On 2024-03-20, Ben Collver <[email protected]> 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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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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Ben Collver <[email protected]> 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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Ben Collver <[email protected]> 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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On 2024-03-20, John <[email protected]> wrote:

Ben Collver <[email protected]> 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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Ben Collver <[email protected]> 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.
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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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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