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[-] fargeol@lemmy.world 134 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

NaN minutes later, a truck arrives in the alley, its license plate reads "undefined". Someone gets out of the vehicle
"I have something for you"
He gives you a package. You open it. It's an [object Object]

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago

Must be from the NPM delivery service. The recipient is lucky the driver didn’t give them thousands of dependencies too.

[-] fargeol@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

"I got a package from Jason"

[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 points 11 months ago

"I also got a lock"

[-] elvith@feddit.org 21 points 11 months ago

Guess why he came with a truck and not on a cargo bike...

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Because you forgot to tell them that you already have the dependencies at home?

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah sweet, my left-pad is coming today!

[-] HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

You don't get dependencies in real life like that.

You work 10 years in an industry and try to get a promotion? That may be a dependency issue.

[-] dovahking@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

"I've been looking for you! Got something I'm supposed to deliver. Your hands only."

[-] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago

You wouldn't want your code throw an exception

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

[object Object]

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 36 points 11 months ago

As someone who mostly avoids JavaScript, I don't see the IT in this image, I just see a bad language I avoid!

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 15 points 11 months ago

This isn't the languages fault, it's the developers.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Albeit true, I want to note that some languages encourage such practices way more than others do. Also, when you've got a hammer everything looks like a ~~string~~ nail.

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[-] copd@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

besides NaN actually being a number, this could completely and easily be avoided with typescript.

[-] rooroo@feddit.org 7 points 11 months ago

Naaah. Good programmers know how to use as any as any to make this work in typescript as well.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'm assuming by this you mean the developers of JS /s

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

I promise you, people make mistakes in every language lol.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I had the exact same reaction.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 32 points 11 months ago

I [object Object]

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 22 points 11 months ago

Wait until Null opens the door

[-] BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago

segmentation fault

[-] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

Knock knock

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I got one of those too. I called the customer service to get another path home because of disturbances, and they just have robot answering. The robot started halfway through the call just reading pure json at me, and then said "to get this information as a message press 1" or something. This is what I got:

Here is your journey from undefined to undefined: BUSS 506 towards Karolinska sjukhuset 09:36 from undefined 10:18 arrived at undefined. Link to your journey.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

If you want those on separate lines you need to add two spaces on the end of each line!

[-] anguo@piefed.ca 18 points 11 months ago

I kid you not, opening this post on piefed.ca gave me "Internal Server Error" the first time.

[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

Is it a threat?

[-] glorkon@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm an old fuck and I started to code in the late 80s. Fast forward 30 years, I once had to work at a WeWork. One day, directly outside of my small office space, I swear to god, a fucking hipster kid with a Macbook under his arm practiced skateboard moves. That was the exact moment I started hating working in IT. It's also what I think every Javascript coder looks and acts like.

[-] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

What's wrong with skateboards

[-] glorkon@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Nothing. But that kid used it inside a coworking space.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

I actually wish skateboards made a come back. Much more preferable over the escooters I see around a lot.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah but no handle so you're much more likely to eat shit when you go down a slope or something.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Yea, it takes actual skill to use them ha ha

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

I really don't care people using skate boards, even doing it around a workplace isn't necessarily taboo in my mind, but they were in the office right outside someone's door. Do it in the parking lot or something.

[-] Guttural@jlai.lu 5 points 11 months ago

Youngsters these days, uh?

Now grandpa, time to take your medicine

[-] Kojichan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I had a weird image of the hipster using the Macbook to do the kick flip....

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

The Javascript literal interpretation of NaN never fails to amuse me.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
"a"+"b" -> "ab"
"a"-"b" -> NaN
[-] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah:

parseInt("a") -> NoT a NuMbEr
[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, but the main issue here is that JS doesn't only auto cast to more generic but in both directions.

Maybe a better example is this:

"a" + 1 -> "a1"
"a" - 1 -> NaN

With + it casts to the more generic string type and then executes the overloaded + as a string concatenation.

But with - it doesn't throw an exception (e.g. something like "Method not implemented"), but instead casts to the more specific number type, and "a" becomes a NaN, and NaN - 1 becomes NaN as well.

There's no situation where "a" - "b" makes any sense or could be regarded as intentional, so it should just throw an error. String minus number also only makes sense in very specific cases (specifically, the string being a number), so also here I'd expect an error.

If the programmer really wants to subtract one number from another and one or both of them are of type string, then the programmer should convert to number manually, e.g. using parseInt("1") - parseInt("2").

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago

I'm no acupuncturist, but I'm pretty sure that it's SUPPOSED to say "naan minutes", which is time spent enjoying delicious Indian flatbread.

I guess you just eat your naan and then your ride arrives to ask you if you have any leftovers? 🤷

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

But what does that have to do with acupuncture?

[-] airbussy@lemmy.one 9 points 11 months ago

At that point just throw an exception man

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

I freaking love naan! Bring it!

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

NaN naan Jeremy that's insane

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Thirteen furries just had an aneurysm.

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago
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