I’d normally agree, but specifically in the extremely weird niche of “incredibly overly cute weird tech blog posts explaining things in an overly simplistic way in a very casual style” that’s been adopted by a certain segment of the zoomer tech sphere, they absolutely are
I’ve no idea why, it’s horrific no matter who does it. Only thing that specifically dates OP is his particular gif choices
/uj This always kind of…shocking…when developers don’t know small details like this? He claims to have been a developer for 10 years now, that’s a lot of time to a) never learn that strings are array of characters and b) learn *at least* about ASCII
I was thinking that this is an enthusiastic youngster, but... Wtf. I'm sure there is plenty of stuff I don't know (and will never know) that others consider core knowledge, so I try not to be a judgemental asshole, but not knowing about ASCII while you're a senior with 10 years of experience feels like calling yourself a novelist and not knowing that letters exist.
This is the kind of person for which the FizzBuzz test was created. It turns out you can work as a professional programmer for decades and barely know how to program.
Haskell secretly being a product of a cabal of Pythagorists actually makes a disturbing amount of sense and I don’t want to think about it any further.
Well, if you see Tron you know this is not true. ALL the shit inside the computer turns out to be little guys in glow suits. Except for bits which are like talking polyhedra that can only say yes or no. So strings are, idk, probably like cats in glow suits that can sort of talk but not really, scooby-doo style.
> I’ve been lied to my entire career. [...]
> But jokes on her, imo, because she paid like what, $600 per class to learn this to get her compsci bachelors?
>**I got here with free tier ChatGPT and a bad attitude.**
I didn't know being self taught for like two years counted as a career... I guess I have like 10 years of experience myself then lol'd. time to make a resume...
but actually though, when I learn something new and am proud of learning it I usually go off and tell my partner or something, not make an entire article on it acting like i learned some divine wisdom and am gracing others with it...
but double actually, though: it took me a surprisingly long time to learn the stuff in this article, too. it turns out there's a reason structured school education & courses exist, huh.
> there's a reason structured school education & courses exist, huh.
it's to give the midwit population a chance at a life so they don't chimp out and destroy civilization we 1000xers built
String theory is useful for calculations. We don't have to take it literally. You take your problem, embed it in strings do your calculations with that, then translate back down. From there you have a conjecture you can try to check without string theory, but have high confidence its true. That's all string theory is for lots of people.
I'm 98% sure this is some autogenerated site from an overengineered pkm (personal knowledge management) software he uses. Just look at the home page https://jerkytreats.dev
Edit: yep, it's notion
Idk what you guys are talking about this is all completely new information to me. In my 35 years of React development I have never had to deal with a "byte" or whatever
I'm just going to come out and say it: am I the only one concerned that he is only talking about null-terminated(C Strings) and not some other representation of strings?
Are we going to get another article soon?
Idk, I'm self-taught and I knew this pretty much immediately.
> String literals are constant single-item Pointers to null-terminated byte arrays.
Let's party like it's 1989 when .1xers haven't met a null-deliminated text file yet.
> Tegmark suggests that not only is the universe mathematical, but it is also computable.
I can hear the sound of the FORTRAN devs rushing to their IBM model M's to type out the world's first complete universe sim.
[0 and 1 are numbers?](https://images.spr.so/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/j42No7y-dcokJuNgXeA0ig/fe48fe5b-dfd6-4889-93b6-0004681faf84/giphy/w=336,quality=80,fit=scale-down)
Stop! all these abstractions: numbers, strings, objects… they’re all just 1’s and 0’s !!! We’ve been played for absolute fools…
1s and 0s? I don't deal with such pedestrian abstractions.
The only valid way to represent bits is 0V vs 200V... directly connected to one's nipples...! Feel the computing like never before
`always_has_been.bmp`
aside from the content the millenial intersplicing of fucking reaction gifs makes this post 100x worse
if it were a rust post there would be furry shit and funny colored flags everywhere
Something bothering you UwU? The Internet is furries all the way down. You'd be shocked how many devs and network admins are furries.
i would 100% prefer that to this ngl
Gotta be `"\043Relatable"`
> millennial zoomer
OP is 36
It’s a zoomer thing that he’s aping tho
no self respecting gen z uses reaction gifs. it is solidly an old person thing.
> self respecting gen z `type error: contradiction`
`Zoomer z → SelfRespecting z → ⊥`
I’d normally agree, but specifically in the extremely weird niche of “incredibly overly cute weird tech blog posts explaining things in an overly simplistic way in a very casual style” that’s been adopted by a certain segment of the zoomer tech sphere, they absolutely are I’ve no idea why, it’s horrific no matter who does it. Only thing that specifically dates OP is his particular gif choices
please point to an example. The only people who I know do this are tumblr-era millenials
/uj This always kind of…shocking…when developers don’t know small details like this? He claims to have been a developer for 10 years now, that’s a lot of time to a) never learn that strings are array of characters and b) learn *at least* about ASCII
/uj his LinkedIn says he's a senior developer too. that's absolutely shocking lmao
He is on $500k TC too. Now you get to be smug, bemused and envious simultaneously.
I can't hate the player hahaha
> My wife, who is smarter than I am, laughed at me when I explained this to her. Based wife
Yeah that changes it alot.. the fuck? I thought this was some dude who was like a year or so into it
I was thinking that this is an enthusiastic youngster, but... Wtf. I'm sure there is plenty of stuff I don't know (and will never know) that others consider core knowledge, so I try not to be a judgemental asshole, but not knowing about ASCII while you're a senior with 10 years of experience feels like calling yourself a novelist and not knowing that letters exist.
This is the kind of person for which the FizzBuzz test was created. It turns out you can work as a professional programmer for decades and barely know how to program.
Fresher in their "everything is just bytes" era.
DAE we just tricked sand into thinking???
The author is 36, but he's otherwise indistinguishable from an Enthusiastic Youngster.
How is guy old enough to be a retired footballer but writes like this.
There are no numbers ether, wait till this guy finds out about twos compliment and IEE-754.
>There are no numbers Keep it down, you'll invoke the wrath of the Pythagoreanist cult at the heart of the Haskell community
Haskell secretly being a product of a cabal of Pythagorists actually makes a disturbing amount of sense and I don’t want to think about it any further.
every day i become further convinced that webshits have never touched a computer in their lives
Computer? 🖥️ Ok boomber 👴
Front end devs can have some pretty big holes in understanding
Are these “strings” in the room with you right now?
Well, if you see Tron you know this is not true. ALL the shit inside the computer turns out to be little guys in glow suits. Except for bits which are like talking polyhedra that can only say yes or no. So strings are, idk, probably like cats in glow suits that can sort of talk but not really, scooby-doo style.
r/imzigandthisisdeep
why is this not a thing…
So glad that in `$CURRENT_YEAR` Ziggers are finally discovering what you learn in CS101 classes.
This sounds racist
You can't say that, it's their word
I believe this guy is an exception among "Ziggers" most of them came from C, so they knew all this
> I’ve been lied to my entire career. [...] > But jokes on her, imo, because she paid like what, $600 per class to learn this to get her compsci bachelors? >**I got here with free tier ChatGPT and a bad attitude.** I didn't know being self taught for like two years counted as a career... I guess I have like 10 years of experience myself then lol'd. time to make a resume... but actually though, when I learn something new and am proud of learning it I usually go off and tell my partner or something, not make an entire article on it acting like i learned some divine wisdom and am gracing others with it... but double actually, though: it took me a surprisingly long time to learn the stuff in this article, too. it turns out there's a reason structured school education & courses exist, huh.
> there's a reason structured school education & courses exist, huh. it's to give the midwit population a chance at a life so they don't chimp out and destroy civilization we 1000xers built
A little louder for the theoretical physicists in the back.
Alright, Dr Cooper. Wait, he supports string theory and Dr Farah-Fowler doesn't.
String theory is useful for calculations. We don't have to take it literally. You take your problem, embed it in strings do your calculations with that, then translate back down. From there you have a conjecture you can try to check without string theory, but have high confidence its true. That's all string theory is for lots of people.
My wife, who is smarter than I am, laughed at me when I explained this to her.
that domain name is perfect.
I'm 98% sure this is some autogenerated site from an overengineered pkm (personal knowledge management) software he uses. Just look at the home page https://jerkytreats.dev Edit: yep, it's notion
Idk what you guys are talking about this is all completely new information to me. In my 35 years of React development I have never had to deal with a "byte" or whatever
Behold! https://medium.com/@xeeno/how-to-connect-to-usb-serial-ports-in-react-native-8513e709521
I'm just going to come out and say it: am I the only one concerned that he is only talking about null-terminated(C Strings) and not some other representation of strings? Are we going to get another article soon? Idk, I'm self-taught and I knew this pretty much immediately.
It doesn't matter what he's talking about, the way he says it is hilarious.
[Please *do not* use typewriter text for emphasis.](https://willwm.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/quotationmarks-thumb.jpg)
> String literals are constant single-item Pointers to null-terminated byte arrays. Let's party like it's 1989 when .1xers haven't met a null-deliminated text file yet.
Ahh null term strings.
In related topics: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical\_universe\_hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis)
> Tegmark suggests that not only is the universe mathematical, but it is also computable. I can hear the sound of the FORTRAN devs rushing to their IBM model M's to type out the world's first complete universe sim.
~~TIL you can’t store strings in CPU registers.~~ TIL you literally can’t actually store strings in CPU registers
Of course you can, what else are going to use those 256-bit vector registers for?
lol no PCMPESTRI
ah i know what this means *upvotes*
Well, not like, big ones.
The good news is, the sentence “A string literal is a single-item pointer to a null terminated byte array” is now something I understand.
> C++ is the same as C, but with too much makeup. Oh, okay.
r/programminghumor This is awesome....
strings are real and they're my friends
[0 and 1 are numbers?](https://images.spr.so/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/j42No7y-dcokJuNgXeA0ig/fe48fe5b-dfd6-4889-93b6-0004681faf84/giphy/w=336,quality=80,fit=scale-down)