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Software Does Not Fail(niquette.com)
1 points by spc476 5y ago|3 comments
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You could try throwing the characters into translate.google.com and see what comes out.
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So it sounds like Zig makes a distinction between pointers and arrays. Am I reading that right?
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Sometimes it's hard for engineers. In college, I majored in Computer Science, and for an elective, I took Electronics for non-EE majors. The first half of the course was analog electronics which I struggled with, but everyone else ap
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Wow! I remember working for a company having to deal with your 2022 scenario way back in 1997! Only back then we didn't have npm, react, or any other of a dozen Javascript frameworks I've forgotten the name of. Oh, and we did it
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The only thing I could think of is a centralized location of all the format strings could make things easier to translate to another language. But as I stated in my post, it's an internal tool; we don't offer it to other customer
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And sometimes the horrendous code really is written by someone else. I recently came across some horrendous code [1] that needlessly wrapped syslog(), and separated the format string from the point of use (the format string was a #define).
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I recently installed two Linux VMs on my laptop. One, running the latest Ubuntu, got the network interfaces (yes, I have two defined) working as I wanted. The other one, running CentOS 7.9 (because that's what we're stuck with a
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As someone who wrote their own "Quote of the Day" server [1] I will agree that the QOTD protocol (RFC-865/STD-23) is simple, but not quite the "ridiculously easy" as you put it. Let's assume we have something
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Perhaps it's down to how JIRA is configured. At $JOB, if you mention the JIRA ticket in a commit message, a link will show up in the ticket to show the commit (it may take some time to show up, but it does eventually). Also, there&#x
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Have an architect as a friend? I have such a friend, and it's always fascinating when talking to him about building codes and such (such as the type of covering for network cables in a commercial setting depends upon the type of A&#x2
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Having written a CPU emulator [1], I don't thunk it would have been of much use. The Intel CPUs typically don't set the flags on a MOV, but Motorola CPUs typically do. [1] https://github.com/spc476/mc6809
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Because when C was standardized in 1989, there were a few vendors that wanted to support non-two's-complement hardware, and C has been stuck with that ever since. But more to the point, even on two's-complement hardware, the CMP
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Can you describe a monad without using the words "functor", "applicative," "endofunctor" or using Haskel syntax to describe it?
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But until relatively recently (2018 perhaps?) Congress was legally allowed to profit with insider trading (probably due to Article I, section 6, paragraph 1 of the Constitution).
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I recently came across a web site that allows one to zoom into the content (it's a mapping site). Only the designers just assumed that everyone would have either a mouse with a scroll wheel, or a touch pad. Well, I have neither. An
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This was written just after Lua 5.2 was released. There have been improvements since then. Lua 5.3 introduced an integer type (64-bit), actual Boolean operators, a UTF-8 library, a way to yield across a C-boundary and a way to pack and un
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It depends upon usage. My blogging software keeps entries in the file system, in a hierarchy as YYYY/MM/DD. I just create the directories as I add entries by doing a "mkdir(year); mkdir(year "/" month); mkdir
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The cloud is "someone else".
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What should be done instead?
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I work frim home ... pandemic and all that. What else am I supposed to do?
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It took us five years to get our customer (the Oligarchic Cell Phone Companies) to add some additional information to one SIP header we consume.
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I grew up using an IBM PCjr, and it's not flimsy at all---it is solid and well constructed (with the possible exception of the keyboard). I will grant you that it's marginal at being a PC, but it's not cheaply built.
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The individual code bases of a microservice might not involve spaghetti code, but the interconnections certain can. I'm looking at a diagram of the service I work on, with seven components (written in three languages), five databases,
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syslog() has been around for a lot longer than 20 years, and that's a function that logs to a separate process. What's so bad about syslog that people need to invent new logging systems?
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"Hey, it improved the financials since it moved from capex to opex. Also, I got my bonus and jumped ship before the excrement hit the cooling unit." Yeah, several years ago, our corporate overlords sold off a database we created
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Twenty years on, and I can still link to any item at Amazon as long as I have it's ASIN, and using the template: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<asin id> Say what you will about Ama
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You don't need fiat currency---the Romans debased their currency just as much as we do today.
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I've been programming professionally for 30 years now, and I have learned sysadmin skills---the skills required changed at least three times and the skills I learned in the 90s/early 2000s are largely obsolete, the skills from the
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And the red in my left eye isn't the same as the red in my right eye. Yes, when the lighting conditions are just right , I see different hues out of each eye [1]. I have to wonder how one would (or should?) correct for that in an im

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