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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

First good chuckle of the day. Thanks! I'll pause here to go get breakfast.

Aside: when I was first learning to code, I'd take a bicycle ride when I got stuck. The answers came to me as I rode in circles talking aloud about whatever problem I was trying to solve.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was recently made aware of the concept of "rubber ducking". Maybe thats something you were doing without realising

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Be careful not to sign up for Tour de France eventually..

[–] corsicanguppy 10 points 10 months ago

This was super funny in the '90s, but I'm not sure whether it was just that era or that we've all seen this one about a million times since.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Teaching is learning a second time.

Rewriting is learning a third time.

Rewriting is learning a fourth time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

When I was younger and had more time on my hands I would end up rewriting most of my big projects at least 2 or 3 times

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Enlightenment: everything works, and we don't know why. So DON'T TOUCH IT.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Licensing: the same code i compiled yesterday doesn't compile today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago