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To howls of outrage, I have suggested to several companies that we simply disconnect from the public Internet. People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO wa
by gaius 10y ago
To howls of outrage, I have suggested to several companies that we simply disconnect from the public Internet. People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. Obviously the web servers in the DC need to be accessible but the desktops in the office, or the critical bits of infra like DB, file servers and so on, nope.
Anyone who wants to surf can easily do so on their personal smartphone with no risk to corporate systems. No one has ever been able to put together a coherent rebuttal to my proposal, yet still the PCs remain connected and still people click things they shouldn't...
- fit2rule 10y ago> People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. I've always considered SO to be more a sign of devolution than anything else. It hasn't produced better programmers - just more programmers. Is that better?
- drinchev 10y agoSO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ). Sure I remember having lots of fun with Turbo Pascal and paper books, as well as Perl and `man perlre`, but nevertheless there is always one weird error that will cost you half a day of debugging, which nowadays is replaced with 5 minutes googling. SO community are doing fine job with preventing bad code left without the warnings, but anyway I think SO delivered more to programming than it actually took.
- fit2rule 10y agoI think the SO mentality leads to lazy developers who depend too much on the wisdom of others and don't do enough to push their own forward. Too many times I've seen "tech departments" sitting around, incapable of doing anything productive, because "the internet is down". This is a real issue, and I wish it got a bit more attention from the cognescenti .. we are producing generations of robotic developers who can't get anything done without hand-holding...
- gaius 10y agoSomeone actually said, we can't all be super-genius programmers who can program without Google. But that was the norm when I started, and I'm only in my 40s. A copy of W Richard Stevens and a copy of K&R is all you needed for 99% of real work.
- geocar 10y agoIt's made more people with the job title (or description) of programmer. That's not the same thing at all.