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[–] [deleted] 6 pts

It's why I despise modern software dev. Back when memory mattered you had to fully understand how the metal worked. Milliseconds and bytes mattered.

Imagine modern software capabilities if the copy/paste cowboys actually understood what they plagiarised off stackoverflow...

[–] [deleted] 2 pts

I read a lot of Hacker News, and people are always complaining about the cut-and-past StackOverflow code that ends up in different software, bugs and all. It seems this is a favorite thing to do with Indian and Paki programmers.

[–] 5 pts (edited )

On a somewhat related note, I've learned to never half-ass anything that I write as "example" code. It will end up in a rocket or vehicle somewhere, and, while that probably isn't my fault, I still feel bad.

I'm usually working on an API or something, and I figure, you know, it's not terribly important that the test harness frees its allocations. It's not a real application, and it's just going to get cleaned up by the OS after it's done printing its "I did it!" message. Nope, that shit gets copied verbatim. And then 6 months later, I get a call: well we ran our app using your API for 24 hours, and it eventually ran out of memory.

[–] [deleted] 4 pts

I'm a crusty old bastard who thinks "AGILE" and "RAD" ruined software.

Give me a few more years and this dinosaur will be replacing some of the draining oil reserves.

Obligatory: Back in my day we booted that mainframe on a deck of porn cards we'd punched the bootstrap onto!

[–] 0 pt

Oil does not come from dead organic matter