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Engineer and coder that likes memes.

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Meme is funny, but that exception used as flow control hurts.

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Yeah, I had a similar case with some authentication middleware I used that was part of a library.

It would always throw an exception when a user wasn’t authenticated instead of just giving me some flag I could check.

Wouldn’t have done it that way, but it was okay for an API controller.

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Not really. Exceptions are a controlled way of indicating something went wrong in an application.

The only point where you wouldn’t know about the possibility of one is when you don’t know enough about the language features you’re using or when you use a badly documented library or framework.

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Another upside of Jetbrains over Adobe is that you can get edu-licenses that allow you to use every software of theirs.

The best deal our university could get from Adobe was 25% off on Photoshop if at least 200 students bought it.

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I’d have recommended it as well.

Popular stuff is usually available in most languages.

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Since witches are generally agreed upon to be nasty bitches, I’d argue they don’t care.

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I’m afraid that’s a hard pass, love.

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https://gifdb.com/images/high/the-witcher-geralt-of-rivia-disappointed-reaction-tjwezwtwzax0gs2q.gif

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If the studios had the resources they could easily become independent. But the corporate side owns the rights to their works, so the now independent studio doesn’t have any incoming revenue.

The average employee won’t work for scraps or nothing. So it’s effectively over if big corpo cuts them off.

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Misrepresenting what I’m saying is not nice of you.

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Why even engage if you’re not interested in discussion?

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Thanks for explaining. I was not arguing the point that closures happen, just expanding on why it’s not easy for the studios to get back on their feet again as independents.

There will likely be non-disclosure agreements, non-competes or simply IP rights to take into consideration if we want to argue why these studios can’t continue their work. In the end it comes down to legal stuff and money. The IP rights even for unreleased products very likely are with the parent corporation. The same goes for the codebase.

So yeah. The studios are left with nothing, except a severance pay if they’re lucky.

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Well, you can only win against big corpo if you shoot them with their own guns.

Or literal guns.

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You better hope the sound is baffling when you’re at a concert!

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It’s sad that this works. You’d think especially software professionals would be the most vigilant about running unknown code.

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That’s a bad take. Unless you get your knowledge purely from shady tutorials or have a fast track bootcamp education, it’s unlikely you never touch on security basics.

I’m a software design undergrad and had to take IT Sec classes. Other profs also touched on how to safely handle dependencies and such.

While IT Security is its own specialisation, blindly trusting source code others provide you with is something a good programmer shouldn’t do.

If you need a metaphor: Just because a woodworker specialises in tables, doesn’t mean they can’t build a chair.

Edit: Seems like my take is the bad one 😂

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Makes sense, I feel bad for the guys that were happy for a chance and got screwed over. (By the hackers, not you, haha)

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Neither young or naive. Just assuming others share my experience.

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Thanks for the response. Seems like I can’t assume other CS degrees are comparable.

We definitely have a strong focus on security in my degree, but I still believe that awareness of what you’re running on your machine and potential dangers of those programs fall into the category of common sense. Mishandling secrets, having bad authentication or not knowing how to setup SSL is definitely experience stuff though.

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Semi related: There’s a cool rabbit hole you can dive into when it comes to coastline lengths of some countries. Specifically the UK.

Depending on who measured the coastline and with which method the results can be wildly different because there’s always some form of simplification required. See this video for example: Link

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That’s why he’s not worried about stuff running out

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Bottom left panel is completely redundant, but it still makes the joke hit so much harder for me

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The free market will take care of the problem for us

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I will gladly give my life to boost the gdp, sir.

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You could probably get that tent and all other equipment you need for touring, including the e-bike, and still have enough money leftover to throw a huge celebration party with all your friends for your smart financial decisions.

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