Tch, tch! Please, ours is a technical profession, proper terminology at all times! Hollerith or IBM Card unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed! Still have nightmares of a spilled box of the same!
Posted on 11/12/2019 3:41:01 AM PST by ShadowAce
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I have been wrestling with drupal, css, php, and twig all day today. I don’t consider myself a programmer. Someone else invented these languages.
I've done a lot of COBOL, some C/C++, some python, and a very tiny bit of Perl. I think the key to remember is that once you learn how to program in the abstract, then whatever language you choose is just syntax.
11. I can rebuild from scratch all the features we need instead of keeping on using the 3rd-party software. :) (I guess sometimes that's true.)
A programmer’s response to his error:
Ooops, ..... why it’s another ‘feature’.
There are 10 kinds of people........
I agree with you completely. Twig is like php.
Blast from the past from an old programmer. Back in the day people were amazed that I could read a punched card that did not have any verbiage above.
Just remember, all of this is the basis for all of the “Internet of Things” (IoT) aka automation aka Alexa and the rest. If a human being does something stupid like running a stop sign, it is a single act and society has procedures to handle the consequences. If a self-driving automation system does the same action, the ramifications are a very “Brave New World” indeed! Even if you place ultimate responsibility with the driver using the flying pilot rules as an exemplar, there are going to be a myriad of exceptions to be programmed.
Thank God I am a retired & recovering software engineer!
Bean counters
Verses
Builders.
Do it Better,
Do it Faster.
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Do It Yourself!
I write my pins on the back of my debit cards in binary with a bit shift. It helps keep me centered.
Tch, tch! Please, ours is a technical profession, proper terminology at all times! Hollerith or IBM Card unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed! Still have nightmares of a spilled box of the same!
"And so we see again and again as developers create new frameworks to patch the problems of the old frameworks, introducing new problems along the way. If a framework adds server-side rendering, it bogs down the server. But if everything is left to the clients, they start slowing down. Each new feature is a tradeoff between time, code, and bandwidth."
Here’s another lie: managed code somehow magically removes the need to worry about or even check for memory leaks. Managed code just means the memory leaks become more difficult to debug.
“...unless you were one of the Remington Rand unwashed!”
I was one of the IBM unwashed. Started there in 1968, Harrison NY (HQ), also applied to Burroughs, not sure about Remington Rand. LOL
BTW, Started coding for the 1401(auto coder,) then 7010 (auto coder), then 360 (assembler), even wired Unit Record devices.
No programmer wrote these. So what the hell does this author know, Not Much.
It may be a lie, but it wasn’t a programmer who lied.
It was the sales team and top management.
Why not Exclusive OR with your birth date.
How did you know my pronoun is “His Majesty”?
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