Post B40WXaXd7jgugf6cgS by SecondUniverse@autistics.life
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(DIR) Post #B40Sbnk5aLaYyFge7E by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:01:36Z
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what are we even doing here man
(DIR) Post #B40T7vc9qur8eVIRJQ by TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-03-07T07:06:58Z
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@foone Reminds me of when a lawyer accused me of stealing someone else's graphics tech because we both used the same technology of "bilinear filtering." OK my friend you go ahead and bring that up in court be my guest.
(DIR) Post #B40TA2o45FDbXMsIYi by hosford42@techhub.social
2026-03-07T07:07:23Z
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@foone [lists MS Word as a skill]
(DIR) Post #B40TD4pJ1tuwfetwau by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:08:14Z
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@ben False
(DIR) Post #B40TV22E9CZvE2VTl2 by NocturnalNessa@infosec.exchange
2026-03-07T07:11:34Z
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@foone i did do that before yea
(DIR) Post #B40TYk2B13CSYUFgbw by bison@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T07:12:09Z
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@foone having not enough experience in Arrays (data structure) i think
(DIR) Post #B40TvsGGaqWojRsBf6 by akent@aus.social
2026-03-07T07:16:23Z
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@foone I'm sure there's a null terminated string joke in here somewhere.
(DIR) Post #B40U2bZ946P4ykueTw by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:17:39Z
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if someone doesn't have experience with arrays, then they don't have enough experience with programming to hire them to program for you. they are still on page 9 of the programming book
(DIR) Post #B40U5t06hPabvA5YBs by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:18:16Z
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Specifically, this one.The Usborne guide to Better BASIC: a beginners guide to writing programs (1983)
(DIR) Post #B40U8VTobbbvqDEYzI by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:18:45Z
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See? Page 9. Arrays.
(DIR) Post #B40UL7aElNOlUaFjZA by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:20:45Z
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Usborne released a bunch of their old 80s programming books for free a while back, and they're all just a gem:https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
(DIR) Post #B40UNnNuJoAbiPlEOW by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2026-03-07T07:21:22Z
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@foone I'm a little perturbed it reads: "in arrays" and not: "with arrays", to be honest.
(DIR) Post #B40USoCIiwg1gTiqyu by Klara@drupal.community
2026-03-07T07:19:10Z
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@foone so that is why I, as a teamlead that followed a webmaster course 25 years ago, gets asked to do senior Drupal dev jobs? I sure know my Arrays from my Booleans.
(DIR) Post #B40USpZNccjRwLWnaq by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:21:32Z
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@Klara yeah apparently that's all you gotta know these days to be a developer
(DIR) Post #B40Upsu1OdKWwBAxf6 by dan@mastodon.durrans.com
2026-03-07T07:26:24Z
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@foone I learnt everything I know from Computer Fun… I still have the book.
(DIR) Post #B40UyX1K7heXg2iMSW by nantucketlit@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T07:28:07Z
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@foone Arrays are when it stars getting fun. I think if someone's starting out and they get excited learning about multi-dimensional arrays, that's a good sign.
(DIR) Post #B40VExhigIRZ4KNasK by troberts@theblower.au
2026-03-07T07:30:59Z
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@foone I had this one.
(DIR) Post #B40VckBSbK3g5Pd9sG by kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz
2026-03-07T07:34:33Z
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@foone im not a developer, but I can say in good conscience that I do :)
(DIR) Post #B40VjycZK1w6tDl8KG by th@social.v.st
2026-03-07T07:36:25Z
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@foone I've posted this page from Usborne's guide to jargon before and commented that I'd be happy if all programmers were as computer literate as grade school students in the 80s.
(DIR) Post #B40Voqjm3r8vt1S9U8 by barubary@infosec.exchange
2026-03-07T07:37:23Z
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@foone Hey, functional programmers need jobs, too!
(DIR) Post #B40W1KTZJs4ratp8gS by NuclearOatmeal@beige.party
2026-03-07T07:39:38Z
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@foone Well, ok, that's a silly requirement. But do you have experience in Loops (flow control)?
(DIR) Post #B40WC2waqJpcPCVh6u by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:41:47Z
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@th god that'd be nice
(DIR) Post #B40WGtdAte9Cy8jw8G by klausman@mas.to
2026-03-07T07:42:03Z
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@foone What's weird is that I distincly remember page 9 (its illustrations, mostly), but I don't remember the book cover. I grew up in 80s West Germany, so maybe they were used in a different (or translated) book. Definitely a nostalgia hit :)
(DIR) Post #B40WNrpVzUhnPVptLM by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T07:43:06Z
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@klausman yeah, different publishers often use different covers, so I imagine the west german publisher just made their own cover
(DIR) Post #B40WQFrPcIA6WFrUqe by flxtr@social.tchncs.de
2026-03-07T07:43:19Z
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@foone For non-us users: the site is guessing your country and redirects to 404 page, if guess != "us" 🙄 But it's not geo fencing. You need to pick en-us at the home page and then request the above URL again. 😬
(DIR) Post #B40WXaXd7jgugf6cgS by SecondUniverse@autistics.life
2026-03-07T07:44:11Z
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@foone hey I know arrays! I can do big ones, small ones, multidimensional ones. I also know variables and indentation!!! Hire me!!!!!!!!
(DIR) Post #B40XRYQs9U6CMYdDuK by mahadevank@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T07:55:45Z
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@foone yeah, that's it - arrays - that's all I have experience with, give me a dict and I'm going to be stumped.No records for me, only a long list of items lol
(DIR) Post #B40XbqfpBd9DpgXAn2 by Mellivora@im-in.space
2026-03-07T07:57:34Z
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@foone was confused for a minute till I saw the full thread... lol
(DIR) Post #B40Y1MFcv4Bl0YRaam by farhaven@mastodon.cloud
2026-03-07T08:02:13Z
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@foone Easy for you to say. I've been making do with red-black trees all this time.
(DIR) Post #B40cXB6GJWAbVUUa8m by JSMuellerRoemer@c.im
2026-03-07T08:52:46Z
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@foone I’m pretty sure I had that book
(DIR) Post #B40ckyLkW1aI17JWU4 by JSMuellerRoemer@c.im
2026-03-07T08:55:19Z
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@foone I get redirected to the German site with no option to switch pack (the 404 references a non-existent dropdown menu…)
(DIR) Post #B40eesSZhWWBv8jC0O by weirdocollector@livellosegreto.it
2026-03-07T09:16:34Z
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@foone Unfortunately links goes to 404 😔
(DIR) Post #B40fYUDuzxXGyAOArY by billgoats@bitbang.social
2026-03-07T09:26:36Z
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@foone 😍
(DIR) Post #B40gvXOXTQ9hQ4ubzc by PeterSommerlad@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T09:41:57Z
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@foone when i reached 50 skills on linkedin i was told that this was the limit. (most of those proposed by others)So be careful what you announce as skill. but handling sequences in programming isn't a skill, it is elementary.
(DIR) Post #B40jW6LZCRrg9f5Ixc by mrwedders@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-07T10:10:58Z
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You laugh but I joined an org once where because passing arrays to functions required handling references they instead used big CSV strings in 99% of cases. Drove me insane.
(DIR) Post #B40jpZtJZx2RHr9ndY by karpour@mstdn.social
2026-03-07T10:14:31Z
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@foone Boy not only do I have worked with arrays, I also have extensive experience both pressing and releasing (!) keys on business workstation keyboards. Am I hired?
(DIR) Post #B40lHJlDFIaZJy9tU8 by darkling@mstdn.social
2026-03-07T10:30:42Z
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@foone Doesn't Lua use only dictionaries for data structures? IIRC, its "arrays" are just dictionaries indexed by integers.
(DIR) Post #B40nRDYrLhbutmEFpw by mwt@mastodon.nz
2026-03-07T10:54:52Z
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@foone well I mean... the first coding language I learned was Matlab, and it had matrices. I think even the 3D versions of these were just called matrices. Later on it had structs, which were nested matrices. And at some point I stumbled on cell arrays, which were like structs but different. Or something. Maybe 3D matrices were called "arrays."Anyhoo, eventually I found my way to other languages that did have things called "arrays" (might've been PHP was the first of those.)
(DIR) Post #B40qYEl1bEvKUwxRjc by Lsamuelson57@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T11:29:46Z
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@foone Arrays are a slick gateway drug.You haven't lived until you've met a well endowed hashtable.../s
(DIR) Post #B40u20qECg3jt8HVB2 by hnapel@mastodon.social
2026-03-07T12:08:45Z
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@foone LOL, the most important thing to know about a particular array is if it starts at 0 or 1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
(DIR) Post #B40ujsNv0RagOzxIgK by sbszine@dice.camp
2026-03-07T12:16:42Z
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@foone I remember this page, it's burnt into my brain
(DIR) Post #B40xdGEEG0L0BgxbhQ by whophd@ioc.exchange
2026-03-07T12:49:03Z
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@foone I literally learned from this page. I hated DIM but was a big MID$ stan.
(DIR) Post #B410xjmCPMdnU0IzNA by mrbruno@mstdn.social
2026-03-07T13:26:27Z
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@foone Better Basic? Don't. Just don't.I was using APL around 1979.
(DIR) Post #B41341apHNLkNz6y9Y by jtnystrom@genomic.social
2026-03-07T13:49:56Z
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@foone Do you have experience in variables?
(DIR) Post #B4158NFitIyQd2RU6i by cynical_melomaniac@freeradical.zone
2026-03-07T14:13:14Z
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@foone You can just pivot this lack of knowledge into your knowledge about Queues (data structure)! I have a blog about it on my LinkedIn profile! Would you be willing to connect?
(DIR) Post #B416xw8l2U2bYOKqHo by luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-03-07T14:33:42Z
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@foone That is how we learnt programming, with BASIC. Early home computers usually had an accompanying manual with a BASIC guide, as they shipped with a BASIC interpreter, at turn on.
(DIR) Post #B41FCF6w6QvM4rodXc by proedie@mastodon.green
2026-03-07T16:05:55Z
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@foone I once was in a meeting at a customer and we tried to get the gig for maintaining one of their in-house programmes. It would have required me to learn a new programming language, which I was keen to do.Then my boss said something like: ‘My employee [me] already has experience using [the IDE the customer was using]!’ He said it like it made me the expert.I just wanted to sink into the earth!Needles to say, we didn't get the contract.Also, I never learned PHP.
(DIR) Post #B41VtfYZFjANoeTAFU by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T19:13:04Z
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@h5e heh I've actually gotten jobs in part because I brought along one of my keyboards to the interview.(the cube keyboard)
(DIR) Post #B41WAtlxeQT0pSwwOu by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T19:15:55Z
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@riley @somekindofgarf help the front fell off my keyboard
(DIR) Post #B41pXtzMuZD1Hzu4DQ by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-07T22:53:12Z
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@sodiboo @hnapel yikes
(DIR) Post #B41wbFO2VhCaCYz8fw by RavenLuni@furry.engineer
2026-03-08T00:12:13Z
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@foone I have an array of sausages (or is it a linked list?)
(DIR) Post #B41xCpfIahS9Qoyp3w by foone@digipres.club
2026-03-08T00:19:07Z
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@RavenLuni yeah I think sausages are a linked list. a sausage link list
(DIR) Post #B42tl61u35krNAazg0 by pingotux@mvm.lol
2026-03-08T11:15:05Z
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@foone feeling motherly towards the console explainer sprout creature