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I can't relate yet, because while I've narrowed the scope of what I'm willing to learn somewhat, I'm still eager about things that capture my interest. IoT was one such thing, and then fun became work as my hobby landed me a gig designing some of these things. Fun fun. Sometimes I find it funny what I can get people to pay me to do.
Real programmers use butterflies
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You basically described how I feel just about every day...
I have completed a third attempt at selling a software application (the base application is free and anyone can use it) but the finalization process of testing and completing the updater has me wondering why even bother any longer.
Software development has not really changed over the years since I really enjoyed learning all the new tools; it has just simply become far more complex to basically accomplish the same things we have always been doing.
There is little respect left for the senior engineers and developers in our profession allowing for rampant ageism to run through the field resulting in a loss of a massive amount of knowledge on how things should be done to make things just work.
Today, everyone is in a rush to promote the latest tool-sets despite the realities that none of them will really accomplish anything more than what we used years ago.
Web development has, as a result, become a horror show where even many younger developers are starting to wonder if all the complexity is any longer manageable or even worth it. As to the latter, it isn't.
Subsequently, I have decided to no longer do such development, preferring to remain with simply developing WPF applications since it is much more straight forward.
If I decide to move my current project to that of a multi-user one, I have already decided to build it as a client-server application since .NET makes such older endeavors far easier to implement minus all of the added complexities of dealing with a web server. Of course, it may not be considered "cool" but who knows...
At 70 years of age and still involved with a field (on my own) I have spent decades in as an employee and senior consultant, I mourn the loss of the lessor complexity of our earlier years.
Really, what have we gained with all these upgrades and more complex paradigms and tools? A little extra speed? A purest approach to web development? Who really cares in the scheme of things?
Before the deprivations of outsourcing by greedy, self-centered corporations, our profession in the United States was considered a nation treasure, a crown jewel. Now look at us.
And if one is approaching their sixties or already in them, unless one is working completely on their own, they can soon expect to be jettisoned from this profession simply because of their age.
However, historians have always said that Humans have no generational memory so everything old is simply to be discarded...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I would assume not only that you are not alone, but that any programmer with 10+ years under their belt feels the same way or is a glutton for punishment. The focus has shifted from crafting good code to a tech race ignoring the basics. Even those who focus on good code get lost in the spaghetti of "smell" and patterns.
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I can't express how much I feel what you're saying.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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IoT seems of interest to many. (Not me so much.) Maybe this[^] is of interest.
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From MSDN: Quote: This exception is thrown when an OpenIdConnect protocol handler encounters an invalid nonce. Does that means he is in a wheelchair?
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As you have probably already discovered that is referring to a cryptographic nonce[^].
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Yes, but it is a very odd choice of word. In British slang a nonce is a sex offender, particularly one who abuses young people.
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Interesting,
Looking at the etymology it appears that the British slang is modern from ~1975[^] with the older Middle English meaning 'something used once'.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Kind of like how "smoking a fag" means two entirely different things in GB English and USA English
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Yes, but you don't expect to find it in the technical documentation.
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Maybe in the 80's.
"Go smoke a fag while the installation is running.
This software was sponsored by Pall Mall."
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Hmmm,
There is also the British 'chuffed to the muff' which an American might misunderstand.
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As a secondary language English speaker it means nothing at all to me
I guessed it meant being full after a good dinner, but I was wrong and now I'm not chuffed to the muff
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In your country... U kunt de kok om bitterballen vragen.
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To quote this discussion's topic: What?
Other than the literal meaning, asking the cook for "bitterballen" (which has no English translation), I don't think that means anything
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Heh,
I don't speak Dutch, I simply tried to generate a legible sentence out of funny sounding Dutch words.
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Fair enough
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Randor wrote: chuffed to the muff Hm, never heard that one. But I have heard of the sport of muff diving.
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it sounds unpleasant.
I know what it means though from hanging about with brits online.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I got banned from reddit for hate speech for three days for saying the former - in a private chat with my nice online English fren.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, cigarettes have a very bad rep nowadays!
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That must have been it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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What? I've been misusing it? I've used "nonce" as a synonym for "moment".
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Probably acceptable where you live. Just be careful if you are over here.
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