RustySharp

@RustySharp@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real quick question about the "break"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  break and continue are just goto in disguise … use return instead of break

  An if statement is goto in disguise. So is a return.

  Some would argue having 10x 4-line functions are worse for readability and debugging than a single 40-liner, because to actually understand the code you have to jump around all over the page (another disguised goto - for your eyes!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any recommendations for a career change?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can certainly symphatise. I’ve been pushed to temporarily take management roles, either client-facing or reporting directly to a C-level. Been encouraged by the team to take on the roles permanently.

  What they don’t see is how mentally exhausting it is to actually shield the team from the BS on the other side, when you genuinely care about the people in your team. Yeah, I could use the money, but I don’t trust myself to not act on the homicidal thoughts that pop up once in a while during those times…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what caused you to get into Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  based on curiosity, which was short lived, because Linux (Mandrake) at the time was too challenging.

  Story of my life back in high school. Except it was Slackware, from the back of a magazine.

  Wasn’t until I took Operating System Design in university that the whole linux/unix philosophy clicked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple donation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, someone donated 2.5-12, Apple matched it and filed the whole thing under their corporate account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic was published less than ten years ago, and it's wild how obsolete it is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, ignore the last century of postulation. We just knocked this out real quick.

  Oh wow thanks, TIL. I was a kid in the 90s, and always taught and read “there’s many guesses, but the most likely theory is a massive impact causing global changes”. And only today I learnt that it was a relatively new theory at the time, and the crater wasn’t even identified until the early 90s!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you wrap your head around large established software projects in order to contribute to them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  grep is your very best friend.

  This. And also, in many cases, an ‘adjacent’ grep may help. Say you want to move the “OK” button on one screen. Searching for the string “OK” would be overwhelming as that would be all over the shop.

  But you notice there’s a “Setup…” button next to it. Searching for that could potentially cut down your search results by orders of magnitude. The more obscure the text, the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Null terminator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate’s house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn’t shut down cleanly and refused to boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ways to close vim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I’ve done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn’t let go of Shift fast enough after typing the colon…