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magic_lobster_party,

The terminal is a power tool. I can do stuff with it that’s slow or inconvenient with graphical tools.

I really like the piping capabilities of the Linux terminal. Incredibly useful for text processing.

magic_lobster_party,

Continuous deployment pipelines usually have lots of automatic testing ensuring nothing breaks for the user.

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GameCube. Because I have fond memories of it in my childhood. I prefer it over PS2 because it properly supports 4 player games (without any extra gadgets).

Smash Bros. Mario Kart. TimeSplitters. All excellent couch multiplayer games. Even Metroid Prime 2 had quite fun multiplayer.

And Soul Calibur 2 got Link.

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“Due the global economic circumstances, we were forced to make the incredibly tough decision to say good bye to one of our staff members, cutting down the work force by 100%”

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I’m also glad I did it as a hobby before I started viewing software development as a job. No code from me if there’s no money on the table.

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He has used this comic as his profile pic on Twitter and StackOverflow for quite a while.

magic_lobster_party,

You can’t rescue the princess, but you can borrow her.

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This is way beyond a first hint of disapproval.

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You don’t need to tell each other to shut the fuck up in all caps and call each other idiots to get the point across. It’s possible to instruct your peers in a much more professional manner.

magic_lobster_party,

It’s found at sudo snap install mustard-gas nowadays

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0.999… means infinitely repeating 9s. There’s no more 9 to add that hasn’t already been added. If you can add another 9, then it’s not infinitely repeating.

magic_lobster_party,

Bill writes spaghetti code.

Bill is not smart.

Don’t be like Bill.

magic_lobster_party,

KDE Plasma and Gnome are different desktop environments. Kind of like the GUI of the desktop.

Which is best is a matter of taste. I prefer KDE because of its customization options and better virtual desktop support.

magic_lobster_party,

Or just name the variable delaySeconds if you really want to store it as an int. Bonus is that every use of the variable perfectly communicates what it is.

magic_lobster_party,

Chances are that the comments quickly turn out of date and become incorrect. Misleading comments is worse than no comments.

magic_lobster_party,

Those cases are rare. Often the most basic solution is good enough.

If you have to write complex code, then you should write a comment (write the name of the algorithm for example).

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I’ve seen code that look like this:

int delay = 15 * 60; // 10 minutes

Even if the comment was on the same line someone forgot to update it. People just ignore comments.

Better solution is to write (in C#):

TimeSpan delay = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15)

Much more obvious what the code actually means.

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x += 1; // Increases x by one

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Mandatory Ubuntu hate as well.

I use Ubuntu btw.

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Yes we do

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Laughs in Object

magic_lobster_party,

Screen locking yes, but that’s not screen saver.

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Who even uses screensavers these days?

magic_lobster_party,

JSON for serialization all the way. It’s simple and to the point. It does one thing and does it well. There’s little room for annoying surprises. Any JSON can easily be minified and prettified back and forth. If you want it in binary format you can convert it to BSON.

Yaml is too much of a feature creep. It tries to do way too many things at the same time. There are so many traps to fall into if you’re not cautious enough. The same thing can be written in multitudes of ways.

Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I used to check the front page at least once every day, and occassionally check specific subreddits. Now I don’t look at reddit unless theres some drama, like mods getting purged, then I’d go there and enjoy the drama. Occasionally there will be questions that only reddit has the answer to so I have to reluctantly use it. I...

magic_lobster_party,

Reddit is dead to me. Only time I go there is if a Google search leads me there, which is not that often.

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