Small dump of technical books for everyday use

Feb 6, 2018 2:13 PM

mrbenL

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#1 hurts

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Fuck arbitrary deadlines, how about we make sure the code works the right way instead of having to take short cuts to meet the "deadline".

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My favorite:

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Real talk, googling the error message is the most powerful technique you can learn for debugging.

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

The image on "Blame the Other Guy" should be a blue falcon instead of a chameleon.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If they made a book on the best ways to google error messages I would buy that shit.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is kind of how I learned how to adjust web files in C#, ASP.NET and CSS. I somewhat taught myself SQL this way, too.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Are these real? More importantly, if they are real then are they actually useful?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

O Reilly makes a lot of good books for technical fields. These are just jokes based on their covers.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I still miss the old Cthulhu one

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

General Managers around the country keep a book of #5 in their bottom desk drawer.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My favorite is "Temporary" workarounds. http://miftyisbored.com/wp-content/uploads/orly-temporary-workarounds.jpg

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Oh god my sides

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The company I work for had TODO followed by an empty link on one of our sites for 2 full years.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#8 looks like they cut a few pixels from it as well.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was always partial to the ones on http://bofhcam.org/co-larters/ - They're available as T-shirts on Zazzle, too. [Disclaimer, I made them]

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@OP I saw one for software engineers that was like "Software Engineering Basics: All of your coworkers are gay furries", do you have that?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Close. Every time som3one checks in SQL code that divides by 0, my PM sends out a picture of Batman and Robin kissing.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Recently I saw a co-worker carrying a book entitled " Beautiful JavaScript". I can only assume it contained nothing but 300 blank pages.

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https://imgur.com/ZHXfjZD

8 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 2

Oh look, a horrid little monkey. You'd better not bite me, you ugly cunt.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have this as a magnet on my desk lol

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I love it

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

beat me to it... +1

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Read all

8 years ago | Likes 55 Dislikes 1

I waited 2 minutes for it to smile

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I would pay good money to get physical copies of these books.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

sure and they should contain blank pages!

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i had dozens of these books, became a full microsoft MCSE, sent out 300 resumes and got one interview.Stayed with my real job instead, put2/

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

in 30 years and retired, let my MCSE expire in 2004. In that time all the jobs i trained for dissappeared or were outsourced.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can confirm, deleting code is the most satisfying part.

8 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

"fuck FUCK FUUUUCK! WHERE ARE MY BACKUPS FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Said a non-git project member.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Agreed. Deleting shit, legacy code which has been successfully refactored is very satisfying.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

In our company we are told not to write documentation because it should be split into simple understandable functions. It's very weird.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Its better to write good readable code rather than spending time to explain it. That said, some things simply NEED explaining >

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

< or at least a description (and that seriously only takes a small moment to write)

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I find this especially true for business logic which rarely makes sense from a code perspective.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That last one is the force behind my CCIE

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

CCIE?

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Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

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Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shoot congrats on that! Also +1 username

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just an FYI, I cannot recommend, more strongly, to get a CCIE. They are awesome.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You got your +1 at "Essential Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow"

8 years ago | Likes 196 Dislikes 1

So true and funny

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The trick, of course, lies in copying from the answer instead of the question.

8 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

Stack Overflow the real MVP

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The life saver

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I had a programmer who would do this without knowing how the code worked, or if it even was what was needed. He didn't last long.

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

This!

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Yea, sadly that's more common than it should be :-(. It's amazing how you can spot that code almost instantly with the poor formatting.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There’s another sort? We’ve been hiring the wrong people...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Real talk, if you know structure and flow you pretty much have it. Most of my time coding is looking to see if a library does the work!

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