Posts Tagged ‘funny’
Tony the One-Trick Pony
Jon Skeet has a bone to pick with humanity. In his talk at the London DevDays conference, he asserts that we humans have made it much too difficult for ordinary programmers to get simple things done with computers. It’s an epic fail.
Among the relatively simple things made needlessly complex, he lists:
- Numbers
- Text
- Time
If only we spoke binary, as the Maker intended, none of this would be a problem. Sadly, humans discovered fire and invented the wheel long before they fabricated transistors.
He’s posted the slides and transcript of his talk, to educate and amuse, on his coding blog.
Poor Tony.
Writing to the Future Me
Every now and then I find a comment in my code that I’ve completely forgotten about.
When I run across one of these nuggets, I guess I have the same experience as someone who’s kept a journal for months or years. I read the note and think, was that me that wrote that? Did I know that I would come back here again? Was a sending a message to my future self?
// TODO: Improve the quality of these tests. DTHRASHER 6OCT2008
// We need to verify that the filter string is being generated properly.
// We need to add tests to verify sorting behavior.
// We need to separate the ActivityParameters unit tests from the MetaIndex integration tests.
// We need a staff of 10 developers to help us finish this product! ARGH.
These always give me a chuckle.
And then I think, what a jerk that DTHRASHER guy is! I can’t believe he left me all this work to do!
