• Null User Object@programming.dev
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        True story, about 20-25 years ago, a radio station in my home town was playing ads for some new local business doing web design.

        After hearing the ad on my drive to work for the umpteen billionth time I finally got curious and went to check out their own website (I they’re charging people to build websites, they’re own website must be a pretty awesome demonstration of their skills, right?)

        The website looked like absolute garbage and, upon viewing the source, the meta tags clearly betrayed the fact that it was created in Word.

        I can only imagine how much money they were paying to run those ads. I even considered the possibility I was being pranked somehow.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’ve had more than one person I work with take screenshots of their desktop, paste them into a word document, then attach the word document to an email to get me to help them with their problem. This has the same energy.

  • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.vg
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    Start a religion where the clergy maintain both written and oral versions of your code as a sacred text.

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    Have a proper radio ham license. Buy a 40-meter transceiver and a software defined radio dongle. Convert your code into esoteric programming languages such as Whitespace and Brainf, then spell it. “Plus, plus, next, plus, dot, open bracket, next, …”. Transmit your spelling over 40-meter band, while a receiver across the continent is tuned to the frequency. Ask it to repeat and record the QSO. Set the SDR recorder to I/Q packets instead of demodulating AM. Publish it as an audiobook.

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      Or pirate radio it and make people think it’s a new number station. Then someone will surely put it on YouTube so you can listen to it there.

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      Or go full CW, and just transmit source code in binary as dits and dahs. (So long as you document what you’re doing it should be legal, though I’m not sure if you should use the CE portion of he band since it’s nonstandard…)

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    A classmate I was doing a project with saved his code as screenshots in a word document.

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    lol, when I first started playing around with programming around grade 6 or 7, I’d print out code to read it

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      I did that for work. Could have my phone but we could read so I just printed out c or python and tried to make sense of what I was reading

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    “Const my function equals opening parenthesis opening curly brace argh closing curly brace closing parenthesis… fat arrow…”

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    the semicolon was calling from inside the house