CrazyDev's definitions

10xer

A mythical creature that mostly lives in the heads of people who frequent online forums like Hacker News, or suffered brain hemorrhage due to the insane amount of LeetCode they engaged in. This creature is usually a developer that supposedly produces 10 times the output of the average developer, and they are usually found (according to the legend) doing some useful task (mainly figuring out how to add another abusive way to increase ad clicks) at FAANG and similar enterprises.

Santa and 10xers are very popular characters.

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

zero cost abstraction

A buzzword usually uttered by someone trying to sell you the idea that you should rewrite your project in Rust. It supposedly means "free" abstractions that don't come with overheads and penalties, but in reality they're anything but free.

If you hear someone use the term zero cost abstraction unironically, run as fast as you possibly can because you're cornered by a snake oil salesman.

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

Gopher

A user of the programming language Go, created by Google. The brain behind the language basically describes Gophers as retarded children and I quote "They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

I am a Gopher and Rob is our Lord.

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

Hacker News

A website where over enthusiastic programmers and entrepreneurs ("hackers", as they call it) gather and rediscover old ideas thinking they are novel and congratulate each other in the process. They have "curious" conversations, which is a euphemism for a contest of who can use the most convoluted sequence of words to describe terrible ideas that go nowhere. They share articles and news stories with each other, with the added flavor of grandiose commentary. There is ritual of babysitting new users and reminding them to be gentle and not commit heinous acts such as challenging their terrible ideas.

OMG, I can't stop laughing at this comment thread on Hacker News. Are these people serious?

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

rms

Richard Stallman. A programmer and Free Software advocate who founded the GNU foundation, and reminds people that Linux is properly called GNU/Linux.

I don't browse the web with non-free software, just like rms!

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

sudo apt install steam

A very quick and easy way to get rid of your Pop!_OS installation, giving you a chance to pick a proper distro.

I can't believe Linus run sudo apt install steam!

by CrazyDev November 14, 2021

Webshit

A derogatory term generally used for web developers; but mostly for a specific breed of web devs that never built non-trivial projects that are not web related, or used something other than web stack. They usually think that JS and Electron ( that whole stack) are the best thing since sliced bread, or more immorally, they think JS is a decent language. They jerk each other off whenever a new framework that does yet another anti-feature in a very convoluted way is introduced.

Oh, for fuck's sake, the webshits are losing their shit over a new JS framework that apparently helps you add left padding.

by CrazyDev February 17, 2021