This made me physically die inside.

Good job! Have a ++!

What do you consider clean code? I'm a CS major, and want to know what would help me have a leg up when I get into a coding job?

@c3ypt1c That's a good mindset to have! here, have an article that can explain this a bit better than I could! https://geeksforgeeks.org/multiplic...

@c3ypt1c Oh good hell. I must have been REALLY tired when I wrote this. @.@ How did no one make fun of me for this? I meant Modular Multiplicative Inverses.

I am SO sorry for the mistake!

Oh no. Poor data snek

At that point did you take their heads and smash against the table, reminding them that html is a markup language?

@coderme Thankfully not! I was laid off a few years afterward. Thankfully got a new one doing chat support instead, which is way, way, waaaaaaaay better than having to take IT calls over the phone.

D: Why you do this.

But open source software means everyone can use my software. Even if I dont want them to, right?

@tiberius1900 make acts on a Makefile.

you have to set up the Makefile to invoke the compiler.

@Laidbac Best plan ever. "Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for life. Have a man code a food review app, and he will eat for -free- for life."

Whatcha doing on MERN?

@theMaintainer And now I know that life has no meaning, that everything is an if else else else... cascade.

Which ever one gets you in the zone and lets your code flow like water. I personally dig nano, notepad++, and CodeLite.

@tehdoctor That sounds awesome. "What was that popping sound?" "Oh, that was the ram. It had one of those weird bubonic buffer growths."

Dude. I had homework to do tonight. Now I'm going to be messing with this so I can watch old Disney Afternoon cartoons on the big screen from over the network while I make REALLY bad code.

@D3add3d @ewpratten .....It just kind of crops up from no where, huh. "Oh, I suddenly can't remember how to do x annnnddd sad."

It seems so arbitrary and yet it hurts ALOT.

@tehdoctor Because one day, someone will spill coffee into the building router. And you can't get online using your phone because you are on a PCI Compliant site. The horror....

The code funk. It burns my eyes!

Yeah, nah, it's not just you.

I forgot the difference between a reference and a pointer in C++ in a weekend even though I was actively using both in an assignment.

Annnnddd now I'm depressed again. :P

Beeeeen there. "This dude fixed this problem that has been plaguing me for six weeks in under 10 minutes. Though, I don't like his company, so one star."

;(

My personal favorite is when, at my previous job, The L1 helpdesk team I was on got to see a user get kicked to the curb for fouling up a ticket priority.

They marked a ticket for a mild computer issue (my computer takes too long to open Outlook oh nooo!) as a priority 1 ticket.

The policy was that the CEO would be notified, along with the entirety of the Tier 3 team, if a P1 ticket was setup as a P1 outage would mean that servers would start tipping like dominoes and the CEO would need to approve some emergency expenditures.

My team saw this ticket when it came in, and assigned to a team in a way that we couldn't pull it and correct the priority. An hour later, the ticket was gone.

We then got a call from the head of HR asking us to terminate the person that set the ticket up.

Turns out that wasting (x)*1000 USD per hour per LOB is NOT a great idea to stay employed. :P

Can your hardware friend recommend some good reading on the subject matter? :D

Ive been there on the other side of things. A end user turned in a survey, giving us a low score, after the ticket had closed. In 2011.