Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
Re: "Yesterday was the MAR10 DAY"
@stack : I don't think overuse of libraries is limited to cheap programmers. The time pressure is such that even experienced, senior developers are bullied into it.
I was on call for my products when the Log4J security flaw broke. It was a bad day. There was no good reason ever to use that bloated monstrosity, just to write some log lines to a file. And yet everybody did -- and still does. Using it saves maybe a day of programmer time. Until it blows up, and then it costs everybody millions of dollars and a slump in the stock price.
Mar 12 · 8 weeks ago
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Not saying libraries are evil or not helpful, and in some cases (ssl libraries) they are necessary. But I have seen people use them as crutches, because adding a link pointer is considered by some to be too difficult without a proper library written by ´wizards´.
☯️ leoperbo [OP] · Mar 13 at 01:36:
They program "disastructures"...
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Yesterday was the MAR10 DAY — It’s remarkable, and goes well here in gemini, that Super Mario Bros. (1985) used just 40 KB of ROM, less than many WhatsApp stickers today! The entire game (32 levels, enemies, music, and graphics) fit within this tiny space. How? Extreme optimization. Developers reused visual elements: clouds and bushes shared the same graphic, only changing color palettes. Enemies like Goombas used just two animation frames. Led by Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s team worked within...
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