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honey the codewitch wrote: Shedding on the fresh laundry (prior to being evicted from the room)[^]
Now that's a cat who feels right at home. 
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raddevus wrote: Crank the playback speed to 1.5X. I listen to all my videos that way.
I've heard of some people who do that so frequently that they get impatient/irritated in face-to-face conversations to the point where they might snap at people, because they're sooooo slow, comparatively speaking, in making their point...
I can see some validity in that claim. I wouldn't go down that road, even if only because it just sounds so unnatural.
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Thank you for ruining an otherwise productive day  The guy is hilarious and, yes, I listened at normal speed - wanted to enjoy the talk but that didn't increase my productivity.
Mircea
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Re: COBOL. (I found the presenter "pompous").
The current crop of "best in class" languages still can't do a MOVE CORRESPONDING ("reflection" in .NET but you still have to write it).
Some still can't do a REDEFINES (of storage).
"RECORD" support ?
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I guessed that there would be some opposition from the COBOL literate among CP.
Yes, it is a bit pompous to judge any old tech since the people who created the original tech were working under constraints that the current generation of people couldn't even imagine.
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I actually enjoyed my time with Cobol, I've just finished a personal project in Cobol, it connects to a Postgresql datasource using embedded SQL(oceSQL) and generates reasonably good reports of my music collection, it was good fun to write and I'd forgotten how good Cobol is at text handling. Some people just love knocking languages. He was quite humorous though 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, many tools used by craftsmen are often just not understood by the people who follow.
I do however, like how he takes all of the "worst of all languages" and piles them together to make his BS language. It serves nicely to point out the weaknesses that programmers have had to deal with.
Like dealing with NULL -- maybe in 2215 they will finally get rid of NULL and be like, "oh those idiots in the past with all their null!" 
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Mark's a mate. I shall pass on that you enjoyed it.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Mark's a mate.
Very cool. He is really funny and I believe his British accent makes it a bit funnier for some reason (probably because I was an avid Monty Python viewer when I was younger).
Very cool way that he makes the BS language from all the broken pieces of numerous languages.
I especially liked the tab/spaced comment lines. Reminds me of Python* and use of whitespace. Ridiculous!!
*How many people out there have I angered now. 
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raddevus wrote: Crank the playback speed to 1.5X. I listen to all my videos that way.
I mostly do the same.
I also listen to podcasts at 1.8x, occasionally 2.0x, to the extent that when occasionally I start one at 1.0x it sound slowed down!
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The presentation was excellent! And COBOL still gets my vote.
Will Rogers never met me.
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raddevus wrote: Crank the playback speed to 1.5X. I listen to all my videos that way.
This is apparently a trend. Very representative of those times where noone has the time to listen to each other properly. Silence is also important.
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Rage wrote: Very representative of those times where noone has the time to listen to each other properly.
I guess it is indicative of the times. But, for me, I don't mind slowness (and even appreciate it) when I'm interacting in real life (IRL) but when something is pre-recorded it just has a feeling of slowness.
IRL interactions are almost always better.
Rage wrote: Silence is also important.
I agree. And for those times, I don't speed up the youtube video playback.
Instead, I turn it off.
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Dear dog, I thought GIT sucked... but the winner goes to TFVC
It seems in all my years of development, I've moved forward with Version Control.
RCS -> CVS -> Subversion -> git
but going from git to TFVC feels like a step back.
Maybe there's just something I don't get from the system.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've gotten used to git (Mostly thanks to the GitKraken product), but I do long for the days of locking a file so no one else could modify while I was.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: but I do long for the days of locking a file so no one else could modify while I was
Or, another way to say this..."I hate merging!" right?
We all hate merge conflicts!! 
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Not everything can be merged...SSIS for example.
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I guess Word documents would have that problem too then.
But using version control for Word docs has always been problematic.
I remember people trying to track changes using Visual Source Safe back in 1996
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Yes, but Visual SourceSafe had an option to store only the most recent version of a binary file, which was a great feature.
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Since VCS (Verson Control Systems) are meant to store diffs between files...
what would the point of storing?...
DavidPendleton wrote: only the most recent version of a binary file
Isn't that the same as storing the latest binary file which is already simply stored in the file system?
I'm curious about this. thanks
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We used it for daily builds of DLL's and the like. It gave us a way to keep binaries with the code without taking up a lot of space in the VSS database. You could check it out to keep it from being overwritten when you needed that.
It also allowed us (the developers) to manage the folder structure, security, etc. instead of the network folks. Other than that, it was pretty-much the same as a network folder.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: I do long for the days of locking a file so no one else could modify while I was
That 100% does not scale. If you're a team of two... fine. If you're an enterprise that flat-out fails on so many levels. You can't block one person from doing work while you lock a file. It's better to just learn how to merge.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 1-Nov-23 13:15pm.
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I know how to merge, I just wish I understood why some things throw merge conflict when there is no conflict, you are just changing a particular line.
>>>>> New Code
This line says B
=====
This line says A
<<<<< Old Code
Why is that a merge conflict?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Depends on the line and the direction of the merge.
Something like that isn't always a merge conflict. Sometimes it is... usually more so on a rebase than a merge in my experience. I've even seen whitespace trip git up. So, it's not perfect in the fact it will always be automatic.
That being said, even if git were bad at merges (it's not... it's better than most)... handling a conflict here and there is still better than preventing people from working.
Jeremy Falcon
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