GrumpyYoungMan

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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   Oh? Which "them" were you referring to when you said "stop using language like 'SJW' that is designed to turn them off completely" then?
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   Well, what should we refer to them as? I've asked this question over and over again to people supporting these views with no response. If they have a proper name, people would most likely be happy to refer to them by it. Until they c
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   I'm surprised and a bit dismayed to read Sussman's reasoning: "...Sussman said that in the 80s and 90s, engineers built complex systems by combining simple and well-understood parts. The goal of SICP was to provide the abstr
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   I would disagree with that greatly. Postel's law says there's no need to excessively constrain what's considered valid input, not to ignore basic bounds checking and security. Not following Postel's law would result in
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   Bing still honors the + operator, thankfully. I find it occasionally useful.
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   I don't think that's a meaningful question. One could go back a couple of centuries, before germ and virus theory was developed, and ask the same thing about physical illnesses. It would be more accurate IMO to say that we'r
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   Martin Fowler's First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don’t distribute your objects! http://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966 Just skimmed through the article and found myself nodding all the way th
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   How many criminal charges were filed against individual engineers for any those 30,000 fatalities last year? How many were convicted? None and none. You're illustrating my point for me quite nicely. Frankly, I can't think of a
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   by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

   I'd agree with that. My impression is that the profession is bifurcating into two categories: 1) Programmers, who have solid coding skills that primarily work on building systems using existing modules and libraries. 2) Software engin
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    by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

    >How many software developers want to be held criminally responsible for deaths? Nope. Short of gross negligence in design, that seldom happens in any engineering field. How many people were criminally charged in the Challenger disaster
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    by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

    Gasoline is inherently unstable and turns into a gummy, plastic-like substance after only a few months. Although there are off-the-shelf fuel stabilizer additives available, the max lifetime is only around 2 years. Diesel fuel is subject t
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    by GrumpyYoungMan 10y ago

    >It's what company founders tell employees to exploit them, to get them to work overtime as a norm for crap normal-time pay. Um, that's precisely his point since he's writing it from the POV of a employer.