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There's a chance this comment is what the user would have described as an incoherent but outright attack. The user was claiming they didn't really understand the terminology but se…

For the sake of Henry's privacy this should not have been posted.

Using commit count / LOC as a KPI for a lead is not just highly unprofessional but also hilarious. How much code does Torvalds write nowadays? Really not a lot. I guess he's useles…

Asking out of good faith here. Isn't this essentially arguing the broken window theory? > The broken windows theory is a criminological theory that states that visible signs of cri…

Yup. We've all seen someone navigate a desktop with hundreds of icons spanning pictures, powerpoints, web links, applications, etc...

If anything, straight-out racism was replaced with passive aggression or non-textual harassment (i.e. intentionally throwing the game or screwing over your teammate)... I'm not sur…

400k - wow that puts things to scale. This sort of comparison really should have been in my schooling textbooks.

It's a huge guinea pig for .net, windows server, and azure - a perfect example of eating your own dog food.

C# for everything side-projects here. It's the one language that I feel good for server-side backend, interactive desktop apps, and console apps with ease. It simply has awesome to…

There are plenty of people who'd say frat culture undermines the productive capacity of the workplace, likewise with alcohol or being able to hit on others, or difficulties people …

> Have a big, long "technology used" for a project. For example, "technology used" in a project includes "Python, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, C#, Django, Messaging, C…

> Which is a pity, because I thought SO is a place where you can ask questions on obscure features of the tools we're using. You can, as long as you're clear on why you need these …

I understand that sentiment, but for the overwhelming majority of poor questions the "if you really want to do that anyway" isn't useful to OP - they're clearly confused and lookin…

There's nuance here. There are plenty of cases where individuals ask XY questions, meaning they've gone down a strange route to solve X and now need help solving Y, and it's always…

According to their recruiters, I "need to learn Java and algorithms" to get an FTE phone screen.

In older C#, that would be delegate: delegate(int x){ return 10; } (But yeah, nowadays that would be:) (int x) => 10

Agreed that while "pattern matching" is a common term, it's perhaps not common enough. For comparison, a C# proposal of terser syntax (which uses the switch keyword) is available h…