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by t43562 2y ago
My parents took us on a once-in-a-lifetime visit to Ireland from Zimbabwe. My cousin had a ZX-80. I think he's a very big shot in Tesco now and I'm just a programmer. It was the first computer I ever saw. 1kb memory. Some game or
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by t43562 2y ago
It's so nice to see my homeland is famous for something! :-) Zimbabwe Dollars FTW. I have 500 billion dollars in a cupboard somewhere BTW.
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by t43562 2y ago
My daily dose of inferiority: done. :-) Perfect sentences which are complete gobblede-gook to me.
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by t43562 2y ago
> Most of the top richest people in America are immigrants. ....because there isn't enough wealth where they're from to absorb a lot of failures. Hence they come to the land of opportunity where there are gamblers with money t
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by t43562 2y ago
No way. There would be a much bigger loss of "sovrinty" than people were prepared to put up with in the EU and that's in the miraculous case that the US wanted it.
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by t43562 2y ago
Just a note - 100k jobs aren't that common in software in the UK. Perhaps they're there in finance but there are a lot of people looking for software jobs now who accept much less. I've managed to avoid the finance sector my
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by t43562 2y ago
The testing Pyramid makes sense. The problem for (perhaps) a lot of us will be that we're working on things where some or even all of the levels are missing and we have to try to bring them to a sensible state as fast as possible....b
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by t43562 2y ago
I never even knew images could be searched this way on a phone and the iPhone users in my family don't either. A huge privacy-bruising feature for nothing in our case.
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by t43562 2y ago
...although python 3.13 can be built without the GIL and it really does make threading useful. I did some comparisons with and without. I suppose one excellent thing about this would be if you could just change 1 parameter and switch from
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by t43562 2y ago
I did walk past a fairly small glass building.....in London....every day on the way to work and it was wonderful in the winter. It was significantly warmer for about 15 metres and also brighter. I wished there could have been a place to d
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by t43562 2y ago
I can understand this as aesthetics are pretty personal so things that get seen by many people end up having to be generic. I do care about the energy consumption though - I think that it might be even more ferocious codes that end up chang
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by t43562 2y ago
IMO UML is useless because whatever diagram gets produced means different things to different people and it's very complex but not check-able so people can make UML diagrams that are self contradictory or nonsense. I find myself using
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by t43562 2y ago
"Gear Acquisition Syndrome" (GAS) is an awesome term for it :-)
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by t43562 2y ago
You develop your application on an 8GB model and find out that 16GB is much better. You can choose to port it to some other OS with some other hardware if you like or buy a 16GB Pi 5 and save the effort. The choice is now there. What'
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by t43562 2y ago
Big codebases develop badly/well because of the established company culture. Culture tends to flow from the top. If it's very expedient at the top then the attitude to code will be too. You get stuck in the "can't do any
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by t43562 2y ago
Self absorbed.
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by t43562 2y ago
Some of these companies aren't delightedly eager to make it cheap to access the data you have entered into their systems. It's like they own your data in a sense and want to make it harder to leave. I love your point about the ch
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by t43562 2y ago
The problem I have is that only people who "know" already tend to accept this insight. i.e. explaining it to those who make decisions doesn't work that well because it doesn't fit their mental model very well - they don&
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by t43562 2y ago
This is a major issue. Why the code is what it is. You need a history of the assumptions so that new developers can know what's legacy and what isn't. I've never yet had a set of requirements that didn't change.
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by t43562 2y ago
I've come across some terrible programs written by almost-to-be-certified engineers :-) - lots of embedded constants and special cases. I am perfectly happy to be called a "programmer" though. IMO that's a very adequate
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by t43562 2y ago
I think companies have a lot of data in systems like confluence and JIRA and their chat solution which is hard to find and people in the company don't even know that it might be there to search for it. An LLM that was trained up on the
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by t43562 2y ago
It needs to answer the "why" question most IMO. I can read code and see "how" and perhaps guess "what" but the "why" is missing. It also doesn't have to be that detailed - just a one line comment
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by t43562 2y ago
Deviating from the "standard" can make it harder for another maintainer to understand what's going on. IMO setting up reasonable patterns for others to follow is part of a good design. I'm not saying that I personally am
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by t43562 2y ago
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for this great website where it is possible to have intellectual discussions no matter what odd and lonely place one might be living in. :-) I have had to recreate Christmas for my family on my own - my wif
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by t43562 2y ago
On big American roads it's easy to own big cars. Given that people have to drive a lot because it's so spread out, it's very convenient to be able to put lots of stuff and/or people in a vehicle. I theorise that your car
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by t43562 2y ago
I am a combination Tech Lead/Line Manager. I'm at a lower position than an Engineering Manager but the problems don't seem that different. I found that losing touch with the code is disastrous - one cannot make sensible decis
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by t43562 2y ago
There you have the gambling, the risk, the reason why programming isn't mechanical. One has to use judgement. Some generalisations are quite cheap, others very costly. It's always worth using the cheap ones and very important to u
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by t43562 2y ago
That reminds me of when I briefly worked for IBM - an unpleasant corporate culture. I don't think it has anything to do with the end results, however. i.e. good people still ended up working for them. 1.2 was problematic and 2.0 work
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by t43562 2y ago
It was garbage while Microsoft was working on it. That NT wasn't garbage is due to it's being written by people from VMS who knew what they were doing. IMO.
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by t43562 2y ago
... what does that practically matter to people living in the Microsoft era?

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