The Programmer Compass by waldfee in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[-] waldfee@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago

That seems only appropriate for a language that's both typesafe and has any

Mental Health by waldfee in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[-] waldfee@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

relevant xkcd My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.'

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty by waldfee in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
[-] waldfee@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That is indeed a quote from Edward Snowden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Criticism

I'm new to using Ruby and this tickled me pink by waldfee in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[-] waldfee@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

crystal is another language that's apparently quite similar to ruby, with the difference of being compiled and staticly type-checked, and I just love it's ruby like syntax. I believe the equivalent code for this in crystal would be Time.local - 10.years

Me, when my new job forces macos for development by waldfee in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[-] waldfee@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

my workaround for awk, sed, and grep has been to create symlinks in my $Path that point to gawk, gsed, and ggrep, which you can install through brew. Nix has also been useful to keep my sanity intact, tho it's a learning curve too, and when Macos updates happen you will need to fix/reinstall it. Can I ask what terminal you are using?

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