How could I allow these people to gain vast influence on my future?

Wow. That's sick. Only the last comment made sense

Yes a pdf

Fucking idiots

@MammaNeedHummus I am pretty sure this request makes them unfuckable.

@Demolishun well they must be fucking idiots if those idiots would be with them

Font size 12, Times New Roman please. Generally speaking, please comply with the APA standards. Plagiarism is forbidden and will cause a student to be expelled

@black-kite Pastebin generates a chic PDF but I should've figured out how to have it in Times New Roman.

it's already submitted anyway

I created a LaTeX template exactly for this: creates a formatted PDF of any code file (at least for my languages) to please professors who are stuck in the nineties

@Bibbit Pastebin generates pretty good PDFs, it's not very customizable but it solves the problem so I can do something I actually care about.

I have two main problems with this subtree of the rules in particular:

- the entire thing emanates "I wield the power and you will lick my boots clean if I so desire" energy. Like it emphasizes that they are not responsible for supporting reasonable formats.

- it doesn't offer any tools (and indeed we never learned about any tools) to produce the required format. I know Pastebin does it because this knowledge has been passed down through the student community parallel to the eternally reused assignment spec. If I didn't have friends, I'd have to do it much more slowly or the end result would look a lot worse and I'd lose points.

@lorentz never used it, but it doesn't help that we were _forced_ to use latex for reports on code. Doesn't make it any better but I did actually kinda like to use latex lol

Now I'm just a simple markdown guy

@lorentz and yeah the formatting bothers me as well: anyone who works with code professionally will know that nobody on this planet want to do/check formatting by hand and uses a linter for it. Just learn your students use that and they might do something useful with the time they win from this bs...

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Damn, did this professor ever have a software engineering job a day in his life???

@Downhill-11 that's not how you talk to the Elon Musk of Alaska!

@Nanos DRY is taught today as the most basic of basics, although I'd rather describe it as "every decision should be stated exactly once and referenced everywhere else". It's an extremely fuzzy rule but it can lead to some valuable insights.

@Nanos don't press this: https://youtu.be/lXGxZrycTUA

@Nanos it's a movie about someone oressing the button and everything escalated

What the hell is even that

@Nanos
> I guess that is to save you having to update the same information in more than one place

I think of it specifically in terms of avoiding inconsistency arising from updates to some but not all occurrences. As such, I hardly ever apply DRY to type annotation, since they're statically compared so partial updates fail fast and are quick to fully resolve.

> I wonder, can you get editors that will show you this information by hovering a link/etc.

I use VSCode, when I hover an item it shows the first line of its definition, which is often enough. If not, "go to definition" opens in a short buffer view inserted in between the lines of the current buffer by default, double clicking promotes it to a full buffer. It's a really weird UI element which I have many gripes with, but it does elegantly solve the case where I just want to peek at the definition and scroll around a bit without losing sight of my original environment.

lol that's kinda funny

i know maybe it's too late but in case if you ever need your file as a pdf, just use this tool https://oneconvert.com/pdf-converte...

@stevewill fuck off with your ads

@TeachMeCode I chose to read it as a joke; it implies that my code was originally written in Word

@lorentz lol we both know only computer science professors code in Word 😂😂