You really should listen to the “egineering” team, and it wouldn’t hurt for some “egineers” to work on their communications and sales skills.
Category: Humor
print() (or printf()) works for these pros…
- Linus Torvalds: “I don’t like debuggers. Never have, probably never will.”
- Guido van Rossum: “…often the quickest way to debug a program is to add a few print statements to the source: the fast edit-test-debug cycle makes this simple approach very effective.”
- Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin: Debuggers a re wasteful timesink.
…and it works pretty nicely for me, too.
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The third kind of “free”
If you’re into open source, you’re probably aware of the different kinds of free, thanks to the expressions “Free as in beer” and “Free as in speech”.
If you’ve dealt with some particular open source codebases, you’ve probably also internalized a third kind of free: Free as in mattress.
I saw these two posts about printers this morning — one on Twitter, the other on Facebook, in a neighborhood forum where someone was asking for office equipment and furniture that people were no longer using:
I find that I use our home printer about once a year, typically for printing a letter that I need to enclose with a paper form that I’m sending via snail mail.
How often do you use your printer at home (if you have one) these days?
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Programmer joke of the day
Don’t forget that there’s a really, really, really good deal on Python books for the next few days!
Thanks to Ryan Rossman for the find!
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Take the U.S. “QWERTY” keyboard layout, turn it on side and you get this monstrosity.
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This keyboard is the creation of one “Foone Turing” (@Foone on Twitter), who swapped the key covers on a keyboard and used Microsoft’s Keyboard Layout Creator utility to define the new layout for Windows.
Tap the image to see the Ukulele page.
Mac users who want to self-flagellate with Vertical QWERTY can use Ukulele to define the new keyboard layout.
Foone took the keyboard on a test run with a classic game: Police Quest 2 by good ol’ Sierra On-Line…
So the game I picked to play was Sierra’s Police Quest 2, since it features a lot of typing.
(PS I’m still using the keyboard to type this) pic.twitter.com/WBGTeH3jul— foone (@Foone) May 16, 2020