The OFFICIAL programming thread
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When does a joke become a dad joke?
When it becomes apparent.
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@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
When does a joke become a dad joke?
When it becomes apparent.
I am so stealing that one for my quotes.txt.
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I am so asking Putin to nuke Finland now to make it stop!
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@gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I am so asking Putin to nuke Finland now to make it stop!
Beware of their mobile saunas.
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What’s the difference between a literalist and a kleptomaniac?
A literalist takes things literally.
A kleptomaniac takes things, literally.
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@pakoon said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
When does a joke become a dad joke?
When it becomes apparent.
My dad always said I loved alphabet soup growing up. But really it was just him putting words in my mouth.
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This warning was not always true and the word Shareware came to be.
Cir: 1989

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@tazz It’s a pity more companies don’t release free demos (similar to shareware) on Steam. I’ve lost track of the number of games that I bought because they had “Overwhelmingly positive” reviews only to discover they sucked ass (maybe just not my taste). I did some research on why demos aren’t more common and the conventional markiting advice is not to do demos because it hurts sales.
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Iirc you can return the games withing X hours for free, no?
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@tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
This warning was not always true and the word Shareware came to be.
Cir: 1989

not quite the same thing but it made me think of …
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Iirc you can return the games withing X hours for free, no?
Yeah I think Steam’s return policy is pretty generous. Maybe it’s a personality fault,but I don’t like returning stuff (in person or online). Unless it is obviously faulty or falsely advertised then I just wear it. Caveat emptor.
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@hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

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@rote7 that’s way beyond my regex-fu. I use regex but if the expressions get any longer than about 20 characters I’m usually splitting it up and doing some of it in regular code. Otherwise I can’t maintain it even if I understood it when I first wrote it.
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Not my creation. This is the new RFC conform validation regex for email adresses.
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HAR HAR HAr HaR programmorz
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The company I work for is multi-national/lingual but IT doesn’t have translators on staff. If it’s a big enough project (like millions) they’ll hire them but otherwise you are supposed to use Google Translate. Russian is one less language I have to worry about since the Ukraine invasion but I was translating about 40 UI texts and messages into Spanish today when I remembered Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein berliner” gaffe (and he had the best translation resources available in the State Department.) For all I know my Spanish users will be seeing messages saying something like “Fart loudly before pressing the ice cream”.



