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Redkey

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  • Certified in AI

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  • As someone who has often been asked for help or advice by other programmers, I know with 100% certainty that I went to university and worked professionally with people who did this, for real.

    "Hey, can you take a look at my code and help me find this bug?"(Finding a chunk of code that has a sudden style-shift) "What is this section doing?""Oh that's doing XYZ.""How does it work?""It calculates XYZ and (does whatever with the result)."(Continuing to read and seeing that it actually doesn't appear to do that) "Yes, but how is it calculating XYZ?""I'm not 100% sure. I found it in the textbook/this 'teach yourself' book/on the PQR website."

  • The easiest problem

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  • Most people use the term "Hungarian Notation" to mean only adding an indicator of type to a variable or function name. While this is one of the ways in which it has been used (and actually made sense in certain old environments, although those days are long, long behind us now), it's not the only way that it can be used.

    We can use the same concept (prepending or appending an indicator from a standard selection) to denote other, more useful categories that the environment won't keep straight for us, or won't warn us about in easy-to-understand ways. In my own projects I usually append a single letter to the ends of my variable names to indicate scope, which helps me stay more modular, and also allows me to choose sensible variable names without fear of clashing with something else I've forgotten about.

  • [Request] Looking for resources on terrible algorithms, architecture, and design

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  • "If you were making food, would you use onion powder?"

  • How do we tell him ?

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  • As a half-joking response to this half-joking admission, I got started with the Usborne programming books as a kid, and they laid some excellent foundations for my later study. They're all available online for free these days, so grab an emulator and user manual for your 80s 8-bit home computer of choice, and dive in!

  • I can't believe people are still using GUMBIES when there are so many better alternatives.

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  • Thr34dN3cr0 wrote (14:12 5/17/2019):

    Does anyone have a way to fix this in the latest version? I've been looking all day but none of the answers I've found work.

    Thr34dN3cr0 wrote (14:48 5/17/2019):

    nvm figured it out.

  • And don't forget RTFM

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  • "If you wish to be a writer, write."

    Epictetus delivered this burn over 1900 years ago.

  • Developer stages of grief

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  • Re: the Acceptance stage.

    Years ago I worked at a family-run business with a good working environment. The staff were once told a story of how, earlier in the company's history, a manager made a mistake that caused the company a substantial monetary loss.

    The manager immediately offered their resignation, but the owner said to them, "Why would I let you go now? I've just spent all this money so you could learn a valuable lesson!"

    So yeah, generally, most managers' reaction to accidentally deleting vital data from production is going to be to fire the developer as a knee-jerk "retaliation", but if you think about it, the best response is to keep that developer; your data isn't coming back either way, but this developer has just learned to be a lot more careful in the future. Why would you send them to a potential competitor?

  • Hey, I'm new to GitHub!

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  • Yes, I think that most of us realized from some of the self-aware wording that this is a parody. But like many parodies it's a real trope taken to a silly extreme, so we're talking about users who fit that trope (including ourselves, sometimes!).

  • More believable for a Linux OS

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  • Oh hell, you gave me a PTSD flashback!

    It's the late 90s. My mother suddenly discovers File Explorer on her refurbished commodity Wintel box and decides that all this messy clutter has to go. Never mind that the drive was 80% empty when delivered and I didn't expect her to come close to filling it before it was replaced. Fortunately I had already backed up everything that looked important or interesting.

    One day she calls from the office, "I don't need this 'Windows' any more, do I?"

    "What? Wait! Don't do anything!" I walk in and she's got C:/Windows highlighted and the cursor is hovering over "Delete".

    "I already have Windows installed on this computer, so I don't need this any more, do I?" Spoken more as a statement than a question. It took several minutes of forced calm explanation to get her to accept that this "Windows" directory WAS the Windows that's installed on the machine. She still wasn't happy that she could see it in File Explorer, though. So untidy!

  • Sometimes I want to call malloc, just as a treat

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  • It's a persistent dynamic memory allocation that's accessed by multiple processes! :)

  • Bug Thread

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  • JavaScript's days are numbered

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  • Of course! There's already a proposal for a replacement Temporal object.