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🤣 no need. I certainly am not Linus levels of stickler on it and don’t sit there and worry about it. I just found the concepts he is trying to teach very helpful. Fail fast and breaking things up into smaller methods that do “a thing”.

See, when I was in school, they didn’t teach fail fast and if anything they told you not to. Nowadays, we have moved past that nonsense. I gave it a shot about a year ago, and it has made me a better programmer. I am not going to sit there and count braces, but things are a lot easier when you get the error cases over with and out of the way.

There are always going to be exceptions, but I have personally found a lot of value in using ‘fail fast’, and making more smaller methods that say what they do. I am not always great at that second part, but it is a process. As someone with severe ADHD, it has made it a lot easier to work through problems. Sure, you can end up with more lines of code, but who cares. Compiler should be optimizing most of that shit out anyway.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CFRhGnuXG-4

Watch this. I have found that this makes it way easier to debug shit, is more readable, and cuts down on mistakes.

I lucked out. Success at last! Now I can continue to code furiously doing things I know how to do.

Been there. Done that. FML on searching for programming help some days. Versioning is a nightmare as the way you “used” to do things is no longer relevant and the rest of the results are some asshole saying it is a duplicate question that was answered 10 years ago…that is no longer fucking relevant!

Sorry. Yesterday sucked. I hope today is less frustration and more things working like they are supposed to.

laughs in evil PLC programmer A little forces enabled, a change here, and maybe just move this wire over there while I am at it…

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Only people I ever have a problem with are Project Managers. I have had way more bad experiences with utterly psychotic PMs than PMs who are actually good at their job. Everybody else is super cool, but I swear all of you are alcoholics. At least Sales pays for the drinks?

I am getting flashbacks on dealing with SAP “inspired” software that looked worse than that bottom image. I am glad my new company does not use that garbage. It was especially depressing to see how SAP entirely ruined Concur.

I feel like you and Linus Torvalds should be in the same room. Thank you for writing this. My Wi-Fi doesn’t work either and Bluetooth is a half assed mess that only seems to work with my mouse and nothing else. I don’t have time for that shit.

When I did ceramics for non art major, I would listen to that on repeat for 2-3 hours at a time. No drugs. I would just zone out, sculpt, throw some pots, and play with nice relaxing clay. Tangentially related, have you seen Children of Men? You get Court of the Crimson King and some other music references about, like the giant floating pig.

I am so confused. It seriously doesn’t mean, “of fucking course”? I never knew and I don’t think I can retrain my brain to think otherwise on this one. I was raised by an uncouth teddy bear, so fuck is just a sort of normal word for me.

Today I Learned.

I remember when that article came out I had a passing thought that it was probably JBS Grand Island. Low and behold… Not fucking surprised.

I worked at a company that did some upgrades for that system and that place is vile. It was hard not to puke in the parking lot some days and I remember walking around the outside of building (left), and seeing all of the spray downs on the way to the freezer.

I setup my own VPN using this on a raspberry pi. Using the ikev2. I like DietPi for the OS.

https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn/tree/master

Physical Therapy! Do the exercises/stretches. If you need to go back and ask a doctor for another round, do it. I get it though.

Sometimes KT tape can do wonders, but it really really depends. Personally, the best was with knees and arms. I wear a different kind of brace for my ankle, a Trilok, but there are apparently a whole bunch of similar ones now.

Other times you just suffer in silence…

Sorry, couldn’t help myself on that one. They had to push a button every 108 minutes, which is the sum of “the numbers”, and they had to enter that code. If they don’t enter the code, the world will end. 😁

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

I love those things too!

For the love of all that is unholy, learn and get comfortable with the command line. Go install WSL if you are on Windows. Not saying you have to be a master, but learn how to compile your code manually, get around the OS, tab complete, grep, ps, and other simple commands. Learn the basics of a text editor. vim/emacs/nano. Just pick one or two. Learn how to redirect output to standard and error out. Simple shell scripts.

Debugger. If you do not know how to set breakpoints, with or without conditions, and inspect variables, go learn today. I have junior developers that can’t do this.

Critical thinking and investigation. This is a rather loaded term, but your problem solving skills will go a lot farther than how your code looks. Bad but working code can be improved. Alternative solutions can be found. You at least understand the problem and an approach to take. If you don’t understand how something works, figure it out. Ask your senior team members. Spend time in the debugger and the source code, if available. Good documentation doesn’t always exist. You will not always find the perfect answer or tutorial on the Internet. If you are going to use code off the internet, you damn well better understand how it works and how to expand on it.

Keep up with the standards and updates to the languages you use. A lot of tutorials can be out of date fairly quickly. Newer language features can be a huge boon and you get a sense of where that language is going. Older ways of using libraries and languages can be hard to avoid, but make an effort to check. Speak up to your seniors if you find something that may be useful or if something is now considered bad practice.

Look at source code on GitHub/GitLab/Whatever and then the all mighty practice.

In my opinion, once you can get a handle on the above, then you can go back and learn more advanced principles, algorithms, read textbooks, and things like that. They will make a lot more sense. This may seem a little opposite than what most people would say, but for me a lot of the things I learned in school or read previously started to click.

I am digging the color options. That definitely looks like a 1 to 1 replacement! I love the Internet.