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The mac mini is...well, it's not their workhorse. We use one in the office to handle our teleconferences. Fine for basic stuff but there are definitely faster micro PCs out there.
I've used a Macbook Air for a number of years now and it's definitely fast enough. Can't wait for the next iteration.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: The mac mini is...well, it's not their workhorse
I'm learning the truth of that as I develop my first iOS apps. Well, it's a bit better than I first thought, but it becomes quite laggy at times. Mostly, inconsistency feels like the norm. 
Well, I'm using it only for the iOS dev so I can probably tolerate it for a while.
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Yesterday never comes.
However, upgrade headaches will, and they'll be taller than the highest peak in the Sierras.
Then again maybe knot.
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Ah ha! So that's why my internet stopped working!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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An OS update that installs and just gets on and does its job?!?!
What a nightmare!
Where's the drama? The tragedy? The wringing of hands and the wailing of mourning widows?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know - I'm still trying to find out what's wrong with it. Driving me nuts.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So MVC is introduced by Smalltalk. I thought it was by Java. After all these years I was fooling myself with this assumption. Shame of me. Thanks InfoQ for the related news.
modified 23-Sep-16 10:26am.
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Microsoft Visual C++ was introduced by Microsoft
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Hahahahah. I'm not as such fool. Don't forget my name Stephen.
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You'll find that pretty much every paradigm you can think of can trace its way back to things like Smalltalk, the original Unix implementations, VMS and Xerox PARC. There's been precious little real new material since the mid 80s; merely refinement of concepts that were introduced earlier.
This space for rent
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Indeed, the great inventions were happended decades back. These days people lost their track and yet produce programming language like incubator.
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We're too busy on Facebook, Twitter, and WoW now to innovate.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: There's been precious little real new material since the mid 80s
Yes, I miss my retractable cup-holders on desktop towers 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Well, many "new" ideas are typically based on tech from at least a couple of decades ago. Often they're simply before their time. Or the "new" incarnation is in a more usable form.
Kevin
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OOPS was introduced in Simula!
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MVC has been around since the 70s. Same with XML (as SGML) too. Like Pete has mentioned, we're just rehashing old crap with new shiny names and acting like it's a game changer.
Jeremy Falcon
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Essay on Aeon, "Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex" by Walter Vanini: [^]Quote: Unfortunately, this rosy portrait bears no relation to reality. For starters, the profile of a programmer’s mind is pretty uncommon. As well as being highly analytical and creative, software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks. Manic attention to detail is a must; slovenliness is verboten. Attaining this level of concentration requires a state of mind called being ‘in the flow’, a quasi-symbiotic relationship between human and machine that improves performance and motivation.
I find many articles on Aeon fascinating, but this article leaves me with the kind of feeling I have looking at road-kill too closely, so, of course, I want to share that with you.
imho, it is absurd to speak of the ethics of coding beyond the usual concerns involving any intellectual property (ownership, plagariasm, theft, etc.), or the usual concerns around employment (exploitation, fair/unfair compensation, etc.); the ethical "dimensions" are in the context in which programming occurs, the ultimate purpose of the code, the intentions of its creators and owners, the actions of its users or owners vis-à-vis others.
Once upon a time (1983), this derelict who writes to you now created and ran a "computer education" program (Apple II's, Apple dot-matrix printers) for the French-American Bilingual School in San Francisco for one academic year (and one year was enough contact with kids below the age of 12 to last me a lifetime). Yes, those kids had fun; fun creating "Turtle dances" in LOGO and then actually dancing to them to music; yes, some had fun creating programs to create graphics like spirographs, and Mandelbrot sets, and such. And, many did not have "fun" in spite of my best efforts, but found using the computer challenging in some way. But, after tall, compared to today, that pre-Internet time is virtually a technological stone-age. There were bulletin-boards around, and, in fact, one kid at school used his dad's computer to somehow find a list of uncensored bay area bulletin boards, some of which had names like "KillerToilets," and brought copies of that list to school which caused a certain scandal, and I had parents coming to see me about that. Also of interest during that year was the a group of parents banding together to demand I teach BASIC, as well as LOGO (I agreed with them, and, in fact, was planning to do so).
While in my "native language and culture" (Corporate Occupied MallburgerLand aka "USA") the word "fun" may indeed have a somewhat belittling, diminutive, connotation (depending on how it's used in context), other cultures may not share such deprecation (in Thai the word "sanuk" is a key cultural meme, and it means much more than "casual" fun).
So my peers, and mentors, what say you: programming is "fun"" ... or not ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Yes it is fun... otherwise I could not have done it for 41 years and counting!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: otherwise I could not have done it for 41 years and counting!
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Coding is fun, but it's much more fun to work the word 'slovenliness' into a sentence.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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"techno-plutocracy that’s insulating itself behind its own technology" IS funny.
I feel a digital revolution coming up.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Programming is work. If you are a hobbyist then it is fun, I guess.
I enjoy programming. It is how I make a living, and I enjoy it, but it is seldom "fun".
With that said, working on side projects etc. for my own enjoyment, can be fun, not always.
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Playing with dogs and cats is fun. Watching Bilko is fun. Stolen afternoons in the pub are fun.
Coding is not fun. It may be enjoyable but it is not - in any way, shape or form - fun.
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I think Walter Vanini might be overstating things a bit. It's not that hard, but then nothing is if people have an interest in what they are doing. That said, the problem you might be trying to solve can be.
I like coding, what ruins it is people banging on about SOLID, or the gang of four, creating new and tedious patterns every day. Good cooks don't need recipe books! Also, so much emphasis is on the process (agile etc.) these days. I haven't noticed the quality of software go up since it's become common practice to stand up like lemons in a circle each morning.
So in short, probably far more fun as a hobby or under your own rules than as a profession.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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