Delete my account, please. I do not want to have to ask again.
Honestly mate, just go ahead and delete my account.
So use C++ already; that’s what it’s for. Don’t go complaining that C++ is “too complicated” and then be hauling its complexity into C, because all you’ll end up with is a bloated schizophrenic mess that is neither a…
“I can't believe the C standards committee is entertaining this.” Hey, standards committee’s gotta eat. 'defer'? I occasionaly use it in Swift to clean up resources; s’okay there, I guess, though I’m not convinced it’s…
“I think the next leap forward in programming is going to offend the sensibilities of current programmers.” Honestly, programmers have been railing against progress ever since the first machine coders shook their canes…
“But there's a big difference between little experiments and betting the company on an auto-cannibalization strategy. DEC didn't have the guts to go there.” See also Kodak (invented the digital camera in 1975!), Xerox…
Raising kids and battling the demon hordes are such obvious good practice for each other, I’m surprised all pregancy sticks don’t already come with DOOM on them as standard.
At this point in time, it’s a fair assumption that anything the Titular Right accuses its enemies of doing, is what it’s doing itself. Even that notorious house of flaming liberals, the Wall Street Journal, concluded…
“it's really helpful to have one obvious way” Counterpoint: Python format strings. (I think there’s four or five different built-in ways to do those now.) Python’s “batteries included” may have helped it to win vital…
Yep, but there you are refactoring as a necessary prerequisite to achieving a clearly-defined end goal. That’s part of the development roadmap and should be planned and budgeted accordingly. When building a house, a…
“UNIX descendants follow the pattern of encoding data types with filename endings.” An ad-hoc arrangement with little formal support at the GUI level and none at all at the shell level. `some_program --out_type=json |…
What you want is tagged and/or typed pipes. Once a pipe declares how its data is encoded, you can build all kinds of modern tooling and high-level automation on top of that. The whole “But everything’s a text file!” is…
“somewhat miss the point of the shell in the first place” This presupposes that the Unix shell is the way it is because of careful, considered, forward-thinking design, rather than being a haphazard heap of mouldering…
“after a few years” Key phrase right there. Because it doesn’t matter what language a system is written in: if management doesn’t bother to hire replacements until after everyone who understands that system and why it…
“ Imagine interoperability nightmare when we cannot rely on everything being just bytes being streamed.” As I’ve noted above, the problem isn’t transmittability; the problem is never knowing what the bytes being…
Where did I say “all”? I said “far too many”. Although judging by the amount of crap software around, it’s certainly a lot. “it's also true that business stakeholders need to take the time and understand the impacts of…
“I think the reason programming is difficult is that really we are dealing with incomplete information” Dealing with uncertainty and incompleteness is a core part of the job. The problem is that far too many programmers…
“If you lose half your brain, you’re probably dead, and if not, you’ll be drastically impaired the rest of your life.” Depends. Patients who undergo hemispherectomy at a very young age can recover remarkably well; a…
“perpetuating this mindset is the ultimate sin of modern psychiatry and the entire industry of psychiatric pharmaceuticals” O-kaaaay. But, as the science kids all say: [Citation required] (Please note Scopie’s Law is…
“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.” Postscript: You misread me. I understand where Jobs…
“Jobs was far more of a "tech guy" than either Sculley or Cook.” Very true. “Renaissance Man” is a such cliche, but Steve Jobs really was. Having those tech skills and interests under his belt is what made him such a…
Yeah. Funny enough, if Apple had skipped OS X and gone directly to iOS, BeOS would have been a superior foundation. No uselessly mismatched security model or crusty legacy API baggage to clog up the new revolution in…
ISTR a tale of Legal keeping a large slush fund from which to pay off all the ex-Apple-employees that Steve 2.0 would straight tell to their face to fuck off. Just because that is what worked best for him†. :) “But let…
“That said, I don't think the world would be in a better place had Apple chosen Be over NeXT.” Yes. Except that it wasn’t acquiring NeXTSTEP that saved Apple’s skin; it was acquiring Steven P Jobs. True, version 1 had…
Insanity. (Though when end-user automation does work it is epic AF.)
Delete my account, please. I do not want to have to ask again.
Honestly mate, just go ahead and delete my account.
So use C++ already; that’s what it’s for. Don’t go complaining that C++ is “too complicated” and then be hauling its complexity into C, because all you’ll end up with is a bloated schizophrenic mess that is neither a…
“I can't believe the C standards committee is entertaining this.” Hey, standards committee’s gotta eat. 'defer'? I occasionaly use it in Swift to clean up resources; s’okay there, I guess, though I’m not convinced it’s…
“I think the next leap forward in programming is going to offend the sensibilities of current programmers.” Honestly, programmers have been railing against progress ever since the first machine coders shook their canes…
“But there's a big difference between little experiments and betting the company on an auto-cannibalization strategy. DEC didn't have the guts to go there.” See also Kodak (invented the digital camera in 1975!), Xerox…
Raising kids and battling the demon hordes are such obvious good practice for each other, I’m surprised all pregancy sticks don’t already come with DOOM on them as standard.
At this point in time, it’s a fair assumption that anything the Titular Right accuses its enemies of doing, is what it’s doing itself. Even that notorious house of flaming liberals, the Wall Street Journal, concluded…
“it's really helpful to have one obvious way” Counterpoint: Python format strings. (I think there’s four or five different built-in ways to do those now.) Python’s “batteries included” may have helped it to win vital…
Yep, but there you are refactoring as a necessary prerequisite to achieving a clearly-defined end goal. That’s part of the development roadmap and should be planned and budgeted accordingly. When building a house, a…
“UNIX descendants follow the pattern of encoding data types with filename endings.” An ad-hoc arrangement with little formal support at the GUI level and none at all at the shell level. `some_program --out_type=json |…
What you want is tagged and/or typed pipes. Once a pipe declares how its data is encoded, you can build all kinds of modern tooling and high-level automation on top of that. The whole “But everything’s a text file!” is…
“somewhat miss the point of the shell in the first place” This presupposes that the Unix shell is the way it is because of careful, considered, forward-thinking design, rather than being a haphazard heap of mouldering…
“after a few years” Key phrase right there. Because it doesn’t matter what language a system is written in: if management doesn’t bother to hire replacements until after everyone who understands that system and why it…
“ Imagine interoperability nightmare when we cannot rely on everything being just bytes being streamed.” As I’ve noted above, the problem isn’t transmittability; the problem is never knowing what the bytes being…
Where did I say “all”? I said “far too many”. Although judging by the amount of crap software around, it’s certainly a lot. “it's also true that business stakeholders need to take the time and understand the impacts of…
“I think the reason programming is difficult is that really we are dealing with incomplete information” Dealing with uncertainty and incompleteness is a core part of the job. The problem is that far too many programmers…
“If you lose half your brain, you’re probably dead, and if not, you’ll be drastically impaired the rest of your life.” Depends. Patients who undergo hemispherectomy at a very young age can recover remarkably well; a…
“perpetuating this mindset is the ultimate sin of modern psychiatry and the entire industry of psychiatric pharmaceuticals” O-kaaaay. But, as the science kids all say: [Citation required] (Please note Scopie’s Law is…
“Your take is like a professional sports manager saying having good athletes isn't important, the quality of the manager's managing is the only thing that matters.” Postscript: You misread me. I understand where Jobs…
“Jobs was far more of a "tech guy" than either Sculley or Cook.” Very true. “Renaissance Man” is a such cliche, but Steve Jobs really was. Having those tech skills and interests under his belt is what made him such a…
Yeah. Funny enough, if Apple had skipped OS X and gone directly to iOS, BeOS would have been a superior foundation. No uselessly mismatched security model or crusty legacy API baggage to clog up the new revolution in…
ISTR a tale of Legal keeping a large slush fund from which to pay off all the ex-Apple-employees that Steve 2.0 would straight tell to their face to fuck off. Just because that is what worked best for him†. :) “But let…
“That said, I don't think the world would be in a better place had Apple chosen Be over NeXT.” Yes. Except that it wasn’t acquiring NeXTSTEP that saved Apple’s skin; it was acquiring Steven P Jobs. True, version 1 had…
Insanity. (Though when end-user automation does work it is epic AF.)