A lot of programmers get addicted to rewriting from scratch, and are often afraid of trying to understand old code. You are not one of those people.
It's not always possible to rip out the old code and rewrite it. If a section of code took a team three years to write, it's going to take you a while to replace it, and you probably don't have that much time. "Encapsulate the ugliness" is a way to, as you poetically say, pour epoxy on it, neutralize it so it doesn't grow bigger, then over time, replace it. It's not a strategy that works in every situation, but no strategy is.
Amazon will just stop delivering by drone to neighborhoods where too many thefts happen.
If only a few thefts happen, they will re-deliver, like happens now when packages get lost (annoyingly common with their new courier service)
The networks need people to watch shows at a certain time, not dvr them fast forward etc, because they depend on the ad revenues.
That means the only measure of success is viewership at original air time for the most part and that the target demographic that the advertisers want tuned in.
FWIW Nielsen statistics typically include shows watched on DVR within three days of the original showing (though including this doesn't change the numbers very much).
For those who don't understand why a walled garden is bad, here is one of the reasons.
If you owned root on your device, you could encrypt it yourself.
Of course it's different, but I still don't have much respect for a programmer who is afraid to pick up a new language (or believes they can't in a reasonable amount of time).
Excuse my while I hurl. dnf from an interface perspective has been nothing but a headache for 2.5 releases, and it STILL can't do the things with reliability that yum did,
What problems are there with dnf? I'm rather neutral towards it, but I haven't found any problems that I didn't have with yum.
, probably because they're worried that some new hire will write some mission critical program in "R" and that when he's gone in a year or two they will have to pay consultants huge amounts of money to maintain or re-write the app in a language that's easier to hire for.
I'm somewhat suspicious of 'programmers'' who find it a challenge to learn a new language. I know some programmers are afraid of it,but I've taken those kinds of programmers and trained them in strange languages they were afraid of.
It's more a matter of overcoming your fear, and digging in. If you work at it eight hours a day, a new language won't take you too long to learn.
But I don't know why people are complaining so much. The same can be said for BSD and Linux distros. An older BSD or Linux release is not going to work on newer systems
Mainly because people don't like Windows 10. If the new Windows were so great that people wanted to upgrade, then no one would complain (think of Vista -> 7, no one complained about that one). The only reason people are complaining is because they don't want to upgrade, and are sad because they are forced to. Upgrade here, sad people.
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When he stopped hawking Walker,
Why did he stop?
It's great we live in America, which has a system designed to survive through a string of lousy presidents.
Wow, that's a very nice example.
Secondly, even if we assume that the current government is populated by saints
It's not. We already know that the NSA programs were abused in multiple ways.
A lot of programmers get addicted to rewriting from scratch, and are often afraid of trying to understand old code. You are not one of those people.
It's not always possible to rip out the old code and rewrite it. If a section of code took a team three years to write, it's going to take you a while to replace it, and you probably don't have that much time. "Encapsulate the ugliness" is a way to, as you poetically say, pour epoxy on it, neutralize it so it doesn't grow bigger, then over time, replace it. It's not a strategy that works in every situation, but no strategy is.
tbh, I was kind of amazed how quickly the NSA programs went from "only for good" to "hey, let's spy on my ex-girlfriend"
Nod. Interesting, but I'm sure you see the point: less labor to get more gold.
Yeah, I was basically giving data to support your point lol
Amazon will just stop delivering by drone to neighborhoods where too many thefts happen.
If only a few thefts happen, they will re-deliver, like happens now when packages get lost (annoyingly common with their new courier service)
The networks need people to watch shows at a certain time, not dvr them fast forward etc, because they depend on the ad revenues. That means the only measure of success is viewership at original air time for the most part and that the target demographic that the advertisers want tuned in.
FWIW Nielsen statistics typically include shows watched on DVR within three days of the original showing (though including this doesn't change the numbers very much).
For those who don't understand why a walled garden is bad, here is one of the reasons.
If you owned root on your device, you could encrypt it yourself.
and 99% of [quoted] statistics are skewed by selection bias of the reporter
This is really true (and unfortunately so)
When I went to school, in the mid-80s, we were taught BASIC and Pascal, which was a good springboard to languages like C.
FYI, your school was atypical.
Exactly true.
Of course it's different, but I still don't have much respect for a programmer who is afraid to pick up a new language (or believes they can't in a reasonable amount of time).
John mccain however was born at the Coco Solo Naval Station in Panama
That entertains me every time I think of it.
Excuse my while I hurl. dnf from an interface perspective has been nothing but a headache for 2.5 releases, and it STILL can't do the things with reliability that yum did,
What problems are there with dnf? I'm rather neutral towards it, but I haven't found any problems that I didn't have with yum.
ok, maybe instead I should have said:
"I'm somewhat suspicious of 'programmers'' who don't believe they can learn a new language."
, probably because they're worried that some new hire will write some mission critical program in "R" and that when he's gone in a year or two they will have to pay consultants huge amounts of money to maintain or re-write the app in a language that's easier to hire for.
I'm somewhat suspicious of 'programmers'' who find it a challenge to learn a new language. I know some programmers are afraid of it,but I've taken those kinds of programmers and trained them in strange languages they were afraid of.
It's more a matter of overcoming your fear, and digging in. If you work at it eight hours a day, a new language won't take you too long to learn.
But I don't know why people are complaining so much. The same can be said for BSD and Linux distros. An older BSD or Linux release is not going to work on newer systems
Mainly because people don't like Windows 10. If the new Windows were so great that people wanted to upgrade, then no one would complain (think of Vista -> 7, no one complained about that one). The only reason people are complaining is because they don't want to upgrade, and are sad because they are forced to. Upgrade here, sad people.
I don't want your friend to work for free.
I want to get rid of all the crap that people aren't willing to pay for.
Now I want to know what company you are running.
I was thinking of the gold cyanide process, which created a drop in gold price after it was invented, but that too
Getting rid of advertising would fix the problem.
(I admit that's a hypothesis, but it's one I'm willing to try)
The process works. In 15 years, I've never had anyone leave (except to retire), and I've never had to let anyone go.
You must pay them a lot.
(if you can suddenly mine more gold--and thus suddenly *do* mine more gold)
And that sort of thing has happened in history with gold.