Came across this in my YouTube feed today, and thought it was worth spreading about:

https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2U

A rather tongue-in-cheek look at the faults and foibles of the various programming languages...all combined into one...

If you've ever dabbled in coding, a lot of this will make you chuckle.

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Re: The Worst Programming Language Ever
By: McDoob to All on Sun Apr 24 2022 07:03 pm

Came across this in my YouTube feed today, and thought it was worth spreading about:

https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2U

A rather tongue-in-cheek look at the faults and foibles of the various programming languages...all combined into one...

If you've ever dabbled in coding, a lot of this will make you chuckle.

I saw that recently (well, watched most of it but didn't finish it). It was pretty funny.

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Re: The Worst Programming Language Ever
By: McDoob to All on Sun Apr 24 2022 07:03 pm

Came across this in my YouTube feed today, and thought it was worth spreading about:

https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2U

A rather tongue-in-cheek look at the faults and foibles of the various programming languages...all combined into one...

If you've ever dabbled in coding, a lot of this will make you chuckle.

I found it to be *WAY* too long, repetitive, boring, and really not funny.

Not even a little bit. No chuckles. Glad you liked it, though. /^^\
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Re: The Worst Programming Language Ever
By: Gamgee to McDoob on Mon Apr 25 2022 07:01 pm

https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2U

I found it to be *WAY* too long, repetitive, boring, and really not funny.

Not even a little bit. No chuckles. Glad you liked it, though. /^^\

As a software developer, I thought some of it was quite funny.. One part I liked was the language that had implemented a "comeFrom" instead of goto.

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Re: The Worst Programming Language Ever
By: Gamgee to McDoob on Mon Apr 25 2022 07:01 pm

https://youtu.be/vcFBwt1nu2U

I found it to be *WAY* too long, repetitive, boring, and really not funny. Not even a little bit. No chuckles. Glad you liked it, though. /^^\

As a software developer, I thought some of it was quite funny..

Maybe that's part of it. I'm not a developer although I have played
around with programming a little as a hobbyist. Mostly a long while
back, with Pascal. Currently just shell/bash scripts.

One part I liked was the language that had implemented a
"comeFrom" instead of goto.

Haha, I didn't see that, but can see how that is indeed funny.



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A rather tongue-in-cheek look at the faults and foibles of the various programming languages...all combined into one...

It was erm only moderately ammusing... I felt it kinda got bogged down.. only managed about half of it also.

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OK guys, this thread has my tinfoilhat getting about 3 more layers.

I read this thread yesterday. Never followed the link, never typed "worst programming language" anywhere, and did not speak it aloud.

Yet, it pops up in my YT recommendations for videos.

I know my phone is listening, but unless there is some "screen reading" software installed on my laptop, there's no way anybody could know that I have read that thread.

So how does it "just so happen" to pop up in my YT recommendations less than 24 hours after reading about it here?

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I read this thread yesterday. Never followed the link, never typed "worst programming language" anywhere, and did not speak it aloud.

Yet, it pops up in my YT recommendations for videos.

May have be pushed by YT based on other stuff you watch. Shrug.

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It was erm only moderately ammusing... I felt it kinda got bogged down..

What I did like was the 17bit integers... we'll just ignore the other
possible 15 bits and make people buy more memory.

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OK guys, this thread has my tinfoilhat getting about 3 more layers.

I read this thread yesterday. Never followed the link, never typed
"worst programming language" anywhere, and did not speak it aloud.

Yet, it pops up in my YT recommendations for videos.

I know my phone is listening, but unless there is some "screen reading" software installed on my laptop, there's no way anybody could know that
I have read that thread.

So how does it "just so happen" to pop up in my YT recommendations less than 24 hours after reading about it here?

It's not paranoia if they really are watching you... (o_O)

I'm guessing that it's just pure coincidence. Those do happen sometimes.

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I read this thread yesterday. Never followed the link, never typed
"worst programming language" anywhere, and did not speak it aloud.
Yet, it pops up in my YT recommendations for videos.

The most likely explanation is that video has trended lately - possibly just because a bunch of people clicked on it from here - it knows other people who watched it watch other computing channels. You watch computing channels too, therefore it recommended it to you since others were watching it.

Might be fun to do some experiments this way: find everyone who subscribes to, say, Techmoan, and have 2/3rds of them watch a specific music video, then see if the other 1/3 who watch Techmoan also see that as a recommended video.

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The most likely explanation is that video has trended lately - possibly just because a bunch of people clicked on it from here - it knows other people who watched it watch other computing channels. You watch

Probably, but I see this crap happening all over the place. My friend and I will have a conversation (and our phones are nearby, but not in use) and then suddenly, we start getting ads or video recommendations about that topic.

Sometimes its explainable like you did above, but there are other times we are having off-the-wall discussions that result in these ads/recommendations.

When this happens, we just shrug our shoulders and say "suuuuure. Yeah. the phones aren't listening.." and move on. We just accept it as "normal," but it still rubs me the wrong way.

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When this happens, we just shrug our shoulders and say
"suuuuure. Yeah. the phones aren't listening.." and move
on. We just accept it as "normal," but it still rubs me
the wrong way.

Are they google phones? ...or iPhones?


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Are they google phones? ...or iPhones?

Both of us use Android.

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Probably, but I see this crap happening all over the place. My friend
and I will have a conversation (and our phones are nearby, but not in
use) and then suddenly, we start getting ads or video recommendations about that topic.

This has happened to me, and I wonder whether or not, for example, if I discuss fire extinguishers with someone, and then I see an ad for fire extinguishers, if the issue is that I saw an advertisement or news story, or heard something on the radio about fire extinguishers and it got into my subconscious and that's why I brought the subject up for discussion, even though I'm unaware of it. Or maybe someone at the office was listening to an NPR story about fire extinguishers on the way to work and I overheard *their* conversation while I was making coffee.

And the ads are not triggering on what I am saying, but on the news story or article that put the memetic content out there.

I almost kinda don't want to know; experiencing the uncanny is one of the few pleasures still available to me in this boring age. Whoever creeps me out like that, has my thanks - commercial enterprise or not.

That said, if a person proves user agents (Alexa, Siri, etc.) are eavesdropping and pushing ad content that way, they're going to be very famous.

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That said, if a person proves user agents (Alexa, Siri, etc.) are eavesdropping and pushing ad content that way, they're going to be very famous.

You agree to this when you first setup most phones.

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This has happened to me, and I wonder whether or not, for example, if I discuss fire extinguishers with someone, and then I see an ad for fire

There's also the issue of raised perception. Same theory when you buy a new car, or someone you know does and all of a sudden you see that make and model everywhere on the road. Even if they seemed few and far between before,
you're now more attuned to them so you spot them.

And the ads are not triggering on what I am saying, but on the news story or article that put the memetic content out there.

The other burning question is.... if an ad arrived would you miss it
completely if you hadn't been talking about it regardless of other happenings and content in the world :)

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This has happened to me, and I wonder whether or not, for example, if discuss fire extinguishers with someone, and then I see an ad for fir

There's also the issue of raised perception. Same theory when you buy a new car, or someone you know does and all of a sudden you see that make and model everywhere on the road. Even if they seemed few and far
between before, you're now more attuned to them so you spot them.

And the ads are not triggering on what I am saying, but on the news s or article that put the memetic content out there.

The other burning question is.... if an ad arrived would you miss it completely if you hadn't been talking about it regardless of other happenings and content in the world :)

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I think it is a matter of raised perception. There have been people who've noted this, but people who would be in a better position to know have said they don't eavesdrop. It would be quite difficult to do so, far, far harder than tracking web browsing habits.

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I almost kinda don't want to know; experiencing the uncanny is one of
the few pleasures still available to me in this boring age. Whoever creeps me out like that, has my thanks - commercial enterprise or not.

Hahaha! Yes, that's very true! That thrill down the spine happens more and more rarely as one gets older, and it is wise to still embrace it.

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