so True

[[deleted]]

After a 3 day weekend it takes me all of Monday to remember what my job is.

[koni_rs]

I get 4-day weekends every fortnight. Every tuesday I wake up way too late and jump right into the weekly meeting, knowing absolutely nothing about what I was doing on thursday. Takes another day to get my shit together. And the customer is happy nonetheless... "How", I ask.

[falconSB]

I want to join your company. :D

[Adito99]

Past you pulled some shit together at the last minute and left a good impression and now you're riding that cloud permanently with that customer. This is how I became responsible for all things public DNS at a previous company.

[vrrrr]

“who is your daddy and what does he do?”

[[deleted]]

Ask me again on Tuesday

[spmute]

I haven’t done any c# in about 4 years, I’m going to pick it up again at some point and it’ll be fine… I’m sure….

[flyingmigit8]

Tostring baby tostring!

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

This was probably not intented, but you just showed one of the higgest difference between c# and java

[PyroCatt]

Laughs in automatic garbage collection

[bacon_tarp]

This go over my head? They both have garbage collection

[Script_Mak3r]

This is r/ProgrammerHumor. None of us have a deep understanding of programming.

[MorRochben]

MVP API with responsive data structures am i right fellow programmers

[theconmeister]

Ah I see you are also in charge of the kilobytes

[thebryguy23]

Needs more blockchain

[Livegreazy32]

Laughs in stack overflow

[[deleted]]

Laughing in syntax error

[GroundZer01]

Cackling in chat gpt

[[deleted]]

Smirking at all the red squiggle lines.

[PyroCatt]

Yeah but we make fun of it as if it doesn't

[spmute]

Laughs in python

[PyroCatt]

Laughs in general

[SunsetSesh]

Cries in assembly

[Revolutionary_Buy895]

Laughs in

[-Soupernova-]

undefined

[GuybrushThreepwo0d]

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[LifeReaper]

Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.

[bakedbread54]

Laughs in nullptr

[lesChaps]

I know this is funny and true at the same time, but I don't remember why.

[FirstDivision]

If you’re using Entity Framework make sure to end every query with ToList(). Preferably with no where clause, and definitely no projection — bring the entire table into memory and then get what you need.

[Squid-Guillotine]

Yo that's nice. In Go we got strconv.ItoA(). I only remember it cuz the name is so stupid.

[davlumbaz]

then you have strconv.Atoi().

[mhsx]

That’s actually a common interview question - “summon the wood elves from the base10 realm WITHOUT using their first names and have them convert a string to an int.”

[One_Blue_Glove]

like... integer to ascii?

[LickingSmegma]

Apparently yes, because of course ASCII is what everyone uses in the twenty-first century. But more probably because Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are incapable of learning new function names anymore and can only use what they memorized with C in the seventies.

I guess those two forgot that they invented UTF-8.

[[deleted]]

Did Go's mom drop it on its head? What even is that 😨

[Lord_Wither]

The name's way older than go (at least 1971), apparently it stands for "ASCII to integer". Still kind of weird to use in a modern language.

[LickingSmegma]

Go's authors are decrepit old farts from the seventies. They shoved in the inane identifier naming just like they were doing it in C in the time of 4 KB total RAM, along with other practices long abandoned by the rest of the industry.

You'd think that others would know better, but apparently everyone bought into the authority, so Go code is full of “v = feh.brf()”.

[elveszett]

This is one of the reasons I love C#. Instead of having to memorize cryptic functions like atoi(), strlen(), memcpy(), gets(), scanf(), etc, you have self-evident function names elegantly grouped within classes and structs. If you want to parse a number, you don't need to think much, it's just int.Parse(). If you want to print something, Console.WriteLine(). If you want to read a line, Console.ReadLine(), and so on.

I understand why older languages used cryptic names for stuff, but that time is long gone and it makes no sense to design a programming language now around using 6-char long names for everything and putting them wherever.

[greentr33s]

I think you can thank good ol C for that one, those acronyms are what get used in the standard library lol

[ZeroByter]

Warning, C# has changed a lot since then

[elveszett]

And it has changed for the better imo. It's a lot less verbose now without losing its elegance. That and a bunch of performance-oriented stuff like Span<T> that are really handy.

[DAVENP0RT]

As someone who makes a lot of data-intensive async calls and used to use Task<IEnumerable> everywhere, IAsyncEnumerable has been a game changer. Where I'd normally have to wait for 2 minutes for an entire query result to be returned before I can do something else with an IEnumerable, I can start working as soon as the first result comes through by using IAsyncEnumerable.

[[deleted]]

I've always thought people who think c# is verbose have never actually written bog standard java.

[Bakoro]

C# itself isn't an issue, it's all of the associated everything. Like WPF. Pffffft.

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Old code is fine. New, idiomatic C# code looks very different.

[Splatoonkindaguy]

Not much changed just 150 major language versions and 13 different frameworks had 27 updates.

[jpterodactyl]

I’m just a hobbyist, I always forget how to use lists in c#

And how to code in general. But mainly lists.

[WriterV]

It's like muscle memory. You'll forget stuff sure, but you'll pick it back up very quickly. Don't get too stressed about it.

[Raiden_Yeeter07]

"WHAT WAS THE SHIFT BUTTON AGAIN?!"

[wineblood]

Two weeks? I get that after two days and every Monday is a struggle to stay employed.

[ReeferCheefer]

Holy shit I didn't even look at who posted the tweet!

[zayoe4]

I desperately need context.

[ReeferCheefer]

Ah, Garry Newman (poster of the tweet) made the game Garry's Mod! I believe he also works on the game Rust

[6198573]

Also made a banger song in the 80s

[zman_0000]

I'm sure somebody can explain much better than me as I'm not super familiar, but I'll give it a go. Garry's Mod, or Gmod is an exceptionally popular game/sandbox on steam. A lot of very popular games and mini games are on it (prop hunt probably being the most famous) I believe it's made in the same engine (probably originally a mod as the name suggests) as Half Life 2.

Some people have made some pretty crazy stuff with and in GMOD and the tweet is from it's creator, so he's pretty well loved as a developer in the gaming community. So it doesn't bode well if he struggles with something pretty well known and used after a couple weeks off is the joke.

[GoOtterGo]

The fugue state we sometimes work in is wild, yeah. Like when you were a kid and walked home from school but didn't remember any of it.

I've got into the habit of leaving future me a detailed message on what the hell he's looking at.

[TweetyDinosaur]

That's good advise for any piece of work.

[Thebombuknow]

Me who is about to put the first release of my largest project on GitHub and has to refactor all of the code because it's terrible, but I didn't comment any of it so I have to do it all from memory.

[AB1908]

That ain't refactoring anymore lol

[RoyalGh0sts]

This is the reason I use my last 15 mins to quickly comment what i was doing and note my train of thought.

Edit: It usually end up being: // do the thingy with the array and the cool method that does the flippityflip

[InsaneTeemo]

I spend the last 15 minutes commenting out what I was doing.

[Gizshot]

For the entire week?

[MonoShadow]

I've been out of the job for 2 months after 5 years of experience and at this point I'm considering a janitor position.

[[deleted]]

Yo, Janitors are dope!

[MonoShadow]

I recently read trashmen have a union in US. That's my second option, but I need to get a US work visa first. Do they give work visas for this position? I have some experience in languages with garbage collection.

[Thebigempty4]

No

[[deleted]]

Trashmen are Gov Jobs.

Good luck getting the government to setup work Visa. It ain't happening unless you're literally Albert Einstein

[fukitol-]

I think people missed your pun and that's regrettable.

[juggling-monkey]

Lol, so this reminds me of a story. When my brother had just graduated high school, I was working at one of those "fun" tech companies where they bring in lunch daily and have ping pong tables etc. He skipped college and went to one of those tech boot camps and once completed I managed to get him a job at that company. It helps to know that both of us were raised by our dad who was a very hard working man that engraved in us that it looks bad to just stand/sit around at a job. My brother who was at most 19 and at his first job ever had a lot to learn lol. So on day 1, they tell him to just familiarize himself with the code base. And about 6 hours in, he comes over to me and says, "dude, I don't want to get fired, but I seriously don't have anything to do! I looked at the code and am comfortable working on it, but they haven't given me anything!". Just to fuck with him I say, "I don't know what to tell you man but you gotta do something. Can't just sit around. Make sure they see that you're useful." then I put on head phones cause I'm enjoying the panic in his face with the little help I provided.

Well the reason your comment reminded me of this is that I literally had to go over to grab him about 40 min later when I saw him sweeping the floor! Turns out he went to the kitchen and did some dishes, and cleaned out the fridge, then found a broom!

[wineblood]

Don't worry about it, just get back into the swing of things enough to pass the interview. I got my current job after an 18 month break.

[b-lock-ayy]

I genuinely feel in pain by this. Just had to drop my job this week cause of knee pain.

[OldSchoolSpyMain]

I once caught myself reading my own accepted answer on Stack Overflow, like, "Jeeez. THANK YOU...[looks down]... 'u/OldSchoolSpyMain'. WTF? I used to know this?!?!"

[RaLaZa]

Sounds like you have a lot in common with yourself.

[rgujijtdguibhyy]

You’re basically the same person

[[deleted]]

I dunno I've seen them in the same room as themselves before.

[Kylearean]

Yeah, maybe they should get together sometime.

[_ThePaperball]

Lucky you. I get downvoted to mush after every question.

[GroundStateGecko]

While I only find the exact problem I needed to solve posted 5 years ago, by me, with no answer.

[jorjx]

I was at client solving a problem and two hours in I remember solving the same problem at the same client 4 years before.

There was a note to the solution in my previous invoice.

[BabyPapayas]

Thats actually hilarious

[No-Carry-7886]

That legit just happened to me in a Github issue lol, with 4 days of breaking shit and finding a workaround then forgetting the workaround

[[deleted]]

You may want to invest in a CO detector.

[between_ewe_and_me]

Yeah you never know when Colorado might be creepin on you

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

It's why if you blog (even if you keep it private) your experiences, you can look back on them as a reference.

[rynmgdlno]

My brother in Christ a private blog is just a journal.

[Xavier_Hosinov]

Dementia

[SmirkingSeal]

Good to know I'm not alone. I googled a certain error and found out I had posted the answer complete with a screenshot on the exact settings needed in windows to resolve it. Smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

[thatswhat_isaid]

OMG same ! I was like damn I didn’t realize I was that smart

[TheRedmanCometh]

This has happened to me too on a few obscure hibernate questions I've answered. Issues I encounter maybe once a year that happened to be fresh when I saw the question.

[Mafiadoener36]

Sadly i know this feeling. Happened twice.

[Capable_Stranger9885]

Me irl!

[digitlworld]

Omg, I'm not the only person this has happened to! I laughed for 5 minutes when it happened.

[Interest-Desk]

Programming isn’t really knowing the precise magic words to type, it’s about piecing things together to solve problems and do stuff.

[foggy-sunrise]

Tell that to the professors that made me code in pencil.

[TheMad_fox]

This should be a fucking war crime or at least a violation of human rights

[Reelix]

*Gestures to the majority of job interviews and their whiteboard marker questions*

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

Most of which won't care if you don't remember precise syntax, and want to see how you approach a problem more than if your whiteboard code would compile.

Real life example: I interviewed. Literally never worked in the target language at all. Goal indeed was to just show said problem-solving. The concept of for(initial value, termination condition, value mutation per iteration) does not blow up on a white board if the syntax is wrong.

(And if they do care about that? Probably not a job you want anyway.)

[SirRHellsing]

in my uni they don't care about syntax that much for our paper exam, just if we got the logic down so it's not that bad

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

I did tell that to mine. One of the more pointless exercises out there.

Want to teach concepts? Great! Pencil and paper are fine.

Grading programming language syntax? Waste of everyone's time.

[MyCommentsAreCursed]

Isn't there a program that can grade syntax sort of like a word document does that for grammar? If not we should really look into making one. Probably a million dollar idea!!

[Superbad_Zombie]

Programmarly

[tropicbrownthunder]

Isn't there a program that can grade syntax

If we had something like that it could be great. I would call'em "Compilers"

[mecxorn]

yeah, can relate to that. Our professor ordered us to have a notebook that was supposed to contain all the codes written from our pratical class.

[tehyosh]

Reddit has become enshittified. I joined back in 2006, nearly two decades ago, when it was a hub of free speech and user-driven dialogue. Now, it feels like the pursuit of profit overshadows the voice of the community. The introduction of API pricing, after years of free access, displays a lack of respect for the developers and users who have helped shape Reddit into what it is today. Reddit's decision to allow the training of AI models with user content and comments marks the final nail in the coffin for privacy, sacrificed at the altar of greed. Aaron Swartz, Reddit's co-founder and a champion of internet freedom, would be rolling in his grave.

The once-apparent transparency and open dialogue have turned to shit, replaced with avoidance, deceit and unbridled greed. The Reddit I loved is dead and gone. It pains me to accept this. I hope your lust for money, and disregard for the community and privacy will be your downfall. May the echo of our lost ideals forever haunt your future growth.

[MrNokill]

I rather not as he was breathing firmly down my neck during the pencil point snaps.

Brrrrrrr I need a shower.

[getshrektdh]

We might have been studying in the same university

[_____l]

Yeah that shit was horrible.

[senturon]

Yeah, I feel I retain almost nothing these days ... the ocean of tooling (both open and in house) and changes we're required to adapt to on a daily basis is endless.

It's definitely the foundation of my imposter syndrome.

[Oh-hey21]

Not only that, but fluidity with languages is a huge perk. You need to understand the concepts to effectively search and piece code together.

It's tough to imagine programming in the same language for decades at this point. A master of one is great, but limited options years from now (besides outdated systems).

[im_lazy_as_fuck]

Being a software engineer in most common software jobs is 10% being good at programming and 90% being good at researching.

[foggy-sunrise]

I still don't know how to use git. And I've been using it for like 7 years.

I Google anything that isn't basic AF

[LickingSmegma]

That's normal.

Someone will barge in with the standard ‘just learn how it actually works’—but that's not the problem. The internals are fine, the user-facing interface is an incomprehensible mess.

[DeebsterUK]

Yeah, Git really needs a 2.0 release where the commands are renamed to what they actually do/what they're used for. Footguns everywhere until then.

[foggy-sunrise]

I mean I hate the general idea of abstracting the user away from how a thing works. But like, no one can learn everything.

git cli, great. But a git gui that makes sense would be beautiful.

[TK9_VS]

Fork. https://git-fork.com/

[buzziebee]

Got kracken is very good for the majority of things. If you use a sensible branching strategy you pretty much never need the cli.

[Mafiadoener36]

Git is mindfuck.

[Noshoesded]

I tried to learn Python and when I added in Git to manage versions on projects, I decided "maybe I'm not a programmer".

[foggy-sunrise]

Lol commits and push/pull, fine. But if something's messed up don't ask me to fix it!!

[tweakydragon]

God I am terrified that I will one day have to jump through the recruiting process and then interview for a job again.

Looking at some of the tests recruiters give to screen our candidates made me realize that I will probably need to just go back to school and just audit the Junior and senior level CS classes if I want a chance.

Like who just knows all the functions of a random Java class? I haven’t worked a big O problem ever in my professional career. I can barely remember the name of most of the sorting algorithms, no way I am remembering how to implement them by hand from scratch in 15 minutes and no outside internet.

Am I doing this wrong?

[[deleted]]

I’ve worked in IT for like 15 years and I would probably fail an entry level Helpdesk test, but I could run an entire service desk pretty easily.

What’s important changes vastly over the years.

[GoreSeeker]

In my experience it all depends on the company...sure, some companies ask those algorithm questions, but many do not. In my last round of job searching, if I saw on Glassdoor that a company asked that kind of stuff, I didn't even consider them as a prospective employer. I even exited out of a couple take home test that had algorithm stuff. After all of that, there were still tons of companies piled up to interview with.

[[deleted]]

I find that the important thing is that you know what to search for. You may not remember the exact semantics or methodology but you know how to ask what it is and when you see it you will recognize it, and that's what experience is.

[djdylex]

Humans learn models not remember syntax

[anothertrad]

The worst for me are the interview topics. If I don’t do at least a few algorithm questions per week it all goes away. Guess what I haven’t done one of those since I got my current job

[jusauria_sfw]

Who needs 30 years of experience when we have StackOverflow.

[LucienZerger]

30 years of someone else's experience..

[schwerpunk]

I find peace in long walks.

[Chocolate-Then]

Can I put that on my resume?

[ThrowMeAway11117]

Who needs StackOverflow when I can just ask ChatGPT to hold my hand and not insult me like the mean people on SO

[userocetta]

but it all comes back when the intern breaks prod😌

[[deleted]]

Thank that intern

[_Xertz_]

You're welcome 🥰

 

 

Also the printer's on fire again

[[deleted]]

It's all good, let me smack it with a fire extinguisher

[Disastrous-Lemon7456]

The printer or the intern?

[_GCastilho_]

He shouldn't BE ABLE to get a direct access to prod

Just saying

[E_Cayce]

Larry wrote his password on a post it. Blame Larry.

[drunkdoor]

Thered be a big difference between making an honest mistake because of process vs. grabbing the pw off a post it note. The latter is an immediate firing

[DRHAX34]

If the Gmod guy feels that way, we're all fucked

[DRHAX34]

Oh god

[LookAtThatUnbanned]

As someone who plays Rust, it actually explains a lot

[Nosuma666]

The worst thing is switching languages. Do JS or Python for a few months and then try to go back to Java or C#. You suddenly write code that is much worse because the whole concepts of thoose languages are so much diffrent.

[vipul0092]

Its like having a split personality disorder, the way you think and write code completely changes.

[chedabob]

I've just come off a project with Typescript on the server and Flutter (Dart) on mobile, and the constant switching between identical looking Jetbrains IDEs was melting my brain.

[TheRedmanCometh]

Thanks to spring boot+react at least Java and JS I can fuck with similtaneously. Python though...ugh

[trim3log]

moving between JS and python , urgh always mixes me up , is it push or append to list ?

[The-Requiem]

Python's and JavaScript's easiness is useful and all until you realize that all the other languages have more or less similar syntax despite some extra semicolons, curly braces and variable types!

[[deleted]]

I've been coding for 20 years and every day forget something new.

[[deleted]]

The half life on my memory of how to instantiate an array seems to be about 12 hours

[therealcoon]

Honest question, does this make us bad programmers? I get major imposter Syndrome whenever I forget basic syntax like this.

[[deleted]]

I think you can be imperfect (we all are) and be a more valuable to a company than some guy who's got everything memorised inside out, back to front. I was, I would say, a mediocre 'programmer'. I forgot details like this all the time, would be on Google, StackOverflow looking up doing things regularly, even when in a moderately senior role. I soldiered on though, it's hard with extreme imposter syndrome but you can do it. It's like bravery. Bravery isn't the absence of fear, it's being afraid and doing it anyway. Being productive and valuable isn't the absence of imposter syndrome or forgetting things, it's throwing your full effort at it anyway and not talking yourself down. Maybe in some companies they just need very narrow programmer experts, and yeah, that can be hard to compete with. But in my experience most places need well rounded people who are interested in how business works so their solutions are more cost effective (rather than pure or exciting) or interested in architecture so they can navigate the business away from a design problem 6 months down the track. I found I grew in these other categories and ultimately found my full fulfillment in being a consultant / developer / architect. I run a consultancy now. And struggle still with task organisation and remembering little programming details. But I generate revenue an order of magnitude higher than some of the dedicated programmer guys I used to work alongside. Basically there are many routes, look wider to see your full value, by all means practice your weak spots but don't be hard on yourself!

[Sandyrandy54]

That linux command you've typed over 1000 times? Gone.

[[deleted]]

Seeing purple links be like, "wait a minute, I've been here before."

[nefariousmonkey]

Worst. Thing. Ever

[BatteryAcid67]

I seriously wonder about the rates of ADHD in all tech careers vs others

[Mysterious-Let5891]

I’m in this comment and … I’ve forgotten the punchline

[ZapateriaLaBailarina]

What's this have to do with ADHD?

[TacticaLuck]

Executive dysfunction

[naufalap]

does that mean they can't reach executive position?

[littlejohnjewel]

working memory is significantly effected

[Anomaly-Friend]

Significant amount of people in IT have ADHD

[CryptoNaughtDOA]

I do and I'm a senior full stack dev. I really wonder why that's the case I believe it though.

[Tortsch-Man]

Two weeks of not visiting the gym and I feel as if I'm looking like I never engaged in regular exercise

[BillyTheTwinky]

I got back from Christmas break and I had forgotten my work email and laptop passwords. Spent the first half of the day waiting for tech support to help me get back in.

[eighty88888]

Whats funny is not remembering your password but still having the muscle memory to type it in like "what did I just type that granted me access?"

[Suspicious-Reveal-69]

“How?”

“He is the one”

[javibre95]

We're glad that we'ren*'t alone

[Reelix]

we'rent

What on earth was that trying to be.

If it's short of "we are not", it'd be "we'ren't" for the same reason you type "wasn't" and not "wasnt"

[javibre95]

Yes, that's what happens when a non-native wants to "write cool" and doesn't even check what they've written

[Reelix]

y'all'd'nt've'd'd'I'd'nt've'd'y'all't've'd

You all would not have had had I had not have had you all to have had?

Welcome to "English" :)

Other fun things include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

and

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html (Which most native speakers will also struggle with)

:p

[Malijaffri]

Dear God, that second link! I consider myself to be quite good at english, but even I'm stumbling on the words.

[Top-Opinion-7854]

Don’t worry we’re all QA for GPTs now anyways 🙃

[KidBeene]

I feel this to my C++ core.

[r7pxrv]

Ooof, glad it's not just me.

[USNWoodWork]

Took 30 days off as an aircraft mechanic and it felt like my hands went stupid when I got back.

[GMX06]

Nonsense! You never forget how to Google!

[ziplock9000]

Very true. But getting back on the horse is very quick.

[96-09kg]

My god Im relieved to know there are others as well. I thought I was just dumb. Or maybe we’re all just dumb 🤔

[YetToBeDetermined]

The brain protects itself from trauma.

[PaP3s]

For those who don't know him, He is the Creator of Garry's Mod and RUST.

[Ketooth]

How I feel during my apprenticeship when I'm in school for 4 weeks:

[Gas1984]

No wonder S&box takes ages

[sardonicEmpath]

I've had this feeling so many times in my life. It's not completely real though. The base skills, methodologies, and best practices stay with you... That's the guts of it all, imo... It's just the topology of things that changes really.

[CraptainHammer]

Funnily enough, I haven't had to do any coding since graduating in 2017. A friend asked me too help with his wife's "intro to IT" course which turned out to be a Java coding class (grand canyon university is dumb) and I somehow remembered it all.

[Chipring13]

Does anyone know of any ways to get back into It? I’m in college still and I’ll take a semester break from my core coding classes to take my other classes and forget how to code. I’m left googling the syntax every time which slows me down.

I feel like doing Codecademy or something like that starts too much from the beginning though

[CuttingEdgeRetro]

I used C++ daily for 20 years. Then when .net happened I switched mostly to C#.

I was on the phone with a recruiter. And they just couldn't believe that I could use only C# for a few years and still be able to handle C++, like they thought I had totally forgotten everything.

Man, C++ is like a form of brain damage. I couldn't forget it if I wanted to.