The Greplin Programming Challenge

[Macheath]

This reminds me of some of my coworkers:

https://medium.com/on-coding/db854689243

I was in my 10th year by my 4th year

[Macheath]

Macheath: I cannot believe code this old is running in production.

Coworker #1: At least there are comments!

Coworker #2: Just because it's old code doesn't mean it's bad code. Banks run code older than 15 years.

Macheath: No. But it's old technology. I'd rather not be doing C memory management in a 78KB buffer just because it was the best option when Smash Mouth was still a band. There are more possibilities now. Christ, Java was still version 1.2 in 1999.

Coworker #3: You know the version of Java in 1999 off the top of your head?

Macheath:

(I pulled that out of my ass, but turns out I was right.)

[Raid]

Smashmouth is on tour with Sugar Ray and Blues Traveler this summer.

[Macheath]

That's very nineties. They just need to invite Stone Temple Pilots, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Limp Bizkit for a full set.

[Raid]

STP has been a drama bomb over the last year.

[Kyrin]

Big Bad voodoo Daddy... I listened to them a lot in high school.

[Macheath]

You've gotta have a lot of time on your hands to waste it reproducing the Simpsons in CSS.

[Macheath]

I agree with this guy.

[Macheath]

Just wrote this in my .bash_profile, I'm so proud!

sine() {
    i=1;
    t=$(($(tput cols)-5));
    while true; do
        n=$(echo "((1+$(echo "scale=3;s($i*0.017453293)"|bc -l))*$t)/2"|bc);
        printf "%"$n"s *\n";
        i=$(($i+1));
    done
}

[Macheath]

Reminds me of a lot of conversations I've had during late-night coding: