• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    First good chuckle of the day. Thanks! I’ll pause here to go get breakfast.

    Aside: when I was first learning to code, I’d take a bicycle ride when I got stuck. The answers came to me as I rode in circles talking aloud about whatever problem I was trying to solve.

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      1 year ago

      I was recently made aware of the concept of “rubber ducking”. Maybe thats something you were doing without realising

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      1 year ago

      Be careful not to sign up for Tour de France eventually…

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      1 year ago

      When I was younger and had more time on my hands I would end up rewriting most of my big projects at least 2 or 3 times

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    1 year ago

    This was super funny in the '90s, but I’m not sure whether it was just that era or that we’ve all seen this one about a million times since.

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    Enlightenment: everything works, and we don’t know why. So DON’T TOUCH IT.