candy for breakfast posted:

current coding horror is a new hire who wants to rename the production database because he doesn't like it.

duck monster posted:

When he was handed access to the TCP server (I'm being vague here, NDA. Its an end point for a IOT type thing) he was handed that whole project over from me so I could turn to other parts of the system. After an argument over his idiot plan to replace the old nodejs server with a PHP one (after he lied to the boss and told him nodejs cant do multitasking. like gently caress?) I just gave up and said "Fine, I want nothing to do with it" and the boss gave him the full keys to that one. That PHP replacement is a hot mess. All the SQL is via interpolated strings, the front end is a jquery horrorshow (He actually flew into a fit when he first started and wrote a full page rant about how he wanted our front end people to drop vuejs for jquery, and was soundly told to gently caress off and keep away)

He has no access to the two main clusters (data ingress , where the TCP server is sending info too and front end) because its a kubernetes system and I suspect he'd have no idea where to even begin with it. And in all honesty if he tried I suspect the boss would have a mutiny from the rest of the devs.

That said, I've been interviewing new developers for the team and have been carefully but covertly insisting on requirements that would let us drop in a replacement for this guy.

On the side I've been working with security on building a new set of security guidelines enforced by policy that he'll need to either adapt to or gently caress off. Mandatory code reviews, security linting to turn all those SQL injections into giant blaring sirens, etc, prohibiting uses of unprepared SQL as well as a policy that is phasing out PHP entirely so that everything is going to be using either lambda or kubernetes python architecture gated behind CI.

And this guy has proven himself almost violently unwilling to learn anything that isnt old school PHP

Jazerus posted:

sadly, many people emerged from the early 2000s with a terminal case of php & jquery brain yet it's not a recognized medical condition

Hammerite posted:

As a developer who works occasionally (but not specifically) on front-end stuff, I don't know what the connotations are of listing jquery on one's resume. Can you explain?

My vague impression of jQuery is that it was a major thing when it was first released over a decade ago, but that some of what it did is now part of the relevant standards so it may be a bit redundant now. Also that it's a toolbox, rather than a framework.

cheetah7071 posted:

That kind of makes sense if you're American

Hammerite posted:

Spent half the afternoon tracking down a failure in a new deployment of an app (an engineering tool, not a customer-facing app) to a new version of a JS dependency. Well, should be no problem, right? Just stop it from pulling in the new version.

The person who originally created the app intended its dependencies to be maintained (or whatever is the term) using "yarn". They apparently took steps to pin dependency versions in the way "yarn" wants you to do things. Then someone later came along and added an automated deployment process using "npm" and something called "react-scripts". This thing is pulling in the latest version of the dependency despite the fact that there's an entry in "packages.json" telling it to use a specific version. Ok, internet says I need to take "package-lock.json", amend the version of the dependency and change the name to "npm-shrinkwrap.json", and it will use that exact version. Nope, somewhere along the way the deployment process overwrites "npm-shrinkwrap.json" and carries on using the latest version of the dependency. Look all over to figure out what it's doing, all I can find is that it is running "npm install", which Stack Overflow assures me respects "npm-shrinkwrap.json".

There's a command in npm, "npm explain", which is supposed to tell you why it's pulling in a particular version of a dependency, but it's only available in a later version than what's installed on the build server. and considering how loving flaky all these tools are I have no doubt that if I try to update the version on the build server I'll break everything for all the teams using it and get half a dozen people mad at me.

I do .NET languages, I shouldn't have to mess around with this stupid Javascript horseshit in the first place. Feeling about ready to do violence here.

Hammerite posted:

I put it back to using Yarn and it's working now. Rage has subsided, the solemn intent to destroy all JavaScript has not.

SupSuper posted:

I didn't mean "write your own serializer", but "I can see the appeal in using a simple serializer for simple data", given half of .NET's serializers had to be deprecated for being a security issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serialization/binaryformatter-security-guide

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Has anyone had any experience with TypeScript? I've run into at least one software house which claims that it provides a lot of the benefits of a strongly typed language like C++ while still being able to run on the browser.

namlosh posted:

As someone who’s bounced off C and CPP for years and is now taking another shot at it in order to do some embedded dev, this part has caused me so many issues.
You think that it must be a problem in how you’re thinking about variables, addresses and pointers and it causes you to think you don’t “get it”
And for whatever reason, people don’t call it out. Like if I’m teaching CPP the first thing I’ll teach is this bullshit and how it’s dumb. * operator doing two totally different things like that is ridiculous. Wish I had realized it years ago and just accepted it and moved on lol.
I also think it’s stupid to try and teach pointers without teaching references hand in hand. Ughh

While I’m on a rant, c++ using << and >> operators in iostream in every tutorial is ridiculous. Like, let me put a super esoteric, advanced concept in front of people just learning the language. That won’t cause them to think it’s just magic lol

Arby’s drive thru… can I get extra horsey sauce please

Carbon dioxide posted:

Macichne Leainig posted:

My favorite, the 4-state boolean.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Hammerite posted:

the post was pretty interesting, as someone who doesn't know much about how operating systems work at a low level. but the constant suggestion that one should have an emotional reaction to it was a bit irritating*. I mean all the "ye gods how awful it is that they are doing this! how gross! and now let me tell you about what they do with the file system" stuff. it's all just computer bullshit you don't have to try to make it juicy by talking about how it's the computer equivalent of HP lovecraft or something.

* the author of the piece is less guilty of this than all the commenters reacting to it

QuarkJets posted:

Yeah I guess I can see how some poindexters could get very mad at all of the rule-breaking going on

quote:

Classes within the System.Printing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows service or ASP.NET application or service. Attempting to use these classes from within one of these application types may produce unexpected problems, such as diminished service performance and run-time exceptions.

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1640100620228083713

26 chromes on my machine totalling 2.8GB, i love modern software

abraham linksys posted:

microsoft is sort of trying to solve the packaged chromium on windows with WebView2, which will use system-installed Edge (so, Chromium) by default. applications can still choose to package a specific version if they're concerned about updates breaking the apps, though

teams is moving to it. i laughed very hard when i saw a headline saying "Teams Preview Ditches Electron!!" and thought "oh wow microsoft must have finally built a native UI framework they like enough to actually build software in it again" and no of course not they've just moved from Angular to React and Electron to WebView2 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-advantages-of-the-new-architecture/ba-p/3775704

Ranzear posted:

Bash is a good terminal but a miserable scripting language.

PowerShell is a good scripting language but a miserable terminal.

Trying to do both is the folly.

JawnV6 posted:

I used to maintain perl written by EE's. EE's generally have funny ideas about software, will get things working once then move on to other problems. This was perl that smashed ASCII together into SQL queries, so just the best possible environment for clever solutions to persist for years.

A couple of the genius inventions that I had to deal with included

code:

$AND = "AND"
$OR  = "OR "

Thinking it was superfluous, I removed the extra space from $OR. Turns out it was load bearing, as it bashed strings together to make a SQL query it would get to the end and chop; chop; chop; to remove the "extra" operator, without the " " it would whack a ")" and imbalance things.

The other incredible move was redefining $\, the newline character, from '\n' to '' so it could slurp a whole file and do one s/// operation instead of "looping" over "lines" like some uncourageous jerk.

quote:

This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

Athas posted:

Yes, this is it. It's the kind of stuff that inevitably happens when you are building on top of a sufficiently complex tower of abstractions. It's likely the programmer didn't even realise anything was going in the registry.

OddObserver posted:

Windows has ridiculously bad file system performance

Mind_Taker posted:

code:

public dynamic function(dynamic data) {
    int id = (int)(data.id);

....

    return some_string;
}

Stuff like this is everywhere in the codebase I'm reviewing for the job I just started.

Ihmemies posted:

I have determined that our university’s webdev1 course is pure coding horror. Plain ES5/6 mixed haphazardly, mongodb, age old node packages. I tried to swim against the tide, using ES6 features like modules, and import/export, until a test in this week’s assignments banned them.

/home/user/study/tuni/webdev1proj/dist/models/user.js
I give up. I am making Internet Explorer compatible webpages with pure ECMASCRIPT 5 in TYOOL 2023. And I don’t have a choice if I want a grade from the course.

gently caress. gently caress this horseshit. 2nd largest uni in Finland btw, don’t come here to get your CS degree.

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

you have some pretty weird standards if you think 100 if-elses is bad but 100 switch cases is suddenly good / "better"
it's all the same poo poo

GABA ghoul posted:

I love this so much, especially because it doesn't even work if you execute it on a German Windows

So here is the correct version that is actually safe to deploy internationally

code:

string decimalSeparator = Directory.Exists("C:\\Programme") ? "," : ".";

is_odd = (number / 2).ToString().Contains(decimalSeparator);

quote:

Well, it's plausibly threadsafe, making it less appropriate for this thread. It needs to be rewritten using getting/putenv.

quote:

The CurrentCulture property doesn't work reliably when used with any thread other than the current thread. In .NET Framework, reading the property is reliable, although setting it for a thread other than the current thread is not. On .NET Core, an InvalidOperationException is thrown if a thread attempts to read or write the CurrentCulture property on a different thread. We recommend that you use the CultureInfo.CurrentCulture property to retrieve and set the current culture.

ultrafilter posted:

It'd be even more efficient to move the precomputation to compile time.

ultrafilter posted:

I briefly looked into generating a lookup table using templates but that's way too much effort for me.

Presto posted:

You guys are missing an obvious optimization. If the number is greater than 2 you first check if it's prime, because every prime number greater than 2 is odd. And since there are infinitely many prime numbers, that greatly reduces size of the problem set.

Zopotantor posted:

This looks like an ideal use case for blockchain. I'll start the wiki.

Hammerite posted:

you got chatgpt or something to write all that right? If you sat down and wrote that yourself for the sake of making a joke in the computer programming thread then either you're crazy or i am.

Foxfire_ posted:

I don't think I hate this that much? it's icky, but it's also plain what it does and how it works.

(I do hate that resume() returns 0 on both the first iteration and after it's finished)

Jen heir rick posted:

What about COM. Anyone remember COM? Or DCOM, or COM+. It was supposed to be this magical technology where you could register a COM object and then any program would use it. And when you update with a new version it would automatically work. And you could move those COM objects to a remote server and your program would just magically keep working the same. And any update on the server would be automatically be picked up by the local program.

Except that poo poo didn't work. It was a pain in the rear end. You'd update version and the program keeps picking up the wrong one. And you'd pull your hair out trying to find the right incantation to make it work. Any type of remote COM had to be carefully designed to be called remote. So that's a leaky abstraction. poo poo was worse than what we had, which was just shared libraries resolve by PATH. Which is what we have now, which shows you how lovely com was.

Of course I haven't worked with COM in like 20 years So I may not remember the specifics, but I do remember COM sucking poo poo, and having to pierce the vale of magic was often needed to get poo poo to work correctly.