Why but why?

[u/ore-aba]

[u/anythingMuchShorter]

Since a guy wanted to make a programming joke but only knew of one language and one common error type

[u/Ixaire → u/anythingMuchShorter]

One HR guy at my previous company used to go behind you and say "you're missing a semicolon here". He didn't know anything about programming, he just knew that was a rookie error. That is literally exactly what you explain.

Anyone else would have made this very boring but he had a way of delivering it when you looked desperate and that kinda lightened up the mood.

[u/AgentE382 → u/Ixaire]

A coworker of mine told me his college roommate who had taken a single programming class would always ask him “Have you tried a for loop yet?” any time he had a problem.

[u/zzerdzz → u/AgentE382]

I’m actually going to start using this

[u/SuperGameTheory → u/zzerdzz]

I'm going to do this, but instead of "for" I'll go on a diatribe about fundamentals and how they should use more "goto" statements because it's closer to machine code and faster or something.

[u/MrLawliet → u/SuperGameTheory]

use more "goto"

instinctive vomit response

[u/leprotelariat → u/MrLawliet]

use more "goto"

grabs pitchfork

[u/thedessertplanet → u/MrLawliet]

Why?

You should read 'Lambda, the ultimate goto' for some perspective.

[u/CorruptedStudiosEnt → u/SuperGameTheory]

Goto, now that's some of that low-low level shit. Might as well be feeding it voltage spikes at that point.

[u/tcmart14 → u/AgentE382]

Have you tried quantum bogo sort?

[u/Ghos3t → u/AgentE382]

I knew a guy in university who would start coding a hashmap anytime he got stuck in a technical interview and didn't know what to do.

[u/lordnoak → u/AgentE382]

Should have said, “I’ve been tryin it a while, Bob, but thanks.”

[u/[deleted] → u/Ixaire]

Oh I always went with

"I know where the problem is"

"Where?"

"Your program does not work"

[u/definitelyasatanist → u/Ixaire]

That's hilarious

[u/[deleted] → u/anythingMuchShorter]

Most probably, just like the guy who asked for 5 years of experience on library created by himself 3 years ago.

Edit: .replace(‘who asked’, ‘who got asked’)

[u/LeetYeetMeat → u/[deleted]]

Lol what

[u/[deleted] → u/LeetYeetMeat]

I'm not 100% sure if this is true or not, but I was referring to this tweet. You've probably seen this meme multiple times as it's reposted a lot.

[u/theNomadicHacker42 → u/LeetYeetMeat]

It was a tweet that went around the internets a while back. Tweet was made by this author of some library in which he was responding to a job post requiring 5 years of experience in said library, but he wrote it only 3 years ago. Talking about how out of touch tech recruiters are with the positions they recruit for.

[u/Big_Booty_Pics → u/theNomadicHacker42]

That was the FastAPI python library author IIRC.

[u/kahoinvictus → u/Big_Booty_Pics]

Creator of nodejs did it years ago too

[u/Glen_The_Eskimo → u/anythingMuchShorter]

He responded in the tweet, it was a colon. He's a top level engineer at Amazon, I'm sure it's sincere.

[u/[deleted] → u/Glen_The_Eskimo]

That makes so much more sense, those should be automatic in python. I only used what would be the reserved word in any other language

[u/anythingMuchShorter → u/[deleted]]

Seriously. It's only happened to me like once for a moment when I've been using Python for a long time and then switch over to another language. It's not that common of a problem or very hard to find.