@Rhywden said in European Union declares CSPAN, The Grateful Dead, and A Tale of Two Cities to be terrorism.:
The wonderful ways in which speed is more important than accuracy.
a.k.a. corporate programming
@Rhywden said in European Union declares CSPAN, The Grateful Dead, and A Tale of Two Cities to be terrorism.:
The wonderful ways in which speed is more important than accuracy.
a.k.a. corporate programming
What's there to thank for?
Coming to a "know-it-all-but-really-kinda-dumb-and-feeding-on-youtube-only mama" YouTube video near you :
How programmers deliberately insert bugs into their programs in order to guarantee themselves job security for life
Make the title a little more clickbaity and conspiracy-theoryiy, and bang, 100k views guaranteed.
@anonymous234 said in We need to be more user hostile to help them embrace freedom!:
First there's normal people
And what about the common people?
@Parody said in Lenovo is really crap:
it appears that 1366x768 is still the most common desktop resolution on the web.
Ugh.
I'm supporting gcc 4.8.5 because that at least has C++11 and there's a backport for it in the RedHat 6 developer toolset (and cursing my customers who run bullshit like RHEL 6 or SLES 11 from a decade ago). Maybe there's newer versions backported, but I haven't checked since.
I got these feels too, bro.
$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)
We also have a custom build system called Buildme (it's a meta-build system, because it generates GNU Makefiles) and all our "helper build scripts" use the C Shell, which is also the default shell used everywhere. We also use SVN for version control.
Life feels great.
@pie_flavor said in So I decided to try to update part of my toolchain...:
C-average Indians
Three stars?
two feature updates a year is too many and Redmond should cut back to one, and that Microsoft needs to stop developing new features and just fix bugs
Wait, wait, that sounds kind of familiar...
Number Five. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
A score of 12 is perfect, 11 is tolerable, but 10 or lower and you’ve got serious problems. The truth is that most software organizations are running with a score of 2 or 3, and they need serious help, because companies like Microsoft run at 12 full-time.
That very article was written in 2000. Times surely have changed since then.
@Atazhaia said in The iPhone XS (will) Max (out your credit card):
The Xr doesn't even reach 1080p, running 1792 x 828.
Sweet Jesus. And I'm still here, running my Samsung S4 (which I upgraded to a newer Android version via a custom ROM) and enjoying 1080p, which I pretty much took for granted in newer phones (especially in iPhone's price range), seeing how my one was released in March 2013.
@Adynathos Pepperidge Farm remembers : click.
Copypasting for future generations. I think I've seen this somewhere in this thread before.
Imagine the most dystropic world you can:
-There are computers, but they instruction set and hardware set is so complex that nobody on the entry world fully understands how they work.
-Imagine that software development become so complex and expensive that basically no software is being written any more, only ,,apps'' designed in ,,devtools''.
-Imagine that opening a generic picture file needs more complex algorythms than sending a rocket with persons to land on the moon.
-Imagine a world, where the education of the students on computers is about showing the shapes of computers, and they call it ,,science''.
-Imagine a world where being an IT professional means fake-expertising a $30000 hardware with clicking in a specific software basically as a teached operator, with a 0.001% efficiency rate teached by fake professionals payed by corporations through bribed public servants - from your tax.
-Imagine a world, where they capture every button you pressed down, where the network providers are directly connected to national surviellance.
-Imagine a computer, which requires 1 billion transistors to flicker the cursor on the screen.
-Imagine a world which was not able to show up any kind of technological innovation in the last 20 years.
-Imagine a world, where computers are driven by software written from 400 million lines of source code.
-Imagine a world, where the biggest 20 technology corporation with total 2 million employers and 100 billion usd revenue groups up to introduce a new standard. And they are unable to write even a compiler within 15 years.
I have bad news: This is not an imagination, this is our current world.
Dawn operating system and its underlying hardware specifications meant to liberate people from the imperialistic opression.
@anonymous234 said in When arguments about GPUs go too far:
What I meant is I'd like to see them (or anyone really) take on Intel CPUs and win.
I suppose you already know about AMD Ryzen. Of course, that's not really "winning", but it's nice to know there's some competition back in the CPU market.
@Greybeard Well, America will be great again in just 2 days (and counting!), so why would you want to travel anywhere anyway?!
I used to work for that certain Korean company in its Poznań office, back when it existed. We all said that the company did all us a great service by letting us go, and after working less than a year for another, much saner company, I conclude that we couldn't have been more right.
@cartman82 You actually have to make a ticket in that very agile system in order to even be able to submit ANYTHING to the central VCS repository. Back in the day, we just had local git repos set up in the office and one person responsible (weekly Round-Robin, of course, we didn't want anybody to kill themselves) for dealing with the shit of uploading our stuff to the corporate VCS. So you can't really get out of using it. Has @NeighborhoodButcher already mentioned that, as a developer, you have no access to the system by default? And that the access request has to go through about 4-6 persons? And that you need to have access to EVERY SINGLE PROJECT approved separately? Somebody's on vacation? Well, fuck you. Do something else that day. Or week.
Not to mention that there's a publicly accessible ini
file in the repository that has a username which allows read-write access to all repositories and all projects. But I should probably keep that to myself.