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We are pioneers. Once things get consumer friendly we lose interest. It's in the blood. Discovering is much funnier than simply braindead producing.
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Go tell that to QA 
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Sadly it's a common forma mentis these days, even without descending in the monkey show that is QA. I had colleagues that instead of thinking 5 minutes to a solution spent days looking for premade solutions and designed convoluted ways to glue them together. The end results were bug ridden, unmaintaineable and crumbled at the first change.
The simple idea of devising an algorithm was alien to them because "it's not possible to do better than the ones other people already made". Basically they were factory workers, you could swap programming with bending iron bars and they would hardly notice.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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A colleague made a similar comment...
On a teleconference people were discussing a months long time lines to evaluate and implement some enterprisey solution to perform load testing.
Colleague speaking:
We capture enough information in our production log files so we can replay the logs against a test setup. Just a few hours of work to extract the info into a replay format. There was a long silence on the line... "Moving onto the next topic...".
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Processes are good. Cobbling together anything written by others in the dirtiest possible way are not an acceptable process, nor are good. 
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Yes, process is good.
I'm thinking you are agreeing with me. 
Imagine if there was a giant library which had every function you'd ever need.
You'd just drag and drop the functions you want into a file in the order you want them to work and voila! You're done.
This is process in the extreme. Very repeatable. Very boring.
The ultimate CASE tool[^]!
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raddevus wrote: You'd just drag and drop the functions you want into a file in the order you want them to work and voila! You're done.
This is process in the extreme. Very repeatable. Very boring
And very unlikely... at least for all the software that isn't mass produced. Modern websites might be buildable this way but every other type of software (firmware and specialized sw) is next to impossible to be done like this in a viable way.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I believe you are agreeing with me again. 
I don't want to work on an assembly line either.
So, I am glad that CASE tools fail.
Now, AI on the other hand will probably write better software than all of us humans.
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raddevus wrote: Now, AI on the other hand will probably write better software than all of us humans.
But will it resist armor piercing incendiary rounds?  maybe one day infantry combat experience will become a required skill for a developer
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Was nostalgia more fun 40 years ago?
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How come everything is electronic nowadays anyway, surely you could see how the centrifugal governor regulated the steam engine, and you could machine these yourself. Now it's all 555 timers and 8088 microprocessors!
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Keith Barrow wrote: Now it's all 555 timers and 8088 microprocessors!
and 90% of it not needed / useless  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Nelek wrote: 90% of it not needed / useless
But ... but ... what would you do if your toaster couldn't connect to the internet? 
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The Object-Oriented Toaster
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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What do you mean by "useless" - it is not useless giving me an income!
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Do you really program toasters?
Or are you one of those spammers that use gadgets to create spam bot nets and get money with not so ethical processes?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Actually, I do not know if I program toasters. Well, I certainly do not program the toaster application, but the core software for the embedded processor. I know that some of our customers embed our processors in rice cookers and even forks(!). Using them in toasters as well seems like a small step. If that is the case: Yes, I am responsible for some of the toaster software.
A few years ago, over the luch table my project group was discussing "the meaning of life", or specifically: Our working day life. The general agreement was that the world really doesn't "need" any of the products using our chips. They are just gadgets, toys, for enjoyment. In some cases they make life "simpler": You don't have to raise up to turn on the light switch, you can turn it on from your recliner using your smartphone. But that isn't a "need", it is just a convenience matter.
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Quote: You don't have to raise up to turn on the light switch, you can turn it on from your recliner using your smartphone. But that isn't a "need", it is just a convenience matter.
Don't rush to judgement, the person you are referring to could be physically disabled by a lack of legs or motivation to get up and do it himself.
On a serious note, if you ever really go into the "Necessities of Life" discussion again, you should really start to consider each and everything that you utilize or consume, I think you will find that apart from a very limited and short stack (not even sure it would even make into a stack) there is nothing that you really need, but either provides comfort or is a means to comfort.
To use your example
Quote: You don't have to raise up to turn on the light switch
You could also consider the light switch it self a comfort, since it comforts you by making you believe you will not get shocked by electricity and also succeeds in its purpose. Talking about that light bulb now, do you really need it? Or can you make do without one? I believe the answer is you can do without it, it will decrease your night productivity but also has the potential to increase your day's productivity. Now that you've eliminated light bulb you can eliminate electricity and go on to eliminate many of the other necessities of modern time.
Don't get me wrong I'm not against technology, heck my field is software development, I may just be more a philosopher than I am Programmer.
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OK, so tha's why we make all these "smarthome" things! Not to make a shitload of money on it, but from true, altruistic ideals: We want those poor, low income, physically challenged users to inves in a USD 1000 iPhone so that they don't have to roll their wheelchair over to the wall switch but can remain seated where they are sitting, using their iPhone without making any physical effort whatsovever...
OK, I do see some altruistic value in that approach too. In my view it is marginal. Just a way to try to excuse what yuu are doing.
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It's funny how you managed to mention IPhone and not Android Phone to an Android Developer, a Windows Phone lover and IPhone hater.
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CodeWraith wrote: The parts list for the modem includes lumber and a tennis ball.
Well, what else are you going to use for the acoustic coupler? 
And let's see just how much of Netflix you can watch using that modem!
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40 years ago (or 30 in my case) we did more - we did hardware and software and all in-between...
Since then we got specialized...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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