Just curious since you seem knowledgeable, is there a connection between those societies? Or is it just chance they both choose 8?

There is another joke there regarding the movie nightmare before Christmas but I’m not smart enough to figure it out.

Why do I confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 is the same as Dec 25

That’s what happened with “Rockstar” developers a few years ago…

I’m hoping to do this as minimal as possible as the “Linux pc” is just an old raspberry pi.

Wait… Isn’t that bad… Going from 10:1 to 60:1???

What if I’m programming in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

Yeah, I remember having a full desktop to show videos back in the day(like pre-2005ish). I knew it was more powerful than it seemed but it appears I underestimated it.

Out of curiosity, I discovered there were other isos on the SD card I could install but the “noob” installer took literally hours to initialize, is that a sign the SD card is going bad?

I’ll have to see if I have a way to flash a micro SD to do that

Wow, I didn’t think it would be able to do that much. What “personal things” are you talking about? Storing files? Personal email? Video server? Actually using it as a personal computer? Don’t have to say what exactly it is just a rough idea would be nice.

Would I be able to run a gui remotely from a Windows pc? I have extra monitors(yes kinda a tech hoarder) but don’t have space to setup another full setup. It has raspbian installed(or the pi-hole version they used to have), will have to guess on the password but I think I remember it.

My initial plan was to remotely access it via ssh with putty on the windows system.

Long story, my shield decided to have its network die. I reset it. I replaced the network cable and changed ethernet ports on router but nothing would work (wasn’t even getting the lights on the ports). I didn’t know if it was the shield or the router so I found the pi and plugged it in. Network immediately worked so I know it’s the shield. I was able to find an old Asus nexus Google TV box which “solved” the shield and was thinking of using the pi for something other than just sitting in a box under a bunch of wires.

I’ll have to check out the ram. I know it boots and network and hdmi work but will have to dig out a spare keyboard to try to log in and see what it can do

Oh I didn’t even think of that… That’s evil but I kinda like the idea. That said there a notice that there are issues would be nice. Imagine applying for webdev role and on the first page it says “there are several issues with this application, being able to find the errors and correct them is considered a part of the interview process”

Nope, junior software developer of an insurance firm…

So many job applications suck…i tried to fill out one with a required “social media link” but didn’t have any place to enter one. It had “LinkedIn url” and the next line was a text box, it had “github url” and the next line was a text box, it had “social media link” and the next line was just a submit button… There was literally no box to enter a social media url. I tried chrome, Firefox and Vivaldi because the job seemed good with good pay but literally impossible to apply to.

Nevermind I don’t know why you need LinkedIn, github, and social media links to evaluate me as an employee but atleast give me a way to enter the data you want.

In my last company we used a system called windchill. Technically they had folders. Previously we used a different system. But when we switched to windchill no one had time to actually sort and organize the tens of thousands of documents. As a result everything just got dropped in the root folder.

To make it worse there was no enforced naming scheme… Plan for… Thing’s plan… Protocol for execution of thing… Ip of thing… Thing’s up… Protocol of thing… Plan of thing… All valid. And in 5 years when your 3rd replacement is trying to find it… Alcoholism is a serious disorder

Yeah effectively using comments as psuedocode

Proper comments describe why… For example say you are using an api which requires guids and your application doesn’t care are collisions as much so just use int id’s.

You could add in a comment like

// creating a guid to interface with special api.

But just saying

// generate guid

Means nothing, your method should be generate_guid() or GenerateGuid(). Your comment is repeating.

Or this is probably going to hit my last company at some point, there was a system to read a serial number. They also wanted a “status” on the screen to verify the system was connected and running properly but both these values came over same signal wire. Depending on your exact ms timing sometimes you would read the status as the serial number. Another programmer wrote a check to verify the serial number did not start with OK. The comment added was

// add on 11/15/23 by Initials

With no other details. The serial numbers were 8 numeric digits. Someone won’t know the history and delete this seemingly useless check and cause a 10s of 1000s of dollars in loss

Last year during the Christmas shutdown at work I actually made a crud application to track naughty vs nice children for santa, yes it was sql based(entity framework) with >90%test coverage (tests based off a in memory database) and with a winforms ui(what I had to use at work).

I might revisit and refactor it this year come to think of it.