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Initech was in dire straits. The website was dog slow, and the budget had been exceeded by a factor of five already trying to fix it. Korbin, today's submitter, was brought in to help in exchange for decent pay and an office in their facility.
"On the one hand, I don't want to know what the fish has to do with Boris Johnson's love life...but on the other hand I have to know!" Mark R. writes.
Jim was adding a feature to the backend. This feature updated a few fields on an object, and then handed the object off as JSON to the front-end.
Adding the feature seemed pretty simple, but when Jim went to check out its behavior in the front-end, he got validation errors. Something in the data getting passed back by his web service was fighting with the front end.
Robert was browsing through a little JavaScript used at his organization, and found this gem of type conversion.
//use only for small numbers
function StringToInteger (str) {
var int = -1;
for (var i=0; i<=100; i++) {
if (i+"" == str) {
int = i;
break;
}
}
return int;
}You’ve got a decimal value- maybe. It could be nothing at all, and you need to handle that null gracefully. Fortunately for you, C# has “nullable types”, which make this task easy.
Ian P’s co-worker made this straightforward application of nullable types.
Mindy was pretty excited to start her internship with Initech's Internet-of-Things division. She'd been hearing at every job fair how IoT was still going to be blowing up in a few years, and how important it would be for her career to have some background in it.
It was a pretty standard internship. Mindy went to meetings, shadowed developers, did some light-but-heavily-supervised changes to the website for controlling your thermostat/camera/refrigerator all in one device.
"Normally I do pretty well on the Super Quiz, but then they decided to do it in Latin," writes Mike S.
When Java added their streams API, they brought the power and richness of functional programming styles to the JVM, if we ignore all the other non-Java JVM languages that already did this. Snark aside, streams were a great addition to the language, especially if we want to use them absolutely wrong.
Like this code Miles found.
