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by grandiego 4y ago
I have a client (banking sector) which "recently" (5 years ago) started with AIX since they already had POWER systems running IBM i (i.e. modern AS/400), and had to select a Unix for a new vendor's EFT system; it was rea
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by grandiego 4y ago
IMHO in most cases the "sense of understanding" comes from all the related materials which you read when installing a "difficult" system: it is difficult not because inherent complexity but for lacking abstracting tools
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by grandiego 4y ago
IMHO the books with the transcription of the Krishnamurti conferences encourages the practice of thinking in novel ways.
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by grandiego 4y ago
> For example, somebody wrote an algorithm example full of $ii $tk $zx and so on and I asked them about this (who knows, maybe there's some logical reason to not use my_variable_name for example) The only Basic I used long ago was i
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by grandiego 5y ago
In the "Alternatives" section of TFA there are some interesting comments regarding the async/await approach (which was avoided by the Virtual Threads proposal): "Provide syntactic stackless coroutines (async/await)
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by grandiego 6y ago
> It's a solid base for you to build your software on top. Agreed. It is what I usually find at client installations in backend systems (at least for the last five years). IMHO it would be pointless to ask them to re-test/re-ce
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by grandiego 6y ago
Hehe... around 2002 I worked in the IT support division of a telco (South America.) At some time I suggested the use of ssh to login to our farm of Digital/Compaq/HP servers (I believe it was not included in the base OS.) The IT S
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by grandiego 6y ago
I always use this forum in read-only mode, but today I must do an exception: Thank you Dang!!!
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by grandiego 10y ago
>I've used ORMs longer than the term ORM existed. I've never once thought it as a replacement for SQL. It's a supplemental tool. Yes, but 99% of the documentation points to Hibernate as a replacement tool (for Sql, the beg
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by grandiego 10y ago
APUE does not teach C, but the Unix API. Granted, it is an excellent resource for people interested in such OS family. K&R is a great resource which covers a lot beyond the syntax, but is obviously dated from the standard's perspec