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SDD fits nicely with sales-driven promises on delivery dates!
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I prefer SSD
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Eventually it all turns into maintenance-driven development. New features, new innovation, updating frameworks and language versions, it all gets tossed out the window because the financial people say there's no budget, even when the product is making money. Basically, they don't want to spend money.
And so the product slowly obsoletes itself until browser technology, database technology, framework/language support ends, third party licenses expire, and we're back to square one:
This sh*t needs to be rewritten from scratch because it's so archaic and obsolete!
And if "they" only had had the foresight to do small incremental changes, maintain the licenses, etc., the cost would be significantly less. Not to mention retaining customers (gov't customers in our case) that when the contract for the product they are using ends, they sign up with someone that looks better and probably is better.
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Marc Clifton wrote: And if "they" only had had the foresight to do small incremental changes, maintain the licenses, etc., the cost would be significantly less. Not to mention retaining customers (gov't customers in our case) that when the contract for the product they are using ends, they sign up with someone that looks better and probably is better.
Agree to a point - management doesn't recognize the need to keep licenses and frameworks up-to-date, and when the software implodes due to management's neglect, the developers are eventually blamed for the subsequent software failures and inevitable budget crisis'. Sure a rewrite is okay as long as it doesn't involve the devs with the tribal knowledge because it's their fault everything went to hell in a hand basket.
In the case of government contracts, award decisions are made based on personal/political agendas, and have nothing to do with a rewrite. If a rewrite is done, it's under a different contract project name with no consideration for backward compatibility with the pre-existing system, nor training requirements because the UI is so radically different.
".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
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The system, called “Make-A-Scene,” is meant to demonstrate how AI has the potential to empower anyone to bring their imagination to life. Why are there no happy little squirrels?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: how AI has the potential to empower anyone to bring their imagination to life. And I am sure it is going to be used properly and without evil intentions...
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yyyuuuuuupppp!
TTFN - Kent
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Welcome news for anyone who's ready to retire their Sony Discman. What's a CD?
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I am still waiting the ability to rip casettes
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What's a CD? Certificate of Deposit. Why rip those?
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A big difference between working in Go or Rust vs. some of the languages on the dreaded list has nothing to do with the specifics of the language syntax. Instead, the difference is the tooling and supporting ecosystem. "Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
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Sad that mankind wins knowledge way faster that wins wisdom
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I've long wondered if it's because so many hardcore advocates of new languages swear by CLIs and denigrate IDEs.
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The FBI lost over 200 computers and other items such as night-vision scopes last year, according to internal records obtained by Motherboard. If only they had some investigators that would find them
Do they keep leaving them in taxis?
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"lost"... yeah, right.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If only they had some investigators that would find them
They can only get involved if the computer is mislaid across State lines.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Chinese Wikipedia had a robust collection of detailed and authoritative articles on medieval Russia, thanks to a user called Zhemao who claimed to be the daughter of a diplomat assigned in the country. You mean scotch wasn't invented by a little old lady from Leningrad?
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This is why wikipedia can never be used as source documentation for research.
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Rate limiting provides a way to protect a resource in order to avoid overwhelming your app and keep traffic at a safe level. Sometimes you have to say enough is enough
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Could we use that to limit the rate of unneeded or trashy new created apps too?
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Businesses and schools can now install Chrome OS on existing hardware Why just install Linux, when you can install Linux that watches everything you do?
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Because is free?
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Even with our humble, earthbound eyes, we can still observe the difference in image quality and details the telescopes produce. Someone's going to have lens-envy
And I'm sure someone's already done a version or fifteen of the "guy with girlfriend, checking out other lady" meme for these two.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: lens-envy... "guy with girlfriend, checking out other lady"...
Mirror, mirror, out in space,
Who has the most beautiful face?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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