chadcmulligan

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by chadcmulligan 10y ago
I never mentioned visual fox pro, it's not comparable and I would never say it was the pinnacle of easy to make CRUD apps which is why I mentioned Delphi and VB, Delphi in particular I'd say was (and still is in some ways). I don&
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by chadcmulligan 10y ago
Actually I would argue the converse, that many "modern" improvements have taken a step backwards. My first job was using SQL*Forms (an oracle product) on a Sun, it was for making CRUD apps on a tty (a terminal). We had a metric -
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by chadcmulligan 10y ago
assuming linear probably a 100,000 line program in C
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by chadcmulligan 10y ago
This has been on my wish list for some time - seems time to buy it.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
skip reading is perhaps a better name for it. I got the gist - speed reading doesn't work, saved myself a few minutes only skipping to the start of each paragraph.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
I dread the day mine stops working. I'm overseas and when they first came out I wanted one, so paid a fortune to some place in Malaysia that bought them in bulk from the US, added a couple of hundred dollars and resold them. I've
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
Web is where the new stuff was happening. The browser is very constrained - most of the 'new' stuff is to get around the browser shortcomings - e.g. react, angular. These are to solve front end problems that have been long solve
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
the lua vm to, the code is so small but works so well.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
A lot of enterprise software work that I know about that IBM does are things like SAP integration (which was a great disaster in my home land - queensland, australia, have a google). You can see a lot of this sort of stuff moving to the clo
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
I was so pleased when I could write my Delphi code on iOS/osx and android as well and could abandon the horribleness that is IB.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
try typescript, if you haven't already, its very nice. Doesn't help with the browser part unfortunately, but at least gets rid of the javascript oddities.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
I develop medical systems for windows with Delphi. Also develop a graphical system in my spare time for the Mac with Delphi
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
you also get paid a lot of money as a truck driver in Syria, there's a reason for that
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
I do a lot of Delphi during the day (medical systems), also spent a number of years with other languages - C/C++, Objective C, Java, c#, javascript, typescript, lua, perl etc and I agree whole heartedly. Delphi is still the most produc
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
Yes, reminds me of CASE (Computer aided software engineering) systems from the 90's. In 10 years there'll be no programmers, then the web happened, and it all started again.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
Depends where you live I suppose, Have a couple of local chicken shops that make great roast chickens, and of course supermarket ones nearby. I'm in Australia though, and I suspect our experience is different from the US.
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
I remember when I was a kid (Back in my day :-)) roast chicken was an expensive Sunday treat. Then at some time they become really cheap and you could eat chicken whenever you wanted. Now no one bothers roasting their own chickens, they&#x2
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by chadcmulligan 11y ago
And yes you could view these jobs as the coal mining jobs of today. The solution is the same now as it was then, unionize, negotiate and withdraw labor, it's been the same for more than the last century.