You know you grew up with little sisters when you hear "Yay me!" in London Tipton's voice (from the Disney Channel) after reading that comment

MrC0MPUT3R or you just watches a great freaking show as a child

it happened to me to. I had some java problems solved for some time and when I went over the code just to see how I did it back then as I was reading, I couldn't remember my own coding solution I have found back then. I've read somewhere at one point ... can't remember where... that a coder can recognize his own code only for about two weeks. than he forgets it.

glurp1er ..lol I do the same thing..i find something I need and I'll be thinking "man this is a really good answer" then I look at who wrote it and realize it was me 2 years ago.

True. I also found an article I wrote retrofitted to some asteroid article. It was funny, but it was a strange complement yet insulting. And it is true, we all forget, I did some stuff I could not recreate today because it grew from accidental insights derived from a cut and paste as I made it work and took it further, but I cut and pasted ny own code is what I mean, but it had some Frankenstein pieces, like why would I go an learn the centroid formula when I can cut and paste it? Even if time aint money, I am not taking a day to do something that should take 30 minutes.

Fiting that wheel can take a LOOOONG time.

exactly

its still important to know how that wheel works atleast thats why im "hand-coding" a lot myself (then again im a student and make only small tools)

this comment chain describes it perfectly.

This needs waaay more likes. Only time I make my own wheel, is when current wheels lose traction on the wrong type of gravel.

I would agree. Programmers don't get paid to right lines and lines of code. Programmers get paid to make computers perform specific functions and provide solutions. Knowing what to copy/paste along with where and how to make edits is the key. I quite often copy/paste/edit code from previous projects. Experienced programmers just have a larger library of code they can copy/paste from.

this is why I didn't try to go to Digipen even though my teacher in my highschool programming class tried to convince me, it was a 3 hour class for game development, I had an A and was Java certified and whatnot, but I felt down about copy/pasting aspects of projects and getting help from the kid I sat by even though I helped him as well

Exactly: it's smart copy/pasting: I had a CS instructor once tell us he's okay with us copy/pasting code as long as we understand how it works. He had me remove some code once because I just copy/pasted and didn't really know what it was doing.

Any pasebin script will do

@LukasZ S This precisely, a lot of people are already coding C style in ruby (I've seen it!) and other's just imitate. Ultimately you end up with code that doesn't actually exploit the language in use, and is rigid and messy, and then the next guy in line comes and finds spaghetti and has to maintain your italian cuisine. That's one thing, even more, when the spec changes and new features have to be added, you'll end up working around that strange code that isn't written for the application at hand, and so it doesn't make it extensible or flexible enough. So it increases complexity and introduces high potential for bugs. And then suddenly the deadline is here and you are fighting your code instead of using it to do it's job....

LOL, Goodbye world, LOL!!!!!!! Good one! Hello Moon! YEAH!

The question is in what language?😂😂

I hate when they don’t document functions and variables

Congrats!

nice! what did you do to get that position or how long did you learn to code?

quit bragging

gilly brahh How is that bragging?

congrats give me ur money so i can make u the jesus! :D

its cheap noodles with boiled water haha

That was so beautiful :)

That's OK. I knew a CEO with a desk as clean as his face, and another with a rats nest, but he was the one with the millions. Some people can handle "code chaos", some can't. If you work at a place, blow that sewing machine and get a real job as the lead on your own stuff. Making it too pretty wastes more time than chaos. But when they fire and exasperate people to always leave before they turn 30, then they want it all well mapped for the next fool to pick up the mess, and that's why they are all religious on commenting and format and all that time wasting stuff. Comments can help, I admit that, but if it works that is all that matters on a real job where you know you'll be there in 10 years. Silicon valley mentality is like the sewing machine of 1920, they have no plans for them to be fashion designers, they have plans to devour them in the gears, you gotta go do it yourself if you want to be free. Who wants to do database until they are planted up at Evergreen? Once you realize money does NOT make a job heaven, you understand 90% of people at Google are walking around looking at each other saying to themselves, "does that guy think this place sucks as bad as me?", "does she feel like she is in hell too?", "geez, does he also realize this was all a bad delusion?". And they have to stay mum for being hung from the highest "union" tree on that campus. When they are 40 they can finally get on KZfaq and tell the truth, lol. 1. LOVE what you do 2. Completely free self-scheduling 3. Good money If you don't have at least 2 of those three, it will NOT be satisfying; period.

Because Stack Overflow tends to be the top result, rightly or wrongly when you search for many programming or system administration questions. The reason it's not wrong to copy from Stack Overflow, is because not every question is easy. Sometimes someone has much better insight than you do, and does something that is a better language-centric solution. Case examples are when someone goes "how do I do X in Javascript", and you get 90% jQuery instead of Javascript. Sometimes that IS what the question asker wants (a jQuery solution) but many of the times it is not, but you could reverse-engineer the jQuery solution into a Javascript solution and get something that is far more efficient. In the case of evolving languages (eg PHP 7, Python 3, Perl 6, Ruby 3, etc) many times stuff gets depreciated, and breaks backwards compatibility (often for no reason,) and thus the question often asked is "why am I getting X error" instead, and someone will chime in and go "that is a depreciated syntax or function, use Y instead" Try getting a PHP3 program to run on PHP 7. It's a whole lot of no-fun. The people who are "the best" programmers, can actually "compile stuff in their head" and see errors that a compiler will not pick up, because it's not a syntax error. eg "= is assignment, == comparison" and the vast majority of questions about "why isn't this working" is because the question asker has made incorrect assigments instead of comparisons.

Stackoverflow is overrated, probably because of search engine bias. Go to the manual pages and proper reference books and you will see the same solutions there, sometimes better than SO.

True, but many time the documentation doesn't explain a context for why you'd want to do something over another. Like I'd say the editorial quality of Stack Overflow is rather low, but it will point you in the right direction if you actually know what the solution is trying to do, and not simply copy-paste the solution.

This is so true when there was no internet back then.

well it takes someone smart to fix these problems, a little help is good, but.. someone actually does the hard work and you... you don't even code

It also depends on the type of project that you're working on. If it's a shitty React website, then I think you would be able to get away by copy & pasting 80% of the codebase from StackOverflow.

“It’s not where you take things from-it’s where you take them to.” - Jean-Luc Godard

It's worse when C++ is involved, because without documentation and comments all the code needs to be rewritten if you ever decide to get rid of the programmer involved

"I have also NOT hired programmers simply for saying "code is self documenting". Seems a bit harsh. One of the most valuable programming skills, that comes with experience, is the ability to name things properly. That skill alone makes code infinitely easier to understand and does away with the need for documentation in most cases.

That's how you make code that looks like gibberish and is inefficient. So basically my code works but I have no idea why. Which isn't particularly good for optimization when you have variables that you really don't need.

Mr Wolfers Yes you can visually represent 4+ dimensions very easily. For my day job we work with ~20 dimensions. This is trivial if you _group_ **related** dimensions: * red, green, blue, alpha * x, y * width, height That's 8 dimensions right there. Even quaternions are easy to visualize if you break them down into 3+1 dimensions. It's all a matter of perspective.

i think you must be a pro programmer by now, after 5 years LOL....if you will be able to see thos...(btw after that Covid also came ))

Did you succeed so after 4 years?

Writing code is easy, everyone can do it. Making it work properly on the other hand...

@@SerBallister yesssss

If I can get job as a programmer at a Fortune 500 with knowing little to no programming you can too

jdogwar Ok, thanks!

I enjoy don't unneccessary things, so in R this is how you print the numbers 1 to 10: rev(rev(1:10))

lol i do the same. if i dont get it. forget it

... some reinvention is always good... I just see far too many n00bs reinventing the wheel just to "prove" they're professionals...

Absolutely right. The company that I work for considers 2 year experience as junior but it's just a tactic to pay less.

i wouldn't leave the decision of whether a player is banned up to the client side. because they can do whatever they want with their client. i would leave this decision on the server side. you could have your clients connect to the same server as the admin web interface and fire an event at the server fire when the admin changes something. maybe the even just means the server has to poll the database or maybe the event is more specific and contains all the information (endless possibilities). this complicates things but i think its the right way. but only you can decide what is more practically and worth your time. i think it depends on the reason why you are creating your game (to learn something, proof of concept etc...) for communication i would say whatever is easier. i use a lot of JSON in my protocols. i find it fast enough. and if it isn't i will start to optimize it. just don't start optimizing things pre-maturely. that's the real evil. it complicates code and wastes development time. keep things as simple as possible. i wouldn't worry about others being able to read the messages because even binary is not safe. even real time is usually not actually real time. there are all kinds of tricks games use to make things look real time

Thanks aybersurfer. There is some confusion to what I meant. Basically player clients connect to my server, everything is validated on the server but the web server uses http. The game server uses my own protocol. Since I want the admin interface to be on a web client the web server would need to talk with the game server to state when a player has been banned if the player is logged in. This is so the game server can kick the newly banned player. The other way is for the game server to poll the web server, or database every few seconds and check for a ban to then kick the game client. What would be the choice you would do?

the annoying thing is that databases don't really notify about changes (i wouldn't do anything with database triggers because that's not what they are for). in the ideal case i would have the web server update the database to make the player banned. then i would have the web server notify the game server that it needs to kick the player or "poll" the database once. on the other hand this creates a dependency for 2 systems that were separate, you could lessen this a bit by making it possible to ban players if the game server is not online. i also don't think continuous polling is that wrong. if you retrieve all the banned players in one go it might not be too bad. on the other hand, it creates some overhead and it may require that you change your server to actively do things if it wasn't already instead of just responding to requests. i personally wouldn't go for polling unless it's a bit impractical to notify the game server from the web server

PS: Just continued watching the video and the point about "hand coding" seems very salient: I am just now working on my first ever project where I truly need to hand code everything. So far I had always worked in high level languages like C that allow you to easily use other people's code, like the C standard library. Now that I have to write code that directly loads and runs on a processor without relying on so much as an operating system, it's incredibly annoying. Not just because of the limitations of the assembly language itself in terms of abstraction, but also because you have to write so much simple stuff yourself. I do not suggest hand coding to anyone if you can avoid it.

No, I do not copy/paste code from StackOverflow. In fact, it’s quite rare that I learn anything useful there github.com/ldo/scan_disks/blob/master/scan_disks .

after 5 years! now you should be a very good skilled programmer right? :)))

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