what are we even doing here man

[farhaven@mastodon.cloud]

@petealexharris @linear @foone Or had one of those insane managers who misread something somewhere once where some problem was caused by someone misuing an array, so they banned all array use in the whole company.

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@foone but do you know Keyboard (input device)?

[henryk@chaos.social]

@revk @foone That is one of my memories from programming as a child. I was ~10 years old. I saw the starry night screensaver in Norton Commander and wanted a similar effect in QBasic.
Lots of copy and paste later I had like 15 pairs of x,y coordinate variables (x1,y1,x2,y2,.…), a cycle counter that goes from 1 to 15, and a shitload of if then clauses: delete star at x1,y1, assign new coordinates, paint star, wait, delete star at x2, y2, etc. pp.
It was awesome, but was hard to add more stars.

[jsmuellerroemer@c.im]

@foone I’m pretty sure I had that book

[jsmuellerroemer@c.im]

@foone I get redirected to the German site with no option to switch pack (the 404 references a non-existent dropdown menu…)

[weirdocollector@livellosegreto.it]

@foone Unfortunately links goes to 404

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@foone
Ooh, they have the text adventure ones

[billgoats@bitbang.social]

@foone

[riley@toot.cat]

@foone Pedant point: there have been some rather popular historic languages that eschewed arrays as we know them for "associative arrays", like Mumps, AWK, and PHP.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gunstick @foone I vaguely recall someone like Atari having a patent on a register that shifts the entire screen left. So someone else (Sega?) made a register that shifts it right instead. It's really annoying that it goes the wrong way, but it avoided the patent.

[riley@toot.cat]

@somekindofgarf

• There’s a minimum crew requirement.
• What’s that?
• One, I suppose.

@foone

[petersommerlad@mastodon.social]

@foone

when i reached 50 skills on linkedin i was told that this was the limit. (most of those proposed by others)

So be careful what you announce as skill.

but handling sequences in programming isn't a skill, it is elementary.

[riley@toot.cat]

@h5e I have heard that there once genuinely was a young man from Japan who didn't know that keyboards existed, and became a proficient programmer of one of the early game consoles, possibly first-generation Famicom, by using the on-screen entry mechanism that came as a demo with some devkit.

And then, he got his hands on a keyboard.

@foone

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gunstick @foone (all these patents are way out of date of course DO NOT TALK ABOUT LIVE PATENTS)

[riley@toot.cat]

@h5e Sakurai Masahiro.

@foone

[llogiq@hachyderm.io]

@JSMuellerRoemer @foone same here.

[mo@mastodon.ml]

@akent keep looking forward, I hope you'll find it

@foone

[mrwedders@social.linux.pizza]

You laugh but I joined an org once where because passing arrays to functions required handling references they instead used big CSV strings in 99% of cases. Drove me insane.

[karpour@mstdn.social]

@foone Boy not only do I have worked with arrays, I also have extensive experience both pressing and releasing (!) keys on business workstation keyboards. Am I hired?

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@foone Doesn't Lua use only dictionaries for data structures? IIRC, its "arrays" are just dictionaries indexed by integers.