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Sounds like communism.

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Unit test dummy data is full of it. Need an arbitrary date? Pick a special birthday. Location? Wherever you first met.

Not the most public dedication, but perhaps more impactful than yet another song about the one that got away.

As an industry, we like to think of ourselves as supremely rational, but we can't apply even the most basic scientific principles. So much conventional wisdom has never actually been tested or proven, so we keep reinventing and flip flopping on best practices.

So much. When I'm trusted to find the right balance of productivity and quality, I enjoy the work more. When I enjoy the work, I'm more productive and write better code. It's a positive feedback loop.

If you replace the quality parts with manure bricks, at what point has it become the shit of Theseus?

They will be generating it themselves soon enough. I contributed some stock photos in the past. They recently sent me info about their new contribution pipeline, for content that may not pass the usual quality threshold, but will help train the models. If they do it right, who knows, maybe they can get better results worth paying for.

Hey, he could just be taking inspiration from Wim Hof.

Ok, yeah probably fetish.

You think he would just turn this company into an X-rated - oh no that's what he's doing isn't it?

Programming typefaces with ligatures are a step in this direction.

I would try this in something like Haskell, where some of the more exotic character sequences get tricky to recognise.

Unison might be the best language to test this in. Having identifiers separate from the actual definitions, you can call anything whatever you want.

While still expecting to get paid.

Conversely, too many good games get bad reviews because of lacking endgame. So go play the next thing in your overflowing backlog. Some games do what they came for, and that's fine.

It's like giving a bad movie review because the concession stand was closed when you left the cinema.

Months are dumb. Inconsistent lengths, the names are out of sync (OCTober isn't month 8), pretend to be based on lunar cycles but not, etc.

Give us Year/Day date formats. Extra new year holiday on leap years.

Is this where someone posts the relevant xkcd about too many standards?

So much of it has been lost too. We could do better, though. Teaching what we can would at least teach the general skill of learning languages.

Indonesian is an underrepresented option in my opinion. They're neighbours and the language is relatively easy. Couldn't hurt to improve relations a bit. Might make a better impression during the customary pilgrimage to Bali.

Do we really even need months? They don't even line up with the lunar cycle like they pretend to do.

Just give us Year/Day. On leap years we get an extra long New Year holiday.

Futurama x No Man's Sky.

Yes please?

No Man's Fry: Galactic Delivery and Hijinks Simulator.

That would be kind of hilarious. You can use your powers to help the local townsfolk... but they're all just the worst, so you can also be an instrument of karma.

This would change my life more than any conventional super power.

If it's just enough to beat out the house advantage, it might be all you need.

It's like how when you were a kid, you thought quicksand was something you would need to be aware of as an adult in the big wide world. In my undergrad, mod everywhere. Very important knowledge. Now not so much.