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For many software engineers, working isn’t just about the money or perks. A sizable percentage have entered tech because they want to make the world a better place. But how do they actually want to change things? Tabs over spaces
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Kent wrote: Tabs over spaces Them's fightin' words!
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So you agree - they will change the world!
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Technology usually doesn't make the world a better place. People don't usually make the world a better place either. But if you do want to change the world for the better, that change has to come from changing people's habits. IMO, we're entering into a phase where we're looking at technology to solve problems because people won't change their habits. It's a no-win scenario, IMO.
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Thecnology does might be a possible solution... If (BIG IF) we manage to create REAL AI, it will probably wipe us from earth, and would be a change for the better of the world (if it's not too late yet)
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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The human race is far from perfect, but IMO we do have some redeeming qualities.
I'm an optimist. I believe that we are (slowly) growing up as a species, and it would be a shame for anyone (or anything) to terminate the experiment before the end.
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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Use the Source, Lake!
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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A new, more energy efficient transistor may cut global digital energy consumption and make devices smaller and cooler. "You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round"
And of course there had to be magnets involved.
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Maybe. We've seen other transistor "replacements" come and go.
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The company wants to use Windows Spotlight as the default desktop background. Just what the doctor ordered
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I'm glad that they're giving such consideration to innovation in the usability and reliability space. I'm sure the new wallpapers will make a big difference.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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While the Dunning-Kruger Effect might not be a real thing, the problem of people mis-estimating their own level of understanding certainly is. I just usually bang my head against the keyboard until it compiles
Edit:typo in title
modified 14-Apr-22 14:31pm.
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I throw the bits against the wall, those that stick go into production!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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More context is required.
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I find that I surprise myself by implementing something I didn't think I understood, whether it was LR table generation, GLR workers, or even NFA/DFA state machines. I implemented them before I thought I understood them.
Based on that, and my history of overestimating how much time things will take me, and based on comments I hear from others about my coding ability vs. my own honest perception of it I feel like I underestimate my own abilities.
I don't know though, because in more recent years I've become more confident. I've had a lot of victories and a lot of affirmation though so there's that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I feel like I underestimate my own abilities. In my opinion... Yes, definitivelly. You do.
I would be happy to understand the half of what you do.
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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It has since occurred to me just how much I learn by spelunking Other People's Code and reimplementing whatever it does myself, even it means porting and modifying - through that process I begin to understand it, and then the concepts behind it.
I'm not sure how well it works for you, but it helps a lot in my case.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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There are two kind of programmers:
Those who know how stupid they are and those who don't. I have no idea which one I am.
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Chumsky has a tutorial that teaches you how to write a parser and interpreter for a simple dynamic language with unary and binary operators, operator precedence, functions, let declarations, and calls. If everyone else is creating their own languages, maybe you should as well?
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New data from Lansweeper, an asset manager software provider, shows the uptake of Windows 11 at just 1.44% of all systems — the result of an inability to run the new OS. The Perfect iMpediment
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As long as Bing runs on Win10 everybody's happy...right?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I put Windows 11 on my new machine. If you don't have to move to Windows 11 stick with Windows 10. The start menu in Windows 11 looks like Sinofsky (remember the Windows 8 UI debacle) designed it.
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obermd wrote: Windows 11 looks like Sinofsky (remember the Windows 8 UI debacle) designed it. Just wanted to point out that it was Julie Larson-Green that was over the Metro UI development.
She also designed the ribbon command bar[^].
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Since the plural of anecdota is more links, here's one from Arstechnica looking at why W11's growing about half as fast as W10 did on steam.
Explaining why gamers are adopting Windows 11 more slowly than Windows 10 | Ars Technica[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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