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11/12/2019 3:41:02 AM PST by
ShadowAce
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2 posted on
11/12/2019 3:41:25 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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.
3 posted on
11/12/2019 4:04:10 AM PST by
Jemian
(War Eagle!)
To: ShadowAce
A programmer’s response to his error:
Ooops, ..... why it’s another ‘feature’.
6 posted on
11/12/2019 4:17:59 AM PST by
Cvengr
( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
To: ShadowAce
There are 10 kinds of people........
7 posted on
11/12/2019 4:18:34 AM PST by
mad_as_he$$
(Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
To: ShadowAce
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.
9 posted on
11/12/2019 4:30:20 AM PST by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: ShadowAce
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!
10 posted on
11/12/2019 4:41:00 AM PST by
SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: ShadowAce
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"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."
14 posted on
11/12/2019 4:55:26 AM PST by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: ShadowAce
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.
To: ShadowAce
No programmer wrote these. So what the hell does this author know, Not Much.
17 posted on
11/12/2019 5:36:47 AM PST by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: ShadowAce
How did you know my pronoun is “His Majesty”?
20 posted on
11/12/2019 5:41:47 AM PST by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: ShadowAce
The only programming I ever actually enjoyed was assembly language.
22 posted on
11/12/2019 5:52:07 AM PST by
Fresh Wind
(The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
To: ShadowAce
Computers do not make mistakes. Programmers and data entry folks make the mistakes.
23 posted on
11/12/2019 5:52:28 AM PST by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
To: ShadowAce
An If is an If, a For is a For.
27 posted on
11/12/2019 5:58:55 AM PST by
McGruff
(Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
To: ShadowAce
These are only two examples of how file systems don’t honor the compact between user (the person supplying the electricity) and the machine (desperate needer of electricity).Desperate needer of elictricity. Yup. Mine has even trained me to supply it clean power through an UPS. I just wish the UPS were more reliable. I had one recently that I had to replace, because even the slightest bobble of power would cause it to drop like a stone. Even when said bobble wasn't enough to even reset the clock on my microwave.
34 posted on
11/12/2019 6:18:40 AM PST by
zeugma
(I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
To: ShadowAce
The biggest lie, I think, is time. They will write something quick in an hour then spend three weeks making it work, but when asked how long it took they claim an hour.
35 posted on
11/12/2019 6:23:04 AM PST by
CodeToad
To: ShadowAce
all of our clever code boils down to one bit of doped-up silicon choosing to go left or right down the fork in the code and there is no middle path.
until you start chasin an altered goto.
42 posted on
11/12/2019 7:42:26 AM PST by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: ShadowAce
TI DX10 on a TI990/12 were the best.
DNOS on a DX10 offered almost bulletproof, although slower, execution. This was MULTI-USER not just multitask stuff!
47 posted on
11/12/2019 8:10:03 AM PST by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: ShadowAce
Interesting that this came from InfoWorld. Back in the day, the magazine never talked about programming. That was left to Byte, Dr Dobbs, and Popular Electronics, among others. Computer "languages" are interesting. And in my career, I have had to move from language to language. So:
- COBOL, so I could help my father with his homework
- BASIC, when a PDP-8 showed up at junior high
- FORTRAN II, because that's what my high school taught.
- PL/I, the "next new thing" (1969)
- 360 Assembler, so I could document a bug I found in the PL/I compiler
- FORTRAN IV
- C, the "next new thing" (1972)
- MIX, because The Art of Computer Programming
- ALGOL, class book assignment -- never used it
- PL/I again, so I could teach a class in the language as part of CS 306, Operating systems.
- GLIPNER, because ILLIAC IV
- LINC microassembler, because there was one in the basement at school
- PASCAL, so I could run my own compiler and run time on a minicomputer
- PL/M, because Intel
- BASIC again, because IBM PC
- PASCAL again, because Perq graphic workstation
- PDP-11 assembler, because there was one down the hall
- 808x assembler, because I could, and various C packages didn't cut it
- PERL, because Unix system administration
- SH and BASH, because Unix system administration
- LEX and YACC, because inventing my own language made particular problems MUCH easier to solve and maintain
- PHP, because commercial Web site
- TCL and EXPECT, because inter-computer automation
- Python, because $DAYJOB loved buzzwords.
And I don't expect that to be the end of the list. Most of these things I have dropped by the wayside.
I have JAVA books, but never took the time to learn the language because I didn't have a need for it. Read the ADA Language Standard, but never had a machine with a compiler to play with.
I keep hearing about other "new" languages that have enhancements for security; someday I'll have a reason to try them. I don't know their names yet.
Quite the parade, isn't it?
53 posted on
11/12/2019 9:11:57 AM PST by
asinclair
(Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
To: ShadowAce
Universal truths:
Constants aren’t.
Variables won’t.
54 posted on
11/12/2019 9:22:25 AM PST by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
To: ShadowAce
You can prevent SQL injection by sanitizing your database inputs.
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