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You can't have fomo if all the cool kids aren't jumping off bridges.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That number really seems high to me
You know... politician, lawyers and staticians 
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Computer scientists: "We've invented a virtual dumbass that is wrong more often than not"
Tech CEOs: "Great, let's add it to every product!"
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What’s Rye? Dynamic programming language focused on fluid expressions, still in development. Try it with a bit of ginger ale
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Hi, author here. Thanks for posting it. Any feedback from developers is welcome ...
What does a reference to ginger ale mean btw? 
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"Rye" and "Fluid expressions": Rye Whisky and Ginger Ale.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Haha, I didn't see that one. To my defense ... it's hard to explain what you are trying to do sometimes :P
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And you should never explain a joke! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Not native speakers or too young to know about some things might get a second chance though
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Also, I have friends that would normally be considered well versed in spirits. Yet they simply refuse to accept that anyone makes alcoholic beverages from rye. (This is not a foreign language problem - I discuss with them in Norwegian, our common native language.)
The discussion started years ago when I quoted the lyrics of "At the Jazz Band Ball": Back when a nickel would buy / Three fingers of pretty good rye / ...". The greatest expert (although self proclaimed  ) on spirits insisted that this must refer to something else, because noone ever uses rye. I regularly bring him new recipes from the net discussing use of rye in brewing (mostly beer, but also stronger drinks), but he insists that those recipes come from beginners who simply haven't yet discovered that rye isn't suited for that use. Anyone with the slightest clue about brewing knows that rye fermenting doesn't go well together.
Oh well, I let him live in his (rye-free) brewing bubble. I am sure that he wouldn't accept the joke even after having it explained. It isn't a joke when it is simply wrong!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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New details of global mega-outage revealed, with Microsoft blaming disastrous "usage spike" on an implementation error in its own response to a cyberattack. The Cloud(tm) taken out by bigger cloud
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Kent Sharkey wrote: , with Microsoft blaming disastrous "usage spike" on an implementation error in its own response to a cyberattack.
Have they updated it lateyl? 
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A cloud attack of large magnitude... a Hazuricane?
Time to board up the Windows.
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Is The Friend an AI-driven solution to loneliness, an overblown LLM dongle, or just plain unsettling? "Why can't we be friends?"
(repeat)
Apologies if you follow the link to Xitter to see the video
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I'm pretty sure you can see him mentally cancel his Tinder account around 1:30.
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New technologies affect the skill mix needed to produce apps, but not everyone agrees on the impact. Yes
Or I suppose I could have gone with the universal answer, "It depends"
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Specialization is the hallmark of advanced economies. Those who expect employees to be jacks-of-all-trades because they want interchangeable worker bees or because "it's good for them" run a serious risk of making them masters of none. It's one reason I think that DevOps, to the extent that I understand its intent and how it's practiced, is seriously misguided.
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I agree almost entirely, but I do think there's also a use for jacks-of-all-trades to view the big picture and how all the moving parts interact. Plus, they can be shoved in as needed when something comes up.
TTFN - Kent
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I gravitate to that.
I see this inverted though. The "cogs in the machine" perspective favors specialists over generalists. When your cogs are labelled very specifically to job function it's more akin to knowing the size/gearing of the cog and so being able to order up a new one. Sure, folks may like to think they just have everyone do everything but the reality is that everyone cannot and everyone does not have any desire to.
The labels are never the reality. I would also tend toward thinking specialists in tech are just always going to be hobbled a little. If no man is an island, no tech fails to be part of a very large contiguous landmass. A bit of knowledge of all its contours serving to make it far more navigable than the best river guide on the best of its rivers.
It takes all kinds though and while I think of myself as a generalist, I think some of my best output has come from working with people who may be better termed specialists.
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That's what we got interfaces for. 'Interfaces' is here used as a general term, not a programming language mechanism. You can make car tires without knowing how every gear inside the car engine works, and nobody needs to know both tire making and car engine making to 'view the big picture'. As a programmer, you do not need to understand how a physical level IP switch is implemented, even though you probably make use of a dozen of them every time you visit Internet. You may need to know SQL, but could care less about query optimization. And there is no need for any jack-of-all-trades knowing both how an accounting system is structured and how queries are optimized, even though they are both relevant to the same application.
What we rather need, are jacks-of-one-trade, frequently referred to as 'domain experts'. People who know all the different aspects of a give user problem to be solved, from terminology of the trade, established work pattern, established standards of the trade, priorities, responsibility and security patterns, ...
Far too often, the software developer doesn't have a clue about the real problem to be solved. Code modules, data structures, UI dialogs are made by guessing and often wrongful assumptions. It works for software development tools - they are great, and functional, because the software developer is a domain expert in that field. He rarely is in the field of document production systems, accounting systems, tools for music and sound editing, graphical work.
Whenever you see great software in a non-software development field, chances are very high that the software is not developed in a software development environment: Sound editing software are made in the software group of that house of sound publishers, musicians and studio people. Accounting software is made the software group of that big accounting house. Graphic software is made by the people of the graphic trade.
We should strive to make those domain experts as well qualified programmers as possible. Even if we are ourselves educated as 'software specialists', we should not be afraid of entering some (non-programming-specialist) domain to become one of the domain experts of that trade. (Well ... My impression is that the average age of the active Lounge members suggests that this is more a hint to your children and grandchildren rather than to yourself  ) Truly great software is made by domain experts. Not by programming experts.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Quote: One specialize to know more about less, until he knows everything about nothing.
Not my quote
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I thought you would have said "More or less."
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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