Perl and regex are modern day black magic

You’re that afraid of the code you wrote 10 years ago too eh? 🤣

Same. Until insurance reforms happen there is no incentive for me to have a self driving car.

They should but I’ll go one further. Liability should be 100% with the auto manufacturers and car insurance should disappear or be drastically reduced assuming maintenance warranties are met. If I’m buying a FSD car I don’t want any liabilities when it comes to safety.

There is no “fatigue” with Justin Trudeau.

I strongly disagree and anecdotally the sentiment plays out.

People are pissed off and struggling because of the decisions that their municipal or provincial government make, and then misattribute that pain to the federal government.

You’re also ignoring the litany of bullshit the Liberals have fumbled during their time in office as well as the multiple very public scandals around what amounts to a very publicly perceived “not giving a shit about Canadians”.

Housing affordability, healthcare, education, traffic congestion, crime, homelessness, childcare, or even snow removal ARE NOT the responsibility of the federal government.

They are everyone’s responsibility don’t try to pass the buck. The Fed’s have an obligation just as much as provincial and municipal.

As someone who leans left and has voted Liberal on multiple occasions making it out like they’re the victim is complete and utter bullshit.

Canada is so fucked. I understand the fatigue with Justin Trudeau and the Liberals but if PP wins it truly is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

We deserve whatever comes from the next election. A person is smart. People are dumb.

First problem is she’s expecting a right boob like me to review her pull request. Second problem is I don’t give a shit.

XML is fine. Namespaces have a special place in hell though

When I write APIs I like to set endpoints to return all status codes this way no matter what you’re doing you can always be confident you’re getting the expected status code.

It really applies to anything. Whenever you read of policy related arguments always look at the people complaining. Rule of thumb is it gives you a good idea of who the policy hurts the most. If it’s large companies or rich people complaining by and large it’s probably a good policy.

If you’re serious about monitoring your shit this is really the best answer. Zabbix is love. Zabbix is life.

On the nose. Thank you for explaining it far more eloquently than I was able to.

I said nothing about the ingenuity and problem solving. That’s not the concern. I also didn’t take any exception on work ethic or intelligence. You’re putting words in my mouth.

There is of course a difference in that you’re talking about artistic creativity whereas I’m talking about programming creativity.

Your example works great for artistic creativity. On my side, not so much. I am fearful of people coding in python who do not know what they’re coding as an example.

Counter counterpoint. Without the fundamentals you will struggle in understanding your capabilities.

You could be a virtuoso in playing the piano but without understanding how to read and write sheet music you will be hampering your ability to learn other instruments. Note I am not saying you can’t. I’m saying it’s harder.

I will be honest as a late GenX it’s going to be interesting as my cohort retires because we were the last generation to remember before The Internet and grew up to understand the technology not just use it.

If you’re my age or older please make sure you’re teaching your young coworkers how to break things and put them back together without the aid of all the tools and resources they have at their fingertips now. Creativity thrives in adversity. Creativity is at risk when tools like ChatGPT are at their fingertips now.

/rant

Delicious irony

We notice you watch a lot of interracial porn which means you’re good with a diverse and multicultural work environment. LMFAO

The other angle is the majority of Devs are just… Not good…

A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

I’m saying this as someone who has been mired in scope creep and over engineering solutions many times in my life because “what if 5000 people need to use it at once?!”

In most cases all you need is a database, a single thread and a simple API. Build it and then as the problems come grow with them. Try to take into account issues of scale but realize you can’t and shouldn’t solve every scenario because there are too many variables which may never exist.

Of course Perl is in there lol