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It turned out that the entire Angelfire site (login, html editor, uploader, everything) was run on a single CGI that was written in C. The CGI binary was named a.out, which I was told stood for “angelfire.out”.

97 upvotes • Volt

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Can you please remove the link? I don't want the people of /r/programming coming to Hacker News :(

78 upvotes • starlevel01

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I don’t really like to work on “perfect” codebases where everyone follows the same pattern, with linters, where if something breaks is because of your shitty code (because the codebase is “clean”). It’s very frustrating and limiting.

63 upvotes • likes_purple

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These days, my go-to solution is SQLite with two fields (well, three, if you count the implicit ROWID, which is invaluable for paging!): ID and Data, the latter being a JSONB blob.

61 upvotes • G3Kappa

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Committee’s allocating and administrating how many variables a programmer is allowed to use to implement a function and programmers having to apply with written applications to increase their variable budget.

49 upvotes • cmqv

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I'm busting my ass in the code mines making this amazing software thats making us all money. Then 'management' waste it on frivolities, like free junk food, booze, time wasting exercises, stuff that they like. [...] that stuff is a warning sign for me.

47 upvotes • likes_purple

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whenever I am not inconditionnaly claiming that Golang is the best, I get downvoted quite hard

38 upvotes • Pote-Pote-Pote

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Maybe too much memory safety is bad for creativity?

37 upvotes • nuclearbananana

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Don't talk to me if you have ever used GOTO

36 upvotes • EdgyYukino

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Python feels timeless to me, like Roman majuscules.

35 upvotes • functorer

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It turned out that the entire Angelfire site (login, html editor, uploader, everything) was run on a single CGI that was written in C. The CGI binary was named a.out, which I was told stood for “angelfire.out”.	97	Volt
Can you please remove the link? I don't want the people of /r/programming coming to Hacker News :(	78	starlevel01
I don’t really like to work on “perfect” codebases where everyone follows the same pattern, with linters, where if something breaks is because of your shitty code (because the codebase is “clean”). It’s very frustrating and limiting.	63	likes_purple
These days, my go-to solution is SQLite with two fields (well, three, if you count the implicit ROWID, which is invaluable for paging!): ID and Data, the latter being a JSONB blob.	61	G3Kappa
Committee’s allocating and administrating how many variables a programmer is allowed to use to implement a function and programmers having to apply with written applications to increase their variable budget.	49	cmqv
I'm busting my ass in the code mines making this amazing software thats making us all money. Then 'management' waste it on frivolities, like free junk food, booze, time wasting exercises, stuff that they like. [...] that stuff is a warning sign for me.	47	likes_purple
whenever I am not inconditionnaly claiming that Golang is the best, I get downvoted quite hard	38	Pote-Pote-Pote
Maybe too much memory safety is bad for creativity?	37	nuclearbananana
Don't talk to me if you have ever used GOTO	36	EdgyYukino
Python feels timeless to me, like Roman majuscules.	35	functorer