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This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially all of my work with software. I attempt to articulate this mindset, some of its implications and strengths, and some of the ways in which it’s lead me astray. "Try, try, try to understand"
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Computers are actually easy to understand, computers just follow what they get feed... what I fail to understand is why the heck someone would do things in the way they are usually done.
Quoting the article of [Don't use the word "did"...] below:
Quote: At risk of running counter to Sinclair’s claim, in this case – as Lovelace herself would’ve hopefully agreed – it is people who are stupid, not computers. The proof for that can be found in the ...
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.
modified 18-Feb-20 1:06am.
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What he's essentially saying is that no-one but him should be trusted, no matter how well qualified and experienced they are in their specialist fields.
In fact, he seems to be against any kind of specialisation. Does he plumb and wire his own houses, and build his own fridges and TVs out of components and materials he has himself manufactured/mined/processed/etc?
I'd expect a more mature world view from a seven-year-old child.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't think that's what he was trying to say in the article.
Understanding the next layer down isn't akin to building it from scratch. Consider if a circuit breaker in your house wouldn't stay on - you'd systematically unplug stuff until you had power back, you probably know enough to unplug appliances that typically draw a lot of power first as well. There's a big difference between learning enough to do that, and wiring your house from scratch.
Learning a little bit about the stuff you don't need to know about is great, otherwise how would you be able to judge between whether or not something like drain cleaner, or a frontend JavaScript framework was an unnecessary and unhelpful?
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
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I think that's a pretty accurate,clear and well written article from someone who is just starting out in software.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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A fun (and frighteningly accurate) read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For sure, and it's an excellent article... asking someone to write code at an interview will get you my "how much money do you have?" look.
And I'm far too old to play games with a 28 year old something project manager prick who thinks he knows it all... yeah, had one of those interviews. Even helped their engineering team solve a bug they'd been fighting for a week... but these people were smoking the OO weed and off into inheritance diagrams instead of working code.
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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Kent must have used the word "did" in his blurb as it has gone missing.
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Dang. Caught it on the version that mailed out, but not this forum version. Ah well, you're not missing much:
"Whiteboards deemed awful"
TTFN - Kent
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The experience of the writer just elephanting pisses me off. I can tell you for a fact that if I had guys slinging algorithms around like asked for in the interview, I'd be very concerned. Why?
I happen to be a grunt EE who writes embedded s/w and HMIs. My products NEVER die. Fancy code gives me the squirts. Stick with the basics, don't come up with fancy embedded classes within .h files. You might die (I might be a suspect) before I ever retire.
I am so tired of fancy code that is unsupportable.
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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Microsoft says the ability to sync extensions across their Chromium-based Edge browsers on different devices is coming this month, starting with Canary channel testers. Because I know you're all breathless, waiting for Edge updates
And it's an incredibly slow news day.
I remain surprised that the Windows team hasn't pulled them back under their release schedule
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In 2018, the owner of Two-Bit History, a site dedicated to computer history, wrote a successful article about mathematician Ada Lovelace, who some credit as being the first computer programmer. Sadly, if you search Google for that article today you won't find it. Some idiotic anti-piracy company had it deleted because it dared to use the word 'did'. Did be evil
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And where exactly is it that companies keep off-shoring their support teams to?
Dance, Western Fools, Dance!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft is giving up on making its Visual Studio App Center a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) to concentrate on DevOps functionality, and many developers aren't happy about it. "You can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You messed up. You trusted us!"
Slightly sanitized
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I tried real hard to get riled, but failed.
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I confess that it hit me in pretty much the same way.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Breakthrough Listen project just released two petabytes of SETI data, and anyone from scientists to coders with experience in Python and a bit of gumption can look for signs of extraterrestrial life. It's only 2 petabytes, shouldn't take too long
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There's many people asking for free stuff or begging for resources. SETI doesn't seem worth the effort, there's no proof of intelligent life if this universe at all.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The paradox is that it will take the advanced intelligent life they are looking for to find advanced intelligent life in that amount of data.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: 2 petabytes
Every time I see data quantities like that, it reminds me of a Linux app -- a small Linux app -- that had made provision for storage of up to multiple yottabytes of data.
I don't know how much unique data there is in the world, but there's a fair chance that it hasn't even reached one yottabyte, yet (that's a top-of-the-head non-calculation, so I'm quite ready to be corrected on it).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: it hasn't even reached one yottabyte
Is that with, or without, cat videos? 
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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Ah. Point taken.
Less than 20 yottabytes, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord. Those Linux folk *are* a shifty bunch
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