Are there any actual programmers left here? Shall we have a small /proggles~/ challenge to incite discussion?
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Anonymous2020-02-25 20:33
I program in C++ if that counts.
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Anonymous2020-02-25 22:37
I stopped programming years ago.
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Anonymous2020-02-25 22:40
Full stack developer here. Thanks to Javascript I do the backend and the frontend in one same language. Mostly node and react these days.
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Anonymous2020-02-26 0:33
I program in CM Lisp and MindForth. And you're an anus.
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Anonymous2020-02-26 0:56
>>5 Concatenative languages such as MindForth force you to anally deform your brain into the shape of a stack. Besides that, they don't offer any advantages. Having formal parameters in functions is a big win, and concatenative languages lose because of that.
>>7 Double anus. First you shit on company time, something only a big anus would do. Then peak posting is like 2 posts per hour, so you spend around 2 hours reading the same 4 shitposts. That's totally anus.
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Anonymous2020-02-26 10:02
I work in security and I mostly do reverse engineering, vulnerability research and exploit development. but I do occasionally write programs, it's just not my main job
>>10 I know, that's why I treat my purely exploitation-related activities (I don't use much PowersHell though, I mostly deal with Unix environments) as something different from ramming progs. but I do write offensive and defensive tooling at work, and outside of work I dabble in gamedev. that's all in mainstream languages like FIOC, Java or C# though, so I have no opportunity to be a smug weenie about it (I did read SICP though and occasionally start a Racket project that never gets finished).
I'm a senior .net and c++ dev, working for a small dysfunctional poorly-managed software company. I'm also a massive autist, hence why I still post here.
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Steve2020-02-27 0:43
I mostly code Excel macros in VBA and I can say in all modesty that I excel at it (lol it's an Office joke so you probably wouldn't get it)
In my spare time I'm working on a video game project. My colleague Bruce advised me to use Python, the standard language for coding video games. Unfortunately there's a nasty bug in the latest version of Python that has yet to be fixed. If you try to launch the code it says: "Python is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
I have no idea how to fix that. So maybe I should make the game run in the browser with a Javascript applet instead?
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Anonymous2020-02-27 2:03
Full stack dev here. Doing Typescript / Java along with other odds and ends
👉 Working for a large multinational (50,000 employees)
👉 Our project is slowly dying and has no business plan
👉 Spend my days dealing with crap code written by the Indian team. This part is honestly quite laughable, I've seen production code stolen directly from blogs, if/else/for/switch nested 12 levels deep, over half the code base copy-pasted from somewhere else, „databases“ where most of the columns are XML strings, an application that takes 45 seconds to lookup a single row and convert some columns to JSON.
👉 A good portion of our „security critical“ code is decades old C/C++ with no tests
👉 My interest in programming outside of work hours has been killed
But enough about me, now back to your regularly scheduled anus
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Anonymous2020-02-27 5:31
Doing C# webdev, it’s actually pretty pleasant. It’s as close to functional as a nontoy lang wil be.
Cell phones are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices. In addition, most of them are computers with nonfree software installed. Even if they don't allow the user to replace the software, someone else can replace it remotely. Since the software can be changed, we cannot regard it as equivalent to a circuit. A machine that allows installation of software is a computer, and computers should run free software. Nearly every cell phone has a universal back door that allows remote conversion into a listening device. (See Murder in Samarkand, by Craig Murray, for an example.) This is as nasty as a device can get. Portable phones make many people's lives oppressive, because they feel compelled to spend all day receiving and responding to text messages which interrupt everything else.
If you need to call someone, ask someone nearby to let you make a call. If you use someone else's cell phone, that doesn't give Big Brother any information about you.
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Anonymous2020-02-27 15:53
>>21 My phone is wifi only, because why should I pay to have to talk to other people? Also, I removed the cell radio kernel module.
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Anonymous2020-02-27 21:56
C# fullstack. The language is ok but everyone is stupid. I want to get off this ride.
One plan is to move to tech city and go to ivy league college and participate in the rat race to hopefully find sentient life.
The other is to stay in pharma city and go to second rate college and try to become a highly payed consultant/code janitor.
I’ve also stopped programming in my free time. If meaning in life is programming what do you code for?
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Anonymous2020-02-28 3:06
Nobody ever calls me, except for spam calls. Like a dozen spam calls a day. It’s so annoying that I even have to own a cellphone for work stuff, but people insist on it. It’s so excruciating. Yet, occasionally, I get a really important call that makes me wonder if there’s some important calls I missed in that sea of spoofed caller IDs. How would I even know? Except to hope that some one left me a voicemail in between hours of spam.
There’s something I read somewhere which said, "email is the least effective and only viable form of alert for when you have a server". Cell phones are like emails for norms.
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Anonymous2020-02-28 7:00
C# is the most autistic of Pajeet langs.
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Anonymous2020-02-28 8:18
>>25 it's a mixed bag. it used to be a much better alternative to Java, but Java improved so much with 8 and beyond that I think it's no longer the case. I mean, LINQ is nice and all, but the exception handling always feels like it's ready to blow up at runtime and I really don't like properties (or, as I like to call them, functions pretending to be variables). also, going beyond pajeetlalngs into pajeet-compatibles, F# is pretty good
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Anonymous2020-02-28 10:21
If you think about exceptions, you need to reconsider your carrier as a programmer.
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Anonymous2020-02-28 10:26
>>27 error handling is important, and if the language uses exceptions for that then yes, you need to think about exceptions. Java is ok about exceptions because you are forced to handle most of them at compile time. in C#, compiler doesn't give a shit and then your're are runtime blows up, which sucks.
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Anonymous2020-02-28 16:00
>>27 I work with programmers who seem to unironically believe this
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Anonymous2020-02-28 16:05
>>28 I am on a shitter after 8 units of alcool, stop responding to my poastings honestly.
The author of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindForth -- needs an AI expert to write something about it -- went before the Board of Regents of his Alma Mater on 12 December 2019
and told them that he was loading his AI software onto Guest Workstations downstairs in the main campus library, and they had no objections, but the library itself made him stop.
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Concatenative languages such as MindForth force you to....
>>35 Mentifex! Did they release you from the asylum?
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Old Dater Dude2020-03-01 16:42
>>36 I was only pretending to go out! My old friend was a very sick man......and a very good lawyer. He was convinced he was in jail because the state tried to take his business away, but he was also convinced that my business would get me off if I came to court.
There is no going back, not when you live all the moments in your life simultaneously. It would be nice to leave 2020 and go back in time to a more decent era, but no can do when never left la belle epoch. 2020 is now contaminating all the previous years.
What do true Proggers do in such a situation? Shane (Alan Ladd) told Brandon de Wilde, "There is no going back." Anyway, is this websight a refuge for raving maniacs and impersonators of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme sur la Terre? Inspector Clouceau! I wish to make a full confession of all my misdeeds. Please stand by, and do not spin the globe.
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