Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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    2 days ago

    Compile your kernel with a different version of ld then shipped with your distro. I have this right now in Debian testing and it’s enraging. I’m not even sure if that’s the source of my error

  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I work as an embedded developer and when a new board is produced and half tested, every one expects fully functional code off the bat, right away.

    Motherfucker, you didn’t even qualify your hardware and you expect my code, that hasn’t hit the new board, to be 100% functional, based on your mind map? We will find hardware issues that will inevitably be blamed on the code and spend hours “debugging” the code to eventually find out the hardware is shit.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Micromanagement to speed up product release date. Daily meeting and status reports, work breakout categories such as ‘code design’, ‘code development’, ‘code documentation’, etc,etc (flash back gif of Apache helicopters flying over a jungle

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Correctly highlight when a programmer is being assumptive as a brick, even when assumptions are one of the biggest sins in programming. Done, you’ve triggered a lot of programmers.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        MATLAB is basically a UI wrapper around Fortran’s BLAS and LAPACK – change my mind. ;)

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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      3 days ago

      Fuck C and it’s lazy shit pointer arithmetic array indexing shortcut. I.e. you just add the index × size(t) to the array pointer.

      Bounds checking? We’ve heard of it.

          • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 days ago

            I’ve ridden a motorbike in a T-shirt and kilt before. That’s … fun …

          • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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            3 days ago

            And sun glasses, don’t forget the aviators.

            While Mr “I can’t code without a garbage collector” is still putting on his backplate of “oh no pointers are bad” and a duck typed full face helmet, to ride his interpreted moped, the big boys, Mr C-ool and Mr ASSembly, are already downing grain alcohol at the finish line.

            But then again I really don’t like to step out of my embedded RTOS bubble. It really depends on what you want to accomplish and how complicated your system is.

            • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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              2 days ago

              embedded RTOS

              That sounds like a domain where memory safety is secondary to size and speed… though compile time memory safety guarantees could help.

              Good thing we have so many options!

  • sleep_deprived@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I have this great idea for an app, we can go 70/30 on it! 70 for me because the idea is the hardest part after all. So basically it’s Twitter plus Facebook plus Tinder with a built in MMO. You can get that done in a couple weeks, should be pretty easy right?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Figure out if they prefer spaces or tabs, insist on the other.

    Please note this won’t work on Pythonistas as they’ve already had their spirit thoroughly broken.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’ve only ever heard raging between the two, but never why. I’m guessing there were competing languages with different standards, or maybe historic hardware limiting input sets that kicked this debate off or?

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        A few languages force a decision (usually towards tabs), but otherwise it’s just a question of aesthetics vs. accessibility.

        • untorquer@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          I see.

          My worst experience was with spaces in code from an engineering professor who used a non-monospace typefont. Sadist. Though it was comic sans, they were probably just dyslexic. Despite the class focusing on numerical methods, we had to hand write Matlab code on paper using proper syntax. I have no clue why. Never learned much numerical method, nor were we ever allowed to use Matlab except on a few “projects” during the term. I found out about the spaces when i had to debug his example code he gave as solutions(which we were graded against). I saw errors and had to confirm i wasn’t losing my mind. …I wasn’t. Anyways there was a mix of spaces and tabs to align the comic sans.

          TLDR: I couldn’t care less. Just don’t code in word, and use a monospace font.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Hard tabs are much better as someone who works with an age diverse team where vision issues are a serious issue. Four space tabs are optimal for you but there are other lived experiences.

      • brian@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        most things seem to have settled on this, but tabs are so much better for accessibility. programmers with bad vision can have trouble differentiating smaller indentation levels, while some of them just bump the font size up so high that 4 spaces takes up too much screen space. each one can set a tab width that is comfortable for them. https://alexandersandberg.com/articles/default-to-tabs-instead-of-spaces-for-an-accessible-first-environment/ has some good arguments

        with a forced formatter and a configured editor there really isn’t any argument for spaces

    • ThePunnyMan@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      For python, see which one they use and secretly replace a single indentation with the other.