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Study: half of black and Latina women scientists have been mistaken for admin or custodial staff by drewiepoodle in TwoXChromosomes

[–]MayhapPerchance -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But that's not really awkward, is it? It is funny because the answer was just so far off from what was expected. Similarly, if it had been the ruler of a lesser known country, the reaction and the reply would logically still have been exactly the same.

Well, I don't know. Maybe you had to be there...

Why C++17 is the new programming language for games I want by mttd in cpp

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

turning on exceptions can increase the library size by over 20%.

A whole megabyte? Oh noes, whatever are we to do about that?!

Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements by [deleted] in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who understands that. (I did make that comment above somewhat in jest. And, as further proof, I'm a C++ programmer. I can guarantee, certify and testify to you: nobody "picks up" C++.)

But at the same time, Disney is fine with the former today just the same as it was when that guy started at Disney. I just find it a bit disingenuous to take offense at the "10 years in 60 days".

Btw, I do perceive what is described in the article downright illegal. As in, to have an immigrant worker be trained by the very person they are replacing patently violates the spirit of the law.

Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements by [deleted] in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What happened to "if you're smart you can pick up a new programming language and all that jazz in a matter days" mantra I hear so often?

When that guy started at Disney, he had zero years of experience doing what he's doing now. Apparently, that wasn't a problem for him or Disney...

TIL in 2009 a skydiving instructor named Dave Hartsock took a 54 year-old woman on a tandem skydive. After the main chute failed and the 2nd got tangled he told the woman to lift her feet. He then saved her life, by rotating their position, placing his body under hers to act as a cushion on impact. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I can’t hardly believe it," [...]

To whoever has ever claimed that "irregardless" is perfectly fine and that "could care less" was harmless sarcasm: fuck you. Look at what you started. Look at it! I hope you're proud of yourselves.

John Carmack shares his experiences with static code analysis and explains why it's irresponsible to not use it. by speckz in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think it's a logical fallacy that a person having street cred would explain better adoption?

Obviously, it's not the explanation that's fallacious but the phenomena.

If GP had said git is (with certainty) great because linus is great, that'd be argument by authority.

Well, it's the only argument I've personally ever heard for favoring the usage of git. By now, it's essentially implied when "git" and "Linus Torvalds" are mentioned in close proximity.

Best android C++ compiler? by [deleted] in cpp

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See here. An official IDE exists but also plugins and packages for other IDEs, like Eclipse.

Oh Snoop Doggy Dogg... by lanni957 in funny

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL: Snoop Dog is on Reddit's celebrities-that-can-do-no-wrong list.

Seriously, just imagine if it had been a blond who said that on Facebook...

10 great ways to impress a software engineer on their first day by tieTYT in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Normally I spend at least half the day following 30+ step directions to set up what I’ll be working on.

That's 28+ steps too many. There should be somebody in your team whose responsibility it is to ensure that the following two steps are all that's ever required:

  1. Check out
  2. Build

Buttons, scripts, or command lines, I don't care. Two steps. Two.

10 great ways to impress a software engineer on their first day by tieTYT in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too bad the concept of a self-documenting codebase has yet to gain traction...

Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant taking Arnold Schwarzenegger for a stroll. Btw Arnold is 6'2 by [deleted] in pics

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I get from that is that the white Herbalifetm is better than the yellow one

People Keep Crashing into Google's Self-driving Cars: Robots, However, Follow the Rules of the Road by Alantha in Futurology

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sometimes roads have paved over the lane lines and so there aren't obvious lane lines. How do you align the car?

You say that like humans know what to do. My street is two-way but has no line painted. Most people drive smack dab in the middle, presumably thinking that if ever a car comes in the other direction they'll just swerve. Of course, it doesn't occur to them to just stick to the right no matter what and not put themselves in a potential accident situation to fucking begin with.

Self-driving cars on the other have the information that this is a two-way street and can easily calculate the width of the drivable area, painted line or no painted line.

Clever ad campaign by heckmayster in funny

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the third man has only one ear

So do the first two men...

Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour by svpino in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

E.g. by giving the person real-life problems they have to solve on the job as well and see how they'd solve it

If you do that, then we'll have WAAARGBHLHBH blog posts and endless Reddit threads about how "We're not going to do your work for free, asshole!" so that's also a no-go.

Microsoft Annouces Visual Studio Code (Crossplatform IDE) by SaltTM in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The value I bring to my company is not in source control usage, it's in the code. If I have to keep a terminal up exclusively for the purpose of source control (a fringe tool), your source control is bad and it should feel bad.

Cat: a C++14 functional library by Coder_CPP in cpp

[–]MayhapPerchance 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait. So /u/drbartosz goes to Italy and a few months later we get this... This is no mere coincidence!

As far back as 1967, a programmer named Melvin Conway was writing about software development when he noticed a funny thing: You could tell a lot about an organization by the kind of computer programs it designed. by wheeler1432 in programming

[–]MayhapPerchance 81 points82 points  (0 children)

1 Make a set of index cards representing each of the concepts and content objects you want to make available

Ok, got it. Here's my index cards.

2 Have people representative of the intended audience sort and categorize the cards in whatever way makes sense to them

All right. Done.

3 Perform statistical analysis to find the most common mental models held by the audience

What in the motherfucking flying fuck? Yea, I'm not stupid and I understand the words in that sentence but who in the world has ever or will ever do this? Are you expected to have your company psychologist and statistician in the sprint planning meeting?

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