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Become a Better Programmer by Taking a Shower (medium.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Showers help you come up with ideas? Guess I'll start taking showers from now on, seemed pointless before.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Programmer moment.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

What is this, a callout post?

[–] SpaceNoodle 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, you can smell me all the way from there?

[–] Mbourgon 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The miniatures shop called and told us to let you know.

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 11 months ago

As if I ever leave my house.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a programmer but a sysadmin, and being able to work from home has multiple benefits. When I get stuck on something, I like to jump in a shower just to decompress and honestly it sometimes help to gain a different perspective.

Otherwise I like to just get up for a couple of minutes to make a coffee, or take the dog for a walk for maybe 10 minutes around the block and breathe some fresh air.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

i do the same. If I get stuck on something best thing to do is get away. Shower, walk, food shopping, etc... just get away from the problem and destress so you can tackle it with a fresh perspective

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

on the one hand, yes, I write software and take showers when I'm stumped because it's a great way to think through it.

on the other hand the world didn't need an article about it.

[–] Acters 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who knew resting and taking care of your basic needs can be beneficially productive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not this guy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

This feels extremely targeted...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

lmao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

This is why I bring my laptop into the shower

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I save so much water since I started working from home.

[–] small44 6 points 11 months ago

Not only at programming

[–] carghai 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn, I should start showing again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I feel personally attacked. Just for that I'm not showering for 3 more weeks.

[+] abhibeckert -15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's nice and all, but if you submit your array reversing code to me for peer review, I'm going to ask our boss for a private meeting, where I will ask him to fire you. And if you were just hired a week ago... you'd still be on probation and very easy to fire, we'll just call up one of the other job applicants for your position and see if they're interested.

Don't waste my time by asking me to review unnecessarily complex code. Also we have enough bugs already and you seem to be going out of your way to introduce even more.

For the record - the right way to reverse an array in PHP is like this: array_reverse($array). And if that's too slow... just don't reverse it at all. Use -- instead of ++ in your for loop.

(PS: Ugh. Lemmy sucks for posting code... didn't like some of the symbols and ate my whole comment. Had to write it twice. Sorry the first one was better)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not the point of the article though. Reversing an array is simply an exemple of a very simple CS puzzle. Of course it's common enough to have a builtin function. No, this won't be written in a code base, or asked for a code review. That's not the point.

[–] abhibeckert -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My point is I don't like complex solutions to simple problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's an algorithm question. If somebody gave me your solution in an interview I would ask them to solve the problem without a dependency. These questions are about demonstrating your ability to code whilst understanding space & time complexity.