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machinavocis · 9 months ago

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oh i forgot this one:

yeah no i refuse to believe that 170+ people have now successfully done all their remote learning course completions + tradesperson business license renewals on my stupid god damn web app.

#just use a google javascript api they said. it'll be fine & not at all like last time they said.#me @ past me #on like. i think three separate occasions now lol.#IT'S NOT MY FAULT. EVERY TIME IT IS SUCH A PAIN IN THE ASS THAT I JUST INSTANTLY REPRESS ALL MEMORY OF THE PROCESS.#the aforementioned Dumbfuck Clown Solution in the original post above was a side effect of the google maps distance matrix api lol.#apis be like #hey you know how the most fun & cool quality of javascript is how you can in no way ever trust it to execute in the order you wrote it #what if that but ALSO u gotta do several asynchronous requests for data from google servers with various degrees of latency #number of requests is variable BUT you will NEED TO BE SURE you have FINISHED ALL OF THEM before continuing to next step #oh lol you thought jquery .each would work because it has an iterator in it AAAHAHA YOU FOOL.#AGAIN YOU FALL INTO THE TRAP OF ASSUMING JAVASCRIPT WILL BEHAVE LIKE A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE.#WHEN WILL U LEARN.

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