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2024-09-14 16:02:31

imagine burning all the good will accumulated to be known as "the esr of bookmaking services"

2024-08-10 23:16:49

have seen a "technically, itanium was a success as it killed pa-risc, alpha, mips" take and i'm not sure phyrrhic victories count

2024-05-21 17:41:48

here's the iTerm "Pls No AI" gitlab issue https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475 so i guess it's not a popular move

2024-05-16 23:46:06

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moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

2024-05-16 23:42:28

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this is the funniest thing slack's done since they rebranded themselves as a tool for remote work, despite years of "no-one gets remote work at slack"

2024-05-16 23:37:19

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for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data
and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"
like
no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sab/ox customer panic, so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party balloons emoji by default"

2024-05-16 23:33:19

not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

2024-04-13 17:28:39

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i think i'd have just scrolled past if not for seeing
"code without branches runs the same way every time"
*laughs in any cpu made after 1995, cries in atomic memory models*

2024-04-13 17:25:00

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still, it's not as bad as "SOLID". a piece of advice that only exists to tell you how smart the advice giver is
absolutely nothing about writing good code, give or take liskov being right
it does prepare you for a career of transforming five line long function into 50 line classes, with one method per local variable, and calling it an improvement, so

2024-04-13 17:16:20

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i still haven't quite recovered from a coworker explaining that he disabled request signing, so that authentication tokens could be reused as it made the tests easier to write
sure as anything "tests are hard to write" is a code smell, but the problem is elsewhere. bad tests are a symptom
but solving it with "code is harder to read" is the sort of thing that should have been laughed out the office twenty years ago

2024-04-13 17:08:08

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i am so old the bad programming fads are coming back into fashion

2024-04-13 17:06:27

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i have just seen someone in all earnestness say "avoid branching because it makes testing easier" and like i don't know where to begin with dismissing it
you should not be making your code harder to read in order to make it "easier to test", it will always backfire
advice that needs expertise to apply correctly is always useless: beginners do not benefit from it and experts dont need pithy dogma to follow

2024-04-13 17:00:39

taking programming advice from people who use ruby should come with a warning
like "i use a language designed to make three line examples look good in a slide deck. this idea might not look as great without sugar."
or "this person took bdd seriously and belived running a eula though a regex to interpret tests was the height of engineering. beware of solutions in search of problems"