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My apologies for misunderstanding the context of your words.
As for the rest, all I can say is that your experiences differ from mine.
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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With this project, we can now update operating systems as old as Windows 95 all the way through Windows XP RTM like we used to back in the day. We heard you liked Windows Update
Especially the people still running Windows 95 and XP
Part 1 of n today
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014. And I believe fragments of crazy have been found at Harvard
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Isn't this the same dild who said Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft?
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Yup. Seems we have a special case there.
TTFN - Kent
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Off Papua New Guinea? That isn't alien tech, it is proof of Amelia's crash.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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But what caused her to crash?
I'm not saying it was aliens...
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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The Surgeon General warns that faculty teas are dangerous to your mental health.
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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This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. Good thing we don't have to deal with it then
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Dan Cowell wrote: Especially code written by some other people. FTFH
There is code by other people that is like being thrown to hell
and there is code by other people that is well structured, correct, simple, effective...
the latest might even be a pleasure to work with.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I agree. I've been writing code for 37 years, but the code written by a young developer I work with now has taught me a lot about well-structured, easy-to-read code. But then I'm mostly a self-taught, cowboy coder.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Sartre: Hell is other people's code. A fairly amusing and insightful article.
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upvoted for extending Sartre's words
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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i have often seen programmers assigned to work with another framework, language, or assigned to fix legacy code:
walk around screaming how the code is worthless ... long before they touch their keyboards, and get to work.
for new hires, those histrionics may backfire on them.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. "Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Seems I'm on a "Star Wars" theme for today.
No, not, "A New Hope". Dang kids (and Lucas) retroactively changing the title. Harrumph!
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OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems. Does it involve teaching them the lyrics to 'Daisy Bell'?
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Maybe they are trying to create a clone of Detective Del Spooner
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Make it work for minimum wage, give it the average household bills to pay, and see what happens...
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Half of tech executives reported heavy drinking in a new survey. 45% reported using painkillers. Does this mean I'm qualified to be an executive?
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That's why I prefer to stay in the dev side, although lately I almost don't write any code
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Because tech execs have to work with programmers ... like us ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Here is a dumb question that you probably never asked yourself: What is the minimal amount of bytes we need to store in a .NET executable to have the CLR print the string"Hello, World!" to the standard output? Because you never now when you might need a really small Hello World program
I suppose it's possible some of these fripperfications might be useful elsewhere, but I'm somewhat doubtful.
(and isn't P/Invoke kind of cheating here?)
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from EtymologyOnLine: frippery (n.)
1560s, "old clothes, cast-off garments," from French friperie "old clothes, an old clothes shop," from Old French freperie, feuperie "old rags, rubbish, old clothes" (13c.), from frepe, feupe "fringe; rags, old clothes," from Late Latin faluppa "chip, splinter, straw, fiber." The notion is of "things worn down, clothes rubbed to rags." The ironic meaning "finery" (but with overtones of tawdriness) dates from 1630s.
@kent_sharkey
Congratularios, Kent ! on your innovation "fripperifications," which i don't see anywhere else in the web.
as an etymology/linguistics obsessee, i must ask you if this is an apt candidate for a neologism ... given what you see in the article cited ?
cheers, bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Frippery was where I started from. I’m not sure why my brain insisted on the -ifications ending. Maybe to combine frippery and machinations? Sadly, I left no notes.
TTFN - Kent
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