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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Software engineers should write because it promotes many of the same skills required in programming. A core skill in both disciplines is an ability to think clearly. The best software engineers are great writers because their prose is as logical and elegant as their code. If only there were some handy site that would provide that opportunity
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Ah, that's why I unwillingly start to blog about what's going into my mind!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I write songs does that count?
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For me, no that doesn't! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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What kind, Ron? Folk, rock, folk/rock, something else?
/ravi
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@ Ravi
Pop Country (I'm a bit of a poser in this genre as I was groomed on power chord rock).
But now at 53, I gotta do something.
Old stuff from 2004 [^]
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Nice!
Ron Anders wrote: But now at 53, I gotta do something.
I hear you! I have a few years on you and am stuck mostly in the 70s. Some of my recent stuff can be found here[^].
/ravi
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Good advice!
/ravi
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Flaws in third-party software libraries often find their way into products, a problem that will occupy developers and sysadmins next year. Thanks, Poindexter. Wouldn't have known that otherwise.
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The best reason to roll your own. I really don't understand devs who seem to spend more time and effort looking for third-party libraries when they should be able to write their own.
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Well, one of the reasons would be that in programmer's school they tell you 'not to re-invent the wheel'.
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Then can you explain the wide variety of wheels? Would you want a car that uses truck wheels? Or a truck that uses train wheels? Or should we all still use wooden wheels?
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Pshaw...that's all window dressing...wheels have been doing the same thing since the cave man days
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Caves have windows? 
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Yeah, the entrance is dual purpose 
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For those of you who are relatively new to the Web, the <blink> tag is an HTML command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying. "Don't blink. Blink and you're dead."
OK, this is not exactly of broad interest, so I admit I'm putting it in mostly so I can use that quote. However, a great view into the pre-standards standards, and this money quote that explains so much of the Web, "One of the engineers liked my idea so much that he left the bar sometime past midnight, returned to the office and implemented the blink tag overnight."
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Well, to be fair, blinking text pre-dates HTML.
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True, but even then its sole purpose was so that movies could flash the "bomb about to blow up" text.
TTFN - Kent
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The whole "let's parallelize" thing is a huge waste of everybody's time. There's this huge body of "knowledge" that parallel is somehow more efficient, and that whole huge body is pure and utter garbage. Linus has never met two lines he'd like to meet
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Quote: End users are fine with roughly on the order of four cores
The thing about IT is that it is not ever defined or restrained by the needs and desires of the present but rather the edge of what is possible is what drives us.
For example, many of the things that required a very high end machine last decade can be comfortably done on a multi-core PC.
Where Linus is right is that the complexity and potential for errors is often much higher than the realised benefit and this requires languages to change too. Things like immutable objects, tail recursion, PLinq etc. are all clues to the direction in which we should be heading (IMHO).
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If you've ever done any 3D rendering for video, you'd definitely be happy with all the cores you could lay your hands on.
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The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a very specific task: go to one particular marketplace on the Deep Web and make one random purchase a week with the provided allowance. The purchases have all been compiled for an art show in Zurich, Switzerland titled The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, which runs through January 11.
The concept would be all gravy if not for one thing: the programmers came home one day to find a shipment of 10 ecstasy pills, followed by an apparently very legit falsified Hungarian passport– developments which have left some observers of the bot’s blog a little uneasy.
If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for purchasing the goodies? The coders? Or the bot itself?
Methinks it is like a weaselblank check for a lawyer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I believe the coder, there must have been an if else condition, more like,
if(product != typeof(Product.Drug)) {
}
.. well who knows what would be done there or here, but I'm still very much confused, how did bot made the agent agree to give him a Hungarian passport?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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