Amerikan Pharaoh

Too real, Chloé.

The XKCD Standards comic writ large. There are 17 competing standards. -> “Hey, we should make a standard to unite all these disparate standards.” -> There are now 18 competing standards.

AI “art” is for Borgs.

High Ceremonial Programming(k)

Negl I absolutely did this when I was first getting into it; especially with langs where you actually have to import something to access “higher-level” math functions. All of my review materials have me making arithmetic programs, but none of it goes over a level of like. 9th grade math, tops. (Unless you’re fucking with satellites or lab data, but… I don’t do that.)

I’m pretty sure that’s a breach of style guide in at least three different languages

but probably not C++

They didn’t alphabetize their css attributes and it’s pissing me off

But watch, they’ll turn around and wonder why I won’t interface with the squadron company function, why I don’t care about going out for drinks with my coworkers, and why I never buy into the whole 'we’re a family so you should give more of yourself to the corp than you do your ACTUAL family’ nonsense after all of that. It’s a contemptuous ‘better-than-thou’ complex, everywhere, and it’s tiresome.

Sounds like a whole lot of programmers have a case of “never mentally graduated from high school” if there’s a habit of “witch-hunting” the “baddies”. Which… Unsurprising, after a regretted stint in military IT, everything involving rank or seniority looks like high school dynamics to me anymore, and Hacker News is FULL of personalities that project multiple hours of their lives spent stuffed inside a locker onto other people-- I can’t help but question if it wouldn’t be easier for these would-be witch-hunters to just offer a hand to these “bad” programmers, rather than tearing them down.

Iunno. Maybe I’m expecting too much maturity from modern techbros; and maybe I shouldn’t be bothering with the field.