codgercoder

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   by codgercoder 14y ago

   Oh, and world hunger the next month.
2. 62.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   It depends whether they let their own IT guys look at the technology in question. They're more likely to be influenced by snazzy tech (as long as they think they understand it), than by any goodness in the business approach.
3. 63.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else,” attributed to Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy [called "Joy's Law"
4. 64.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   1. Corporate entities face relentless demand for growth; when creativity fails, there's a scramble for money (control) anywhere they can think of 2. If "Internet time" means anything, certain organizations are already reaching maturity. Jus
5. 65.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
6. 66.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   BTW, I'm never going to login on a site that makes me use Facebook to do it.
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   by codgercoder 14y ago

   Sadly, I don't think there's any kind of "social contract" with web services providing APIs. Just as the exploitation of crowdsourced data is now common practice (including personal data), most organizations provide APIs only as long as the
8. 68.▲
   by codgercoder 14y ago

   I pretty much agree with the article; that's why I'm so depressed when I see a piecework software site advertise a job to replicate something like Facebook (only better) for $1500.
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   by codgercoder 14y ago

   In some set of states, a "software engineer" isn't anything. To use the term "engineer" there, you must meet a rigid set of requirements; I don't think software has ever become an acknowledged field, such as "civil engineering".
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Hard to tell whether this will be good or bad; it does bring to mind some of the gyrations commercial software vendors have forced, from time to time.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Don't tar UNIX with such a broad brush. One of its important innovations was allowing someone besides the system programmers to make commands that could be used in exactly the same way system-provided commands could. A consequence is that s
12. 72.▲
    by codgercoder 14y ago

    dumb and cheap beats smart and expensive (almost) every time
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Don't company leaders read business history?
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I have always thought that "scrum" is a horrible name for a development method, accurate though it may be :)
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I agree that it's vastly usable and fun to use; it's like a power-enhanced UNIX/Linux shell. Useful to get things done, but, except for some testing positions, useless on a resume. I suspect part of its "failure" compared to other scripting
16. 76.▲
    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Let's go for single use, disposable computers while we're at it.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I see no comments yet on one of the biggest factors underlying highly productive programming: choosing the part of a development at which you can most easily excel. Sometimes there are legitimate areas where you have expertise, but mostly i
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Apple would make you buy a new machine just to install a new application, if they could. I have confidence they will figure it out, in due time. There is, after all, tremendous pressure to maintain their revenue.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Probably not Ritchie, either.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    There are far more job listings for C# and C++ than for C. C is very important for the software that forms the underpinnings of just about everything, but application level software seems to be written in easier languages.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    two words: "Dark Star"
22. 82.▲
    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I think I once saw a posting where the bids were between $2 and $8 per hour. And people wonder why no one wants to go into programming!
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I reacted the same way to this news as to the news that an electrical distribution system was compromised over the Internet. That is, "are you kidding me?!". Just as it's stupid to connect certain critical systems to the public Internet, it
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    However bad instances turn out, we should view the standards process the way Churchill viewed democracy: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    and don't retire engineers at 35
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I think Meg Whitman worked at Bain for a while, just like Romney.
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    Good to know Boston didn't make the cut
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    as a founder of a defunct ISP (est 1991), I sure wish we could have charged by the bit, instead of connection speed. And it does seem to me that if Internet service is sold by the bit it is a communications service, not a computational serv
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    heh, "Struts Problem Report"
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    by codgercoder 14y ago

    I wonder how this will fit into the network neutrality controversy.