The Virgin Programmer vs The Chad Coder

Latest chan meme applied to /prog/

Virgin Programmer:
Has the latest macbook loaded with latest compilers
Codes in modern functional style
Code is visually pleasing, fully indented
All variables and functions are descriptively named
Comments are filled with explanations and relevant information
Produces portable, safe code that is debugged, linted, statically analyzed and theorem proved ad nauseum
Code almost never crashes
Every bug report is answered with patches and profuse apologizing

The Chad Coder:
Codes in direct, brutal imperative style
Thinks recursion is a meme
Doesn't indent anything
All variables are one letter, functions are random verbs with numbers
Code crashes several times per hour
Never changed his computer
Produces code that "works on my machine"
Debugging consists of console messages peppered randomly through code
Comments consist of curses and threats to other programmers and software
When someone posts a bug report, laughs at it, marks it wontfix or claims you're using his software wrong

>>103

Degeneracy is a buzzword

I used to think that before I saw the photos from Up Your Alley 2008

inflation in the US and hyperinflation in the WR are two completely distinct beasts

Not really. In the US, it's just a much softer form. The fundamentals remain.

and US debt is basically meaningless (especially when compared to the WR's).

$20 Trillion is meaningless? Average debt per citizen being ~$61,000 is meaningless? What?

Who is going to collect the US's debts?

The countries listed in http://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt I imagine. Though, those countries also have lots of their own debt.

You also completely skipped over the government where tons of small parties had to form coalitions and compromised with each other until nothing could happen. The USA is effectively a two party state, for fuck's sake.

There's also many internal factions within those two parties; effectively emulating some of the same aspects that you see in multi-party democracies. Not every member of the GOP is pro-Trump, which is why not everything he wants done gets through in even a Republican controlled House and Senate. I remember the opposite happening when Obama was president, where there were Dems who were against him and he couldn't get things done in a Democratic controlled Congress. I don't expect it to get better over time, it will degenerate to the point where nothing could happen, just like Weimar.

The current US is diseased, but it is nothing like the Weimar Republic. If you want to make doomsayer comparisons, why don't you go for the fall of Rome? At least that makes you look like you read classical texts.

Rome is also a great example, but Weimar is much more recent. Another thing is the USA doesn't have a Treaty of Versailles to accelerate the decline, either, but the fundamentals of what made Weimar, Weimar yet are here nonetheless.

>>142
Still, no one has responded with a valid argument for why $20 trillion US debt is "meaningless", >>110 brought up good points.