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I got bored with new tech many years ago, and discovered I was much more interested in developing best practices (at least for me, haha) surrounding tech, everything from documentation / testing practices to coding style, and importantly discovering good architecture practices, regardless of the language or framework I'm working in (though often constrained by them, so subsets of architecture practices are important to identify as well.)
When I see a new tech, I end up looking at it from the perspective of whether (and how) it supports what I've learned (again, for me) are good practices. If it looks capable, then I'm interested, which is why I've glommed onto C# / .NET and am disgusted with languages like Ruby, Python, and Javascript, though I'm fully aware of how the language is (usually) independent of good architecture. It's more a question of how easy does the language make it to code in good architecture.
Of course, I'm focusing on programming "tech", but the metaphor holds for other tech as well.
Marc
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Hackers and cyber criminals are often seen as the biggest threat to company IT systems, but a report from behavioral firewall company Preempt shows that insiders, including careless or naive employees, are now viewed as an equally important problem. Do you trust the person at the next cubicle?
Do they trust you? Should they?
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My former department had a staging area open to all IT personnel, maybe 150 people, of which about 50 were developers. If someone wanted to make you look bad, the first thing they did was sabotage your web.config files. The SysAdmins who deployed the applications with RoboCopy didn't exclude the web.config; so your application would error. That surely didn't make you look good.
So no, I don't trust many of my coworkers.
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Windows 10 has now reached roughly 24% marketshare over the month of November according to a report from Netmarketshare. They're taking the scenic route to 1 billion devices
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Counting only PCs... Aren't they all dead?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. Let's start copying APL instead
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Life is too short to code in C
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Quote: Life is too short not to code in C FTFY
Ciao,
luker
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Write in C - YouTube[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have ...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.Oscar Wilde
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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How about let's stop creating new languages altogether. We should have enough by now.
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Sometimes complaining for the sake of complaining is fun, but not when I'm supposed to read several pages of mostly illogical rants. Overall, it sounds like she needs to start using C++17.
(The funniest part is when she asserts that language X is more logical because, and then shows something completely opaque.)
modified 5-Dec-16 12:57pm.
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Experts say this is only the first wave of the Internet of Things, and a new generation of intelligent devices is still to come. I'd try to make a joke about something ridiculous getting networked, but I'm sure I'd be insulting someone's marketing strategy
Internet-connected drinking glass? done. Internet-connected diaper? yep. How about a belt?
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Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to apply a focused electromagnetic field to a precise part of the brain involved in storing the word, they could trigger the sort of brain activity representative of focused attention. Quick, pass me the magnets, please!
I need a boatload these days.
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At its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, some Microsoft shareholders were more than a little concerned about the company's mobile strategy, or if it even had one. Now why would they think that?
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By generating random inputs to a given program, fuzzing triggers and helps uncover errors quickly and thoroughly. "But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square."
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Open source Cosmos, due next year, reduces hardware dependencies for C#, F#, and Visual Basic If you wish to make an app from scratch, you must first create a custom OS?
To paraphrase the late, great Dr. Sagan.
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The Comma.ai team has published the source code for both its Openpilot self-driving tech and its NEO robotics platform. Now you can update your car so that it crashes itself
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While C’s number 2 spot is promising, the trends have more to say about C’s position in the programming world. Plummeting from second place... to second place
The HORROR
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Can you really talk about "C’s number 2 spot" in public?
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how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
C continues to thunder on in many spaces, esp the embedded world. Check back in 25 years....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: how does one write an article like this and have self-respect?
I suppose you write articles about Tiobe's farcedex every month the same way you write a blurb and link to it every month.
30 pieces of silver don't go nearly as far as they used to though...
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
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I'd wager with IoT coming into play these days, C will be around for a while yet.
Jeremy Falcon
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