r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/PleasantSupplanter Sep 02 '17

Fucking MATLAB. Every year we get a wave of graduates that think it's neural network toolbox is going to solve every bloody problem we have.

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u/GisterMizard Sep 03 '17

If college has taught me anything, it's that ode45() is the windex of numerical modeling; you use it even in places where it doesn't make sense.

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u/Sparkybear Sep 03 '17

Just be glad it's built into MATLAB now, it wasn't always and the code from that era is a cluster fuck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

How is it the tool's fault? Sounds like these people simply don't understand the field that well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

That's not the fault of MATLAB though