In the last 40 years I've used lots of languages from BASIC to Z80 assembly, 8080 assembly, 8086 assembly, 68k, C, awk, sed, sh, perl, C++, TCL/Tk, ADA, Python, Java, Javascript. Some I really liked (assembly, C), some I used with trepidation (C++, perl), some I actively hated (TCL/Tk, ADA).
But the one and only language that I felt was actually working against me was javascript. Damned script would pass all my tests, then fail on someone else's machine because they chose different options when installing, or had a different version, or just reasons. Note my scripts wouldn't actually fail, as in an error message. No, they just gave the wrong damned results.
I fucking hate Javascript with a passion and wish it would die by the end of the year.
They had an internal email address where you could email your ideas. Mine was to have the phone hold the data, when you were at your desk you could plug it into a docking station and get more storage, a keyboard, and a display. Plus it would run Word, Excel, whatever. Got rejected:(
That, when you were standing, would sneak up behind you and climb your pants, your shirt, then perch on your shoulder. Hard on the clothes, and sometimes painful, but cute as hell.
My sister had a kitten that would sit on your shoulder and suck your earlobe. A very weird feeling, but she was a hell of a kitten.
My current cat? Takes a dump in the litter box, then while trying to bury it kicks it onto the floor. sigh.
Not really. There are thousands of apps companies write to support their widget. For each app there isn't enough interest (mostly because you need $companies product to need the app) for the OSS folks to care.
If you have to buy a $20k doohicky that takes a dedicated windows app to control, how many OSS folks will be chomping at the bit to write the control program?
My #1 complaint on Win10, over the telemetry and touch oriented interface, is the fact that whenever I open my laptop I never know if it will have rebooted or not.
I don't understand how M$ can think it's ok to reboot my laptop without first getting my consent. If it weren't for a couple programs I need Windows for I'd have 2 laptops running Linux, instead of just 1.
For the last few years we've heard about car companies adding networking to their cars, without adding any kind of security. Do a 3 finger salute on your DVD player? Hello, you can turn off the brakes.
I for one want to see car manufacturers 100% liable, plus damages, to software issues.
Fuck em, they're cheaping out in the hopes of being first to market. I say, first to hacked, first to toast.
Not only should convictions based on stingray data be tossed, legal fees should be reimbursed. There is no doubt these things were illegal, make the assholes who used them (under an NDA no less) pay for it.
/ kinda sucks to be a Harris stockholder at the moment // really sucks to be a law enforcement agency (HA!) that used the damned things /// I'm old. I hope I live long enough to see 1984 fail //// not holding my breath //////. formatting sucks balls. Why should I have to do a break line when a CRLF would do?
Not only did Radio Shack give me all the software information I could want, I bought the technical manual that had the schematics and how it all worked. I used that info, I learned CS from that info. I made a career out of that info.
Apple can suck a petrified mammoth dick over this move.
Went back east to Illinois to mom's sister. Her husband took me to the basement, which had a TV and pool table. He showed me where the beer was, and the playboys. I was, um, enjoying the playboys when the lights went out. Went upstairs to adults deciding to investigate. Went with them, some drunk off his ass dude had nailed the power pole maybe half a mile from Archie's place (Archie was the uncle, Maxine mom's sister).
Never got back to the Playboys nor the beer, but I've told this story dozens of times in the 40+ years since.
Ya know, where the cops cruise a grocery store, grabbing all the license plate numbers. Meanwhile, another cop is on the freeway, grabbing license place number. While the third cop is doing his rounds, grabbing license plate numbers.
This shit has to end or we as a society are totally fucked. Forget what Trump might do, look at what these paper cuts, taken together,, might do.
Let the H1-Bs change companies easily. Those who suck will stay low wage and not be a problem for me. Those who are good can easily find a job that pays them what they're worth.
Learned Java on my own a couple years ago, but have never used it in a professional environment. Do a lot of Python on my own. Do C/perl/bash/some C++ at work.
Love Python, Java is OK.
Then again, I've never used github neither personally nor professionally, I'm gonna guess these results are biased heavily towards github users, the rest of us (Perforce for me) are completely left out.
/ several years ago we were writing a new test suite // I wanted Python, most others wanted Perl /// Boss said "3,000 engineers here know Perl, you know Python. Wanna support 3,000 engineers?" //// bummer, but he had a damned valid point
I gotta say to my younger geeks: "I'm so sorry dude, you missed out".
Then again, times change, my daughter is past the booth babe age but I would have hated for her to do that.
/ went to telemetry conferences in the 80s, the booth babes were awesome (I was in my 20s)
// went to more mainstream conferences in the 90s, booth babes still awesome but as I had a daughter kinda awkward
/// hit a couple CES and CTIA conferences in the 00's, booth babes same age as my daughter. awkward.
//// haven't been to a conference in 10 years, don't miss them, the travel hassles, the booth babes, the reports to upper management.
Do you really that if HRC had known about this her campaign wouldn't have been using it?
I get the desire for privacy, I get the temptation to, well, cheat when you have that much power. How is this different from 10 years ago when you would have to peeps meet on an obscure bench somewhere, talking to each other while burying their faces in a newspaper.
I'm C, C++, embedded code, device drivers. If you ignore books like the Microsoft build engine (I don't do Windows) I've got probably 90% of those dealing with my problem domain.
Granted, most of these are not the current editions (haven't bought a book in over 10 years now), but I've got em.
In the 80's I wanted to go to a Usenix conference in Mission Valley. Boss said "why would I send you there". Me: "because for the past 3 years you've sent me to a week long conference in Vegas that I didn't want to go to and couldn't contribute". Boss: "But your good at what you do (telemetry), and I thought you liked those trips. Me: I don't gamble, I don't deal with customers well, I hate crowds. Boss: No.
Ended up paying the entrance fee myself and taking vacation days.
Did I mention Mission Valley was 10 miles from my condo? No airfare, no hotel, no food chits? Something like $60 and a couple days off, and I learned more at that damned USENIX than I did in 8 years of that stupid show in Vegas.
Best show? Got an all expense paid show to New Orleans, before Katrina. What sucked? Took the wife. I'd do the show, get to the hotel, and say "Ya know, I'd like to see foo" . Her response? "I saw foo yesterday, what else do you wanna see?".
Of course, back then companies would reserve 3-5 airplane seats 6 months in advance, then a couple days before the show decide who got to go. That all ended well before 9/11 when airlines decided they could charge fees for changes.
My understanding is a significant percentage of Intel dies are supporting ancient x86 instructions.
Apple doesn't care about backward compatibility If they can deliver a next gen chip with zero support of existing apps, they may have the money to pull it off.
If Intel could write off the x86 instruction set I'm guessing it's benchmarks would at least double.
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Some 10 years ago I worked for a large company with offices all over the world. I had to work with the hardware group, who wrote tests but had no clue about software. Not only did they not use any kind of version control, their common software (libraries and utilities) were on a mapped drive, usually s:. There was no documentation on what was mapped to s:. There was no write control on their software. They all worked on the same code, at the same time. A couple times a week I'd get group-wide mail along the lines of "whoever broke the build with foo.c, please fix ASAP". It doesn't help that more than once I was the one who broke the build but never admitted to it. Yep, I would have their file and my file open side by side (I had to copy their hardware register settings), would change the wrong file (why could I open their files r/w? Cuz they were dumasses). I begged their manager for over a year to use some kind of VCS, only to get a blank look.
I should mention, 2/3 of this team was in India, rest of the team including management was across the street.
So, new chip. Big announcement, they were going to use VCS this time. Happy me. Till I started to notice the files tended to stay new. Got concerned when changes went away. Came back. Went away again. After about a month I dug into it. I'll give you a paragraph break to think of WTF was happening.
Turned out, they still had the same shared directories everywhere. At the end of every day in India they would delete the entire repository from VCS. Then they would add every file in their common directories as new files. First thing in the morning somebody resync'd to the common directories. I kid you not. I walked across the street, asked the manager "um, whiskey tango foxtrot?". His answer? "It matches our workflow, it's working, go away".
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In the last 40 years I've used lots of languages from BASIC to Z80 assembly, 8080 assembly, 8086 assembly, 68k, C, awk, sed, sh, perl, C++, TCL/Tk, ADA, Python, Java, Javascript. Some I really liked (assembly, C), some I used with trepidation (C++, perl), some I actively hated (TCL/Tk, ADA).
But the one and only language that I felt was actually working against me was javascript. Damned script would pass all my tests, then fail on someone else's machine because they chose different options when installing, or had a different version, or just reasons. Note my scripts wouldn't actually fail, as in an error message. No, they just gave the wrong damned results.
I fucking hate Javascript with a passion and wish it would die by the end of the year.
They had an internal email address where you could email your ideas. Mine was to have the phone hold the data, when you were at your desk you could plug it into a docking station and get more storage, a keyboard, and a display. Plus it would run Word, Excel, whatever. Got rejected :(
So it affects me exactly 0%. FWIW I avoid the could because of these issues.
No chance in hell we will use metallic hydrogen due to pressures required.
and aerodynamics sez bumblebees can't fly.
That, when you were standing, would sneak up behind you and climb your pants, your shirt, then perch on your shoulder. Hard on the clothes, and sometimes painful, but cute as hell.
My sister had a kitten that would sit on your shoulder and suck your earlobe. A very weird feeling, but she was a hell of a kitten.
My current cat? Takes a dump in the litter box, then while trying to bury it kicks it onto the floor. sigh.
Yeah, I've used WINE. It's 2-3 versions behind Windows.
// impressed by what it did
/// not impressed in that it didn't solve my problem.
/ gotta admit, haven't tried it in, maybe 5 years
Not really. There are thousands of apps companies write to support their widget. For each app there isn't enough interest (mostly because you need $companies product to need the app) for the OSS folks to care.
If you have to buy a $20k doohicky that takes a dedicated windows app to control, how many OSS folks will be chomping at the bit to write the control program?
My #1 complaint on Win10, over the telemetry and touch oriented interface, is the fact that whenever I open my laptop I never know if it will have rebooted or not.
I don't understand how M$ can think it's ok to reboot my laptop without first getting my consent. If it weren't for a couple programs I need Windows for I'd have 2 laptops running Linux, instead of just 1.
My company got merged, I got redundant, and the handful of Cxxx's involved got huge bonuses? Um no, those Cxx's need to pay tax on my lost income.
When your goal is to reduce headcount, you should have to pay for it.
For the last few years we've heard about car companies adding networking to their cars, without adding any kind of security. Do a 3 finger salute on your DVD player? Hello, you can turn off the brakes.
I for one want to see car manufacturers 100% liable, plus damages, to software issues.
Fuck em, they're cheaping out in the hopes of being first to market. I say, first to hacked, first to toast.
Not only should convictions based on stingray data be tossed, legal fees should be reimbursed. There is no doubt these things were illegal, make the assholes who used them (under an NDA no less) pay for it.
// really sucks to be a law enforcement agency (HA!) that used the damned things
/// I'm old. I hope I live long enough to see 1984 fail
//// not holding my breath
///// /. formatting sucks balls. Why should I have to do a break line when a CRLF would do?
/ kinda sucks to be a Harris stockholder at the moment
Not only did Radio Shack give me all the software information I could want, I bought the technical manual that had the schematics and how it all worked. I used that info, I learned CS from that info. I made a career out of that info.
Apple can suck a petrified mammoth dick over this move.
Went back east to Illinois to mom's sister. Her husband took me to the basement, which had a TV and pool table. He showed me where the beer was, and the playboys. I was, um, enjoying the playboys when the lights went out. Went upstairs to adults deciding to investigate. Went with them, some drunk off his ass dude had nailed the power pole maybe half a mile from Archie's place (Archie was the uncle, Maxine mom's sister).
Never got back to the Playboys nor the beer, but I've told this story dozens of times in the 40+ years since.
considering the state is in a drought half the time. If only there was a way to build a wall or something to hold the water until it was needed.
Until a celebrity gets the same treatment it won't matter, because 99% of the sheeple don't follow /.
Let this happen to Beyonce and rejoice.
Ya know, where the cops cruise a grocery store, grabbing all the license plate numbers. Meanwhile, another cop is on the freeway, grabbing license place number. While the third cop is doing his rounds, grabbing license plate numbers.
This shit has to end or we as a society are totally fucked. Forget what Trump might do, look at what these paper cuts, taken together,, might do.
Let the H1-Bs change companies easily. Those who suck will stay low wage and not be a problem for me. Those who are good can easily find a job that pays them what they're worth.
Learned Java on my own a couple years ago, but have never used it in a professional environment. Do a lot of Python on my own. Do C/perl/bash/some C++ at work.
// I wanted Python, most others wanted Perl
/// Boss said "3,000 engineers here know Perl, you know Python. Wanna support 3,000 engineers?"
//// bummer, but he had a damned valid point
Love Python, Java is OK.
Then again, I've never used github neither personally nor professionally, I'm gonna guess these results are biased heavily towards github users, the rest of us (Perforce for me) are completely left out.
/ several years ago we were writing a new test suite
I gotta say to my younger geeks: "I'm so sorry dude, you missed out".
// went to more mainstream conferences in the 90s, booth babes still awesome but as I had a daughter kinda awkward
/// hit a couple CES and CTIA conferences in the 00's, booth babes same age as my daughter. awkward.
//// haven't been to a conference in 10 years, don't miss them, the travel hassles, the booth babes, the reports to upper management.
Then again, times change, my daughter is past the booth babe age but I would have hated for her to do that.
/ went to telemetry conferences in the 80s, the booth babes were awesome (I was in my 20s)
Do you really that if HRC had known about this her campaign wouldn't have been using it?
I get the desire for privacy, I get the temptation to, well, cheat when you have that much power. How is this different from 10 years ago when you would have to peeps meet on an obscure bench somewhere, talking to each other while burying their faces in a newspaper.
I'm C, C++, embedded code, device drivers. If you ignore books like the Microsoft build engine (I don't do Windows) I've got probably 90% of those dealing with my problem domain.
Granted, most of these are not the current editions (haven't bought a book in over 10 years now), but I've got em.
He was 71. Ok, he had a nice long life. Then I do the math and it's 11 years away for me. I'm not ready to croak yet, and won't be in 11 years.
jeez, getting old is not just painful but scary too.
It was a reward for getting stuff done.
In the 80's I wanted to go to a Usenix conference in Mission Valley. Boss said "why would I send you there". Me: "because for the past 3 years you've sent me to a week long conference in Vegas that I didn't want to go to and couldn't contribute". Boss: "But your good at what you do (telemetry), and I thought you liked those trips. Me: I don't gamble, I don't deal with customers well, I hate crowds. Boss: No.
Ended up paying the entrance fee myself and taking vacation days.
Did I mention Mission Valley was 10 miles from my condo? No airfare, no hotel, no food chits? Something like $60 and a couple days off, and I learned more at that damned USENIX than I did in 8 years of that stupid show in Vegas.
Best show? Got an all expense paid show to New Orleans, before Katrina. What sucked? Took the wife. I'd do the show, get to the hotel, and say "Ya know, I'd like to see foo" . Her response? "I saw foo yesterday, what else do you wanna see?".
Of course, back then companies would reserve 3-5 airplane seats 6 months in advance, then a couple days before the show decide who got to go. That all ended well before 9/11 when airlines decided they could charge fees for changes.
My understanding is a significant percentage of Intel dies are supporting ancient x86 instructions.
Apple doesn't care about backward compatibility If they can deliver a next gen chip with zero support of existing apps, they may have the money to pull it off.
If Intel could write off the x86 instruction set I'm guessing it's benchmarks would at least double. .
Some 10 years ago I worked for a large company with offices all over the world. I had to work with the hardware group, who wrote tests but had no clue about software. Not only did they not use any kind of version control, their common software (libraries and utilities) were on a mapped drive, usually s:. There was no documentation on what was mapped to s:. There was no write control on their software. They all worked on the same code, at the same time. A couple times a week I'd get group-wide mail along the lines of "whoever broke the build with foo.c, please fix ASAP". It doesn't help that more than once I was the one who broke the build but never admitted to it. Yep, I would have their file and my file open side by side (I had to copy their hardware register settings), would change the wrong file (why could I open their files r/w? Cuz they were dumasses). I begged their manager for over a year to use some kind of VCS, only to get a blank look.
I should mention, 2/3 of this team was in India, rest of the team including management was across the street.
So, new chip. Big announcement, they were going to use VCS this time. Happy me. Till I started to notice the files tended to stay new. Got concerned when changes went away. Came back. Went away again. After about a month I dug into it. I'll give you a paragraph break to think of WTF was happening.
Turned out, they still had the same shared directories everywhere. At the end of every day in India they would delete the entire repository from VCS. Then they would add every file in their common directories as new files. First thing in the morning somebody resync'd to the common directories. I kid you not. I walked across the street, asked the manager "um, whiskey tango foxtrot?". His answer? "It matches our workflow, it's working, go away".
sigh