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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by nend on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:37PM (#27838121)
I don't know, I appreciated the correction and additional information. There was also an acknowledgment that it doesn't change ops point. Seemed like a useful comment to me.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by ziftface on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:58PM (#27838358)
It was pedantic but that doesn't make it a bad comment, I definitely appreciated the information
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by telchar on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:07PM (#27838446)
Since this comment got some attention, my source for this was [0] Ranney, Wayne. “How Rivers Carve Canyons.” Carving Grand Canyon - Evidence, Theories, and Mystery, 2nd ed., Grand Canyon Association, 2012.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by tobmlt on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:50PM (#27839461)
Also appreciated by those who prefer to work in torrents, rather than consistently. ;)
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by samstave on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:07PM (#27840017)
We should have a Bay where we can store all these torrents! We should call all those who create these torrents Pirates! because pirates are cool.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by jstummbillig on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:56PM (#27838329)
Well, pedantry is quite popular around here.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by elevenoh on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:41PM (#27838786)
Writing code w/o a pedantic frame ~= buggy code.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by random_kris on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:44PM (#27839406)
Writing code with pedantic frame makes you ship slower which makes bug discovery slower
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by samstave on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:12PM (#27840060)
I was listening to a podcast recently with a PHD scientist, and she was saying that she was a terrible programmer and that she would go back to her code after !6months and it didnt make sense to her, but that she was good at adding comments to the code, but they were useless because she was commenting on her emotional state while she was writing the code (her thesis was on the way stars evolve and devour solar systems and planets etc) ((dope premise btw))

but the fact that her code comments were all about how she was feeling at the time, and were completely unhelpful with discerning what the code meant/does...

Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by pvorb on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:35PM (#27839322)
But writing code while being pedantic doesn't save you from bugs. Maybe writing code ~= buggy code.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:21PM (#27840128)
To be precise, it occurs a lot around here.

/s