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Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by BlackjackCF »

lucb1e wrote: post #9
einpoklum wrote: post #6

So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!

I also couldn't even figure out dead programming languages, for a long time not even a single answer. My first correct guess was Lisp after trying Python2, ALGOL, BASIC, QBASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, and probably more, which I thought were all perfectly good guesses (even if I know FORTRAN and COBOL are still in active use and Python2 is still maintained by distributions). Turns out the answers are perfectly alive language…

Same here. I can't believe Ruby and PHP were on that list.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by einpoklum »

LEARAX wrote: post #7
einpoklum wrote: post #6

So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!

"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1]. I don't think these questions are very fun. [1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...

OBOE = Off-by-one error.

also I don't see what's so bad about naming things - it's only bad if they get _mis_named and then you need to guess what they really are.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by [deleted] »

LEARAX wrote: post #7
einpoklum wrote: post #6

So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!

"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1]. I don't think these questions are very fun. [1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...

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Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by marz0 »

LEARAX wrote: post #7
einpoklum wrote: post #6

So, what's the "most hated thing about programming?" I guessed and guessed and couldn't get it. Deadlines? Users? Management? No documentation? Having to write documentation? Having to write unit tests? Debugging? Licensing? Having to reinvent the wheel since the good stuff is closed-source? Being forced to do Agile/Scrum/Kanban? ... aargh!

"Whiteboarding, naming things, stand-ups, OBOE (?), cache invalidation, and Jira" according to [1]. I don't think these questions are very fun. [1] https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/e51c870f1b391ec0...

“There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.”

Source: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by johnmarcus »

Worth noting that the demo questions and answers are jokes based on common online arguments, not facts. This is not Jepordy. Think online flame war kinda answers.

The answers to the demo are here: https://github.com/lettier/hacker-feud/blob/master/src/main....

I think the project is neat and the code is clean. It's funny how something so good can frustrate its own audience with a tiny over site.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by FreakLegion »

jakswa wrote: post #10

Can't seem to name a dead programming language after naming some very dead ones. Broken? Just hearing the "bzz" incorrect answer sound over and over.

Perl, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Elm. A pretty terrible list, but maybe not that far off what you'd get from a Family Feud-style survey of people in tech.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Feud

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Post by davidjhall »

FreakLegion wrote: post #18
jakswa wrote: post #10

Can't seem to name a dead programming language after naming some very dead ones. Broken? Just hearing the "bzz" incorrect answer sound over and over.

Perl, PHP, Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Elm. A pretty terrible list, but maybe not that far off what you'd get from a Family Feud-style survey of people in tech.

This list, but no Cobol, Fortran, APL, smalltalk??? Not remotely accurate.
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