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(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)

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[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

[-] Goldholz 8 points 2 days ago

I need to buy new once. But am boycotting USA so its hard finding some

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 83 points 4 days ago

Programming socks memes are always welcome here.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

PowerfulTurtle and (Not) BurningTurtle meetup

[-] BurningTurtle@programming.dev 25 points 4 days ago

Until BurningTurtle comes to the meetup.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

All 3 of the Turtles are together it seems.

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago

Turtles are great computer science animals. They do graphics, and have shell access.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile I’ll stick with my tree, it has root access.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I used to own one less-feminine one, for the winters, but they became obsolete thanks to global warming.

[-] kittenzrulz123 50 points 3 days ago

Wheres the introduction to Rust, choker, skirt, Blahaj, and Thinkpad X220?

[-] yuri@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago

this comment genuinely reminded me that i need to both find my choker and finish installing linux on my x230t

[-] kittenzrulz123 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Very good Thinkpad, especially with the classic keyboard mod and libreboot :3

[-] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

I ought to make my own programming starter pack meme with all those things.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 days ago

You jest but I unironically want one of the Thinkpads with a Snapdragon X (|Plus|Elite) to compile my Rust on.

[-] kittenzrulz123 13 points 3 days ago

Woah, I said an older Thinkpad. We dont talk about what Lenovo has done to the modern Thinkpad image (theyve dragged it through the mud). Eveyone knows the last good Thinkpad was the T480.

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[-] cupcakezealot 42 points 3 days ago
[-] pelya@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Eh, who is still using paper books to learn programming languages? Every popular language has a website with online manuals.

Well, except C, because it's crammed together with C++ on https://cplusplus.com/ and https://cppreference.com/

And socks just grow organically after 3 years of coding.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

The book is to get your monitor to an ergonomic height!

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I thought the books were for your shelf tbh. You put one for each language you claim proficiency in.

It's cool to have niche older books though. My friend has a programming manual in Estonian from either the very late soviet era or very early 90s that has both some dialect of BASIC and some niche dialect of Pascal that I hadn't even heard of.

[-] Kojichan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I never knew about this until my non-programming partner asked what I thought about them.

[-] lucg@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!

(Hope I'm somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore's answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)

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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 25 points 4 days ago

I know that the company Functional Software brought out some Functional Sockware, I wore them for years.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Maybe good against programmers venous thrombosis. Should be acknowledged as a work related illness.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 8 points 3 days ago

How are you supposed to program without programming socks?

[-] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

You're not, it's possible but you'll have a really bad time.

[-] Redkey@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago
[-] Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Underrated joke.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Socks? Check. Skirt? Check. Vape pen? Check.

It's study time.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago

If you need to learn C, at least use the first edition of the book - the one without the ANSI additions is much smaller.

I''ve actually never read the second/and edition so I can't say if it is good or not. I can tell you that the first edition still has a proud space on my bookshielf though the acid paper is starting to take a toll and I suspect it won't be long and I'll be needing a reprint.

[-] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

I haven't read either, honestly Rust is so much better than C or C++ and if I were going to learn a low level language I'd probably go with that instead. Currently I only do Python and a tiny bit of Javascript.

[-] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I dare assume you get downvoted for liking Rust, so take my upvote for balance. We differ about what we think of the language, but this kind of angry downvoting is plain ridiculous

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably moreso for expressing the opinion so strongly without actually knowing any of the three languages.

Edit: I'm just guessing why a different comment got downvotes. Why am I getting downvotes?

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

This Rust talk sounds exactly like Java in the 2000. It's the language of the future!! Rust is good though but only time will tell if rust will replace C/C++ which I doubt.

[-] UpperBroccoli 1 points 2 days ago

As a long time C/C++ developer, I think it has a lot of really great ideas. The one thing preventing me from using it a lot more is that there is no stable ABI that would allow to use shared libraries in Rust - everything is statically linked, and if I use the same crates in a number of programs, the same code exists in each of these programs. That is not really a good thing whne you try to develop for a system with very limited space and where program load times make a difference, such as for certain embedded platforms.

But honestly, Rust support in the Linux kernel? Java never got that far, nor any other language (apart from C, obviously).

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

C/C++ oldtimer myself, yep Rust is basically C++ template metaprogramming. So Rust does this thing way better, but as you says it does other things less good. Exactly like Java with the facility to run on different platforms (well, sort of) for example.

C/C++ is hard because it's the ultimate multi tool!

I use Python BTW when I don't need the fancy stuff, maybe the death of C/C++ will be that of a thousand cuts, one specialised language for each specific C/C++ use ...

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

Doesn't the first edition use K&R style parameter lists and other no-longer-correct syntax?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

My prof called K&R C "Knall und Rauch C", "bang and smoke C". Also: C lattice fence.

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[-] acidowl@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago
[-] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Wait, you think that wearing thigh high socks for fun is brainrot?

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[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 4 days ago
[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 19 points 3 days ago

Programming socks provide a +2 programming skill buff. Their tight fit around the legs provides better blood flow through the legs which also means a better blood flow through the brain.

They also make you more cute :3

[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago
[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah. Ok. To each their own.

Weird that I haven't heard about it until now tho. It's been my experience that an uncomfortable amount of software engineers are fairly conservative, but that's more likely because of being in the Midwest.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

:( I also had a bit of a culture shock when I started working, after being young and naive and assuming people interested in tech were progressive, and going to a public university for CS surrounded by other liberals.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 3 days ago

See i didn't have that experience. I come from a long line of electrical engineers, and went to a Catholic private university.

The EEs, save for my mother, are ultraconservative. So I knew what to expect. I went for computer engineering, so my first job out of college was in a contract design services company that was mostly old white men.

When I got into my current career, which became entirely software focused, I was surprised to see such an array of conservatives, but found many more progressives than previously.

What I have observed in my 12 years of career is that the conservative individuals are very rigid black and white thinkers. In fact, when my cousin was diagnosed with autism, my uncle remarked that it was pretty weird that every engineer he met seems to fall into that diagnosis. There was already a quiet joke in the family that what they now call Autism was what they called engineers in the 60s-80s.

That's not to say autistic individuals are more likely to be conservative - but almost every conservative engineer I know falls right into this description. Interestingly, I know that ASD also has a large crossover with the LGBTQ+ community. It would make sense to me then, that this "programming socks" meme started.

It all seems to be based around who can accept change and who cannot. This, to me, explains why there are far more progressive programmers than conservative, and the opposite is true for other engineering fields.

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