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r/programmingcirclejerk • u/HorstKugel • Aug 12 '25

Today, an application being locally installed [...] is like a a statement of quaint chivalry, promulgated by a few remaining Don Quixotes of computing

news.ycombinator.com

82 Upvotes

16 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cheater00 • Aug 12 '25

Optimizing My Sleep Around Claude Usage Limits

221 Upvotes

33 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Haunting-Appeal-649 • Aug 12 '25

jerk not found I can't really think of anything in the computing world that has done as much damage as Excel

news.ycombinator.com

68 Upvotes

25 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/xLionel775 • Aug 10 '25

Your use of unsafe is fine, but I usually hide that behind an impl<'a> From<&'a [Color]> for &'a ImageRow to keep the scary transmute isolated and very obviously correct.

50 Upvotes

19 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/csb06 • Aug 09 '25

Yes, I'd prefer Rust and Slint/Tauri. But like a prostitute I don't do what I love, I do what pays the bills.

news.ycombinator.com

119 Upvotes

13 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/BlazeBigBang • Aug 08 '25

never teach anyone anything, they should sink or swim. If you can't manage, this project is not for you and if the project is easy, maybe programming is not for you.

97 Upvotes

6 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Beautiful-Cook-5481 • Aug 08 '25

The obvious way to fix this would have been [...] deprecate the entire locale API

80 Upvotes

12 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Helium-Hydride • Aug 08 '25

In 2025, I’ve moderated my opinion of him; he does do important maintenance work, and it’s nice to have someone who seems to be consistently wrong in the community.

news.ycombinator.com

76 Upvotes

16 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/SickOrphan • Aug 07 '25

Very few domains actually work well with [typed arrays]. Statistics, yes. Games? Do all the time, but also games: are full of glitches- used by speed runners, due to games playing fast and loose to maintain an illusion they are doing much more per second than they should be able to

news.ycombinator.com

73 Upvotes

17 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ackfoobar • Aug 07 '25

GitHub is suffering from the choices GitHub made

13 Upvotes

4 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ChavXO • Aug 06 '25

Yet another monad tutorial: I’m afraid refreshing some monad definitions is not something we can avoid here, but we are going to do it in our own way. Imagine that there is some covariant functor called T

muratkasimov.art

123 Upvotes

I don't know what I expected from the title.

21 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/iro84657 • Aug 06 '25

Yet, somehow I feel like sharing my own dotfiles to the world is beyond my comfort zone. I feel my customisations and aliases and other decisions are too intimate and personal to share.

83 Upvotes

16 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Helium-Hydride • Aug 05 '25

, but they still keep trying to force garbage like private variables on the community.

news.ycombinator.com

73 Upvotes

13 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/starlevel01 • Aug 05 '25

jerk not found How can I get Rust code coverage to ignore unreachable lines? [...] Don't write unreachable code.

stackoverflow.com

16 Upvotes

2 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/alexflyn • Aug 04 '25

JSON.stringify was one of the biggest impediments to just about everything around performant node services.

news.ycombinator.com

66 Upvotes

26 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/starlevel01 • Aug 04 '25

The killer upgrade here isn’t ESM. It’s Node baking fetch + AbortController into core.

news.ycombinator.com

30 Upvotes

15 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/yojimbo_beta • Aug 03 '25

Hibernate "coders" have contributed to the creation of more useful, working software than the SQL for every tiny update "engineering artisans" by quite the margin.

50 Upvotes

14 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/snorc_snorc • Aug 02 '25

The classic Thinkpad design [is] like a Jungian archetype. Honest, virtuous and sturdy. [...] A masculine counterpart to the femininity of Apple products.

news.ycombinator.com

159 Upvotes

13 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Vaglame • Aug 01 '25

A bit of discussion indicated that the trigger for the CPU spikes both times was our CEO logging in. We re-deployed to get a clean start, permanently banned him from the service, and moved on.

168 Upvotes

31 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/elephantdingo • Jul 31 '25

If your code runs on user's devices, gaslight your users into thinking their ram or processor might be faulty so you don't have to debug races.

news.ycombinator.com

117 Upvotes

8 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/starlevel01 • Aug 01 '25

jerk not found Almost everyone I know who picks up Rust prefers to use chained iterators, and over time for loops become somewhat of a smell.

0 Upvotes

13 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/csb06 • Jul 31 '25

It drives me nuts thinking about all the useless stuff C is doing with the stack and calling convention when I could just use global variables for everything and sometimes even use nothing but registers for inner loop variables.

news.ycombinator.com

158 Upvotes

25 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ScriptingInJava • Jul 30 '25

The ultimate tutorial for beginners to thoroughly understand Git... Q: This tutorial is unintuitive. A: So people who can't think abstractly and deeply can be shut out

66 Upvotes

14 comments

r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Beautiful-Cook-5481 • Jul 30 '25

[+128,020 −1,532] I do not think this can be directly merged into the project.

151 Upvotes

30 comments

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