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I totally know that feeling :)

Well, in the 90s, XML was the future. Luckily, not a lot of this future remains.

Just imagine what HTML would be like if JSON had been available back then.

Yes, there is: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

I am just not sure if that’s much better. Maven is just a huge pain in the rear.

Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That’s not great either, but it’s much less terrible than XSLT.

For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn’t an easy task.

I recently had to work with XSLT (may it’s inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That’s pretty much programming in XML. It’s probably the worst possible thing.

That’s the kind of manager, where, as a dev, you just don’t report bugs you find. Zero Bugs Policy ftw!

After they flipped the meaning. But even then, if the PC didn’t have the button it would run at full speed.

Turning it off would limit the speed. So the purpose of the existence of the button was not to make the PC go faster, but rather to make it go slower if you turned it off.

It’s kinda like as if the eco mode button in you car was labelled “turbo mode” with flipped meaning.

It’s still ironic to me that the turbo button’s purpose was to limit the CPU speed.

You know, like you use a turbo on a car to limit it’s performance.

Finally a correct application for the do-while meme!

Actually, doesn’t change the matter.

I think, that’s the point of the whole post.

A typo that was translated in kind.

In English it says [Fir], which obviously is a typo, but in German it was translated to [Tanne] which means “fir tree”.

While the English version is close to the real thing ([Fr]) and thus could slip through if you are careful, there is no way any decent translator wouldn’t ask for confirmation when they are translating “Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fir tree, Sat”

At my last company, there was a massive half-year project for the whole department to move all the microservices and all that stuff (multiple hundred projects) into a monorepo.

Then my team was transferred to another department. Here we had a massive, half-year project for the whole department, to pick apart a similarly-sized monorepo into separate microservice repos.

When the wheel is due for another reinvention.

Committing code like an a duel in an old western movie.

Uuh, thanks for that hint! I’ve been using git over CLI for over 10 years now and never came across that flag.

Now I have to lifp for a whole feafon?

Embedded programmers. They use ternary.

Programmers are binary.

The c___ is a lie!

Only if you put “you” and “me” in quotation marks.