The entire premise of the article is bull. Are companies ever going to get off this fixation on specific programming languages?
No. Companies (at least the executives running them) look at their code base differently than technologists. They see the cost of maintenance as X$, and if it's written in ten languages, the cost of hiring ten people to do maintenance is 10X. If you say "one person can know ten languages" they assume such people are expensive and very hard to find.
They want a simple way to manage the cost of maintenance. Cutting the number of languages in use accomplishes that goal, in their minds. Therefore, this practice will continue at companies that don't have unlimited IT budgets.
Generally speaking, the more languages a programmer knows, the higher a salary they can command. What's unintuitive about that?
Since they have apparently reached the limit of human tolerance, one answer is to offer wider seat spacing for a little extra price on some flights. The remaining "dense pack" passengers then have no reason to complain: "If you needed more space, why didn't you choose our XL flight?"
Get ready for: "I chose the wider seat. It wasn't wide enough" or "there were no more available because everybody wanted one."
~3 birds each day seems like a lot of KFC for a power plant....
anyway, seems like the environmental impact is quite less than mining of coal etc etc, and more easily solved....audible chirps, clicks, etc to scare the birds away? Or maybe a little metal eagle or hawk statue on the roof..
Putting a roof over the array of mirrors would greatly reduce its ability to collect sunlight.
The fault lies neither with Perl, nor even with the programmer's obfuscated code. The fault is lack of documentation and/or comments which explain the code.
There's also a surprisingly low percentage of female garbage collectors.
Since that particular job requires very little education, it would be far easier to start there when trying to close the gender gap.
You've obviously never applied for the position of garbage collector.
If the client is willing to write a sufficiently detailed spec on their own time, I will be more than happy to fix any of my bugs for free. That being said, I often don't charge clients for easy bug fixes and bug fixes which I should have caught, i.e. which by my own judgment were stupid mistakes on my part. I like to think I'm good enough not to make too many of those stupid mistakes, else I'd be out of business by now.
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The entire premise of the article is bull. Are companies ever going to get off this fixation on specific programming languages?
No. Companies (at least the executives running them) look at their code base differently than technologists. They see the cost of maintenance as X$, and if it's written in ten languages, the cost of hiring ten people to do maintenance is 10X. If you say "one person can know ten languages" they assume such people are expensive and very hard to find.
They want a simple way to manage the cost of maintenance. Cutting the number of languages in use accomplishes that goal, in their minds. Therefore, this practice will continue at companies that don't have unlimited IT budgets.
Generally speaking, the more languages a programmer knows, the higher a salary they can command. What's unintuitive about that?
Since they have apparently reached the limit of human tolerance, one answer is to offer wider seat spacing for a little extra price on some flights. The remaining "dense pack" passengers then have no reason to complain: "If you needed more space, why didn't you choose our XL flight?"
Get ready for: "I chose the wider seat. It wasn't wide enough" or "there were no more available because everybody wanted one."
~3 birds each day seems like a lot of KFC for a power plant....
anyway, seems like the environmental impact is quite less than mining of coal etc etc, and more easily solved....audible chirps, clicks, etc to scare the birds away? Or maybe a little metal eagle or hawk statue on the roof..
Putting a roof over the array of mirrors would greatly reduce its ability to collect sunlight.
Autonomous vehicles don't have passports, so it won't be allowed across anyway.
Careful when you burn that phone--you might elect a new Pope!
Why not just skim the headlines?
The fault lies neither with Perl, nor even with the programmer's obfuscated code. The fault is lack of documentation and/or comments which explain the code.
He was performing a sophisticated CPU performance and RAM burn-in test. He should be congratulated.
"Great seller, would buy again, A++!"
The software is probably still an issue.
Too many zombie processes?
There's also a surprisingly low percentage of female garbage collectors. Since that particular job requires very little education, it would be far easier to start there when trying to close the gender gap.
You've obviously never applied for the position of garbage collector.
This is totally gonna drive Linux out of business.
Their facial recognition software is no match for my religiously-mandated Pastafarian collander mask.
A simple audio message saying "Look behind you!" whenever you switched to reverse would be much cheaper, and probably more effective.
If it weren't for Seurat, we wouldn't have known that 19th century people were made of tiny dots.
Wasn't it Brooks who said most of the work is debugging the spec?
If you're working from a spec, you're already ahead of the game.
Srsly, the late '90's called, they want their "Windows is still a hack on top of DOS" meme back.
You're right. Windows X is a hack on top of Windows 1 ... X - 1.
American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have an agenda to promote.
American Journalism sucks because rather than being unbiased, they have newspapers to sell.
FTFY
Schrödinger's cat might or might not be a member.
Yes, it's like when your car has an oil leak, only imagine your car is the size of an oil supertanker.
His first mistake was posting them to Facebook, with or without an agreement.
Too bad the transit authority didn't read *my* disclaimer which states that by accepting my money, they authorize me to resell the ticket.
If the client is willing to write a sufficiently detailed spec on their own time, I will be more than happy to fix any of my bugs for free. That being said, I often don't charge clients for easy bug fixes and bug fixes which I should have caught, i.e. which by my own judgment were stupid mistakes on my part. I like to think I'm good enough not to make too many of those stupid mistakes, else I'd be out of business by now.
I want to see the person with the NULL uid chime in. (No, I don't mean AC. His uid is NaN.)