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Slow Eddie wrote: When did computer programs become "Apps", and when did programmers become developers?
Probably when programs started to have user interfaces and started to do more meaningful things for society in general than calculating ballistic missile trajectories. And it probably had to do with marketing as well, where "applications", or "apps", was a perceived as a friendlier, or new-shiny term.
As to developers - again, when programmers started to change roles from toggle switching, punch card coding, to actually developing interactive applications (notice the switch in terminology) that involved additional knowledge domains like user interfaces, databases, etc., a new-shiny term needed to be coined for the thinning of expertise in one domain into multiple domains. Not to mention that "programmers" classically had one or more degrees in various fields and nowadays a five year old with a Lego system can be a "developer." 
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Yet we no longer have applets?
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Slow Eddie wrote: When did computer programs become "Apps", and when did programmers become developers?
'App' is not a word, its the sound I make when I get punched. It has been around for a while, but it became popular when the last virus hit us and caused massive brain damage and left behind an entire generation that needs a brain pacemaker to stay alive. 'Program' already was too complicated. The poor victims of the virus prefer to communicate only with grunts and single syllable words. And for complete idiots everything is now also available as a comic. Wait until 'developers' becomes to hard for the next generation already born with a brain pacemaker. Then they will call themselves 'appers'.
And if anyone is offended now: Look at the bright side! No brain, no headaches. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: its the sound I make when I get punched
Does it happen a lot? Do you need conseuling (or backup)? Are you in danger right now?
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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1) Used to, but that was before 'apps' were a thing.
2) No. I had good instructors.
3) Nah. They kept word and left me alone after the (honorable) discharge.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: when the last virus hit us and caused massive brain damage and left behind an entire generation that needs a brain pacemaker to stay alive.
I think, therefore I am underpaid. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In my field of area, programming is what SW developers spend the least of their work time on.
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Sad, but so true...
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I first remember the term "app" used in reference to cell phone programs. At first they were simple applications that were essentially a shortcut for certain tasks. Not being a large formal application with an extensive UI, they were an "app". Then as cell phones became more mainline and their associated apps more extensive the term migrated to mean any program on any device.
As for developer, I've heard that term used interchangeably with programmer pretty much since I started as a programmer in 1981.
But, if anyone asked what I did for a living, I elevated my nose and said, "I am a software engineer. And, Ah'm going to play the graahnd piaaaahno." 
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After a certain number of lines, a program becomes an app; before that, it used to be called a system; but that made it sound hard to use.
(Software) Developer sounds better than programmer after a certain age when they ask you what you do. Like Sanitation Engineer.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I Tried Creating a Game Using Real-world Geographic Data - YouTube[^]
At 3:55 he experiences the "SQUIRREL!" phenomena, where a programmer is working at a blistering pace, and then sees something in the data that makes him go, "Hmmmm", and his brain force him off into a non-productive tangent.
And at 18:06, he has another "SQUIRREL!" moment, and spends a whole day on that tangent. I can hear the next day's meeting now:
"Sorry. The project is a day behind..."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's really cool.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Clueless ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yay! You are up tomorrow! 
I figured that would either get solved pretty quick, or I'd get questions about "did I forget something?" - but I liked it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Along the same lines I like this one
1414 (1,4,1,4)
I ain't a clue
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 11-Nov-21 5:20am.
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I see there's a lot of versions, and the variants names are very confusing.
Which is the latest, good one that I can under $2000.
My requirements:
1. 256GB+ Disk
2. intel 11th gen or Ryzen equivalent
3. 16GB Ram
4. Stylus
5. 13/14" display
6. Max 3.5lbs
Any suggestions?
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Thanks I think it's a great suggestion.
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This video is hilarious : https://9gag.com/gag/awzbwX4[^]
It shows a parking lot dude pulling a prank on a guy who refuses to move his cart to the corral which is just a few parking spots over. There is a narrator who giggles throughout and is pretty funny too.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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This one is staged. There's no way the guy never looks on the other side of the car or notices the dude in his mirror.
I've heard a guy on radio do Cart narcs (sp?) that's very funny. He confronts people that are too lazy to put their cart back.
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Might be staged, but the LOLing of the girl is spontaneous enough to be contagious
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I actually thought she was super annoying. 
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Like I mentioned before I got the greenlight to use a WROVER and my GFX library in a commercial product I am working on, since the end client wanted all the screens moved from landscape to portrait anyway, meaning all the graphics have to be redone.
The new library has changed the game for me though. It's like stepping into civilization after being lost in the wilderness.
Me to my client (with the old graphics lib): Where does the end client want this text placed on the screen?
Me to my client (with the new graphics lib): I want the company's branding package, preferably in digital media - company colors, fonts, logos.
It's an entirely different playing field. I went from struggling to place junky fonts pixel perfect to wondering if I have the flash space to hold all the digital assets/content I can now display. It's a good problem to have.
Real programmers use butterflies
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This remind us, once more, that the tremendous progress in computing power is not just hardware... it's also better software!
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