what are we even doing here man

[froge@social.glitched.systems]

@foone@digipres.club me when I forget my experience with arrays and am no longer experienced in arrays(data structure)

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@foone synergizing

[ben@mastodon.lubar.me]

@foone Do you have experience in Boolean (data structure)?

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@foone Reminds me of when a lawyer accused me of stealing someone else's graphics tech because we both used the same technology of "bilinear filtering." OK my friend you go ahead and bring that up in court be my guest.

[hosford42@techhub.social]

@foone [lists MS Word as a skill]

[foone@digipres.club]

@ben False

[nocturnalnessa@infosec.exchange]

@foone i did do that before yea

[bison@mastodon.social]

@foone having not enough experience in Arrays (data structure) i think

[somekindofgarf@kind.social]

@foone now the qualifications for this job are pretty stringent, we're gonna need you to have used a keyboard before.

[foone@digipres.club]

if someone doesn't have experience with arrays, then they don't have enough experience with programming to hire them to program for you. they are still on page 9 of the programming book

[foone@digipres.club]

Specifically, this one.
The Usborne guide to Better BASIC: a beginners guide to writing programs (1983)

[foone@digipres.club]

See? Page 9. Arrays.

[klara@drupal.community]

@foone so that is why I, as a teamlead that followed a webmaster course 25 years ago, gets asked to do senior Drupal dev jobs? I sure know my Arrays from my Booleans.

[foone@digipres.club]

Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:

Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious

Usborne children's coding books for a new generation

(usborne.com)

[jbaggs@infosec.exchange]

@foone I'm a little perturbed it reads: "in arrays" and not: "with arrays", to be honest.

[foone@digipres.club]

@Klara yeah apparently that's all you gotta know these days to be a developer

[gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@TomF @foone IBM got a patent on some obscure graphics method I used many years before in demo programming around 1990.
I can't recall what it was. Maybe sprites masking with a CPU. Was something obvious

[linear@nya.social]

@foone@digipres.club i will take this opportunity to once again tell tale of the time i worked on an embedded device with a firmware written in C, roughly a 150,000-line codebase on a little STM32 chip

the original author of the code base did not, in fact, seem to understand what an array was.

the device communicated to another device bolted to the same machine, using MODBUS. with potentially up to 10,000 MODBUS registers storing data, but realistically only a few actually in use.

the file defining the structure where the data was stored for the registers simply made a struct, with elements starting at "reg0" and incrementing up to "reg10000". the implementation file was just as bad.

this is why the codebase was roughly 150,000 lines. it should have been perhaps 5000.


the code used a small function that did pointer math in order to actually access the register, usually, unless it was referenced directly in code, or sometimes used a macro instead.

none of this was even the worst offense within the codebase.

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@foone I learnt everything I know from Computer Fun… I still have the book.

[nantucketlit@mastodon.social]

@foone Arrays are when it stars getting fun. I think if someone's starting out and they get excited learning about multi-dimensional arrays, that's a good sign.