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9 lies programmers tell themselves
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| 28 October 2019
| Peter Wayner
Posted on 11/12/2019 3:41:01 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:41:02 AM PST
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:41:25 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
I have been wrestling with drupal, css, php, and twig all day today. I don’t consider myself a programmer. Someone else invented these languages.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:04:10 AM PST
by
Jemian
(War Eagle!)
To: Jemian
I'm not familiar with twig, but the others I do not consider to be programming languages. They are more of a markup/formatting protocol. PHP does some processing of data, but it's not a General Purpose programming language.
I've done a lot of COBOL, some C/C++, some python, and a very tiny bit of Perl. I think the key to remember is that once you learn how to program in the abstract, then whatever language you choose is just syntax.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:14:53 AM PST
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ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
10. This time the non-programmer group I work for actually knows what they want. :)
11. I can rebuild from scratch all the features we need instead of keeping on using the 3rd-party software. :) (I guess sometimes that's true.)
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:15:29 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: ShadowAce
A programmer’s response to his error:
Ooops, ..... why it’s another ‘feature’.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:17:59 AM PST
by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: ShadowAce
There are 10 kinds of people........
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:18:34 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
To: ShadowAce
I agree with you completely. Twig is like php.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:19:33 AM PST
by
Jemian
(War Eagle!)
To: ShadowAce
Blast from the past from an old programmer. Back in the day people were amazed that I could read a punched card that did not have any verbiage above.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:30:20 AM PST
by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: ShadowAce
Just remember, all of this is the basis for all of the “Internet of Things” (IoT) aka automation aka Alexa and the rest. If a human being does something stupid like running a stop sign, it is a single act and society has procedures to handle the consequences. If a self-driving automation system does the same action, the ramifications are a very “Brave New World” indeed! Even if you place ultimate responsibility with the driver using the flying pilot rules as an exemplar, there are going to be a myriad of exceptions to be programmed.
Thank God I am a retired & recovering software engineer!
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:41:00 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
Bean counters
Verses
Builders.
Do it Better,
Do it Faster.
.
Do It Yourself!
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:43:10 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: duckman
I write my pins on the back of my debit cards in binary with a bit shift. It helps keep me centered.
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:48:24 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: duckman
I could read a punched card Tch, tch! Please, ours is a technical profession, proper terminology at all times! Hollerith or IBM Card unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed! Still have nightmares of a spilled box of the same!
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:53:39 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: ShadowAce
![](http://www.collectoons.com/imgtoon/701/702/20100101_121507chode.gif)
"And so we see again and again as developers create new frameworks to patch the problems of the old frameworks, introducing new problems along the way. If a framework adds server-side rendering, it bogs down the server. But if everything is left to the clients, they start slowing down. Each new feature is a tradeoff between time, code, and bandwidth."
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posted on
11/12/2019 4:55:26 AM PST
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: ShadowAce
Here’s another lie: managed code somehow magically removes the need to worry about or even check for memory leaks. Managed code just means the memory leaks become more difficult to debug.
To: SES1066
“...unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed!”
I was one of the IBM unwashed. Started there in 1968, Harrison NY (HQ), also applied to Burroughs, not sure about Remington Rand. LOL
BTW, Started coding for the 1401(auto coder,) then 7010 (auto coder), then 360 (assembler), even wired Unit Record devices.
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posted on
11/12/2019 5:02:44 AM PST
by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: ShadowAce
No programmer wrote these. So what the hell does this author know, Not Much.
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posted on
11/12/2019 5:36:47 AM PST
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
It may be a lie, but it wasn’t a programmer who lied.
It was the sales team and top management.
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posted on
11/12/2019 5:38:16 AM PST
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: glorgau
Why not Exclusive OR with your birth date.
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posted on
11/12/2019 5:39:21 AM PST
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: ShadowAce
How did you know my pronoun is “His Majesty”?
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posted on
11/12/2019 5:41:47 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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