you gave restaurants a loving api, but thanks for all the third-party parasitic companies promising to do this task for you, escape tablet hell they created in their last job (chownow -- hardware specialist, 2017-2020.)

excuse me, the question was pickup or delivery?

# ¿ Jan 3, 2021 19:14

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