BearfootCoder

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by BearfootCoder 3y ago
There was a significant drop in birthrates in the 1920s because millions of the men who would have fathered those children were dead.
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by BearfootCoder 3y ago
Group of people == team because all report to same manager. Manager in charge of multiple different projects because "success in organisation" == "number of people managed" regardless of whether they are being managed we
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
Lots of people here seem very upset at the idea that someone could write their memoires at thirty. While it wouldn't be something for me (either to do or to read), I can think of lots of reasons for doing it which would not have to be
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
I've been working in IT for 30 odd years, 24 entirely office based, 6 some combination of hybrid and home, and in my view the argument that innovation and creativity are uniquely fostered by interactions in the office is seriously over
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
There's a good discussion of this at https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold... . It starts off by suggesting that it's all about how COBOL's superiority stems from having support for
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
It’s easy to look at this article, see assertions which are absolutely the opposite of ones personal experience and conclude that the author is an idiot. For example, I almost entirely reject the idea that there is utility in making it hard
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
The idea of the vomit draft works for narrative text because it's aimed at human consumers and humans are very adaptable when it comes to accepting input. We can absorb a whole bunch of incoherent, inconsistent content and still find t
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by BearfootCoder 4y ago
I recently had to install a copy of Windows 10 Home onto one of my spare laptops, and there are at two things that hit the "stupidly intrusive and annoying" buttons. One: moving the mouse around on the task bar will suddenly pop u
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
Becoming a "good writer", like becoming a good anything, is a matter of practice and study, of learning to use the tools which language provides. The ability to construct well-formed long sentences is one such tool. It may take ti
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
Having had a range of early programming experiences, including BASIC and assembler on a ZX Spectrum,Pascal on an ICL mini and PL/1 on an IBM Mainframe,nothing I had seen or worked with up until that point came close to Visual Basic for
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
First job, support technician on a years work experience from college. That was the year the great storm brought down trees and power cables over half of southern England. The office where I was working was without power for three days. Bos
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
The inverse of this is also useful: // Dear maintainer, // The code which follows was hacked together under desperate pressure. // It's not smart. // It's not doing anything really subtle. &
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
Best: if it's complicated, it's wrong. Worst: almost no business deliverable is one tenth as important as the people telling you to give up your time, strength and sanity in order to achieve it will tell you that it is.
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
Words which serve no purpose have no place on the page. But purpose varies with context. If you're writing a guide to a new API, or a functional specification, then it pays to be as direct as possible. But if you seek to engage or enra
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by BearfootCoder 5y ago
There's a much quoted aphorism with regard to getting feed back on fiction: "If five people tell you there's a problem, they're almost certainly right. If they tell you how to fix it they're almost certainly wrong.&
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by BearfootCoder 6y ago
As others have said, I wouldn't worry about C++ going anywhere soon. The sheer amount of historic code out there, and the difficulty of replacing that code with any of the potential alternatives mean the language is still likely to hav
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by BearfootCoder 6y ago
That only works if the user of the software has freedom of choice over the software they use. For the majority of commercial software sales that is not the case. Commercial software is overwhelmingly brought by companies who dictate to the