Data types do matter, and someone’s got to declare them at some point, or else your compiler won’t know how to intepret them. It’s just a question of who should be doing the declaring: you, or a parser algorithm? Personally, I don’t like things being done for me.

Linus Minix

Unix by any other name…

The c build system that comes with visual studio. You pretty much have no choice but to use it if you’re writting c on windows.

Classic microsoft, making the worst possible version of something, and somehow finding a way to force everyone to use it.

They clearly don’t consider their human capital to be all that important if they’re relagating hiring to ai. Take it as a signal that your value is too high for this company. Chaces are they would prefer to hire 2 year grads or bootcampers over experienced engineers.

Managers hoping genAI will cause the skill requirements (and paycheck demand) of developers to plummet:

Also managers when their workforce are filled with buffoons:

You make good points, but I doubt you’d continue to feel that way if you were a shareholder

It’s always funny to see periodicals talk about Valve like they’re a normal puplicly traded tech company.

Valve is private. That fact alone is neither inherently good, nor bad. What it means though, is that Valve will very likely behave very differently than other companies in the same market. Heck, I very much doubt half life Alyx would exist if they were public. If we get HL3, it will likely be a similar case.

…but some nerds are more equal than others.

As an incurable optimist, I look forward to the day digitally licensed media goes under, and analog media makes its grand return

import numpy as np

temp = np.array([22, 21, 25, 23])
sd_temp = np.std(temp, ddof=1)
print(sd_temp)

Vs

temp <- c(22, 21, 25, 23)
sd(temp)

How in the world is R more clunky than python?

Edit: and I didn’t even mention how python likes to break unrelated software packages whenever I’m forced to use it.

I’ll never understand why my classmates prefer python to R.

Not to mention python has a tendency to influence things outside of its domain. I’ve configured my software repos to never update any packages containing python scripts or dependencies, because every time python updates, there’s a chance all those packages will stop working.

Safe code is a skill, not a feature.

7. Never plan on staying at a SE job for longer than a few years. Not in a market that volitile.

The secret to success in software engineering:

1. Lie and say that there is
2. Write or use a conversion algorithm
3. Boss won’t know the difference
4. Collect bonus at performance evaluation
5. Put “AI engineer” on resume

I’ve heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

If choice is our metric here, why not C? That way, you have the choice to use your own implementation of OOP

Nah, coding is one of the few things I don’t find annoying, so long as the language or toolsets I’m using allow for freedom. What I find annoying is when some talking head says all code should be a certain way, and everybody believes them for some reason.