the Guadalupe River had risen about 26 feet in 45 minutes.

Goddamn…

Many (most?) databases these days support some sort of full text search.

If a function has 300 lines without a lot of supporting documentation then I doubt that it is “clear, readable and concise” anyway.

Code - not function. Files often have multiple functions in them. If you can’t read and understand code - I don’t want you on my team.

I have never found it hard at all to skip past comments that are not relevant because my code editor helpfully colors them differently from the rest of the code, making it easy. Does your editor not do the same?

If it’s something people will simply skip over then it’s not useful. Don’t pollute code with tons of unnecessary comments that you think will be useful for some “perceived future”. They just add to your maintenance work.

Write your code to be understandable and document the architecture/design separately.

It depends on what you are doing. If you are implementing relatively simple logic like a REST API handler, then it is probably overkill. If you are implementing a relatively advanced algorithm, then having a running narrative of what is going can be extremely helpful.

Agree - most code is pretty straight forward. Save the comments for where it’s needed.

I think at some point you have to ask yourself “if killing 10s of thousands of innocent people is necessary to achieve my goal… does that make me the ‘baddie’?”

You want to turn my 300 lines of clear, readable and concise logic into 1,000 lines of English paragraphs that break up the functions of my code into yet smaller pieces of code devoid of context? Now I have to dig through that book, ignoring all the shit I’ve read hundreds of times because it doesn’t compile into anything, just to debug an off-by-1 error in a loop buried in a paragraph explaining the original developers diatribe on why we’re looping over that range? Fuck. No.

This is the sort of academic crap that sounds good but in practice is just terrible for anything other than small projects that are intended specifically to teach.

This is something I’ve said for a very long time. Everytime some RAD or “low code” tool claims that it will make developers obsolete because “you won’t need to write code”! I know that I’m going to need to help some BA use that tool and that there will be a tiny little box hidden in that tool somewhere which let’s me write code to work around its limitations.

LLMs are useful to a developer as a cordless drill is to an engineer.

Software development is about understanding logic, data structures, and how to solve business problems with computers. A language is simply what we use to do that.

That sounds so painful. Not surprising it never caught on.

In the '80s… You think they should continue their policies from 40 years ago?

Hey, Jackass, then I’m not talking about you am I? 🙄

So “not voting” must surely be the answer.

Not voting will surely help.

If your skin ain’t in the game you don’t get to complain. It’s easy to tell “other people” to go risk their lives.

“Exactly the same.”

Aye, even North Korea has “elections”.

Trump jumped in, “And they may very well be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran. They were given totally false reports. It was totally obliterated. And our people have to be celebrated, not come home and say, “What do you mean we didn’t hit the target?” We hit the target quickly. You know, the pilots came home, they said we hit the target quickly. So they may very well be prosecuted for that. What they did there, we think, is totally illegal.”

JFC… Trump saw somebody give a stupid answer and said “hold my beer”.

No. Trump will threaten NASAs contracts with SpaceX and musk will say “sorry daddy”.

I don’t make the rules. If you’re on lemmy qnd nextcloud does exactly what you want you need to complain about it being “over engineered” or “bloated” because it does things you don’t need.

No, you have to complain about them. It’s the law.

Domínguez, Gómez, and the Castillos are among the farmers supporting draft legislation, under review by the lower house of the Colombian parliament, that would ban genetically modified (GM) seeds, which they claim threaten their traditions, livelihoods and food sovereignty.

This is ridiculous. Can you imagine the Amish pushing legislation banning automobiles because it threatens their buggy industry? Because that’s what this is

“Vibes POTUS” feels like it was just unnecessary.