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No offense intended for the author of the parent comment, I hope he won't take this the wrong way either!

Sadly I'm stuck having to deal with it, and I can honestly say I hate it and it makes me want to cry. Might have to do with the way it was used, though. I find myself having to write a directive each time I have to populate a fucking select2.

> lying to people to make them buy your stuff instead of something objectively better is fucking them over for your own gain

Thanks, this needed to be said. I'm in the same position. I will probably never be able to run a business either because I hold these same views.

I refactor as soon as my code gets past 3 levels, I don't know how one is supposed to readily understand this block of code.

The lack of comments isn't what troubles me. Comments get old and, when they do, they get completely misleading and downright dangerous. As soon as you feel the need to add a comment, it's often because that particular chunk of code should be extracted into its own function/method/whatever and given an intelligent name. Comments should be reserved for really important stuff, like when the code does something totally non-obvious.

This kind of richness is going to get lost as fewer and fewer people are taught the dialect of their own region (I reckon many parents think it is "uncool" or something), but I'm getting off topic :)

Look for "Puglia". Looks like what I said is true for Taranto, but my ex girlfriend was from Brindisi and she was the one who told me about this.

Might depend on whether you actually speak dialect, methinks.

That being said, for travelers it sure might take a while to adjust to local conditions. I never had such problems when traveling to Spain, Austria, France, Hungary and Slovenia, but I do understand that each body copes differently with things it's not used to.

As someone who lives across the pond, it never ceases to amaze me that this question needs to be asked at all. Is tap water safe to drink? I wouldn't take "no" as an answer unless I'm in some remote third-world country that has known issues with the availability of drinking water. And yet...

Not saying tap water here tastes great everywhere (far from that), but you can be pretty sure it won't cause you any physical harm.

Hard to make this any clearer. To expand a bit on this, most of the times the solutions they talk about are of course expressed in terms of what they already know, which makes communication that much harder. It's a key aspect to keep in mind, and one that ideally both parties, but at least the one that's taking the job, needs to be aware of.

Otherwise it's like visiting a physician and telling them the diagnosis instead of the symptoms.

This.

I don't know if this is still the case, but a few years ago I bought an MSDN subscription, and it took weeks. I could never figure out why they made it so difficult, nor why they forced me to go through partners. Just add a subscribe button on your own website, let me pay and be done with it. How you handle distribution is not my business (and I reckon distribution is not an issue anymore, since I think nobody chooses to have CDs delivered instead of downloading what they're interested in).

Again, this was a few years ago. I hope by now they have fixed this process, because it was completely broken.

ORMs are painful, I only use solutions which help me reducing the amount of boilerplate code to map data to domain objects (Dapper being a great example in .NET land), but I really prefer writing my queries and seeing them at a glance (however ugly they may look when inlined) without having to actually run the app. Plus, SQL produced by things like Entity Framework is not really readable with all those "extent1", "extent2" and so on.

In addition, ORMs tie you to the lowest common denominator so if you want to take full advantage of, say, jsonb in PostgreSQL you're out of luck.

I mean, in principle they're great, and they will theoretically allow you to switch database engines but, according to my limited experience, that is not such a frequent occurrence.

The thing is, they come with too many hidden costs, and I never bought the "no need to know any SQL" argument to begin with, as I really think a decent command of it is part of the fundamental abilities of a developer.

Mine are set in such a way that you can't add me as a friend if you're not already friends with a friend of mine. If we then are friends, you can't post anything to my wall nor can you tag me in any way without my consent. Granted, the picture will still be there (and possibly visible by anyone if it was posted by one such clueless individual), but then again deleting your Facebook account won't magically erase all the pictures you appear in either.

The actual problem is that any idiot has a smartphone and a Facebook or Instagram account. And they take pictures. And post them.

There doesn't need to be any aunt following your friends. A cousin is more than enough. And there are countries where related families tend to be scattered over a relatively small area, so having friends in common between you and your relatives is but a rare occurrence.

See, I have a hard time with all this self-help stuff. What's so difficult about it that needs hundreds of books and blogs to be expounded?

You either want to do something or you don't. Be grateful for what you have and try to improve a little at a time. Remember that everyone is out to get money from you. Try really hard not to be an asshole.

Seems like common sense to me, and everything else feels like a lot of unnecessary junk.

As far as laws preventing your from moving from a company to a competing one go, I really don't think we have anything like that. Same goes with taking old employees with you if you move to another company. Which is a Good Thing, if you ask me, because if people decide to walk away it's probably because they are sick of it or found something better/better paying/more interesting, and law preventing you from moving someplace better would be preposterous, IMHO.

Of course, this "lack of regulation" might have to do with the fact that the vast majority of contracts are of the collective type and not tailored to your particular company, meaning that you work under the same conditions as most of the other people doing your job.

According to my limited experience, a company drafting up its own contracts is a rare occurrence.

Am I missing some obvious shortcut to it or is this guy actually good?

There is very little to hate about the actual NT kernel.

Kudos to Dave, instead.

Not that it was terribly valuable to begin with: as a programmer, using the language at hand to write code that 1) works and 2) is as clear as possible is exactly your job.

Emulating other languages because of feature envy is really stupid, the first C# snippet is a prime example of this. I would not want to work with someone who deliberately makes the code harder to read in order to mimic his/her own favorite language. Every language has its idioms, just learn them and quit bitching.

As a side note, the example chosen was particularly poor because, if the collection contains a huge number of items, concatenating them without a StringBuilder in .NET land is a terribile idea.

It's kind of sad that he has to take medications to slow the heart rate down and get botox injections around the eyes to reduce blinking, though. I figure all of that must be taxing on his body.

At first I was hoping that, being a non-native speaker, I misunderstood something. But no, it's really the cutting edge we're talking about here.

This is crazy. I mean, the fact that you need a microscope to look at this kind of art makes it seem more of an exercise in style than anything else, but it's still awesome that someone is able to carve the freakin' edge of a razor.

Off the top of my head, I can add that you can't have subselects in views (which is preposterous), nor can you materialize views. Also, I don't believe you can have function-based indexes, and most certainly you can't pivot tables easily and CTEs are not supported.

I think 5.7 (if it's been released) finally brought the ability to create multiple triggers for the same event. Until 5.6 you could specify only one.

In short: MySQL is no fun. Choose Postgres or any other decent system, but just steer clear of the damn dolphin.

Is that true at all? Or is it just another myth?

This kind of non-documentation, coupled with the fact that Angular is IMO overengineered, drives me crazy.

"Your contribution does not fit our current guidelines. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and feel free to ask if you have any further questions."

comes across very differently than something aggressive.

You're telling the contributor that his/her work does not conform to the project's standards without being an asshole.

I don't see where the difficulty of treating other human beings with some respect resides.