I take offense to the teapot joke. Leave the teapots out of it.
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Error: undefined reference ‘money’
while (true) { print money; }
Someone’s never heard of Bitcoin
I’m a senior dev and I’ll be honest: I’m not sure what I do.
You enchant rocks engraved with runes
Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.
There was a series of books in the '80s where a systems programmer gets pulled through a portal into your typical magical world, good vs evil, etc.
They subsequently look at the magical spells in use and realise they can apply Good Systems Programming Practices™ to them. And thus, with their knowledge of subroutines and parallel processing, they amplify their tiny innate magical abilities up to become a Pretty Good Magician™. So while all the rest of the magicians basically have to construct their spells to execute in a linear fashion, they’re making magical subroutines and utility functions and spawning recursive spells without halting checks and generally causing havoc.
It’s quite a good allegory for modern times, where a select few build all the magic and the rest just have useful artefacts they use on a day to day basis with no idea how they work
That sounds very interesting, do you remember the name or the author?
Did the person writing this have a stroke?
Optimizing CPU usage by 0.02% is something only the truly deranged do
“I’m writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%” THIS IS A NONSENSICAL STATEMENT MADE BY DERANGED PEOPLE
I mean this is correct though
Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev’s mind, but more expensive to run on the computer. Subroutines are always slower than a simple jump.
What’s the teapot a reference to?
It’s an in-joke in 3D modeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
