But have a coding session on an old codebase ever made you a more religious person?

Just landed my first "real" software engineering job! Now let me venture the land of messy and convoluted codebase.

The beelephant of the Apache Hive logo looks like as it is about to let out the happiest sneeze in the world

I am working with Apache Spark on Scala for my undergrad research. It got me thinking: what is Scala used for beside doing stuff with Spark?

Not sure whether it's just me but most posts talking about Scala seem to always mention Spark.

I'm going to Texas in a few months for an international competition. What are some do-s and don't-s in Texas (or USA in general)?

Good thing my last internship left me: the love for automating things.

That my semester-long internship has ended, now i am a free citizen again.

David Bowie typing document with LibreOffice Writer

space.odt

Astronautics. Admiring the coolness of space flight and orbital mechanics.

Because who don't think that space flight and orbital mechanics are cool?

Had to work with SoapUI and accidentally taught myself Groovy.

I found Groovy a very nice language to work with. I've always wanted to do things with the JVM but still don't fully comprehend Java's OOP and stuffs. In which domain is Groovy used widely or intensively? Would anyone recommend me to learn it further?

Never got scheduled for night deployment shift. Once i did, everything suddenly catches fire.

Well, twice. In a row.

In this project we're working on, there are so many abbreviations for so many things.

+ "Hey, can you help me test XXX through YYY API?"
- "Sure. But may i ask, what do XXX and YYY actually stand for?"
+ "Well, no one knows"

So people can work on something for months without really knowing the name of what they're working on. Good to know.

At last the moment of UPDATE with no WHERE came for me

Wow my code is so convoluted i'm surprised that it worked pretty well

Testing in prod.
On Friday evening.
Before long holiday.

Because why not.

Three weeks into the internship and now i know which company i won't apply to once i graduate.

One little two little three little endian
Four little five little six little endian
Seven little eight little nine little endian
Ten little endian bytes

So, my university has a mandatory community service program where basically students are sent to help developing infrastructure and society in undeveloped parts of the country. I and my team are going to depart in the end of this month.

We're going to help raising IT-literacy level by teaching high school students basic programming with Scratch or Python. Is that too much? Should we just start with teaching Ms. Office instead? Or do you guys have any opinion?

If plural of "index" is "indices", why is plural of "regex" not "regices"?

Coincidence or algorithm?

In database course we should be thaught "database", not "MySQL"

In object-oriented programming course we should be thaught "object-oriented programming", not "Java"

And so on and so forth

Does the regular expression itself follow a regular grammar?

Anyone here remembers DemonStar, the space shooter? Back when my aunt lived in our home (i was around three or four years old then, i think), we used to play single player together. She would press arrow button and i would press Ctrl button.

Having to fill skills field in my internship CV suddenly makes me realize that i actually am not really good at anything.

Some friends say that i'm a can-do-it-all person when i actually just learn how to do what i need to do on the spot.

Last night i ran my code, it worked. This morning i ran, it didn't.

I'm starting to doubt that my computer is a deterministic system.

My 2017 summed up:

my_2017.reduce((p, x) => p + x)

Beside weekly group rants, do tags really matter?

"Can it be done in JavaScript?"

"PHP is 'not for real man'".

Okay, enough derping around. What was the question again?