Oh shit! So is mine!

Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and aa rot13 transformation.

Lol. You’re not wrong.

I’m kinda jealous. I don’t miss maintaining production Perl code, but Perl was more fun to code in.

Lisp is the more logical choice.

Relevant XKCD. Python has replaced Perl, but things have otherwise changed quite little.

The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.

Or, considering that they’re mostly introverts, if they look approvingly in the general direction of your shoes…

like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it

Yeah! Without a proper backspin toss, it’s not going to land in their palm correctly, or in time for their next throw.

I think they forgot to pay themselves to use their product.

You are supposed to be tracking when they expire and then renew/replace them before they expire.

I’ve been told that, as well, but I’m not sure I see it… Seems like a lot of effort… (This is sarcasm. Or is it just too much honesty?)

This is a good list. Another, often overlooked is:

Sometimes we just get incredibly unlucky and interview at the same time as someone wildly unusually more qualified.

Thank you for this. This is awesome.

shittingTurtle and victimTurtle are going into one of my professional slide decks as soon as I think I can get away with it.

I love it!

All great code started out as a shitty work-around that happened to work.

(I say this as someone with one of the more prestigious pedigrees in “not writing shit code”. All the theory I’ve learned helps, but at the end of the day the most important qualities of a line of code are: whether it got the job done, and whether is was obviously correct enough that the next developer left it alone.)

At this point I think there is no software dev topic that is somehow not devisive.

Now I want to try something:

“Boolean variables don’t suck.”

Wow. “peak shareholder value” is what I shall now call “multiple inheritance”, from now on.

Thanks. I hate it.

I consider myself a collector of programming anti-patterns, but I didn’t have this one yet.

I’m in. I wonder what the actual numbers on this are.

Am I gonna be out the thousands I’ve been promised by the “UBI can’t work” crowd, or is it going to be like seven cents (total, for my lifetime) because I have no real concept of what a billion dollars is compared to what I earn…

Tell me about “Why do you think you wanted to run ELIXA on a Times/Sinclair 2968?”.

Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:

It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.

People will assume you work on Cybersecurity.

Edit: Also, people will use this method to verify an email is from you.

This is great.

That’s the joke/point in many comics and comic book movies, too.

Subversive ideas can’t always be communicated openly in children’s media.

I think the world is a better place for having difficult disruptive ideas voiced in children’s movies, even when they’re only allowed to come out of the mouth of the bad guys.