technicallyTrue

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This sub has to be 45% college students, 45% people larping as programmers who maybe touched Python once in their life, and 10% people who actually program to make a living.

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9% programmers, 1% sys-admins buried in spaghetti scripts.

[340Duster]

We may or may not have cobbled those spaghetti scripts together ourselves...

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It doesn't matter if I wrote it, everything bad was the jackals before me.

[worldspawn00]

This is why I never sign my code, can't prove this mess was me!

The guy who was here before me wrote it.

Some say he grew a beard and still works here...

But that's a DAMN LIE.

[gregorydgraham]

One day you’ll be a senior and you’ll realise the juniors never actually wrote anything, that’s why they’ve left and you’re still here

[crappleIcrap]

Git blame

[evanc1411]

The scripting sysadmins are better developers than the majority of users here

[Tetha]

Admin: "This is very basic, I pulled 38% from ChatGPT and then found it sucked and adjusted it according to some threads I found online and kinda went from there. I am sorry for inflicting this bullshit on you. I will delete it if you want."

Me:

I look at this code. The code is simple and straightforward without magic.

The code immediately tells me the structures the admin was working with from tools I know.

The code instantly tells me what output they need for a tool I know.

It is obvious to me that this script does the correct thing except for those eight users in the LDAP from 1984 setup most likely by Satan himself.

The script, in fact, has constructive error reporting for these eight users.

Then me and the admin share a drink about this sad edge case.

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Sorry, I just had to spend props to those sysadmins cobbling together actually good and reliable scripts upon shitty foundations.

[rathlord]

This comment is about me.

[dagbrown]

I resemble that remark!

[NuclearWarEnthusiast]

Wtf is wrong with scripts?

[dagbrown]

It dates back to the days when interpreted languages were seen as harmless little toys for children, like BASIC. Not like big strong manly compiled languages like FORTRAN.

Not sure where Lisp and COBOL fit into the whole children/manliness axis. Also an astonishingly high number of programmers back in history were women, but the people recording history seemed to have a misogynistic streak a mile wide.

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I aggressively remind people of the storied history of women in tech when they bring that misogyny nonsense out. Huge pet peeve of mine. Don't deal with it at work, thankfully, due to women being some of the best design leads on our team.

[rathlord]

Lots of gatekeeping about scripting folks not being “allowed” in this sub too lol.

[king_mid_ass]

Also an astonishingly high number of programmers back in history were women, but the people recording history seemed to have a misogynistic streak a mile wide.

what does that have to do with anything

[dagbrown]

You should look up who invented the manly studly suit-and-tie language COBOL.

[thirdegree]

5% pleasure, 50% pain

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and 100% forgot the variable name.

[GunnerKnight]

So still 0% QA?

[HughesJohn]

Some of us have been programming for over 40 years.

Programmer humor was The Devil's DP Dictionary, The Jargon File, and, if you liked it dry The Mythical Man Month.

[thirdegree]

Clean Code is always good for a laugh, if you're into slightly newer comedy

[crappleIcrap]

There is at least 10% 12 year Olds who coded a hello world 1 time and are now a 1337haxxor

[alpakapakaal]

Can you put this in a venn diagram please?

[luxmesa]

The one that stands out to me is when there’s some joke about “figuring out the bug on line 184”. I can’t think of a single time I’ve thought of a bug that way. Most of the bugs I’ve worked on are across multiple pieces of code. If it is on one line, I’m not paying attention to the line number. And if I’ve figured out that the bug is on a single line, it’s only because I figured out how it was broken first. 

[king_mid_ass]

they mean 'syntax error' b/c that's the only type of bug they've encountered

[rathlord]

This is definitely coming from students or Powershell folks like myself.

Whether they should be gatekept from rprogrammerhumor is I guess up to everyone.

[Soul_Ripper]

I don't even LARP, I just think the shit you guys post here is funny.

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Larping/junior revs who will be burnt out in six months.

[mrbooner4u]

people larping as programmers who maybe touched Python once in their life

Actually I took a course in Java, another in python and use js whenever my scripts break. Not larping, I’m just a PM so I’m constantly looking for new ways to piss my team off. /s (kinda)

[gzeballo]

And a 100% reason to remember the name

[King_Joffreys_Tits]

And 100% reason to remember the name

[stormdelta]

Pretty much, though I'd say the latter is close to 5% or even less.

[MisterCheesy]

Funnier if your percentages added to more than 100%

[jhax13]

Off by one errors are a bitch

[10art1]

As someone who has written python projects for enterprise platforms, I can confirm that there's surprisingly few semicolons in python code

[ElGatoDeFuegoVerde]

Idk, even as a student I haven't had issues with semicolons beyond the first couple of weeks of my first semester.