/tech/ - Technology★

ok.

You have two choices:

1. write terrible but useful code, so that space empires in the year 16020 will simulate today's Earth in its entirety just so that they can steer virtual people to interact with a virtual computer running your code

2. write code so good that people will prefer the experience of patching it to the experience of rolling their own 70% solution in a memelang

>>959269 (OP)

People will be using brainwaves and AR mechanics and quantum computers to do things so what's the point of writing literally anything now?

t. totally not a blackpill faggot

>>959269 (OP)

>not unpublishing all your packages when you die, completely bringing the entire ecosystem to it's fucking knees because everybody relied on some bullshit you wrote to add two numbers together

>>959289

What if someone forks your shit?

How does code deteriorates?

>>959304

>check out the linux kernel

>add a feature

>wait 1 second

>git pull --rebase

>entire fucking thing merge conflicts

Code suffers from bitrot.

>>959269 (OP)

My creations exist to serve me, once i die they lose their meaning and what happens to them is irrelevant

>>959300

What's wrong with living in a mud hut? The Afriacans haven't succumbed to civilization like the white man did. They are pure, unlike us.

>>959386

>Afriacans(sic) haven't succumbed to civilization like the white man did

Don't like it? Go be a nigger somewhere else.

>>959386

They *can't* succomb to civilisation. I guess gorillas are even purer than niggers in this case too.

The gist of it is that it's better to have a peak and a fall, that to stay at beast level all of your history.

8/10

The fact that I've gone digging for and improved long dead and unloved projects disproves your theory.

>>959274

3. Write the most virulent, debased, destructive code possible at your skill level. Meme-matic, seductive, destruction. Enjoy the show as the entirety of the internet embarks on a monumental & doomed global initiative to eliminate your code.

Write the Necronomicon of code.

>>959444

Bourne shell.

>>959456

>telengard

Patrician taste. I used to think I was such a badass for having figured out how to advance infinitely with no risk.

>>959460

Virus authors of the '90s who died were outlived by their viruses which still spread today.

>>959423

Why are you calling other people stupid?

>>959447

One of my favourites from The Scripture of Bourne:

#define TRUE	(-1)

The reigning king though I think is Netscape's Javascript. Surely a more heinous, vile, cancerous affliction does not exist.

>>959386

>They are pure

pure gorilla nigger animals

>>959269 (OP)

>Pic related is what happens to the software you write

You mean it will last for thousands of years until a bunch of muslims conquer my country and turn it into first a mosque and then an ammunition dump which will be hit during an attack and detonate?

I don't see how the software I write could have that happen to it.

The Parthenon is upheld as one of the great masterpieces of Western architecture.

You should probably have picked a different example.

>>959395

When are you going back to Europe?

>>959269 (OP)

>you need to maintain something that literally never degrades

programmers have fucked up lingo

>>959578

Bitrot. Grab some source from an old distro and try to compile it. Without maintenance, code rots.

>>959597

Strictly speaking, the code is the same, but the environment has moved on. There is nothing under heaven that men can create that can stand on its own forever, without continued maintenance from other men. The Aztecs sacrificed lives and prayed in religious ceremonies in order to maintain the world. Civilized societies must operate similarly, or they collapse.

If you've read your Ourorboros - On the Mechanical Extension of Mankind, then you're aware that there are also men whose existence is predicated on the existence of technologies that they themselves now maintain. Unless you live on a family farm, you're probably one of those new men. Maintenance is prayer and if you stop doing it men like you will retreat from the world.

>>959601

Sure, things change over time. But in the computer industry, things change often and quickly for artificial reasons. After all, why would they let you keep using the same word processor or web browser or OS when they can just fuck things up a then sell you a new version in a couple years? That's how if fucking works with appliances and cars too, except they just use shitty components and design it to be shit so it breaks down often and early.

So that's why I say fuck this shit game and I don't give a fuck about any of this anymore. Modern technology is shit. It stopped being good and fun after it left the hobbyist realm and become just another consumerist turd.

hmm

>>959577

Of course you'd like to know, so you can follow us home for more gibs