Alexei Pepers - Nethack: Tech Tourist Mode

[@bananarobotoverlord]

Thank you for the wonderful talk. I wish code dives like this were more popular.

[@geldonyetich]

I have to say, leaving irreverent comments and funny procedure names for Future Me to find certainly helps bolster my spirits after lots of coding.

[@KnjazNazrath]

Pets in Nethack will always remind me of Xibit now. This talk is great, I can see it being something to perk me up when I'm lost in spaghetti.

[@ss-oq9pc]

"A very specific output handled in a very generic way." Is it possible to learn this power?

[@Sqwaush]

I wish my mom played nethack :(

[@wuschelthepuschel]

Have you tried eating corpses? 😄 This talk is golden.

[@haikuinteractivelimited9728]

"Code comments itself right?" Yes it should. Compare 11:43 to 14:41

[@kiraPh1234k]

"Code comments itself right?" Lol, I've actually had a developer tell me this! Here was the situation: He made a website for our LAN party. He stopped coming. Website needs attention. I take over. I rewrote website in Go. He got mad that I didn't keep his site that he no longer maintained. I told him all my reasons for starting from scratch, including his lack of code comments. Module after module devoid of a single comment and he defended his decision as "good code comments itself". And maybe perfect code does. My problem though is that I can always read your code and see what it does, but that doesn't tell me what you wanted it to do.

[@smugchuckles1140]

>I rewrote website in Go You disgust me

[@stoneddoge8236]

Cream pie in your eye pfft 😂

[@Ryan-lx8gi]

Nice Pinback shirt computer swapping dude :) Thumbs up

[@boxedog]

Object oriented programmers they are not. What is polymorphism?

[@quantumpotato]

What is thegreatestgameyouwilleverplay.com/ ?

[@GibusWearingMann]

NetHack predates OOP by about a decade.

[@noxabellus]

What is polymorphism? An outdated fad

[@boxedog]

Gibus Wearing Mann Nethack does not predate OOP. Look at history of Smalltalk which predates nethack by at least 7 years and at most 18 years