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So the solution, as the writer went to great lengths to point out, is a new buzzword?
How utterly ridiculous and behind the times! So 2010s!
What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What we really need, to definitively and completely resolve the problem, is a new "Engineers" icon!
Truly a broad-minded solution! 
TTFN - Kent
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As expected, the engineers on this forum are skeptical towards this article (which kind of proves the articles point, well done!) 
On a serious note, I don't have a technical education, but a "soft" study in arts, culture and media and I do notice a difference in thinking between me and most of my (ex-)coworkers.
In fact, it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer because I only learned that after my study.
How many developers do you know that can talk to users and managers without either of them being annoyed by the other? 
I'm not sure if mindfulness is the solution, but I do agree there's a problem.
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Sander Rossel wrote: a "soft" study in arts, culture and media
Did you wear slippers to class? 
Sander Rossel wrote: it's often a selling point that I don't think as a developer
Same here.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Agreed - some of the best programmers I know have music degrees.
TTFN - Kent
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The problem is, divergent thinking is terrifying to the traditional thinkers and managers, and so is almost always quashed. 
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Obsessing with “clean code” and removing duplication is a phase many of us go through. Dirty, dirty code
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What on Earth is he saying?
The very idea that the most creative work doesn't come from following a pattern and just changing a few variable values is utterly ridiculous!
Just ask hollywood -- it's what they've been doing for decades, and they're the most creative people on Earth!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: resizeTopLeft(position, size, preserveAspect, dx, dy) {
// 10 repetitive lines of math
},
resizeTopRight(position, size, preserveAspect, dx, dy) {
// 10 repetitive lines of math
},
Seriously. I can came up with similarly invented, just for sake of an article, artificial code to 'prove' theory that stand in the opposition to the one shown in the article. This is just a clickbait and a waste of time. 
No more Mister Nice Guy... >: |
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Quote: For example, we later needed many special cases and behaviors for different handles on different shapes.
Ivory tower comment: then he didn't write is abstractions correctly. 
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Depending on your application, you may see some minor code quality improvements and/or major build-time (compiler throughput) improvements. "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay!"
My oh my,
What a wonderful... way to make spurious changes by default so that you haven't got a clue what's happened to your code.
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Linux creator and principal developer Linus Torvalds has come out against the ZFS filesystem. "There is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with … nobody can ever improve the software"
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Well, I have to say, definitively and categorically, that I absolutely do not have a bloody clue what they're going on about.
 <-- This is me being happy that I never got involved in open-source politics.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Looks like it's a 2-factor problem.
The first being that ZFS has parts that are not 'open source', and that it's Oracle/Larry Ellison that could claim ownership, which sounds like the biggy issue.
Second is that it slightly breaks the OSI layer model, which would break the beliefs of softies that layering is well defined absolute and trustworthy. ZFS doesn't have that trust (as I understand it..)
In reality the layering is more of an engineering issue - the need for defense in depth, with ZFS spanning the layers and reporting errors.
Saw a video recently that highlighted the issue "Zebras All the Way Down : The engineering challenges of the data path" - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE&feature=youtu.be some good points once you get past the presenters animation.. (linked from another CP news article to https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-clouds-will-always-eventually-fail/)
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Researchers find that 17 of 140 major online services are vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks. I put a lot of work into my SIMs, I don't want someone else's. Neeshga! Neeshga!
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[yo mamma]
I told you you should stick with Tycoon games, and avoid the SIMs, but you never listen!
[/yo mamma]
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Specifically, no enterprise versions of Windows will be automatically updated, meaning the Blocker Toolkit is just needed if you run Home and Pro on your enterprise network, and if they are not joined to a Domain. Now we just need to talk to them about the other automatic updates
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This will make a huge difference to my lifestyle.
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Despite ranking at the top of respondents' concerns, organizations still show gaps in acting on cybersecurity. "Everybody's talking at me, can't hear a word they're saying"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Everybody's talking at me, can't hear a word they're saying"
And you especially don't listen to your mother! 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you seen all those "Teach Your Kids to Code" books? They're mostly drivel with pictures.
This writer agrees (Slate.com via GetPocket - firefox news)
I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You.[^]
from article: The description in one popular book says starting coding early is “essential to prepare kids for the future.” This gives the impression that not teaching kids to code is somehow equivalent to not teaching them to read.
That is, of course, ridiculous. Coding is not the new literacy. While most parents are literate and know to read to their kids, most are not programmers and have no idea what kind of skills a programmer needs. Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master the syntax, they’ll be able to make things quickly and easily. But that is not the way programming works. Programming is messy. Programming is a mix of creativity and determination. Being a developer is about more than syntax...
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When developers contribute, collaborate, or obtain open-source code, they look at how the code will help bolster their other projects as well as ensure they are complying with any open-source licenses. "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
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How very surprising that the only mention of a genuinely ethical matter in the entire article comes near the end:Quote: other ethical issues in the open-source community include using code for profitable reasons without contributing in return
And then they incorrectly state that that is an "other" ethical matter.
"Isms" aren't ethical matters; they're just a ridiculously large excess of personal preference and belief in one's own perfection. They're stupid and wrong, but they ain't ethics.
And stuff that happens behind the closed doors of a software house or whatever does not make their software unethical.
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