Voice Assistant Or High-Tech Game of Telephone?

You tell me…


Me: “Hey Siri! How much money is one million pennies?”

Siri: …

Siri: “Here’s what I found on the web for ‘How much money is one million pennies’”

Me: 😒


I mean yeah I probably should have been able to do this in my head…but so should Siri!

Star Wars Code Review

var luke_skywalker – Very good. The true name of the parent class came as quite the surprise. However, the way this variable is used right before garbage collection is pretty inconsistent with its use throughout the rest of the program. Please revisit.

var princess_leia – Change. Too hard to spell.

var HanSolo – Please remain consistent with CamelCase or snake_case. Feels like this variable is a bit of a rebel…

const EP7_THE_FORCE_AWAKENS – I think this one is a duplicate. How’s it different from EP4_A_NEW_HOPE (see line 1977)?

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Legacy Ruby Code

A programmer programmed in PHP. The code she wrote was legacy code as soon as her commits entered the git repo, and they provided gainful employment for many other programmers for years to come.

Another programmer programmed in Ruby. His code was also legacy code from its inception, yet his code prompted several developers to pivot to management careers and a complete application rewrite in Go.

Upon hearing of this, a wise programmer remarked:

How much better it is to work with Java written in PHP than Java written in Ruby!