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* Software PreceptsBen Collver
+- Re: Software PreceptsRetrograde
+* Re: Software PreceptsJohn
|`- Re: Software PreceptsBen Collver
+- Re: Software PreceptsJohanne Fairchild
+- Re: Software Preceptscandycanearter07
`- Re: Software PreceptsLawrence D'Oliveiro

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Software Precepts

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Subject: Software Precepts
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 by: Ben Collver - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:35 UTC

Software Precepts
=================
* Specifications are for the weak and timid!

* You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
stand!

* Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
skull!

* What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

* Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.

* Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.

* A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!

* Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.

* Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!

Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

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 by: Retrograde - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:53 UTC

On 2024-03-20, Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
> Software Precepts
>=================
> * Specifications are for the weak and timid!
> * You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
> stand!
> * Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
> skull!
> * What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
> 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
> designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
> * Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
> - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
> * Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
> * A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!
> * Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
> features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.
> * Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
> Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

I saw on Slashdot once: "I refuse to comment code. It was hard to write,
it should be hard to read." LOL.

This was fun, very good stuff. Especially software "escaping."

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 by: John - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:48 UTC

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

> Software Precepts
> =================
> * Specifications are for the weak and timid!
>
> * You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
> stand!
>
> * Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
> skull!
>
> * What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
> 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
> designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
>
> * Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
> - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
>
> * Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
>
> * A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!
>
> * Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
> features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.
>
> * Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
> Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
>
> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

"Based on" meaning you just stripped out the references to Klingons and
Romulans and called it a day?

Like, it seemed pretty good as they originally wrote it, and the Klingon
references give it more context.

john

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 by: Johanne Fairchild - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:55 UTC

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:

[...]

> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

Is the government makes jokes like that? Omg, that's so cool!

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 by: Ben Collver - Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:06 UTC

On 2024-03-20, John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:
> Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> writes:
>> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>
>
> "Based on" meaning you just stripped out the references to Klingons and
> Romulans and called it a day?

Yup!

-Ben

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 by: candycanearter07 - Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:50 UTC

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote at 21:35 this Wednesday (GMT):
> Software Precepts
>=================
> * Specifications are for the weak and timid!
>
> * You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you
> stand!
>
> * Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your
> skull!
>
> * What is this talk of 'release'? We do not make software
> 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of
> designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
>
> * Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
> - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
>
> * Debugging? We do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
>
> * A TRUE programmer does not comment on their code!
>
> * Our software does NOT have BUGS. It has FEATURES, and those
> features are too sophisticated for one such as you to understand.
>
> * Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
> Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
>
> Based on: <https://afni.nimh.nih.gov/precepts>

I love "bad coding advice" stuff like this. The grug-brained developer
guide comes to mind here.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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 by: Lawrence D'Oliv - Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:46 UTC

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:35:50 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:

> * Our function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'

The way I look at it, a “parameter” is any value that can be adjusted in
an algorithm to solve a different problem in the same general class of
problems.

An “argument” is a “parameter” that is passed to a function at the point
of the call. So different calls can be passed different values of this
“parameter”.

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