Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

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shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Well even the giants too in the case of Meta/Alphabet

say why hasn't anyone demanded FAANG be updated to MAAAN yet

# ¿ Aug 28, 2022 13:44

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:35

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

The N is Microsoft, by way of Nokia

# ¿ Aug 28, 2022 22:59

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IEC 61131 Functional Block Diagram

# ¿ Oct 24, 2022 02:20

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Polio Vax Scene posted:

Can't speak for Beef, but one of our programs appends yyyyMMddHHmmss to the file name of files it creates, plus a random 3 digits at the end.
When asked about "what if the program creates two files at the same time and the rng spits out the same 3 digits both times?" I was told this is so statistically unlikely that we shouldn't worry about it

I'm like "oh shoulda appended a whole GUID" and then got to digging and oh drat the RFC for those specifies a weird time format with a weird epoch

quote:

4.1.4. Timestamp

The timestamp is a 60-bit value. For UUID version 1, this is represented by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as a count of 100-nanosecond intervals since 00:00:00.00, 15 October 1582 (the date of Gregorian reform to the Christian calendar).

fuckin clock circles all the way down

# ¿ Nov 11, 2022 16:03

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1596768465095983104

# ¿ Nov 27, 2022 14:20

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EoRaptor posted:

They talk about how the .33 is an approximation of 1/3rd, so dropping the 'or equal too' isn't going to change the results in meaningful way.

Later they changed the < to > and didn't explain the rationale for that very major change at all tho

# ¿ Dec 28, 2022 04:42

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Jabor posted:

They changed it from "if a < b, skip this next section" to "if a > b, do this section".

ohhhhhhhh yeah I definitely missed that

# ¿ Dec 28, 2022 04:53

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

Volmarias posted:

Really, programming in real alphabets and words was the mistake, we should have taken a page from APL and just made anything that's not user facing I/O content be weird, bespoke symbology that requires a separate keyboard. This would have kept the priesthood of programming interact, preventing shenanigans like this under thread of Programmer Exile.

I am loving this brute-force solution to SQL injection, just look at all the trouble in-band signalling caused telephone companies.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 03:04

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Falcon2001 posted:

Crossposting from the Python thread because I think it goes here:

Switched teams recently, was trying to modify some stuff and went to check unit tests; most of the packages I'm touching don't have unit tests (and I don't have time to overhaul them) but one did, so I was like 'oh okay cool, I can add some tests here to check things'.

However, when I looked more closely, I realized that all the tests were some variation of the below. See if you can spot the problem.
Python code:
def test_get_widget():
	expected_response = ["OUTCOME"]
	class_to_test.get_widget = Mock(response=expected_response)
	assert class_to_test.get_widget(test_parameters) == expected_response
This is also the package where I added the most actual functionality that actually could use some tests...so...welp. Looks like I get to rewrite all the unit tests tomorrow.

Thank you for boosting my confidence to believe that I actually can change careers from wastewater treatment to software dev

# ¿ Jan 19, 2023 05:08

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Jabor posted:

It's the sort of thing where one implementation can do something clever assuming everyone else follows the standards, but if it becomes widespread and other systems start trying to interact with it (e.g. by assuming a 512KB reservation must be one particular vendor's hack, and so it can poke into that memory to do something clever) then everything becomes a huge mess.

welcome to MS-DOS, we've missed you

# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 15:23

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

something something leap second smear

# ¿ Sep 3, 2023 16:59

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

do it for 64-bit and you will complete all the names of God

# ¿ Dec 28, 2023 15:18

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repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/dankuntz/status/1765445935407235252

TIL about python prepopulating integer objects for every value between -5 and 256 every time you run a program

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 14:36

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:35

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Boris Galerkin posted:

I legit think at the moment he's literally trying to delete stuff in cygwin/bin until he finds a "minimally functional master bin folder" that he then wants everyone to copy and paste to use.

I've offered him my help ("hey principal engineer mr sir, I literally have experience helping manage a HPC and this exact same software for grad school") but like most principal engineers he's obviously the smartest person in the room.

wait I heard about this guy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_Muntz

# ¿ May 8, 2024 13:32

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