The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The problem with my job is that the pace of new shit arriving keeps getting faster and faster and the old shit never really goes away. In any given week, I’m supporting applications written in tech that had its origins in the 1980’s through to the 2020’s. That’s 40 years of technical fads, missteps and obsolete crap that somehow I’ve got to keep in my head. I was in a Teams call with another programmer yesterday debugging some weird problem in a language I’ve got decades of experience in but haven’t used much recently and I had to apologize because I’d forgotten how to write some simple statement or other. At night I’m learning the next thing that’s being adopted to increase my chances of being employed in a few months.
Guy is a total nob.nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
noun: nob; plural noun: nobs
a person of wealth or high social position.Nice to see you think so well of your boss!
[IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
The problem with my job is that the pace of new shit arriving keeps getting faster and faster and the old shit never really goes away. In any given week, I’m supporting applications written in tech that had its origins in the 1980’s through to the 2020’s. That’s 40 years of technical fads, missteps and obsolete crap that somehow I’ve got to keep in my head. I was in a Teams call with another programmer yesterday debugging some weird problem in a language I’ve got decades of experience in but haven’t used much recently and I had to apologize because I’d forgotten how to write some simple statement or other. At night I’m learning the next thing that’s being adopted to increase my chances of being employed in a few months.
Guy is a total nob.nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
noun: nob; plural noun: nobs
a person of wealth or high social position.Nice to see you think so well of your boss!
I was thinking of a different meaning. I guess I should just stick to Finnish insults though since I understand them better than UK ones.
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Calling someone a nob has always been an insult in parts where i’ve lived.
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I thought the insult was spelled “knob”
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@Lob12 yeah you’re right.
I’m awarding this match to you and rescinding Gators’ earlier points.
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Good thing I’m here to show you guys how to english!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
Calling someone a nob has always been an insult in parts where i’ve lived.
You are lucky you’ve never desperately needed to open the door to the loo with a knob missing!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Lob12 yeah you’re right.
I’m awarding this match to you and rescinding Gators’ earlier points.
I spelled it the fucking American way, not the commie metric way!!!
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SUCKLE¡!!!¡!¡!¡!1!!
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It should be squeeeeal.
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It seems that every other developer that writes code I support has gone to the same school of programming. At that school, they must have taught that everything must be in one function. They must think that if you aren’t scrolling up and down 5 to 10 screen pages all of the time trying to see what the hell is happening inside a single condition then then you aren’t earning your pay. I fucking hate it.
Unless you are processing a bajillion records in a loop and can’t afford the overhead, modularize your code as soon as gets unwieldy so that method names and signatures explain the flow.
/rant
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Guessing the code wasn’t unit tested either. On the bright side without programmers like that, you might not have a job.
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Bit of an anti-rant but, this morning I refactored the behemoth method that led to the earlier rant. I was particularly impressed with how easy and clever the refactoring tools I used were so I sent out a meeting invite to demo the whole process to the 7 or 8 devs I regularly work with.
I titled the invite “Refactoring for fun and profit” and made everyone an optional attendee so I didn’t know how many (if any) would turn up. They all did and they were really impressed with the demo and a couple made comments like “the code is beautiful now”. So I’m pleased they were so receptive to it.
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This is all I can add
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The gorilla is bad at seeeeequel!
Had a similar situation many years ago in the early days of business computing. We connected MS Access, like one of the first versions, to our accounting system via ODBC because the system reports sucked ass. IT created credentials and didn’t worry about permissions so we had read/write access to the system database. A coworker was making a report and didn’t know Access very well, so she started deleting rows in the query output like it was Excel. The deletes passed straight through to the source system and after a while people from accounts payable started raging that vendor records had “disappeared”. Poor girl thought she was going to get fired that day.
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@Gators1 Did she work at CRS by chance?
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I was just installing an Eclipse theme and saw this which I liked:
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the image above made me think of this one:
aww crap, i thought surely i could invert it here. doing so makes it look like a rocket ejection frm a P-38. i posted it thus years back in teH Anger in the OOBF, where it was good for a laugh.
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We need this too! My morale is at rock bottom.
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This is kind of interesting, especially thinking about how half-assed some of the thinking is about systems in my company. Basically Cox decides to put a bunch of functionality for a customer to control their own hardware in their account website and by doing so exposes those same capabilities to hackers via api calls.
researcher accidentally finds 0-day affecting his entire internet service provider
