Programmer Humor

Yeah, other idiots.

It's a double-edged sword and understanding when to re-use and when to re-implement is an art that goes wrong more often than right.

Got caught in that trap at my first coding job. Made a sort formula and a sr dev asked my I didn’t just use the array.sort.

My answer: I didn’t know it was there.

Ah, the ever-elusive, mysterious stage in my process - the one I can't ever seem to move much before the "planning" and at least "beginning to implement" stages, and sometimes stubbornly comes even later than that.

It’s a tool, useful in some contexts and not useful in others.

In my opinion this is a thought terminating cliche in programming and the IT industry in general. It can be, and is, said in response to any sentiment about any thing.

Now, saying what sort of context you think something should or should not be used in, and what qualities of that thing make it desirable/undesirable in that context, could lead to fruitful discussion. But just "use the right tool for the right job" doesn't contribute anything.

I've been working as first a Python and then a Java dev for the last 15 years and I can count the amount of times when I've seen actual OOP on one hand.

I mean, we write "class" at the beginning of our modules and at the beginning of our structs, and we write "interface" at the beginning of our header files, but none of that is actually OOP.

If you use Spring Boot, you are essentially doing C (not even C++) in Java.

You have data-only classes without methods (at best there's a conversion method or something shallow like that) that work identical to C structs. You have service interfaces, which serve the same purpose as C header files. And then you have data-less collections of functions (service/controller classes), which work like .c files.

Nowhere in this whole process are you actually using OOP techniques.

deeply sane

I hope somebody describes me like this one day.

I'm a CS major who had to take ethics, but the REQUIRED textbook was written by the professor teaching the class. Managed to get through the semester with an A without buying it and called him out in the class survey.

I was required to take an ethics class, but it was a complete joke. Guy just wasted a bunch of time on very surface-level, Philosophy 101 stuff like talking about who Aristotle was. I'm not sure we even had homework actually. Real ethics were nowhere to be found.

It'd be a good idea. Hopefully it'd see an end to those idiots claiming single exit means there can only be one return statement.

Arguably "we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency" fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal

It's almost always slow is ways that the language choice doesn't matter even a little

It's what the Wizard Book (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) was written for.

My uni had one. Sadly I couldn't fit it into my schedule because of overlaps and other requirements.

i took two courses on functional programming through coursera. it was based on scala.

+1 for unlearning OOP

It's a cult