One job interview question I try to ask that I strongly recommend people copy is “can I see your list of pages?” Ideally the full list from PagerDuty but whatever you can get is good.
This tells you everything you need to know about the team you are joining. See a lot of pages that repeat and are snoozed forever? If a team isn’t empowered to fix alerts that wake them up, that means they’re not empowered to do much of anything.
What’s funny is people who try to track and account for pages instantly know why I’m asking, but if you don’t care often they’ll let me see the whole list which is amazingly informative. #programming#interview
It really feels that the GameDev community is either closed source or people using one of the big 4 engines out there. I know there's some other projects but where is all the good stuff? There's a lot of people talking about game dev progress but not so much about engine development. Shouldn't we also understand the basics? #gamedev#engine#programming
scratch, the 'language' for teachings kids the basics of #programming, has better first class support for async work than a bunch actual programming languages
They should be related to a #language#technology task, able to be automatically evaluated, with training and test #data able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!
@tripleo#Perl’s “sharp edges” are mainly early syntax and features that later experience with large and networked #programming found dangerous, but are preserved for backward (and we do mean “backward”) compatibility.
See the details of the strict and warnings pragmas, and successively missing items in feature bundles:
@tripleo I would also be remiss not to mention #Perl's included perltrap manual page, which notes both the strict and warnings pragmas and also has nice lists of things for those coming from other #programming languages and tools like #AWK, #C and #CPlusPlus, #JavaScript, #sed, and #shell.
@tripleo You’re thinking of #Perl’s “taint mode” (stop your teenage giggling), where outside data is untrusted unless it’s the extracted subpattern match in a #RegularExpression.
I just finished a productive Copilot session on a complex programming task. I came up with much of the algorithms, and wrote a lot of the code, and had to guide it a lot throughout, but credit where due, Copilot did make small but meaningful contributions along the way.
Overall, not a pair programmer but someone useful to talk to when WFH alone on complex tasks.
Enough for Copilot to earn a ✋🏽. And I like how it responded to that. It has got that part down. 😉
One thing that’s funny about #ai and #programming is I keep hearing the same thing. “Oh I use it for generic snippets, just common tasks and functions”.
The amusing thing about that is when I first started working with a #php app years ago there was already a solution to that problem. It was called “the PHP Cookbook” published by O’Reilly. I was told “oh we buy you a PDF copy and you just search for whatever you are trying to do and use that code. It saves a ton of time for junior programmers.”
Not only was it true, it did save me a ton of time and headaches, but we didn’t need to steal anything. The authors got paid, it worked offline, it didn’t require scraping the entirety of human knowledge to write or nuclear power plants worth of energy to distribute.
It also helped me learn. Since I would have a solid foundation to the solution, I felt more confident experimenting. I always had a known-functioning standard library solution as my base. So when something broke I knew where to start debugging.
Just an incredible thought that instead of paying $20 for a pdf once we decided this was the way to go.
When a programming language's website says it's a "general-purpose language", I already kind of want to not use it, because it probably won't offer anything that I can't get in another language.
I'd like to see a world where every language serves exactly one area of programming, and is highly specialized for that area.