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Yeah, they even had to get rid of the internal testers to get it out quicker.
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How will a team ever know the best suited language, framework or tool to pick if they’ve never tried it out before? But there are plenty of "worst" tools
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How will a team ever know the best suited language, framework or tool to pick if they’ve never tried it out before?
What an absurd question. If the team doesn't have enough experience with at least, say, the top 3 languages, frameworks, and tools, then they shouldn't be making any decisions about what language, framework, or tool (LFT) to use?
And nobody wants to acknowledge that there is actual thinking and analysis and valid reasoning that can be done regarding LFT's that results in weeding out 90%, at least, of the garbage that's out there.
Sadly though, that is the reality. I've worked on enough commercial products over the years which I discovered started off as the corporate equivalent of a bunch of geeks getting together in the basement and deciding they wanted to try some new fangled LFT because some unknown author of some obscure magazine was raving about it.
And the beat goes on...
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The question of which <blah> is "best" was posed to the writer by an inquirer. And I thought his answer was good, along the lines of, "the best is what the team is familiar with, so long as it will do the job."
modified 12-Apr-21 9:02am.
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Elon Musk's mission to save humanity from artificial intelligence has shown a monkey playing a computer game with no hands. And it's better at it than I am
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Microsoft turned 46 on April 4th and the tech giant’s social media team has decided to celebrate this milestone on Twitter by taking a look back at the rather long and amusing history of the company’s logos in a special thread. Bring back the Blibbet!
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I don't now why... but it doesn't surprise me, that the company logos get a special thread...
M.D.V.
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Yes, there are so many of them!
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: 46th anniversary on Twitter
I didn't realise Twitter had been running that long!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It used to be known as Whispering Campaign 1.0, Backyard Fence 2.5, and Malicious Gossip 3.7. The users, OTOH, were always known as twits.
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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Well those are certainly some Iconic images.
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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We’ve already shown how easy it can be to find bugs in even production-ready code like EASTL. Here I’ll share an example of how it found a real bug in the MSVC compiler itself. Keeping it clean
Handy if you need to find and fix a bug in the compiler (OK, or other code)
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Eating snacks and unhealthy food at night may cause an immediate, observable impact on your life by reducing your work performance the next day. I guess my work performance will be hurt
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We recommend a fifth of whisky instead.
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Well, if you insist...
TTFN - Kent
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Nagy would disagree very vehemently with you
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: Nagy would disagree very vehemently with you
Which part would trigger the most vehement disagreement? Whisky instead of Gin? Or only a fifth, not a tanker truck or two?
PS Vilmos, not Nagy. It's "Big William" and you're calling him "big".
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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Dan Neely wrote: Which part would trigger the most vehement disagreement? Whisky instead of Gin? Or only a fifth, not a tanker truck or two? I think both...
M.D.V.
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Never give them food after midnight.
Never put in contact with water.
Never expose to sunlight.
reminds me something
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Developers.
"Bright light! Bright light!"
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A new Code of Practice grants all employees the right to stop checking their work laptops and phones outside of agreed working hours. Disco-whatnow?
As goes Ireland, so goes the world?
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Ooops... was a code of practice needed for that?
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Unpaid work outside the agreed-upon hours? And people agree to that?
Also never seen an emergency in workforce like that; things get called emergencies quickly, and they often exist due to poor planning. Deadlines that aren't realistic, because the salesperson cut it to get a contract, that kind of stuff. That's not an emergency, that's making a choice - and then shifting the burden to devs.
Or using code in production that isn't ready for production, where the customer is screaming fire; Well, apologize the next day and stop using pre-production code.
If I was a surgeon, yes, there'd be emergencies. Anything that is not life threathening can wait
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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At the Fish Shoppe(tm) there are some groups that seem to pride themselves on all being online and working late into the night, every night. Those that didn't got pressured out (team or company). I never understood that mentality.
TTFN - Kent
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They competing against their coworkers, using the "hard working" thing as virtue (as helpful as being a virgin is a virtue). If the PHB don't like you, you're out, they reason. My mother competes in a similar way, saying that the younger ones are preferred if she doesn't work harder. It's an unspoken bluff.
I'm not hired because I'm liked, but because I'm skilled. And those skills need downtime. Even if they didn't, it is not in my bloody contract, and often unpaid.
And if unpaid, it's a scam.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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