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by ralphc 6y ago
I was part of the C++ -> Java revolution, and I'd add the language being much simpler than C++. It felt like a rare, real 80/20 thing where you get 80% of C++'s power for 20% of the complexity.
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by ralphc 6y ago
To someone going into IT or programming at a young age (so, not me), would you recommend them to get into COBOL and mainframes? Will it be a career option for 10+ years?
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by ralphc 6y ago
Also, don't forget the IRS has a quasi-adversarial relationship with you. You're trying to pay as little tax as legally allowed, they want you to pay more. They're not motivated to show you ways to pay less tax.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Let's go farther back. I did/do code editing, not WYSIWYG word processing, and a good DOS editor let you do everything you needed without taking your hands off the keyboard. You could zoom through your code.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Different McDonald's around the world have different menu items. It's not so different as to make up for reveling in the experience, but it would be mildly interesting. You can see a version of this by going to https:/&#x2F
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by ralphc 6y ago
I say this as someone who was a nerd in the '70s, before it was cool, but the problem is, we have a bunch of children that needs to be taught many subjects to be productive citizens, at a level of expertise not seen in history. Their p
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by ralphc 6y ago
Did you mean "never"?
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by ralphc 6y ago
I should set up a "first time I hear about a Google product is the kill announcement" counter.
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by ralphc 6y ago
What's your Common Lisp and operating system of choice? Are there ones that are easier to do FFI?
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by ralphc 6y ago
If the comment made here "It's just a job, not your identity. Put in your 40 hours then do something else.", then look at a larger company. You'll be less likely to "make a difference", but you'll be less
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by ralphc 6y ago
Telix was my DOS terminal program of choice, and still is when I'm using a retro computer. Lots of features, good zmodem running.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Mainly a matter of "all the cool kids are using Racket for DSLs", more seriously the web sites, documentation, YouTube vids, Q&A's etc. say that one of Racket's specialties is writing DSLs and languages. I've us
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by ralphc 6y ago
I do work in the Salesforce ecosystem, and they really push "citizen developers" and "administrators can write apps with low-code tools" and they push their low-code tool, Flow, as much as they can. I hate the clicky-dr
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by ralphc 6y ago
If it's all remote, how does your employer know where you're really at? I'm waiting for the story where someone's caught claiming to live in SF or NYC for the pay but really lives somewhere rural.
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by ralphc 6y ago
If someone lives to 200, 500, 1000, does their brain "fill up", run out of room for new memories? Do you forget entire decades from earlier, do you stop being able to form new long-term memories? Do you pick up a book and wonder i
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by ralphc 6y ago
Tangential question - is the ability to "code", i.e. develop software, an innate talent or can anyone learn to do it well enough with sufficient training and self-motivated work? Will there be a percentage of incarcerated, or boot
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by ralphc 6y ago
Would this, or something else, be a good solution for producing XML-based output, similar to an HTML templating language?
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by ralphc 6y ago
Don't know if this is still true but Oracle only had installs for the RHEL/CentOS family, which of course included Oracle Linux.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Yes, that's what I appreciate the most with the USB-C on my 2019 MBP. No matter where I am I can plug the charger in on either side nearest to the wall. Of course with the M1 or later ARM chips charging will be less of an issue.
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by ralphc 6y ago
I was 33 years in the industry, as a developer. Some times I considered going into management, and was asked about it, but fairly early on I realized I would hate it and it would hate me.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Why did they adopt Scala in the first place? I remember around 2012-2014 it was the hawtness. My guess is that there are languages that give you much of the power of Scala without the complexity - Kotlin, and modern Java, having caught up.
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by ralphc 6y ago
My wife has a Dymo label printer that stopped working on Windows 10 after a Windows update. We got it figured out eventually but I was the hero by pulling out a Windows 7 computer and downloading the previous version driver and got those la
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by ralphc 6y ago
I'm not a basketball fan but if LeBron only turns out to be the 2nd or 3rd greatest I'd assert he still lived up to the hype.
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by ralphc 6y ago
You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?.
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by ralphc 6y ago
"You are 11% basic. Red Moon Architect and Ahab? Where do you even find this shit?."
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by ralphc 6y ago
I listened to Why Don't We _one time_ to see what they sounded like and now Spotify, and this, thinks I stan.
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by ralphc 6y ago
What's your gaming rig, specifically your video card?
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by ralphc 6y ago
I've heard the Flash codebase described as a big steaming pile of C++. Perhaps they cared but making a secure Flash was an impossible task. Windows has magnitudes more resources working on it and it still gets exploits all the time.
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by ralphc 6y ago
I don't know if it's a "reason" or not, but lisp-1 semantics would be more familiar to a language that legions of programmers would be familiar with - JavaScript. Eich wanted to make Scheme for the web, and having a vari
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by ralphc 6y ago
I graduated college in 1984, so my note taking was entirely pen & paper. What's the norm in college nowadays? Is everyone banging away on laptops? That seems like it would be distracting to me. If it is laptops, what software do pe

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