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Nearly a century-and-a-half ago, British philosopher John Stuart Mill explained, in a few clear sentences, why certain arguments simply won’t go anywhere. Yet we persist
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Yeah, and then he went and died, because he knew couldn't provide proof, and was afraid to face my rational arguments!
What a 1053R and a total troll!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yet we persist
No we don't.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: No we don't.
Is this the five-minute argument, or the full half hour?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The past few years have seen a boost in popularity of the functional programming paradigm. So.. safe for werewolf programmers?
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I'm all-out against it.
My code is totally non-functional.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gosub for the win?
TTFN - Kent
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On Error Return Next to bring it home. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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PERFORM VARYING hop-procedure FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL bored
For a rainy day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How dare you sully this forum with COBOL! 
...however, now that you have perhaps we should, in the light of currently fashionably social mores, be all switching to it as it was designed by a WOMAN! Even if she was an admiral!
No one can argue against that - without being a misog... oh, forget it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, we know.
#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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Oh dear, what abstraction level does that guy have! Using the current index of an object in a list as an identifier, and then discussing if that should start at 0 or 1 because of UI concerns... Nowhere mentioning concurrency as an issue.
Oh no, send him back to elementary classes.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Open source browser tries to avoid publicizing your dirtier computing habits. I think they may have found their killer feature
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I detest "dynamic" home pages that show recent sites and unstructured favourites. They're such a waste of fruggin' time.
I've just finished setting up a Pale Moon (a branch of FF) interface in a way that I like it. The joy of Pale Moon is that it just gives you a blank page, where you can add link widgets (I've just decided that that's the official name for home-page linky graphics), and make them any size you like.
Folders are created through the context menu, but are essentially entries in a properties script, and have their own unique addresses, so I made a bunch of folders for different themes, sized them so that they only show their captions, and made links to each folder within each folder (so each folder page has a link to every other folder page, and also a link to itself).
Having arranged the folder links down the sides of the folder pages, using the same grid locations each time, they look almost like a tree-view in a file manager, and because they're on each page, they're always present.
Drop a bunch of appropriate link widgets in each folder, and Bob's your uncle: a phenomenally usable and intuitive browser home page. Gotta be my all-time favourite.
... So now I'm waiting for the "upgrade" when they'll completely **ck it up.
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Is is hiding your visits to Stack Overflow?
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Many people slouch or strain their necks while working at the computer. A new study shows how jutting the head forward to read more closely compresses the neck and leads to neck and shoulder problems. Yes they can.
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It's in cases like these where Steve Jobs' true talent for cutting through cr@p shone brightest.
Which is better:
- A 500 word, boring, repetitive article?
- "You're holding it sitting wrong"?
I know which gets my vote.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If the intent of that article was to make me feel even more smugly superior to uniscreen peasants hunched over their laptops, it succeeded wonderfully.
On my desk at work my laptop sits in a stack of 4 old programming books to elevate it's screen to the same height as my main monitors. When I use my personal laptop on the couch, I use an oversized pillow as a lap desk to raise the screen up a similar amount. (This is a sub-optimal height for typing, but when using my laptop that way my usage tends to be very heavily consumptive.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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A trend that started in companies for a few years now has been for managers to concern themselves with developer happiness. Let me know when you find it
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Demonstrating, once again, that managers have no clue what developers are all about.
Devs don't want you to make them happy; they want you to keep them busy. Piling just enough work on is how you show appreciation for their talents (making people listen to things like "I really appreciate..." is embarrassing and distracting, whereas showing trust is a sign of trust) (Who'da thunkit?)
Happiness is in the Eye of the Beholder*; management types will never understand (and can therefore never provide) the things that make devs happy -- all they can do is piss the guys off with stupid, time-wasting attempts.
* See how I snuck in a reference to the Forgotten Realms series, there? Nay daft I, aye?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark largely hit the nail on the head, but this sentence should be written in bold and nailed to the foreheads of upper management: Quote: One of the most cited problems from developers perspective about big companies management is a lack of transparency regarding decisions made and lack of accountability for those decisions.
I'm weary of the following discussion:
Management: Last week you said it would take another three weeks, now you say it will take six. Why?
Developer: You added features X and Y and then had me roll feature K back to the previous version.
Management: Why didn't you say anything?
Developer: I did; I said it would add three weeks to the schedule.
Management stares at developer and then: But last week, you said it would only take another three weeks.
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It's pretty much a given, from studies on 'happiness', that the guaranteed way to kill happiness is to try and create happiness.
Happiness is generally nowadays seen as an effect of someone being engaged in their work with a sense of security and purpose.
One manager I worked with provided pizzas and free beer every Friday - strangely enough all the developers were more miserable under this manager than they were previously - largely because the manager thought that he could make up for his huge character flaws(constant dishonesty and lying) by buying people a few beers.
The cognitive dissonance exhibited by many in managerial positions is generally one of the main causes of misery.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I had a boss who would occasionally fly into rages, yelling and banging his fist on the table.
He would then, later in the day, have the company controller drop a bonus cheque on my desk "because I was performing so well" - in other words, since I had just stared at him and said nothing during such tirades and then pretended nothing had happened. He thought this was enough, and it was, when the cheques were big enough - and since he was a multi-millionaire who had lost touch with the real value of things, they always were.
He had a multiple personality disorder which manifested in him telling me a list of things that were his priority - and then, an hour or so later, doing it again and being surprised that I had already fixed many of the items. More bonus cheques. Good times, sort of.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft could face more complaints after a ruling says it's liable for damages caused by an unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade. "Finland , Finland , Finland. The country where I want to be."
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