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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 65 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Programming socks memes are always welcome here.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

PowerfulTurtle and (Not) BurningTurtle meetup

[–] BurningTurtle@programming.dev 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Until BurningTurtle comes to the meetup.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All 3 of the Turtles are together it seems.

[–] BurningTurtle@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turtles are great computer science animals. They do graphics, and have shell access.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wheres the introduction to Rust, choker, skirt, Blahaj, and Thinkpad X220?

[–] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

I ought to make my own programming starter pack meme with all those things.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this comment genuinely reminded me that i need to both find my choker and finish installing linux on my x230t

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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You jest but I unironically want one of the Thinkpads with a Snapdragon X (|Plus|Elite) to compile my Rust on.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Woah, I said an older Thinkpad. We dont talk about what Lenovo has done to the modern Thinkpad image (theyve dragged it through the mud). Eveyone knows the last good Thinkpad was the T480.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 days ago
[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 23 points 2 days ago

I know that the company Functional Software brought out some Functional Sockware, I wore them for years.

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

[–] lucg@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!

(Hope I'm somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore's answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If you need to learn C, at least use the first edition of the book - the one without the ANSI additions is much smaller.

I''ve actually never read the second/and edition so I can't say if it is good or not. I can tell you that the first edition still has a proud space on my bookshielf though the acid paper is starting to take a toll and I suspect it won't be long and I'll be needing a reprint.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't the first edition use K&R style parameter lists and other no-longer-correct syntax?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

My prof called K&R C "Knall und Rauch C", "bang and smoke C". Also: C lattice fence.

[–] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I haven't read either, honestly Rust is so much better than C or C++ and if I were going to learn a low level language I'd probably go with that instead. Currently I only do Python and a tiny bit of Javascript.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dare assume you get downvoted for liking Rust, so take my upvote for balance. We differ about what we think of the language, but this kind of angry downvoting is plain ridiculous

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[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

It’s also a very good introduction to programming, and just a good read. Probably the best book about programming I’ve ever read.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Eh, who is still using paper books to learn programming languages? Every popular language has a website with online manuals.

Well, except C, because it's crammed together with C++ on https://cplusplus.com/ and https://cppreference.com/

And socks just grow organically after 3 years of coding.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

The book is to get your monitor to an ergonomic height!

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

I thought the books were for your shelf tbh. You put one for each language you claim proficiency in.

It's cool to have niche older books though. My friend has a programming manual in Estonian from either the very late soviet era or very early 90s that has both some dialect of BASIC and some niche dialect of Pascal that I hadn't even heard of.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

I used to own one less-feminine one, for the winters, but they became obsolete thanks to global warming.

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Underrated joke.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 17 points 2 days ago

Programming socks provide a +2 programming skill buff. Their tight fit around the legs provides better blood flow through the legs which also means a better blood flow through the brain.

They also make you more cute :3

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Ah. Ok. To each their own.

Weird that I haven't heard about it until now tho. It's been my experience that an uncomfortable amount of software engineers are fairly conservative, but that's more likely because of being in the Midwest.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

I need to buy new once. But am boycotting USA so its hard finding some

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I never knew about this until my non-programming partner asked what I thought about them.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How are you supposed to program without programming socks?

[–] PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You're not, it's possible but you'll have a really bad time.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Some socks have horrible return times

[–] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

I pulled on a str and unraveled my C socks!

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe good against programmers venous thrombosis. Should be acknowledged as a work related illness.

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