Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
by freehunter on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:13PM
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That's perfect! I program by coincidence all the time. The very definition of a hacker... "it works, I must have done it right". And if it doesn't work, keep adding more console.println statements until you find something unexpected, then add a "x = x" to fix it and BOOM I just wrote Snapchat give me lots of money.
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Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:16PM
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No, no, no. Please tell me you're joking.
If not then maybe, just maybe, I'm actually spending way too much time thinking about what I write, and maybe should stop and just write more code.
Re:Spraying Magnetic Stripe Cards with Iron Filings
by freehunter on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:42AM
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I'm joking, but it hits a little close to home because all of us have done that before. You're at the end of your rope and just need this thing to fucking work and you'll deal with the "why" later. For now, x = x works dammit, and it doesn't matter why. Meanwhile the console is filling up with all of your variables being printed out because you couldn't figure out where the value of x was being corrupted.
The next morning you switch to functional programming and forget that day ever existed.