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What’s that awful noise in the background, getting louder and louder? Oh, that? We just ignore it. They call it technical debt.
by jahewson 4y ago
What’s that awful noise in the background, getting louder and louder?
Oh, that? We just ignore it. They call it technical debt.
- GuestHNUser 4y agoThis idea is hilarious. If only every function was given a sound so you could hear a cacophony of mistakes every time it was run. Imagine a programmer Bach, someone who could somehow weave a beautiful rhythm into their standard library function calls.
- CamperBob2 4y agoHold an AM radio next to your motherboard sometime. There were certain elders, long passed to the Grey (Beard) Havens, who claimed they could debug their programs that way.
- ajuc 4y agoMy uncle made alarm go off when somebody opens a gate in my parents fence years ago. He used old auto alarm. It sounds like a submarine about to launch torpedoes:) We learnt to ignore it in a few months, but it's funny when guests hear it for the first time.