Sigmatics

@Sigmatics@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once collaborated with an exceptionally talented programmer who seemed so engrossed in his addiction that he would invent challenges where there were none, presumably to make his work more engaging and bearable. However, this often led to incomplete projects because once the stimulating aspects were finished, he struggled to find the motivation to continue. Clearly, this behavior was extreme and detrimental.

  I think a lot of devs can relate to that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other examples?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who cares if the program has done its job anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The art of the sacrificial 'duck' in programming projects⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This works a lot of the time with the people that don’t really care about the review. With those that do it won’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of great software engineers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Focusing beyond the code - as a developer you will code 20% of your time.

  Doesn’t sound like a great software engineer to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software Engineer vs Software Developer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my company everyone is called Software Development Engineer 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that my non-gamer girlfriend can watch me playing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ori and the Black Forest

  Trine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that my non-gamer girlfriend can watch me playing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Basically anything that you could watch “as a movie” on YouTube that doesn’t have excessive filler in between

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  started up notepad, which was the only application it was capable of running

  Coding a linked list in C in Notepad and only one syntax error? This guy’s worth the money!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing is not a programming bottleneck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even less so now that docstrings can be mostly written by AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Would My Life Change Without Programming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  whoosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Would My Life Change Without Programming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a great DRY culture to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Would My Life Change Without Programming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Industrial workers in the 20th century probably never imagined being replaced by robots, but it’s happened on a large scale.

  There’s still plenty of industrial workers. The same will be true for programmers as AI proliferates.

  These jobs don’t go away, they just become more specialized

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It does. OSS needs visibility, it needs contributions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be honest here, at least like 98% of the popular OSS is on GitHub at this point. You don’t have to like it, but it’s how things are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confusing git terminology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that actually sounds really helpful. Didn’t know you could do that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to know how many rushed games so stuff like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They used coding and algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very high effort reddit screenshot repost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s the smart way. By then the hardware to play that game is also much more affordable and most of the performance issues are gone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The massive generalization in the post title deserves a downvote, honestly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out for devs trying trick bug reporters into doing work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  God forbid you actually help out with the software you’re using at absolutely no cost to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like current working practice in the games industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best free (preferably FOSS) Rust IDE for MacOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re actually developing FOSS with it, you can use their products for free.

  JetBrains has a lot of good will in the community, and for good reason.

  Would it be nicer if their IDEs were FOSS? Probably. Would it hurt their profits? Most likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could it be used as the basis for more advanced information exchange among those companies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you didn’t ship it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something better than SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The main advantage being more concise syntax?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  who needs a standard when you are the standard /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize this, but technically Mozilla is still an independent entity. They also fight some Google attempts at Web DRM, so it’s still healthy condition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad but true