The Twenty-Second Coding Messiah

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Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

The art of debugging summed up in three lines. When your code fails spectacularly and the error messages make zero sense, just remember: "A computer can never be held... therefore a computer is a d___." Fill in that blank with whatever four-letter word you're screaming at 2AM while trying to fix that production bug nobody else wants to touch. The perfect legal defense for when you finally snap and throw your laptop out the window.

Content inigo quilez iquilezles - 3h Planck constant of software development, the smallest measurable amount of coding effort, is 15 minutes. 17 21 50 Tom Forsyth tom forsyth Follow iquilezles Heisenberg principle: you can make something in a known amount of time, or you can make it bug-free, but you can't do both. RETWEETS 8 LIKES 25

Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of compiler warnings thinking they can tell ME what to do! 💅 Who cares if there's a potential null pointer dereference or an unused variable?! I'm running this code and nobody—NOBODY—is going to stop me! Compiler warnings are basically just suggestions written in dramatic red font to make you feel bad. The rest of the world has their little problems like "money" and "looks," but us programmers? We stare danger in the face and click "Run Anyway" like the unhinged rebels we are. Those 47 warnings? Just spicy confetti for my terminal!