Ever since I looked up “java download” and had to go through the horrible process on the Oracle site, I decided that they didn’t want me to download Java so I should avoid it, and that has always proved to be a good decision

WOOOOO YEAH BABY

I’d consider them vegetables for cooking purposes

$100 says his response boils down to “just don’t write unsafe code”

Edit: It did. He also said C++ is working to implement optional safety features, but tl;dr:

Of the billions of lines of C++, few completely follow modern guidelines

And the modern guidelines are mostly an unenforced list of things not to do.

The way PHP does it is oddly smart

just avoid all the bad stuff bro

If I was giving a tour of my kitchen and it included phrases such as “avoid using the leftmost cabinet of any set of two”, “the freezer doesn’t work but the fridge can be set to the same temperature”, or “the oven has been deprecated, just use the microwave”, you’d rightfully gtfo. Why is this acceptable of a programming language??

You’re better off learning a language that isn’t full of foot-guns, gotchas, and undefined behavior.

As a JS developer, seeing this quote about C/C++ for a change gives me unbelievable levels of schadenfreude

Wow, thank you

The phone system is horribly outdated and could use a revamp more than the web could.

Out of curiosity do you have any good examples of this hidden complexity? I’ve always kinda wondered how printers work behind the scenes.

Windows File Recovery, WinfrGUI, Easeus, Aomei, DiskGenius, etc.

There are tools for that fyi

Don’t you mean Linux Torvalds?

that hurt to type

printer firmware is tens of thousands of lines long

I’m starting to understand why printers are so horrible

Remove technical debt: Programming (Intelligence) or Programming (Wisdom), DC 15 to 20

Create technical debt: Programming (Charisma), automatic success

You might be trying to hold too many details in your head at once. Once you’ve read a function, try to reframe it in a simpler and easier way; for example, instead of remembering all the steps it makes, just remember what goes in and what comes out (and any side effects). This will let you think about how different functions interact, not just different lines of code.

Default VS Code font, whatever that is. I prefer no ligatures; I find them distracting.

There’s not much point in doing that. Like I said, you don’t know what you’re talking about, and it’s just an argument of which definition is best to use, so it’s not really much of a debate. TL;DR: Not interested.

Wow really got me lmao

Like seriously? “Uhhh duhhh nuh uh, no you” is the best you could come up with? What are you, five?

For real, wikipedia is the best