I love coding in JavaScript but most other aspects are atrocious. ESM and CommonJS basically splinter the entire ecosystem, node_modules and dependency resolution is a mess, the heavy use of Promises make control flow difficult to follow, and the use of native code is complicated so vendors are less inclined to support JS drivers (i.e. they’d basically hand over the source code).

I assume this is a mix of AI stuff being a more common Oracle for this stuff and StackOverflow clinging to old answers and questions as being forever relevant.

You’re absolutely right. I was referring to equations which, in my experience, is 90% of undergrad math.

Agreed. Math, for the most part, is very rule oriented and problems only have one answer and often one strategy to get to the answer. If you work on many different problems (in the same subject) you should start to get used to the rules.

Overall I would say a strong math foundation is important to CS but CS isn’t just about coding. You can absolutely get a coding job without strong math skills or even without a degree, it’s just a bit harder to get started. If the discipline still exists you might consider a Business Information Systems degree (we used to call it CS lite). Depending on the position a company might equally consider BIS and CS majors.

Expanding rural broadband access is a necessity if we want to scrape back the country from the fascists.

So it ain’t happening.

I have a very similar script. I basically have one branch that’s only manual commits and a “sister branch” that includes all manual commits plus some automatic ones. I determine what is auto-committed based on a simple test script. The test might be as simple as, “Did it build without errors? Commit.”

Don’t mind the || but I do agree if you’re validating an input you’d best find all issues at once instead of “first rule wins”.

Or just skip ahead and unionize.

5th Circuit: “Hold my Trump Bible.”

How does “foo” mean “get”? Half the battle of writing correct code is writing code that’s easy to interpret. Do you always look at the guts of every function you’re about to use?

branching ≠ if ≠ conditional

They’re all related but can’t just be used interchangeably. “if” is a reserved keyword to indicate a specific syntax is expected. It’s not the semantics the author was trying to change, it’s the syntax, and the overall point is that you aren’t always required to use the specific “if” syntax to write code just like you’re not required to use “while” to achieve looping.

What’s the purpose of foo? Why an ambiguous single character variable? What if the property was there but the value was null? Why not use (assuming JS) optional chaining?

I’d approach it more like this:

function getWhatevrProp(userData) (
  const default = { whatevr: "n/a" };

  return { ...default, ...userData }.whatevr;
}

Sorry, read too fast the first time. It’s more likely Python. I also don’t know Python well enough to give recommendations on that.

Always love seeing the trope:

*writes awful code*

See! This is why this language sucks!

To each their own. Some won’t like the repeating code and some won’t like the distributed logic (i.e. you have to read every if and if-else statement to know when the else takes effect). I think the use of booleans like isDriverClose makes the repeated logic less messy and reduces inefficiency (if the compiler didn’t optimize for you).

It has conditionals not but actual if statements. Not really different in functionality but a more consistent style.

Hehe. COBOL doesn’t look too bad. Reads a bit like a person that’s never talked to another human being before.

If it’s closed source then it’s a losing battle to try and document code. I mean, do it when you feel it’s 100% necessary (e.g. complex code that you really can’t dumb down, “magic numbers” with a complicated backstory, test cases – it feels like that’s a different part of your brain so the transition is hard). Otherwise write code that almost reads like a sentence and don’t add complexity until you need it.

Is turning anything into a bomb a good idea?

Actually makes me feel a bit better. Of all the issues this could be the easiest to tackle. Most other issues are completely above your pay grade, unless your boss/PO is adamant about always producing new features and tweaking old code is a waste of time.

Clearly the rest of the world are communists! It’s not us, it’s you! I’m not crying you’re crying! 😭😭😭