• cobysev
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      For some reason, this just sparked an ancient memory of the Geek Code, which was a sort of signature block you could append to your emails and online bios to show off how much of a geek you were in the geekiest fashion possible.

      Goddamn I’m old.

      • Rob Bos
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        Remember it spawning a bunch of copycats? For a while every community had their own code block. I wrote one for a usenet group i was in at the time.

        alt.sysadmin and alt.sysadmin.recovery both had em iirc…

          • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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            Sure! It doesn’t do anything yet, I just have a text file with how I’m intending to architect it.

            It quite literally started two four (edit: I can’t keep track of time) days ago.

            I’ll configure a repo, stick this in a file, and push it. I’ll reply with another comment so you (and others) can look it up.

            I’ve come up with some crazy stuff. Instead of something like “class” to indicate a class, it’s

            🏫 Followed by the emoji name of the class like 🖼️📁. So it will need to be able to handle operators in the name it’s amazingly gross! Properties and methods will also be emoji names, like to get the 🖼️📁 “File Name” it would be 📁💳.

            • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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              I was kind of being sarcastic. I haven’t written a compiler since I rode my dinosaur to college. Still it’s a funny idea. Could probably do it in C using a bunch of pound defines.

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                I was thinking Rust, but that works too.

                Because then I could call the Language Spoons.

                It would as uncomfortable to use as it is to watch Rusty Spoons

  • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    825 days ago

    Well. I think I’m officially out of touch with the newest generations slang terms. I only understood about half of that.

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      I have many gray hairs, but here’s what I know.

      • Highkey and lowkey - obvious and subtle.

      • fax is “facts” - true. Often in the sense of agreement.

      • Fuck around and find out - do something risky and reap the consequences

      • It’s giving - how it makes you feel, or what it reminds you of.

      • Cap and no cap - lying and telling the truth.

      • Big yikes - bad, especially cringey.

      • Tea - (n) gossip. (v) “spill the tea”

      • Shoutout - give credit to someone. I don’t think this one makes much sense here.

      • Yap - talk, especially too much or unnecessarily.

      • Yeet - throw, often without careful aim. (Unlike “Kobe”, which is a throw with aim)

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        You missed

        • Rizz = charisma
        • vibe check = Vibe is kinda like someone’s aura or energy. So to check their vibe is to call them out on it.

        Also got many grey hairs but I like to know what people mean and language evolves. Our generation did it too you get me blud.

        • Clay_pidgin
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          Thanks for the catch, I thought I got all of them. Stay skibidi and not Ohio, my friend.

            • Clay_pidgin
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              It’s recognized by the yoots as the worst state, so being Ohio is bad!

              It’s worse than “mid”, which is meh.

                • @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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                  Florida is basically the unofficial US Capitol now, so it would be confusing and ambiguous to have it associated with the traditional forms of unexpected insanity. Now it’s going to be an entirely new kind of unexpected insanity, so Ohio has been selected to represent the old kind of unexpected insanity that Florida used to represent.

    • @stetech@lemmy.world
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      C# is basically Java and from what I can tell, this looks approximately valid.

      Variables can always* be named freely to your liking.

      *You used to have to stick to the Latin alphabet, but that’s increasingly not the case anymore. Emoji-named variables FTW!

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        No it’s not “basically Java”

        Aside from how Microsoft stole it, fucked the standard library, fucked the naming conventions, etc. You would never just “throw” without specifying what you were throwing.

        • CodexArcanum
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          This is incorrect. The C# is valid. Throw in a catch statement simply rethrows the caught exception. Source: I’ve been writing C# for 20 years, also the docs.

          I won’t act like MS absolutely didn’t steal core concepts and syntax from Java, but I’ve always thought C# was much more thoughtfully designed. Anders Hejlsberg is a good language designer, TypeScript is also a really excellent language.

          • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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            In Java you would say “throw e;” (to rethrow the same exception you just caught.)

            You wouldn’t just say “throw”

            Or you could also throw some other exception. But the syntax requires you specify what it is you are throwing. (And sane in C++, where you could throw any object, even a primitive.)

            So that was my question.

            • CodexArcanum
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              Wildly, in C# you can do either and it has different results. I believe a bare throw doesn’t append to the stack trace, it keeps the original trace intact, while throw e updates the stack trace (stored on the exception object) with the catch and rethrow.

              In C#, you can only throw objects whose class derives from Exception.

            • To be honest I’m just playing into the meme of Java.

              My understanding is it’s academically great, but a pain in practice.

              For reference we use C# .Net, Entity Framework with GraphQL and React TypeScript for our enterprise applications and I really like C# now, but when I first started I’d only really used Node.js and some Java.

              • @Zannsolo@lemmy.world
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                I started my career in Java and transitioned to c# a few years in and c# is much better imo, especially now that .Net can be run in Linux.

                I run a team for a large project (13 deployable components apis/ Windows services/ desktop applications/ websites/mobile) that has mix of vb.net/c# .net framework 4.8 and .net 6 soon to be 8 with angular for Web and wpf for desktop. Slowly but surely working to kill off our legacy code and consolidate.

                Some of the older vb code (that existed long before I joined the project let alone became the lead dev) is so bad that a bug fix for nhibernate that stopped silently failing and began throwing exceptions breaks everything if we try to update to a later version. it’s such a tangled mess and I’m probably the only one on my team that could unfuck it(but I didn’t have the time to do it) it’s not even worth fixing even though our version of nhibernate has a CVE with rating of 9/10 (we don’t actually use anything that is affected from the finding thankfully) and are just biding our time till we kill off the offending apps.

                Ohh and I have a new PM that isn’t technical and likes to email me his chat GPT queries and results about technical things.