‘I woke up to $500 in charges on my credit card’: PlayStation bans gamer for getting scammed, he makes parent company fly him to California

If we were to ask gamers about how they would describe many gaming companies, ‘good customer service’ would not always be at the top of the list. One of the downsides of having video games as an interest is that the relationship between distributor and consumer is not always the most friendly, and many gamers …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (April 21, 2024)

Welcome, coders, to this week’s edition of programming memes. In this list, we find a rare space in the world of programming that doesn’t discriminate against different abilities and/or coding languages (well, not much). It doesn’t matter if you’re a novice, maestro, or simply trying to make your latest bit of blasted code run without …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (April 14, 2024)

No matter how experienced you become with programming, it’s impossible not to be bowled over by its sheer power sometimes. It’s almost like magic. Simply by weaving together the right commands in your chosen programming language, you can create the foundation for a fully operational program that can handle any manner of different tasks.  In …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (April 7, 2024)

Coding is the ultimate example of the need to manage expectations. If it’s not you who is hoping that your code is going to be all singing, all dancing, and walking a tightrope with no errors the first time around it will be your boss or your client who is expecting that.  In reality, programming …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 31, 2024)

Many people who have never been in close proximity to programmers think that the only prerequisite for becoming one is that you have to like computers. As anyone even slightly more experienced could tell you, that couldn’t be further from the truth. For starters, you’ve got to have a heck of a lot of patience, …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 24, 2024)

Love it or hate it, there is no denying how essential computers are to the world as it functions both today and in the future. Remove them all and countless systems would crumble, making our screen-addled brains feel completely lost. It is something that means that despite the challenges posed by AI, programmers remain an …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 17, 2024)

Welcome, one and all, to a St Paddy’s Day edition of programming memes. Sadly, this crossover ends where it begins as there aren’t that many memes out there that celebrate being able to code and being Irish in the same image. While it’s a bit of a disappointment, we still get the consolation prize of …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 10, 2024)

Programming plays a pivotal role in our increasingly technology-dependent world. Our reliance on digital tools and systems is only growing by the year, and coding serves as the foundational language that enables the creation and functionality of pretty much everything, to be honest. To be a coder is to have significant power over a key …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (March 3, 2024)

Greetings, coders and coder wannabes! This week, the world of programming survived a potentially problematic situation: it got past the latest leap year. No doubt some tech people had a nightmare day on Thursday when various systems decided that they couldn’t recognize the 29th. If that was you, congratulations on getting through it. If not, …
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Programming Memes for Coding Geeks (February 25, 2024)

What a privilege it can be to be a programmer. There are a whole collection of powerful computer secrets upholding the way we live life today, and you’re one of the minority who understands them?  OK, I know it’s not quite that drastic, and that reality is less glamorous. Still, coding is seen as an …
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