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I'm in a Data Structures and Algorithms class now, taking it as a freshman would have been completely pointless. It's weird that you had that first semester.
That said, 50% of the class still hasn't turned in a project that was due 3 days ago and they're freaking out, offering to pay for code and such. It seems like the point in computer science where things start to get real.
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I took a Data and Algorithms class once.
Literally all I remember is Python GUI shit from the final unit of the semester
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The least believable part of this is that all of the tabs were StackOverflow instead of half of them being threads in an obscure forum posted in 2006 with the only piece of information on a language functionality on the entire internet
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I work with hardware... mostly network hardware, but we’re adding management/monitoring support for Cable Modem Termination Systems in the next Quarter and I fear what that research is going to entail.
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I refuse to believe that in almost 10k entries of the word “tomato” that:
A) only 3 distinct entries exist
B) 99.97% of the entries were in upper case
C) 0% of the entries were in lower case
D) 0% of the entries were misspelled
E) 0% of the entries had special characters
The users did a remarkable job of entering the data. This is my definition of “clean”.
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I'm thinking 9900 of the entries were a batch job to seed the database. Then users started entering data manually. Eight of the users got the memo to try to match the existing style. One of those eight had a broken shift key. The other two didn't bother reading the memo and just did what they thought looked best.
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In all seriousness, that should be C not C++, modern C++ is super easy on the programmer because of RAII
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Yea, every time I see this comic I think of that.
It's basically at the point where basically as long as you don't use new, delete, or raw pointers, you can't leak memory. There are probably some ways, like circular references, but you kinda have to try to get in those situations.
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Used to be that all the C programmers thought that C++ was making it easy on folks.
I feel like starting with Java or Python and complaining about C++ or C or ASM is like learning to write by starting with shorthand and then complaining about all the punctuation, spelling, and grammar in English. English doesn’t make writing slow, shorthand makes writing faster.
C++ is not hard or mean to developers. It is less abstracted from the machine. C is even less abstracted than C++. I mean, Java is hard for people who only ever wrote Python. People need more perspective.
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I'm honestly glad I started with Java first - even with oracles head up it's ass.
Just enough QoL above C++ so it's not a nightmare, but made it much easier for me to learn C++ after the fact
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Random reminder that Firefox is designed to handle thousands of tabs without crashing, lagging, or using tons of RAM.
This means more of my 32GB of RAM can go to running Netbeans.
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And thank fuck for that, because I tend to open hundreds of tabs at once and just... leave them for a while.
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C++ expects you to know what you're doing and that's something I love about it.
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undefined behavior go brrrrr
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And thank fuck for that, because I tend to open hundreds of tabs at once and just... leave them for a while.
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My chrome tabs uses more RAM then most of the games I play, except they are constantly open lol
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Yea, every time I see this comic I think of that.
It's basically at the point where basically as long as you don't use new, delete, or raw pointers, you can't leak memory. There are probably some ways, like circular references, but you kinda have to try to get in those situations.
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But I think the way Rust does is even better than C++.
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Yeah of course it does. But old JVM didn’t gave unused memory back to the computer. It just kept occupied by JVM.
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Wait, when did it start giving memory back?
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Apparently sitting in a dark room eating a keyboard lit meal wasn't romantic enough.
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I do that every day and dont see a problem with it...
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It is fairly easy to fall into traps with circular references/reference counting if you don't understand what you are doing. Many years ago I dealt with an application written in Delphi where they'd used COM objects everywhere to avoid memory leaks as they were referenced counted - trouble was they managed to put a circular reference in the heart of their (overly complex/too many layer) object model to allow communication between child parent, resulting in almost nothing ever getting released. Some people had obviously tried fixing it by the scattering of release reference calls - but no one had worked out the underlying problem despite despite the problems it caused to users.
Garbage collection is better in that it handles circular references - but you can still leak memory by adding to a list and never clearing anything from the list. Sort of thing more likely to do if you blindly believe garbage collector will keep memory use in check and don't really understand what you are doing
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Encountering circular references probably depends or your use case. I’ve been using C++ productively for years now and haven’t gotten that problem yet, so I wouldn’t say its easy to encounter them
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Who needs digital billboards anyways? Just more light pollution and distraction.
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I fear what roads will look like with 100 percent self driving cars
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Sometimes it goes; why?, why?, why?, that’s why?, but why?, why the fuck!
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Thanks. That’s basically what I was thinking.
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Me when dealing with a misconfigured nginx server only to figure out I’ve fixed it but Cloudflare is serving the cached (incorrect) files.
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Programming noob here. Whats the above sentence mean exactly ?
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Now let me tell you for music... they call it Metal because it’s harder than Rock.
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Seriously?? Man, this day has been something...
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Why the fuck is usually by what the fuck, when the fuck, how the fuck, and finally back to what the fuck.
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Disagree. "Why the fuck" is generally followed by "Whatever, as long as it works".
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For real though, if you work server side/compute optimization focused...you make money like it is your job.
Front end devs a a nickel a dozen...unless you do full stack the market is dwindling for people to "make it pretty"
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Front end doesn’t make a lot?
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If that offends you, then you aren't prepared for the hellscape that is asking a duplicate question on the actual website
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Or asking new questions that are marked as duplicate and then you get linked to a thread that doesn't actually answer your question.
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honestly, that's kinda how I fell in
I was a pure (abstract) math major in uni with zero job prospects outside of acedemia or maybe actuary work, and I accidentally discovered that programming was pretty fun. Added CS as a second major and yeah, realistically, dev was a far better choice for me.
I never even went to uni with a mind to get a job based on it! I feel like I won the lottery on that unexpected "oopsie" of falling into dev.
weird.
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I had no fucking clue what I wanted to do but took a CS class in high school and was like oh this shit is kinda cool, plugging away at it now. Only other things I’d wanna do are crazy unrealistic, and I can always see if I can break into those industries on the tech side of things
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You can create the next Twitter for me. Ill give you exposure once its out.
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Pfft, why the hell would you want to make another Twitter. I don't think the world can handle that much toxicity
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This shift is super funny. When I was in school everyone in compsci was really into computers and doing it because they really liked making software. It wasn't quite as mucha thing that tech jobs can pay like crazy. All the folks going after money were in law or business. About 6-7 years ago, it feels like all the folks that would have gone the law/business track started doing compsci because of the cash. Funny how things change.
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I'm going into CS next year because I enjoy it. the money is just a nice bonus
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I had no fucking clue what I wanted to do but took a CS class in high school and was like oh this shit is kinda cool, plugging away at it now. Only other things I’d wanna do are crazy unrealistic, and I can always see if I can break into those industries on the tech side of things
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Bruh it was this or accounting, my old man wouldn’t pay for a degree in anything else because I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to do.
The competitive DotA 2 scene was not merciful to me lol
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I'm going into CS next year because I enjoy it. the money is just a nice bonus
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thats the right mindset :)
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To be fair, all they need is a basic homepage because no one ever visits it.
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Might as well make it a 404, because nobody goes there on purpose.
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Pfft, why the hell would you want to make another Twitter. I don't think the world can handle that much toxicity
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Some men just want to watch the world burn
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A hint for people thinking they’re going to get into tech just to make big bucks: many of the people making the big bucks are because they love the tech which makes it easy for them to do the continuous study to stay ahead. And there is ALOT of study.
TLDR: The money comes with the passion.
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Dude 100%. Top tech jobs require a crazy amount of ownership and drive to innovate. If your heart isn't in it you are entering the field already burned out.
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I would disagree here. Burnout comes from either overworking or overexpecting, not from a lack of passion.
Adequate time off from work and good communication skills solve more problems in tech work than having a ton of passion.
A lot of the rote tech work that pays the bills isn’t changing the world, it’s really just moving nice looking boxes around on a screen and connecting them to meaningful data.
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I'm passionate. I have a 42U server rack in my living to hold all my gear. I've been burnt out twice at the same job because the expectations vs manpower was insane. Trying to keep up with the workload was impossible and has been for a while. Especially getting called after hours weekly because the person with the after hours phone not knowing how to do stuff I consider basic... I have a contract so can't just leave.
And for those who will recommend not answering the phone- I do get time off if I answer and I left my ringer off one night and had 27 missed phone calls from a few people mostly higher up and someone was in for 10 hours for something I could fix in 30 minutes since I had documentation and it was a regular issue.... too much of "give to that team they figure everything out" and now no one on other teams know what to do.
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I did the opposite. I learned programming because I liked it, now I'm also tying to make games. Is working in game industry really terrible in general or does it vary by employer?
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It sounds like it varies by employer, this meme was more based on horror stories I've heard from the industry rather than experience
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It sounds like it varies by employer, this meme was more based on horror stories I've heard from the industry rather than experience
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Okay. In that case, be good to know that same goes for programming jobs as well. Some companies treat you like respectable employees, while some would like to treat you like slave.
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Okay. In that case, be good to know that same goes for programming jobs as well. Some companies treat you like respectable employees, while some would like to treat you like slave.
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CDProjekt red wishes to hire you
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It varies, but in general it’s such a competitive field that the compensation is quite low. When I was in grad school I got an offer at a game studio that said they were a 9-5 shop, no overtime in general (but maybe some crunch time, I don’t recall). They offered me less than I had made at a summer internship at a government lab. It was crazy low for what I considered the qualifications ( graphics engine programming and I had some published work on 3D rendering research). I ended up staying in school longer (went for full PhD) and work in tech still but no games.
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That's exactly the point. I've known people who worked in gaming, TV, sports and you always end up making something like a third less because it's something people actively want to get into
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This is something that drives me nuts, especially when people do it multiple times in a row!
They then don’t understand what the issue is, obviously not doing something complex themselves.
When in the office I’ll put my big headphones on as a leave me alone I’m obviously busy but does not work with everyone. I’m sure some use it as a red flag...
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That's why at my old job I'd stand silently at the door until they distract themselves, then ask.
But then one time I was standing at the door of a senior dev's office who was working with my boss. They were working while shit talking another coworker. When they finally noticed me, they were like "oh shit, good thing we weren't talking about you".
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Working in games doesn't have to be terrible, it can be great. Just depends on the employer, as it does for non game programming... or anything really.
Source - work as a programmer in the games industry.
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Joined the games industry about a year ago (been a programmer for years), and after hearing other's experiences and through my own, the *majority* of the games industry is terrible to work in. In terms of project management, process, and even software design, the industry is actually behind *most* other companies developing software. On average, working in games sucks.
Source - work as a programmer in the games industry.
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Working in the video game industry sucks, but making games is still fun - you can have it as a hobby while working as a software engineer and have the best of both worlds!
As long as you don't expect to make the next fortnite by yourself, of course
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You can easily make the next fortnite by yourself. You just need to scale the time proportionally. My guesstimate is that 200 years is enough.
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Joined the games industry about a year ago (been a programmer for years), and after hearing other's experiences and through my own, the *majority* of the games industry is terrible to work in. In terms of project management, process, and even software design, the industry is actually behind *most* other companies developing software. On average, working in games sucks.
Source - work as a programmer in the games industry.
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Sorry to hear you've had that experience.
I should probably note as it may be relevant (but maybe not?), I live and work in the UK.
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In general, "dream industries" are awful to work in because people are willing to accept bad working conditions just to fulfill their passion.
Many aspects of game programming are significantly harder than other types of software development. Games often have highly complex interlocking systems, and they are challenging to debug since the core logic runs ~60 times per second. On top of that, the best game developers tend to have a lot of mathematics knowledge, since it's required for 3d graphics, physics, etc...
So game developers are some of the most skilled programmers. But they are often paid less than web developers and business consultants.
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Cause you know games are for kids why pay them?
I really hope gaming industries start "paying" their workers and not just take the profit because soon it will be just as the school industries xD
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Currently doing my Bachelor of IT and probably half of my cohort wants to be game designers. Man do I pray for them
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Well, game designers don't program.. At least in my company
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Best is when you're working on something, then you get interrupted with a request for help, then when you go to look at it they have done absolutely zero homework and their shit basically boils down to "it doesn't work and I have no desire to figure out why that might be"
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This makes me mad. At least give it a go to try to solve it on your own so when you ask me, you’re at least kind of informed on the subject. You get paid to solve problems, if something’s hard and you solve it, congrats you are now creating value.
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I was single, awkward, pale and bearded before I started programming... I feel like I'm losing out on this.
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On the contrary, it means you're fully qualified.
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Linux atleast publicly exposes Daemons created by evil programmers, users can summon their names and kill them. While Windows hide it, that best trick ever played by Satan, to make people believe he doesn't exist.
Never use Windows, Linux is lesser evil.
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But why settle for the lesser evil?
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I have never seen such error message using html, recomend you to change programming language.
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Ha, programming language
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As a Linux admin I've had to do many terrible things in the name of our eldritch god and his prophet Linus.
I have killed children.
I have practiced necromancy and created zombies.
I have controlled daemons with a unflinching hand, killing and respawning on my whim.
On any given day I may `touch`, `finger`, `kill`, and `dig`.
And that's not even getting into the goat blood ceremonies needed for kernel updates.
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Look up what `grep`, `awk`, and `sed` translate to in Hebrew!!
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I mean, I've done this a lot, both with code and with cars and it has worked.
The real issues start when you've removed the fuel tank and ignition system and the bastard still fires up without a hitch...
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LOL love the example you used, there is mystery in how codes work
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This is perfect. I've been looking for a new dhcp solution for my network.
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They could have just spent 2 months spinning up an electron program to keep track... but they wanted to keep it simple
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This is why the people on StackOverflow don't have children.
Well, that and the obvious...
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because they're actually compilers?
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I'm a Python AI Dev, and honestly, it's the language I recommend to non-devs because it's an easy one to learn. Though I would want to learn C++ aside. One language has it's limitations. Multiple languages are the optimal way to master multiple tasks
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Ye I learned python at school and it is a really good beginning language but all languages are good for different things
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You get the raise when you later transfer to another company where Sr. Engineer *does* get paid more.
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This. Your company is telling you to look elsewhere
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During my CS studies we had this douche bag in a group. On the first semester we had a course "Basics of C". And that dude got in a fight with a professor by "I am Python dev, I am not going to lower myself to code in such pathetic languages as C.". It was the same case with programing in C++ course. Luckily he ditched the studies after the first year because "the curriculum was too basic and boring".
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Wait until he finds out Python compiles to C.
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Honestly, I see very few Python evangelists. There are very few programmers that proclaim Python to be the BEST LANGUAGE EVER and you just *have* to try it. Most people recommend Python because it's a solid choice, both for beginners and for a lot of tasks moving on.
**Rust** programmers, on the other hand...
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**REWRITE IT IN RUST**
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Python *does* have the advantage of being "easy" for a beginner to learn -- for it does things like garbage collection for you -- while being a commercially-viable language. Scratch is easy to learn, but you're not gonna get hired for knowing it. C++ is also commercially-viable, but it's harder for beginners. That's Python's niche: it's a beginner-friendly general-purpose language.
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It’s great for people who aren’t going to be software devs. Like I couldn’t build a full application or anything but I use python to read some sql and crunch a shitload of numbers real fast.
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If you had tried it you would know that rust is the solution to every problem
Needing more performance? Do it in Rust
Rewriting 20 year old codebase? Do it in Rust
Solving world hunger? Do it in Rust
Writing another reality that will rid the world of all other programminging languages besides rust? Do it in Rust
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Writing a python interpreter ...
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Me, a Python dev who started out with C++ first:
That guy must be a complete idiot, I bet he also wants to build an operating system with Python as well.
Seriously, how is he going to adapt to the changing market that requires several programming languages if he can't learn the most basic one of them. The only people who should only learn Python are field experts who don't regularly work with programming at all.
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Yeah... I love Python. It's honestly my favourite programming langauge **BY FAR**. You have to get used to the whitespace syntax, but it's just so readable, has incredibly powerful language features built in, and has one of the most powerful collection of libraries of any language. And if using code that leverages Numpy or Pandas (especially anything with linear algebra) then it's a BEAST.
But it will never replace C++ or anything similar. If you need performance, Python is not the choice.
I'm very much a Python or C/C++ type of guy though. I rarely find a major use case for things like Java or C# (other than when they're required, like for a Excel COM Addin).
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Yeah... I love Python. It's honestly my favourite programming langauge **BY FAR**. You have to get used to the whitespace syntax, but it's just so readable, has incredibly powerful language features built in, and has one of the most powerful collection of libraries of any language. And if using code that leverages Numpy or Pandas (especially anything with linear algebra) then it's a BEAST.
But it will never replace C++ or anything similar. If you need performance, Python is not the choice.
I'm very much a Python or C/C++ type of guy though. I rarely find a major use case for things like Java or C# (other than when they're required, like for a Excel COM Addin).
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Java is still extensively used for RESTful backend services to this day, and for good reasons. Not only that, but also enterprise application, etc. C# is massively used for native Windows application.
"rarely" wasn't the right word i think
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I started in C and C++. I mostly use python now. They're for two completely different things and I am **THRILLED** I have my base in c/c++. I totally understand what's going on under the hood but with python I can just script and go.
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i am planning to get into Python, can you shared what is the best method to practice it? i am using c n cpp in my daily job
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Admittedly, those 900 lines are in some library used by one of the 5 lines, so of course there's gonna be issues.
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(A) Which those 900 lines has dependency on other 900 lines which has dependency on other 900 lines which has dependency on other 900 lines, read (A)
Which gives you error at line 1
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- Great, you meet all the conditions. You're hired.
- Great, I really was looking for a nodejs project for the web with cryptography, block chain and a bit of psychology.
- What are you talking about ? It's a C++ project, we need you for making physics in video games.
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It's funny you left out the PhD in biochemistry but it's still an absurdly loaded sentence
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Isn’t that a little bit overkill? A friend of mine had a solution where he connected wires from his Pi to the start button header.
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I dont know about directly to the pi cuz am noob, but you could easily use a relay and a pi to jumper the gap. Once again am noob, but you could also just use an esp board of some sort. I have seen some esp boards go for $10 for 5.
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But you can’t see that. How would you start a conversation with a date if you don’t have a weird button press Roboter on your Computer? Also how do you ruin every single date if you can’t do that?
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And this is how I met the woman who totally cool with my junky robots roaming the house!
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The world's largest watchdog timer. What are the odds the server has an internal one that just needed to be activated?
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That would require learning about the software you're running. We don't do that.
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(A) Which those 900 lines has dependency on other 900 lines which has dependency on other 900 lines which has dependency on other 900 lines, read (A)
Which gives you error at line 1
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RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
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So JavaScript sorts based on their string representation? I know very little about that language but do you not have numeric array types?
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The default sorts by converting everything to string and comparing utf-16 values.
If you want to compare numbers just throw a compare function in as parameter:
`.sort(function(a,b){return a - b;})`
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The default sorts by converting everything to string and comparing utf-16 values.
If you want to compare numbers just throw a compare function in as parameter:
`.sort(function(a,b){return a - b;})`
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That's ape shit awful!
I mean. Oh thanks for clarifying that!
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Why would you even consider using an inbuilt sort function when you can code Bogo sort instead? Gotta get that O(n!) complexity.
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I thought there was no O for bogo since you can't be sure it'll ever stop. Or mean complexity ?
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I thought there was no O for bogo since you can't be sure it'll ever stop. Or mean complexity ?
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I've seen Bogo sort implementations which keep track of the permutations traversed so far, which means eventually, they'll exhaust all possibilities and the program will terminate.
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I've seen Bogo sort implementations which keep track of the permutations traversed so far, which means eventually, they'll exhaust all possibilities and the program will terminate.
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I love that, not only does this make the algorithm terminate, it also gives it ridiculous space complexity. :D
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I love that, not only does this make the algorithm terminate, it also gives it ridiculous space complexity. :D
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Thankfully, we have downloadmoreram.com to save the day.
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everybody just agrees to never sort arrays of anything other than strings without a sort function and the problem is solved! If you really want to make sure it never goes wrong, you can use tooling like ESLint or even TypeScript.
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Yeah I mean practically you almost never run into this, I can't remember a time I just had an array of numbers. Usually sorting an array of objects and having a custom comparator to do so.
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Bogo sort's worst case is O((n+1)!)
But more importantly! Its best case is O(n) which out performs every other algorithm.
Furthermore, if go by the many worlds theory - we can prove that Bogo sort is O(n) in all cases and therefore it is in fact the BEST sorting algorithm.
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IIRC "quantum bogosort" has time complexity O(1) since it doesn't even have to check if the array is in order.
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I've found that I have a much better time with JS if I just assume it's going to interpret everything as a string, even if that's not really correct. Forces me to think a little extra about what a thing will be at runtime I guess? I dunno.
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You can get some Kirkland brand type safety by wrapping stuff in objects, that way at least they’re actually named whatever they’re supposed to be.
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Fixing a bug can be fun, doing the paperwork on the sprint board and whatever else is a total chore
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Welcome to DevSecDocOps!
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git commit -m "minor tweaks"
+1745 insertions -845 deletions in 47 files
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Sounds like a fun PR to review...
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I love reading their update log, on one of the last update it said something like "fixed a bug causing a problem for all 7 light theme users"
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I feel like it’s easy to like a company when their staff act cool
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Every modern Changelog:
* fixed some bugs
* made some bugs uWu
Details: none
List of bug tickets fixed: none
Note: we have a discord now! Come on over and find out what kinds of memes we ignore in our chat channels!
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I fucking despise Discord for how they communicate. Even when contacting their customer support you get shit like this.
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You can always tell when someone doesn't do JS dev for work. They never know anything about build tools, web pack, minimizers, uglifiers, transpilers, loaders.
You don't have to consider any of this stuff anymore and haven't for a long time.
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...until you have to make your site accessible on four different screen readers
Fuck you NVDA
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I kinda miss people though. 1 day per week in the office would be nice.
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we actually discussed that as a team. we want 1-2 days office with coworkers and the rest remote. we all miss each other..
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Home office:
Set alarm to 7
Check for important monitoring messages
Start pc and telephone app
Go back to sleep
Its fucking great
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And this is why it won't really last.
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I’m a manager and aside from one or two folks our shop has become more productive.
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Yeah I'm definitely lazier now, but because I'm cutting out 2-3 hours of bullshit around just getting to the office and back I'm actually working more
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I start my day at 8 AM and at least until 10 PM, sometimes until lunch, I just do fun stuff with my computer I otherwise have no time for. And I'm still more efficient than at open office. They refuse to increase my salary so I take it this way, jokes on them.
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They gave me more and more work, 'promoted' me, expected more hours of work, and refused more salary or bonus. I just put in my 2 weeks even though I don't have a backup yet and I feel so much better already. They can go fuck themselves.
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Don't think of it as WFH, think of it as "remote." You don't have to be in the same 4 walls. I live in NY but I spent August in a cabin in Utah, December in Maine, and February in Texas/Arizona. That's 3 *months* of what felt like vacation despite taking zero PTO. Time zones are your friend as well! Having work in EST, but living in MST, meant that I was working 7am to 3pm. Sun set at 9pm in UT, so I was hiking every day for a month.
When weather was good I would sometimes even work on a hiking trail using my phone as a hotspot. My teammates seemed to appreciate my "Zoom background." There were also times where my girlfriend would drive while I work via hotspot in the passenger seat so we could go somewhere without me taking a day off.
As for when you're truly at-home, I think the secret is having the space to isolate a "work area" and actually *enjoying* where you live; a privilege not everyone has. I think people in tiny apartments, either alone or with roommates they don't love, are having a more difficult time.
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Yeah, I'm definitely in the small apartment category. Sadly travel restrictions where I am prevent me from moving around so much but I can imagine a more nomadic remote experience would be a lot better.
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Their documentation is actually great. There are even lots of linear algebra arcticles directed to game development.
Golden
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I volunteer teaching game design fundamentals at a local library, where we use Godot, and am making my dream game in Unreal.
Of what I'd consider to be the "big three" engines (Godot, Unreal, and Unity) for developers, especially small and solo:
Godot and Unreal are incredibly well documented.
Then there's Unity, which behaves like the official Python documentation. Enough to be considered documented. But the community is doing a lot more leg work. Just sort of rely on the community.
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I have legit written programs in Excel VBA. And I believe it has been shown that Excel functions are turing-complete.
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Well, you can have turing-complete machines with just a single instruction. They are called OISC (One-Instruction Set Computer), but I don't think they are practical for the task, just like with Excel functions
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Marissa Mayer, single-handedly, did the most damage to reputation of working from home. When she became CEO she banned working from home sighting it kills innovation. I was working in the industry at the time and I remember it echoed like a bomb. We totally went backwards to a point that even being in the office working from cubicles wasn't good enough and had to convert to open office. I mean I was worried next they would want us to work from each other's assholes next. One good thing that came out of this pandemic was proving working from home is just as effective if not more.
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I have a theory that "business" is fake science and businesspeople are simultaneously the dumbest yet the most self-assured people I've known
The theory is yet to be proven wrong
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Hey don't mock. Excel was my gateway drug. Actually my TI85 was my gateway drug. Professionally, Excel led to actual programming.
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My first program was on a TI-83. It just displayed an endless loop of a line bouncing around.
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I have a theory that "business" is fake science and businesspeople are simultaneously the dumbest yet the most self-assured people I've known
The theory is yet to be proven wrong
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It is severely hampered by being predominantly a social science. It makes people trust their gut more than digging into research to find an answer. IRL business practices tend to be 30+ years behind research.
"Shorter work days make worker more productive and creative." Jones, Hennessy, et al. 1995
Business managers be like: less hours means less profit, that's dumb. More hours less pay! Bezos grinds his workers down and look at how much money he has. This is the way.
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It's crazy how much you can do with Excel Formulas even without VBA nowadays (or maybe always, havent been in IT for to long).
Not saying it's the best way, or that it's easy to read. But often Excel is all you have.
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I had an assignment at work once to make a GUI for an Excel spreadsheet that read from the production database and populated itself with the rows from a specific query. Sounds scary, but before this, the user in question was just making raw queries into the live production database.
I don't work there anymore.
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My first program was on a TI-83. It just displayed an endless loop of a line bouncing around.
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My first program was on a TI-83 too! Though it was just a collection of math formulas we needed to use in school that I turned into functions. Couldn't be bothered punching out a 10 step process for 20 problems
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I volunteer teaching game design fundamentals at a local library, where we use Godot, and am making my dream game in Unreal.
Of what I'd consider to be the "big three" engines (Godot, Unreal, and Unity) for developers, especially small and solo:
Godot and Unreal are incredibly well documented.
Then there's Unity, which behaves like the official Python documentation. Enough to be considered documented. But the community is doing a lot more leg work. Just sort of rely on the community.
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Unreal is incredibly well documented, unless you want to use C++ instead of blueprints. That documentation is incredibly sparse.
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I like Excel too, but it definitely has performance issues once you get above a pretty small amount of data, like 20MB or so. Python and R are just so much better at it, and with the right IDE you don't really lose any visualization ability. The only thing you lose is the ability to communicate with non-programmers who want everything in an Excel file
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It’s got to the point where I have macro’s that create values copies of reports I’ve built because people just want a pretty table with the data in it. I get to keep my VBA and formula, they get their report and I can still have all my data provided in some form of Excel format. Everyone’s happy and I get to teach myself VBA when I need to do something new!
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Been working on a dashboard recently. Backend was/is a breeze in Python, I could really enjoy coding.
Then I wanted to style a new thing in the frontend. I was sitting there for literally 5 hours because of fucking CSS.
CSS is worse than any coding language I know of, especially stuff like centering and z-index (generally the z axis)
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I can handle z-index, but centering really is a bitch mostly because there's different *methods* of centering and it's never clear which one will work best for what you're trying to do
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Can't relate, my brain hasn't enough RAM to listen to the podcast AND code at the same time.
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Agreed. I cant even listen to English music while i work. I started listening to japanese city pop instead and it works great. No chance of my brain trying to sing along.
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Agreed. I cant even listen to English music while i work. I started listening to japanese city pop instead and it works great. No chance of my brain trying to sing along.
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I've found that I can sing while coding but I can't speak while coding, I assume that's because when singing my brain doesn't actually process the meaning of the words, I do turn it off if I have to concentrate hard though
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Nope I'm serious. That's how I was taught JS. First you write html for the page, get it looking right with CSS and then put in JS for functionality.
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Right but you do automated tests, right?
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My typical answer is that they are all powerful enough to do whatever it is you want to do. Just pick one.
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Except for php. You never touch php
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I will always recommend python, purely because it forces you to at least somewhat make your code readable. If someone asks me to look over one more C# script with out indenting it, I'm gonna lose it.
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I've learned Python after JS, and these indentation rules made me sick...
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JS is my favourite language for kernel dev, way faster than C or Assembler could ever be!
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Please not.. Someone will find out how to write and run a kernel module in nodeJS. We're all doomed then.
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The amount of unreadable bash and perl scripts I've had to look at, triggering.
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You cannot write readable bash (or any other POSIX compliant shell) scripts. It's just bad at its core.
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If someone asks you to help them find some bug in their code and it's not properly indented you tell them to indent it first, and once they are done they usually found the bug themselves.
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Tell that to people who send you a picture of it the lazy fucks
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I’m playing Crysis 3 on my Word right now. Gonna do some very deep learning afterwards
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Very deep learning, LOL I'm crying
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I started learning java in my first semester and actually i am quite comfortable with it. I hope other languages will be as easy as everyone says :D
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Try C# and you won't miss Java.
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