As a former developer, I find the countering-safety-logic a drain

[Woakes]

I loved making stuff as a developer.
I loved the roller-coaster, topsy turvee ride that is never straight, how ideas evolve and change as you start to make them more "concrete".

However, making things "happen", is easy. That's like the 10% of the code, that's the initial burst of creativity, that "good idea".

Most of my burn-out came about from the 90% of the rest of the time of the excess strain of devising the Counter-logic required not to make said thing HAPPEN at the wrong time, and to make sure ANY OTHER THING else DOESN'T HAPPEN when that intended thing happens.

Suddenly the once simple and elegant code, turns into a twisted warped carnivorous monster eating up your time and sanity.
Not only that but it comes back to bite you in the backside at a later time when you need to get something else to happen and refuses to happen.

Just putting it out there, as I "feel" for the professional developers like Frontier Developers.

Because when that stuff works as intended, it's beautiful.

 

[Frop]

 

[Imo]

Back in the old days when one programmer was programming all alone, the one who always had the complete overview about everything, the one who was acutally writing source code, getting good quality products was easier. Today a bunch of young students with almost no experiences in what they do try to work together. Some start into vacation, the others have to continue their work. Once the one in vacation returns he has to continue the work of the others without even knowing about it, where these are leaving into vacation now. I can imagine that it is close to inpossible to work on quite complex projects successfully this way. At least David Braben himself should know about this.

 

[Bottom Hat]

 

[Sublime]

That pot is too small for that spaghetti.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

That pot is too small for that spaghetti.

He's not cooking the spaghetti you fool - he's using it to whisk eggwhites, obviously!

 

[Frop]

That pot is too small for that spaghetti.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that's a joke, and not an inadvertent admission that you've never cooked spaghetti in your life.

 

[Riverside]

The sunsets are really nice. They didn't have to do that, it seems clear to me from well thought out little details like that, that this is a passion project for some at least if not all.

That pot is too small for that spaghetti.

You introduce the spaghetti slowly.

Cooking Long Pasta in a Short Pot: Is Breaking Noodles Bad Form?

There you sit with long noodles and only a short pot in which to boil them. Suddenly the age old conflict of breaking your noodles or not is upon you. Some say it’s bad luck, some say it’s bad form. Where do you stand? Most Italians will tell you that breaking noodles is bad luck. Some folks are...

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[rOmiLaYu]

You introduce the spaghetti slowly.

"Um...hey? Yeah. You. Hi, spaghett - no, no. It's OK. I only just meant...well, hello. My name is Tom and I - no! No, no, no! Of course I'm not going to eat you, I just - "

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

You introduce the spaghetti slowly.

You do you.
Personally, I waterboard it.

 

[Jack Winter]

Aha, I finally grok it! The Italian standard for cooking pasta is 1000g of water, for 100g of pasta, and 10 grams of salt. So as FDev writes spaghetti code we have to add the salt!

 

[St0rmFury]

There's code red, and there's code spaghetti.

 

[DrinkyBird]

That pot is too small for that spaghetti.

That's not spaghetti. Spaghetti is wet and soft - the stuff in that image is dry and hard.

 

[metatheurgist]

He's not cooking the spaghetti you fool - he's using it to whisk eggwhites, obviously!

That's not spaghetti. Spaghetti is wet and soft - the stuff in that image is dry and hard.

George Takei, where are you?

 

[myothershipisacobraiv]

I would like to interrupt this conversation about George Takei and spaghetti to draw attention to the fact that THIS MAN IS NOT WEARING ANY PANTS! He's wearing no pants!

 

[EdzUp]

As a developer myself i do miss the days when the OS just boots the system to a working state then just lets the games or apps do their thing. MS-DOS did this you just had a command prompt and (with win3.x and win9x) windows etc. But the later windows it can be fighting with drivers, kernels etc just to get the app to work as intended.

From a developer standpoint how many times has a app failed because the gpu driver isnt updated or the chipset driver, we say the config.sys days were a pain but they havent gone now that windows is here we are still fighting but the beast has changed into drivers and oskernels

 

[Coppermine]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that's a joke, and not an inadvertent admission that you've never cooked spaghetti in your life.

Yep. It's obviously a fake commercial shot. Snap it into little bits to fit, then everyone knows boiling water melts it all back together again.

 

[AkenBosch]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that's a joke, and not an inadvertent admission that you've never cooked spaghetti in your life.

The sunsets are really nice. They didn't have to do that, it seems clear to me from well thought out little details like that, that this is a passion project for some at least if not all.



You introduce the spaghetti slowly.

Cooking Long Pasta in a Short Pot: Is Breaking Noodles Bad Form?

There you sit with long noodles and only a short pot in which to boil them. Suddenly the age old conflict of breaking your noodles or not is upon you. Some say it’s bad luck, some say it’s bad form. Where do you stand? Most Italians will tell you that breaking noodles is bad luck. Some folks are...

www.thekitchn.com

Aha, I finally grok it! The Italian standard for cooking pasta is 1000g of water, for 100g of pasta, and 10 grams of salt. So as FDev writes spaghetti code we have to add the salt!

Guys, you are all giving me PTSD.

That pot is too short for whole spaghetti. You don't put less than half in and then wait for the rest to soften, you'll end up with uneven cooked spaghetti. They told you that breaking them in half is wrong, or "bad omen"? Leave superstition to Neapolitans , it's a lie, you'll break them in half everyday if you have a small pot, and they'll be even easier to roll around the fork.
Also, that link..."5 minutes to cook pasta"? What kind of terrible wax substitute of pasta they sell you over there, that gets cooked in 5 minutes? Or does whoever wrote that like it dry and crunchy? 8-9 minutes are usually the very least to have it properly "al dente", but that's the mass-produced mall stuff like Barilla or other cheap stuff. Proper, bronze drawn "no. 5" spaghetti will easily take in excess of 10 minutes.

And this thread still lacks enough salt to cook them proper!

 

[Frop]

it's a lie, you'll break them in half everyday if you have a small pot, and they'll be even easier to roll around the fork.

 

[Crank Larson]

You introduce the spaghetti slowly.

Cooking Long Pasta in a Short Pot: Is Breaking Noodles Bad Form?

There you sit with long noodles and only a short pot in which to boil them. Suddenly the age old conflict of breaking your noodles or not is upon you. Some say it’s bad luck, some say it’s bad form. Where do you stand? Most Italians will tell you that breaking noodles is bad luck. Some folks are...

www.thekitchn.com

It astounds me that needs explaining.