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[–] [email protected] 226 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With clear requirements and outcome expected

Why did no one think of this before

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Who does that? What if they do everything right and it doesn't work and then it turns out it's my fault?

[–] [email protected] 126 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a... code

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People could give things a name and write down what type of thing it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

We don't want anything amateur. It has to be a professional codegrammar.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What, like some kind of design requirements?

Heresy!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Design requirements are too ambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Design requirements are what it should do, not how it does it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That's why you must negotiate or clarify what is being asked. Once it has been accepted, it is not ambiguous anymore as long as you respect it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm a systems analyst, or in agile terminology "a designer" as I'm responsible for "design artifacts"

Our designs are usually unambiguous

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And NOT yet another front page written in ReactJS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, well, that's good, because I have a ton of people who work with Angular and not React.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This still isn't specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I knew it, i should've asked for assembly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah but that's a lot of writing. Much less effort to get the plagiarism machine to write it instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ha

None of us would have jobs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Who even makes these comics? Is it like Simpsons

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Randall Munroe. You may know him from such gems as xkcd 3472 and 6548.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Getting a bit ahead of yourself, we're only on 3070 so far!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You have be more patient, those ones will take a while to load.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Web browsing 101: if you see a hyperlink on social media, you can click on it and then look around to see if it contains more links with useful information, often in the header or footer of the page. Here I found one for you: https://xkcd.com/about/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it's called a rhetorical question

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

OP just chatting with themselves so they can screenshot it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is some telegram group and both messages shows from left with profile icons(which got cropped). The screenshot person sent the last message which shows double ticks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

In the desktop client the positions of bubbles also depend on the width of the window.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Great attention to detail!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just a fake conversation in general, look at the timestamps between the messages from the interlocutor. Several minutes to type a complete sentence?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, i can take a few hours to reply sometimes :c

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Could be a group chat but we all know they're a twat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
Don't even know yet if it works (lol)

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