Programming thread

[Aidan]

Can someone in the tech industry tell me what kind of job this girl has? Because from what I’ve heard about the industry, crunch is rampant and fucking around is not an option and this girl does fucking nothing.

I saw part of a video when I first heard about this, something with Sargon and some other guy. I don't keep up with either but in the video they said she's an intern at LinkedIn and her whole schtick is selling the job more than anything. I don't care to look into her or not but she's not representative of actual work in any company and comes off as a tech nerd girl like that notorious image of the e-thot posting her terminal where she fucked up cd-ing into her project directory and felt that was worth putting online.

If you want to do her job you need to be a true and honest woman who lives on social media.

 

[Dr Doom Pill]

I saw part of a video when I first heard about this, something with Sargon and some other guy. I don't keep up with either but in the video they said she's an intern at LinkedIn and her whole schtick is selling the job more than anything. I don't care to look into her or not but she's not representative of actual work in any company and comes off as a tech nerd girl like that notorious image of the e-thot posting her terminal where she fucked up cd-ing into her project directory and felt that was worth putting online.

If you want to do her job you need to be a true and honest woman who lives on social media.

I don’t want to do her job, I was just wondering what it is that she actually does at her company because I thought that it was a pyramid scheme or some shit

 

[Polarity]

I don’t want to do her job, I was just wondering what it is that she actually does at her company because I thought that it was a pyramid scheme or some shit

LinkedIn just sells access to job history of everyone on the planet and takes a cut of pretty much all recruiting activities these days. Same sleazy money pipeline as Google/Meta.

Also, if you're an honest to god real woman in tech, you'll instantly be a part of many leadership development programs and fast-tracked to management/leadership.

 

[Dr Doom Pill]

LinkedIn just sells access to job history of everyone on the planet and takes a cut of pretty much all recruiting activities these days. Same sleazy money pipeline as Google/Meta.

Also, if you're an honest to god real woman in tech, you'll be instantly be a part of many leadership development programs and fast-tracked to management/leadership.

Lul seems like their desperate for competent diversity hire

 

[Knight of the Rope]

like that notorious image of the e-thot posting her terminal where she fucked up cd-ing into her project directory and felt that was worth putting online.

Good ol' Karlie the Koder.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

LinkedIn just sells access to job history of everyone on the planet and takes a cut of pretty much all recruiting activities these days. Same sleazy money pipeline as Google/Meta.

Sometimes the job history isn't even real.

There are multiple people on LinkedIn using my CV. I don't know fucking why because you'd never make it through the hiring and credentialing process without an actual valid medical license so who knows what this whole scam is.

 

[Foltest]

Have started to learn C# as I have heard it is a good first langauge for newbies.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Good ol' Karlie the Koder.
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That's spooky. I was just trying to remember this woman's name today.

 

[Coolio55]

Google's making their own C++ knockoff (No, not Dart) after they failed their power grab at the standards body. "It's like C++ but it's also rust!"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

There's a conspicuous absence of Google branding but note that most of the contributors are (((Googlers))) from the C++ project team or from NVIDIA. Really makes you think.

Also, eternal reminder:

 

[byuu]

Google's making their own C++ knockoff (No, not Dart) after they failed their power grab at the standards body. "It's like C++ but it's also rust!"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

There's a conspicuous absence of Google branding but note that most of the contributors are (((Googlers))) from the C++ project team or from NVIDIA. Really makes you think.

Also, eternal reminder:
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Doesn't seem that bad. But I'm immediately disgusted by the installation instructions being only for Macfags and the Discord link.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Google's making their own C++ knockoff (No, not Dart) after they failed their power grab at the standards body. "It's like C++ but it's also rust!"
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

This looks like a nightmare.

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/goals.md#non-goals

No ABI, no forward/backward compatibility. Just "live at head" and take whatever changes Google throws out there.
Internet companies are notorious for ignoring the possibility of a mature product, but now they're going one step further and precluding the possibility.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

This looks like a nightmare.

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/goals.md#non-goals

No ABI, no forward/backward compatibility. Just "live at head" and take whatever changes Google throws out there.
Internet companies are notorious for ignoring the possibility of a mature product, but now they're going one step further and precluding the possibility.

Only consistent with what they did to web standards. To be fair, nobody ever adhered to web standards to begin with, but nowadays "the standard is what Chrome does" is literally true rather than just figuratively. So why not try the same with C++?

Relatedly, I have no idea why ex-googlers get treated like these titans of programming. In my experience they will see a small problem you can solve with basic bitch tools and proceed to write some overengineered abomination that pointlessly "scales" to 1000 times what is actually needed and needs five internal Google tools. Some of the worst programmers I have ever dealt with.

 

[Knight of the Rope]

That's spooky. I was just trying to remember this woman's name today.

The cd.. bits are funny, but my personal favorite part of the image is the concatenate_strings function she's written in her text editor:

def concatenate_strings(string1, string2)
  "#{string1} #{string2}"
end

What a worthless function that is. The function name (including passed parameters) is longer than the function body, so you'd always save time just typing out the string interpolation as it is. I'd give her the benefit of the doubt that she was working through a programming exercise (or teaching someone else), were it not for the simps watching her hello-world coding and commenting that they "need her for their startup now now now".

 

[Kosher Dill]

In my experience they will see a small problem you can solve with basic bitch tools and proceed to write some overengineered abomination that pointlessly "scales" to 1000 times what is actually needed

I'm even willing to extend them the benefit of the doubt and say "OK, maybe at Google YOU need this over-scaled thing to serve the entire internet". But that usually doesn't scale down very well, even just scaling down from "global monopoly" to "big business".

 

[Least Concern]

Google's making their own C++ knockoff (No, not Dart) after they failed their power grab at the standards body. "It's like C++ but it's also rust!"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

There's a conspicuous absence of Google branding but note that most of the contributors are (((Googlers))) from the C++ project team or from NVIDIA. Really makes you think.

I saw that on HN today. I thought it looked really interesting - until I read the comments and discovered it was a Google project… Go, Dart, and now this?

I still kinda like the idea, but I hope Google cuts it loose and lets it develop without its infection.

Doesn't seem that bad. But I'm immediately disgusted by the installation instructions being only for Macfags and the Discord link.

From what I understand, the Homebrew instructions part can be replicated with any package manager to install the required packages. Why they didn't just trust their audience to be smart enough to interpret "Use your package manager of choice to install X," who knows. But so far as you can install those requirements on whatever your system is, the rest is just a Git clone plus a run of the build tool.

As for Discord… yeah. Kinda sad that that seems to be the way many FOSS projects are going, but I still find it hard to take a project seriously if they don't have a proper IRC channel.

 

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No ABI, no forward/backward compatibility. Just "live at head" and take whatever changes Google throws out there.

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[Account]

I always wonder how these move-fast-and-break-things languages will fare in the long run.
People still use programs written decades ago in relatively simple and slow moving languages like C, Fortran, ADA, and even Pascal (though that has a billion variants) and they're still a pain in the ass to get working on modern setups. (If you're curious, look up how to build LaTeX, which depends on software written in the 70s and 80s.)
Of course changing something in your setup may affect your program, but that doesn't mean you should just throw the baby out with the bathwater and stop giving a shit about compatibility. Why should I invest a bunch of effort into learning a language that will rugpull me on minor version changes?
Not everything has to be SQLite where you can you the same database format for 50 years, or OpenSSL which still suport MS-DOS, but I would never consider learning or using a language that doesn't even pretend to care about backwards-compatibility.

 

[Least Concern]

I always wonder how these move-fast-and-break-things languages will fare in the long run.
People still use programs written decades ago in relatively simple and slow moving languages like C, Fortran, ADA, and even Pascal (though that has a billion variants) and they're still a pain in the ass to get working on modern setups. (If you're curious, look up how to build LaTeX, which depends on software written in the 70s and 80s.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression the "change quick" stuff was just going to be in place for these early iterations of the language while they're still experimenting with stuff and that things would start to get set into stone once it was decided what the right way to move forward would be.

 

[wjiogjiaowgedrlg]

She mentions being part of the BLP (Business Leadership Program).
I take it to mean she's just on an internship

business leadership programs arent internships. depends on your field for what you will do during a BLP. Could mean you will get shipped to china and other countries to be the guy that handles the suppliers, this is usally an engineer thing. Could mean they just move you around to different teams doing random shit, this is more of a business thing. seems like at linkedin for her its just moving around doing random shit. its an excuse to give you terrible hours and to never have a stable location for you to live. basically glorified contractors but paid way worst but a quick path to upper management.

 

[awoo]

Google's making their own C++ knockoff (No, not Dart) after they failed their power grab at the standards body. "It's like C++ but it's also rust!"

https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

There's a conspicuous absence of Google branding but note that most of the contributors are (((Googlers))) from the C++ project team or from NVIDIA. Really makes you think.

Also, eternal reminder:
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Bjarne Strostrup may have created a monstrous language that is now C++ but his smug academician face is always funny to me
the old academics are still better than the modern tranny devs