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[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 121 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] oce@jlai.lu 37 points 1 year ago

Misses the noose for the junior who is hired to maintain the project.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

That’s so much like my last job I’m 😦

[–] Lukario@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always love the last panel and imagine a cute lil' toot ❤️

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Bob Ross and his happy little software.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great, I'm the jerk that shows up a few years afterward, inspecting the errant arm and elephant trunk wondering what the actual F the original programmer was thinking.

Then I cut off the trunk and slap a dog nose on it because I hate VB.

WHAT HAVE I BECOME!?

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

Who let my conscience post online?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I hate VB

I started (professional) coding with VB3 and loved it ... entirely because I had been using Turbo Basic up to that point.

Does anyone still use any version of VB?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The answer to "does anyone" questions is almost always "yes."

https://github.com/ultramsg/vbnet-whatsapp-chatbot

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure if I asked "does anybody still use Turbo Basic?" the answer would be "no".

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends what you mean by "use". I'd be shocked if there aren't any retro-computing hobbyist groups that still dabble in it.

Or if some airline out there isn’t absolutely dependent on it somewhere in the stack

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

VB .NET is actually not complete madness as it's just C# with another skin

[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

The extra arm maintains legacy compatibility to not confuse the older users

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

People at the intersection of people skills and technical knowledge are so hard to come by. You have customers who can't articulate themselves talking to people who don't understand what's possible, that in turn transmit what the customer wants incorrectly to people who will take on anything, which is finally shoved into the lap of a developer who isn't an architect and has no domain knowledge. Of course it has to be finished yesterday and without bugs.

It's just surprising that anything works, but it's just like life "good enough ™ ".

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want an elecat, although I fear it's ability to open doors.

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Normal cats can already do that

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

The front fell off.

[–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Should have put a dog in "what the customer wanted"

[–] kerr@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

“Before going into beta” is HIGHLY optimistic lol

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm on this very project right now.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It was probably the customer who wanted the arm at the back. "Look these legs are nice but wouldn't it be super functional if we just affixed an arm right here? It is not a major change just a simple addition so I am sure you can do it in just a couple days."

[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Can I teach you a lesson?