I found the staircase to the roof.

@Hedgepig btw, ExtraCredits on YouTube made a video about work as a game developer not that long ago, it's definitely worth a watch.

I'm not in the game dev, but where did you heard it's even remotely fun?

Because all I've heard about game dev is unpaid overtime each day, spending more dev time on tech demos for convention instead of the actual game, cutthroat deadlines, running out of budget in the middle of development (so you basically work for free until game ships), your employer going out of business because the game didn't sell well and never receiving the money for the last months of your work he still ows you.

@infinite-lifes oh wow, my ++s almost overflow a char.

I always knew
Deep in my heart
Deep in my soul
I always felt
I'm better than all you losers.

But it makes sense! First element have index 1, second have 2, etc. It made sense back in the old days to start with zero, because then you can have 256 elements in an array instead of 255. But now, in a language that uses goddamn floats for indexes anyway? Why bother?

Report those bastard for animal abuse while you're at it. Things like this can even result in jailtime in some cases.

My favorite is the "Keeping thing clean" part. Yes, good programmers need to write clean code and maintain ordered project structure, because cleaning that mess or working with it later is such a nightmare.

But garbage collection? What the heck does that have to do with anything? If anything, it's the exact opposite, garbage collection allows programmers to throw our dirty objects all over the room and never wash our collections after we are done with them, because our dearest will take care of them eventually.

@Torbuntu Layout, colors, fonts. Well, mostly colors. How am I supposed to read dark purple on dark gray background? What's up with that header image that turns into textured background? That lighting effect on bars, where top lighter and bottom is darker also helps in making text almost unreadable.
I would expect to see sites like this in year 2000 and that was 17 years ago.

Sorry, dating graphic designer turned me into a website critic monster :P

@Torbuntu oh god, my eyes! Who designed this website?

I mean, it kind of makes sense. It shows, that getting null here is an expected behavior, but it's a special case that needs to be handled separately.

Expressing intent is much more important than brevity.

@gitpush https://youtu.be/BJh-VtjyekE

Step 1. Learn Lua (total basics will be enough)
Step 2. Download Love2D and go through tutorial on their website.
Step 3. Have fun

Having a red sqare on a black background respond to keypresses was one of the best experiences I had in my dev life.

@hash-table hint: http://urbandictionary.com/define.p...

It instantly makes people vomit, that's the namesake.

@Electrux if you declare a friend outside of the class definition, it won't compile.

And having friends from another class is against the spirit of tribalism we all love so much. Why would you want to spend time with loosers from social studies who don't even know how to fix their iPrinter, if you can hang out with nerds like us and play D&D in my mom's basement?

Anyone care to explain? My expertise in html ends on using <pre> in Redmine.

You should totally speak to someone with authority about this. Think of all the clueless students wasting time with this fraud.

No wonder half of the people applying for programming jobs can't even write a simple fizzbazz, if they get the idea how programming works from people like this.

Even better, I keep doing it in the terminal with vim.

Even if R is better, I don't feel like it could be useful for anything other than data analysis FWIK. If I were deciding which language to learn first, I'd go with Python, just because it's useful for anything I will work on in the future, not just in a very specific domain.

But I never used R, so please correct if I'm wrong.

@skprog @Froot I knew there was some reason, but for the life of me I couldn't remember what it was. Man, my memory is not as good as it used too be 😅

"What the hell, why does it return before reaching the breakpoint, the condition is false, why do you enter this if block?"- me, 5 minutes before realizing I forgot to safe the file.

How does this even works? Does it evaluate to '"string"' before function call?

@skprog both. I have this rare mental condition that makes me like humanity.

Can't relate.

I had my first contact with "dev culture" at my current job and those couple guys who don't have kids yet are either married or about to get married. Never asked about the age, but they are all well ahead of their college days.

My guess is that the guy never used laptop before and the news station added it for "aesthetical reasons". The guy was told to look at the keys for a shot, while the whole news team was giggling behind him.

Or it's just a parody.

@wholl0p it doesn't hurt to get a nice customer story once in a while.

What about the Emacs style?

transform( fl1
, fl2
, lambda [ let( _a = val(a)
, _b = ref(b)
)
[ ++_b
, _a + arg1
]
]
) ()
;

Autoformating, please have mercy on my post.

BTW, that's a valid C++ code using boost.phoenix :D

You can estimate time it will take you to break down task into smaller pieces and estimate how long they will take separately. Usually a day in my experience for small tasks.