expressly designed to carry on regardless

I’m surprised they didn’t borrow On Error Resume Next from Visual Basic. Which was wrongly considered to be the worst thing in Visual Basic - when the real worst thing was On Error Resume. On Error Resume Next at least moved on to the next line of code when an error occurred; On Error Resume just executed the error-generating line again … and again … and again … and again …

That is absolutely (n > 1) * ("ba" + 0/0 + "a")

That’s what the driver-side door is for.

I spent a lot of time there the first couple of years, mostly answering questions. I was in the top 20 or so of users for a while - I remember when Jon Skeet was right below me in the rankings and I thought “huh, I’ll show this guy”. I did not in fact show that guy. I’m still in the top .1% but I haven’t done anything there in almost a decade.

D365 CE is a platform for Sales teams to organize and track leads, quotes, contracts, etc.

Huh, I would have thought “CE” stood for “compact edition” like it did for Windows CE back in the day. Which was unironically called “WinCE” by Microsoft.

I just went through that for a while and saw nothing that doesn’t look exactly like C#. If it’s based around .NET and looks exactly like C#, why the fuck not just use C#?

As somebody who first started coding BASIC on an Apple IIe in 1981, I am just so tired of new languages. They all do basically the same shit and there’s just no real point to any of them.

caused irreparable harm to the company as the whole product has to be redone from the ground up

Lol this is most projects for most companies I’ve worked for, long before AI came on the scene. Somehow these multi-year multi-million dollar disasters were never fatal.

I also don’t know what vibe coding is, but my guess is it’s coding while high.

Fun fact: historians call Hitler’s purge of Ernst Röhm and other brownshirts “The Night of the Long Knives”. Ironically enough, Hitler used that expression in a post-purge speech in which he claimed that Röhm had himself been planning a night of the long knives assassination of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Quite unintentionally, the expression came to be used to describe Hitler’s actions.

The term dates to 1974 (1968 if you accept “Application Program Interface”). The concept is decades older than that. My boss was just a fucking moron.

I’m going back to TurboBASIC.

AI is good for the early stages of a project … when it’s important to create the illusion of rapid progress so that management doesn’t cancel the project while there’s still time to do so.

Wait, are they doing a Boeing over there at Microsoft?

What, killing whistleblowers?

I guess Bootsy Collins was wrong … sometimes you do learn.

I was actually referencing Fatboy Slim referencing Dune.

You’re thinking of “gangster app”.

I think they meant “a file path not being right in that there code”.

I’ve been coding since the '80s. I’ve never once heard anyone refer to a bitmap as a “bump”.

Appetizer at Applebee’s? “app”

This one probably drives me the most crazy.

I had a (non-technical) manager come to me one day and say he wanted us to start using this hot new technology he had just read about called an API. This was in 2010. He showed me the article, which somehow never even attempted to explain what an API actually was. I just laughed and said I would make it an action item.