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Re: Get off my lawn?

Gary R. Wheeler15-Mar-24 8:55

Gary R. Wheeler

15-Mar-24 8:55

honey the codewitch wrote:
the industry is missing out on tapping the full potential of developers

This has been true for longer than either of us has been alive, and I'm 62. Developers and engineers in general are sufficiently different in how they think that most people around us either can't understand us or resent the fact that we view problems as having a solution.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Get off my lawn?

Jalapeno Bob15-Mar-24 12:07

Jalapeno Bob

15-Mar-24 12:07

honey the codewitch wrote:
But also if it's true it means the industry is missing out on tapping the full potential of developers.

This is true in many technical fields. The advancement path in many companies forces people to "advance" into management. The type of people who want to be in management, often from sales or marketing backgrounds, cannot understand why some people do not want to be in line (as opposed to project) management -- they see this as a personality defect. Frown | :( Thus, it is move up or move out. They cannot see the value of paying for experience. Mad | :mad:

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Re: Get off my lawn?

jschell15-Mar-24 13:10

jschell

15-Mar-24 13:10

honey the codewitch wrote:
Back when I learned to code solving problems like this meant you were a coder.

At least for me when it was always 'do it myself' the following was true
- There was a lot less available
- I didn't know how to find it.
- What I could find cost money. Sometimes quite a lot.
- I figured no one else could have possibly been doing the same as what I was.

honey the codewitch wrote:
Now it seems like people just expect that there's a library that will solve whatever problem they're after solving

Now it is many years later
- Of course someone has already tried to do this before.
- There are a lot better ways to find it.
- It probably costs nothing or very little (at least compared to long ago.)
- My time is better spent evaluating existing solutions and gluing pieces together versus trying to implement everything from scratch.

A lot of the above comes from realizing that throwing code is just a tool and not genius. What really matters is that the company sells something so that I keep getting paid.

Is Anyone Using Unix?: My Findings

raddevus14-Mar-24 9:13

raddevus

14-Mar-24 9:13

For some reason today, I started wondering if anyone (companies specifically) was still using Unix -- any distro from the past which was still considered Unix & being used at a company.
I was assuming that Linux has killed Unix installations and forward development.

I found this: Unix is dead. Long live Unix! • The Register[^]

What is your experience with this? Any company you are working for that is using a Unix distro?
Just curious.

Oh, and I wrote this from my new Mac PowerBook M3 (36GB ram) and maybe macOS is considered Unix?
Not sure, but I'm reading this article now: https://www.howtogeek.com/441599/is-macos-unix-and-what-does-that-mean/[^]

EDIT 2
I thought maybe BSD was still around, but looks like it isn't: Berkeley Software Distribution - Wikipedia[^]

EDIT 3
Very interesting (from that 1st article above):

Quote:
There are two standards that certify UNIX: POSIX and Single UNIX Specification (SUS). SUS is a superset of POSIX. So, something can be POSIX compliant, but that doesn't make it UNIX. However, if something is SUS-compliant, it's a UNIX.

modified 14-Mar-24 15:25pm.

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