|
Are they really "smart" homes or lazy homeowner enablers?
(Once interviewed at a smart home device maker. All I saw were complicated thermostats and the ability to turn on appliances remotely. Their stuff was very cool, but I failed to see the "smart" aspect of it all.)
|
|
|
|
|
Google has said it will not fix a potential security flaw that could trick a user into downloading malware from its login window. Fortunately no one ever needs to log into Google, right?
|
|
|
|
|
If users have trouble articulating what it is they need, how are they ever supposed to code it themselves? Unless, of course, what they really mean is Excel spreadsheets...
This is like when I were a nipper and fixed engines for a living. My favorite customers were the ones that tried to fix their own engines. Oh how I laughed when they forgot to prime the oil pump and filter. 
|
|
|
|
|
The yawning gap in tech skills has gone on for so long that it’s creating some surprising shifts in supply and demand. The most ferocious appetite for software development talent, for instance, is no longer in Silicon Valley. And now, in many companies, developer jobs aren’t even reserved for developers. Giggle
Yeah, pretty much an advertisement, but I figured if I have to see this nonsense, you get to as well.
|
|
|
|
|
That’s because a relatively new technology, known as low-code or no-code platforms
The irony to that is what is missing. The selling point of OO and every other "architectural" tech:
Code re-use.
You would think that by now, we would have small, stable, portable, cross-platform, documented, tested libraries for just about everything generic that you can think of.
You would think by now that we would have ways of gluing these things together, without resorting to these "low-code" platforms, but as actual developer tools.
But no. Software development is still in Kindergarten, leading to the "yawning gap", not in technical skill per se, but in decent tooling.
Ideally, re-use and developer tools should be why we need less programmers. But because of the plethora of half-baked frameworks, open source projects for every variation on a theme, and the nightmare of doing web development on an architecture that originally had no Javascript and only 5 HTML tags, yeah, you get a yawning gap and a definite market niche (hardly a niche, more like an impact crater the size of the moon) to fill the gap created by the chaos of software development.
Marc
modified 30-Aug-16 20:51pm.
|
|
|
|
|
On top of that, almost every project I had to do with had some silly 'requirements' that will not so easily be done with any 'no code' thingie. Perhaps so ething that needs massive multithreading and complex synchronization and still is not as fast as some dum... ... ... manager thought it should be.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
If you substitute QuickBase with SharePoint, will it still be valid?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
|
|
|
|
|
Excel spreadsheets. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
Dont need to recode what is already available. Not if you have to pay for it than what is open source code for. 
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: in many companies, developer jobs aren’t even reserved for developers
Ain't that f*ckin obvious...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
-
You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
-
When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
|
|
|
|
|
The C programming language is struggling to compete with other languages in today’s fast-paced web and mobile world. The language hit an all-time low on the TIOBE index this month. Plummeting all the way from second place... to second place. THE HORROR
|
|
|
|
|
The new attack uses Word documents loaded with malicious code Word documents. Why am I not surprised?
|
|
|
|
|
They will try anything to test the system. IT is a worry 
|
|
|
|
|
Lawyers get millions. Consumers get nothing. E-mail snooping continues unabated. Looks like a pretty normal class action suit result to me
|
|
|
|
|
Smartphones might be helping employees keep in touch with colleagues and do urgent tasks on the move, but using these devices at workplace actually make people less productive, says a new study by the Universities of Würzburg and Nottingham-Trent. And decrease incoming calls by 100%
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: do urgent tasks
"The urgent is seldom important."
~Stephen Covey
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, not being readily available for every whim of the wife and kids is amazingly productive...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
|
|
|
|
|
Not being married and/or having a steady girlfriend/boyfriend improves productivity even more. However, the biggest boost is not having an incompetent dick for a boss.
|
|
|
|
|
"...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread." But you'll still have to change the diapers
And now my eyes won't roll back to normal
|
|
|
|
|
And parenting will become more like programming 
|
|
|
|
|
Very few parents understand tolerance stackups.
(And, given the companies I've worked for, few of them are willing to invest in the capital required to create such systems. Largely thanks to investors. )
|
|
|
|
|
The next silver bullet that will become a buzzword, get on everybody's nerves for a while and then (ironically) go the way of the dinosaurs. Ironically, because it's essentially an evolutionary algorithm with the fitness function partially replaced by human interaction.
The downside is, that the evolution of something not trivial may take a few generations with many candidates. That means the whole process may take some time, as a non-trivial test of each candidate and the also non-trivial fitness function will limit the number of candidates per second severely and manual 'parenting' will only slow down the process.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
Yet more words from someone collecting a paycheck for doing, well, nothing except saying weird stuff.
Not altogether different from what Kent writes WITHOUT a PhD....
|
|
|
|
|
This RC gives an idea of what the full version of 2.0 will look like, and we’re looking for broader feedback to stabilize and make 2.0 a solid release. Overall, the RC should be stable enough for general use, and we don’t expect any major new features to be added past this point. Fixing JavaScript's woes, since 2012
Well, some of them. It's a big list.
|
|
|
|
|
Bloomberg: Updated August 30, 2016 10:48 AM GMT: [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
