HStone32

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I've heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Tbh, free tech support is a pretty huge bonus

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

I tried distro hopping. In the end, I always just came back to Debian like one of those no-place-like-home stories.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

If choice is our metric here, why not C? That way, you have the choice to use your own implementation of OOP

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

Nah, coding is one of the few things I don't find annoying, so long as the language or toolsets I'm using allow for freedom. What I find annoying is when some talking head says all code should be a certain way, and everybody believes them for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

It would be extremely annoying to be forced to write all my code functionally.

But I find it even more annoying to be forced to write all my code object oriented. Looking at you, python and java.

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

(In homer Simpsons voice) Mmmmmm. Macroalgae.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The amount of time my classmates have spent dealing with vscode crashing, freezing, breaking, etc is way beyond negligible. And yet, I'm the weird guy apparently for preferring vim and GCC.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, you see it a lot in local or low to mid budget network TV. They dress up the laptop to make it look like apple hardware (usually a pear logo instead of an Apple), but when you get a glimpse of the DE, it is clearly neither windows nor apple.

Tv writers and other liberal arts types tend to be cult-like in their devotion to apple, but I guess network TV prop departments have decided apple is too expensive, and installing windows is too much of a hassle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm inclined to think former. Excepting X box players, I've never actually met anyone in real life who actually likes Microsoft. Only people who are forced to use it, and don't feel like migrating to greener pastures.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 weeks ago (22 children)

I've wondered why programming languages don't include accurate fractions as part of their standard utils. I don't mind calling dc, but I wish I didn't need to write a bash script to pipe the output of dc into my program.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Is that the Stanley cup in the first image?

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