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by spc476 4y ago
Have you tried using it via a web browser? https://teams.microsoft.com (If I recall correctly---it's been several months since I've had to use it). I found it worked much faster than the actual Mac app.
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My complaint? Well, back when I had to use it (between jobs now), I found the app (Mac M1-base laptop) to be slow and painful to use. But using Teams via a website? Way faster, which I found odd because I think both are web based (I thin
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by spc476 4y ago
If you follow the links, most of the complaints stem from the Microsoft Windows implementation of the C Standard.
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Think calloc()---it takes two size parameters, one the size of the item, and one the number of items. In theory, this could avoid an overflow: items = fread(array,sizeof(array[0]),count,fp); vs: items = read(fh,array,sizeof(
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by spc476 4y ago
It's still useful. Some friends and I send group email (each person listed on the To: line) to manage our D&D game, but since it's only about eight recipients, it never gets out of hand and we're kept up to date with wh
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And it sounds better than "assembly line worker."
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Alan Kay spent the early part of his career explaining his ideas via The Socratic Method [1]. How, he spends his career yelling at us for failing to come to his conclusions. What, exactly, is wrong with "I think the current name of th
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by spc476 4y ago
There are times when I work with old C code. Just the other day, I added proper C prototypes to a project, and immediately found several bugs with the code, like "this function is expecting a char **, the variable being passed in is c
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//----------------- // <date> This is to work around a bug in the third party // function foo() (filed bug report #foo234). This code does ... // // <date si
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The company I worked for got bought out, and new management took over (of course). I kept raising issues about how broken the new "Agile development system" was. My complaints hit a VP level, who was "looking into it."
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Code that is easy to modify slowly becomes code that isn't easy to modify.
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Here's a real-world example from my previous job. A process makes two simultaneous requests (we're on a tight dead line here). Here is the enumerated states we have to code for: send 1,2 -> receive 1, receive 2, process
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by spc476 4y ago
My post is a reaction to my previous job, where management cared more for tests than the actual product, and I was tasked with proving a negative. I was asking for a definition of "unit testing" and I always get different respons
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Then I'm not even a fool, because I didn't get that "not compiling counts as a failed test." It feels like the goal posts get shifted all the time. Yes, I've gotten failed compilations, and every time it's bec
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by spc476 4y ago
But the orthodoxy seems to be write the tests first , see them fail, then write code, not write a little bit of code, write some test cases, repeat. How "test first, then code" works in a compiled language like C++ or Rust be
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by spc476 4y ago
I'm replying to this one, but really, it applies to each of the replies to tester756. I want to say you all are insane, but I'm wondering if it's just that I do a different type of programming, or that the language I'm
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by spc476 4y ago
I heard of one program for the C-64 with two drives. You load the code into the drives, and it would copy a disk without the C-64 being on.
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by spc476 4y ago
If they even make an offer. When my dad died a few years ago, I combed through his considerable music CD collection for stuff I wanted (not very much), then tried selling the rest to a 2nd-hand store. They didn't even make an offer--
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by spc476 4y ago
> 5:49 -> "Five and very tense 45" or "Five and loose 50?" Four past a quarter to six. As I'm posting this, it is 12 past half til 6 (Eastern).
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by spc476 4y ago
There are several types of ROM available. The type you would find in most 8-bit computers from Atari, Apple, Commodore, Radio Shack, etc. would be chips pre-programmed (aka a Mask Read-Only Memory) at a factory with the contents, such that
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by spc476 4y ago
Even standard functions can be deprecated and removed over time. A prime example of that is C's gets() function.
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by spc476 4y ago
Install a web proxy (is Squid a thing anymore? It used to be the proxy server), configure your web browser(s) to use it, and have the proxy save all its content so you know where to search for a "known item search."
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And here's the video they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-C77ujnLZo
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> or worse only once a month Don't discount a job because of one deployment per month---it really depends upon the service. I joke that a busy year for me involved four deployments to production, but "production" for me w
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by spc476 4y ago
Tell that to my two previous managers. They were more or less forced into a management role. One left, the other retired.
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I played around with it a few years ago: < https://boston.conman.org/2015/06/16.1 > On the bad side: it's nearly unusable without the pads, you're restricted to 64 bytes for everything (program and
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by spc476 4y ago
I self-host email. And my website. And DNS. I've been doing so for over two decades now.
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The thing I loved about AIX is SMIT (System Managment Interface Tool). Available both from the command line and GUI, you could completely manage the AIX system from it, but at any point, you could also have it print out what commands it wa
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by spc476 4y ago
My last job (I left in October) still uses Solaris on the SPARC-64 architecture. It was selected because the customer, The Oligarchic Cell Phone Company, required NEBS (Network Equipment Building System) compliance (it wouldn't surpri
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by spc476 4y ago
Some of these are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). What we did at a previous job was to have a system like Etsy's statd [1] (it's an easy system to implement) and it made it easy to add statistics like latency of requests, numb

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