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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I often use only the curser to code. I prefer to drag and drop letters from a virtual keyboard into my IDE.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I worked with a diplomated software engineer and that idiot couldn't even set up his own computer.

This whole branche is cursed...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

s/diplomated/graduate/
s/branche/industry (sector)/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah... Thanks
English isn't my first language and it's Friday, I'm everything but sober

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Prost! 🍻

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

I do most of my cursing during preliminary test...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

The poor sap was probably trying to get the wifi working :/.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

Original tweet

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is the 🫣 emoji censored?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

It reminds people that negative things exist and that isn't good for business.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Psychopatl is a word from nahuatl?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

only in the uto-aztecan dialects. lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Two scenarios:

A) nixCraft could tell it's vim from a mere look – in which case they're a "psychopath" themselves.

B) this is completely made up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

C) It's an obvious joke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean like we all did if you’re like me and started writing code in late 80s to mid 2000s?

Fucking amateurs…

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

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I remember these.…

And …

And…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

And now, this:

Cover page of The Rust Programming Language, Second Edition

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That C book was still used when I studied software engineering in the 2010s. It was even considered a 'modern' C book because it had been updated to include ANSI C...

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

had comprehensive manuals

You must not have coded for DOS.

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

At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I had an Atari 800, and the manual for it was pretty complete.

At office in 1991 I started programming for IBM PCs in DOS, that was a big step into the void.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

In the late 80s there were no man pages, we had a 50 page paper manual - and it was mostly useless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

How could he not use the GLORIOUS AI!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

~~Which app is this? Never seen the chat icon at the bottom in fediverse clients.~~ didn't know nixcraft was on twitter

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

I saw this on Mastodon if that helps

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic 2 points 2 days ago

Poes law is hard at work here