cognivore

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by cognivore 13y ago
Half the jobs?! Whew, that's some chunk of work. I need to get busy...
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by cognivore 13y ago
>> this thread has, indeed, been voted off the front page once again. << Keep sweeping under the rug, it'll hold lots.
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by cognivore 13y ago
So, this has to be said. These fucktards are the people representing our profession on NPR. NPR doesn't run stories about the other apps presented at TechCrunch Disrupt. The public won't here about that, or really, much of the c
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by cognivore 13y ago
If you’re a technical person who uses computers for your work, a weak PC market is a blessing. There is absolutely no reason the general public should be using the traditional desktop computer. They should be using limited use devices tail
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by cognivore 13y ago
This is a happy trend for anyone who is a technical person. It's taking the computers out of the hands of the incompetent and giving them a simple device of limited use and little programability they can use to do the simple things they wa
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by cognivore 13y ago
>> But start infecting people's computers, and a portion of them are going to fight back. << I already fought back. I don't watch movies, nor TV. No cable, no Netflix, no movie theaters, no nothing. Fsck 'em. You want to
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by cognivore 13y ago
This gives me an idea. Wouldn't it be cool if had some sort of run-time environment/virtual machine that everyone could target for their applications, where it used some sort of markup for forms and layout and a built in language for autom
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by cognivore 13y ago
IMHO, little that you mention, the books, the open source projects, the magnitudes of complexity, the math, code-kata, the introspection, whatever, has much to do with what people need to develop software. What you need to be able to do is
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by cognivore 13y ago
The part of rent-a-coder that bothers me is I'm sure it goes like this more than we'd like: - Party A contracts with Party B on a big software contract. - Party B sub-contracts on some of it to Party C, D, & E. - Party E is a bit dodgy
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by cognivore 14y ago
The original article by was on how compilers did optimizations using bitwise operations, which makes perfect sense. In day to day programming they can be useful, but all too often I run into code where they've obfuscated what's going on be
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by cognivore 14y ago
>> What do you think this will possibly achieve? << I'll put myself in Ortiz's shoes. I've just pursued a federal case in which the invested parties no longer are interested in continuing. I do it with a fervor that is unwa
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by cognivore 14y ago
I walk every line of code I write multiple times with a debugger. So the answer is, a lot. But I mostly work in an environment that makes debugging easy (VS). Lack of good debugging support is a good reason to avoid a platform. Logging,
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by cognivore 14y ago
"The reality is that the most basic automation is a task impossible for someone who hasn’t spent months learning to program. Automation is what computers were supposed to help humans with in the first place." When one wants to express a com
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by cognivore 14y ago
So the fastest adopted technology in human history is one that allows us to yak incessantly, send banal ill grammared missives to each other, generate fart noises, and watch videos of kitties doing silly things. The future is going to be s
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by cognivore 14y ago
Come at it from the other direction. You spend all your time trying to write for television (or spend all your time doing X) because you have no effing life. You're the proverbial All Work Jack. Author is a good example. All that sacrific
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by cognivore 14y ago
It's okay, they'll eventually figure it out, when they're sitting on a pile of money but nothing else to show for those endless years of 70-80 hour work weeks. Maybe they'll be plenty happy with their pile of money - more power to them. O
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by cognivore 16y ago
Heh, that's funny - that means I'm better at securing Windows than Google.