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Wally could do better. Some of us were in a conference room, waiting for others to arrive for a meeting, when a colleague pulled out nail clippers and started going at it, letting the clippings fly onto the carpet.  
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Greg Utas wrote: when a colleague pulled out nail clippers and started going at it, letting the clippings fly onto the carpet
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I prefer this one[^]. 
"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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State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility. Get coding like it's 1959
Buzz-cut, pocket-protector, and slide rule available separately
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But we don't want to learn that! It was--- it was invented by a woman! It can't possibly be macho enough!
Fortran's the man's man's language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I never knew that! No wonder it takes 100 words to do what other languages do in 20. 
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I had some brief experience with a (modern, terse, C-class) language whose macro facility allowed you to write a macro to transform
ADD A TO GIVING C;
into
C := A + B;
This was one of their examples in the user manual. Maybe they could have defined all of COBOL in their macro language; I don't know.
Actually, COBOL didn't require that many more tokens - or 'words', if you like. It was much more that the tokens were lengthy words, rather than single symbols. Similar to lots of people arguing in favor of C over Pascal because it used {} rather than BEGIN - END.
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I went from COBOL to C, and wondered wtf?!?
... As in why-tf were all the godawful variable names single-characters, and who-tf wanted to code that way?
It turns out that no-one does, because variable and function names in C# are, on average, three characters longer than COBOL variable and procedure names.
So who got it right from the get-go?
No prizes for guessing that it wasn't the snooty C programmers.
Remember: hubris comes before huckabuck, in good dictionaries.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Teetering on a razor, Smartphone giants try to balance infection tracking and privacy. At least it's two trustworthy, privacy-focused companies
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One or other of them probably secretly owns the company that's getting this data[^], too.
I can't believe that they're handing that over to a foreign company on a completely unenforceable "we'll do no evil" promise.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Honestly, I'm surprised the community edition of Visual Studio doesn't do this...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Please! You'll give them ideas. I use that thing and don't want to have to disconnect from the net to avoid ads.
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I think they know very well that Visual Studio is essential to their market power. It is sort of "The first shot is free" idea.
VS, including the free edition (regardless of how it has been labeled over the years), has lead to millions of Windows applications, making customers choose Windows as their base OS. Without those, MS would be in a much weaker position today.
VS Community Edition is the ad, in itself! You would never expect a Coke ad to be interrupted by some other ad, would you? VS CE aims to present MS development as a great experience - something that makes you frown at vi, or even at emacs. It shows you how immediate IntelliSense is, compared to lint. Shows you the WPF abstraction level compared to X.11 
Which 19 year old who has been fiddling around with VS CE since he was 12 would want to work with 1970-style command line tools? Fight with old libraries handling 7 bit US ASCII text only? Providing a zillion options, but you have to open a command window and provide them as '--some-strange-option' to the command line tool?
If MS decides to ruin the VS experience by forcing ads onto the users, they have lost their minds. It would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. I am sure that they know better.
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An interesting analysis. Let's hope you're right. Curiously, I use VS CE but avoid Windows-specific stuff as much as possible. No "managed code", no GUI, no Windows-specific classes...just the bare minimum that you need from an O/S. And though command-line stuff is from the age of the dinosaurs, like me, I no longer have any tolerance for it.
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Very good analysis. I admit VS CE (and the earlier Express) has spoiled me on IDEs. Whenever I have to do Java development the IDEs sometimes make me want to throw my computer out a window. Especially NetBeans.
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Member 7989122 wrote: VS, including the free edition (regardless of how it has been labeled over the years), has lead to millions of Windows applications, making customers choose Windows as their base OS.
Do you honestly think that marketing morons are smart enough to recognise this?
There's probably one high-ranking dev holding out against them, with a "keep your filthy paws the f*** off my product!" attitude.
When he's away, the rats will play.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Do you honestly think that marketing morons are smart enough to recognise this?
What does history show us?
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Member 7989122 wrote: What does history show us?
That one of the first ever computer programmers was a woman?
That apples don't fall upward?
That Romans and elephants don't get along?
That, compared to video, tapestries are cr@p at conveying information?
How the alt-right took over Germany and started WWII?
That a lone playwright can improve the world?
... But an entire city dedicated to "entertainment" can't?
You will tell me when I'm getting close, won't you?
That female monarchs usually do a better job of it than male ones?
That 23,000 people fired the shot that killed Mussolini?
That a different 23,000 people invented the Internet?
That the weather in England is unpredictable except that you know it's going to rain?
That tofu has never been, is not, and never will be a good substitute for cow?
That imprecise questions sometimes get sarcastic answers?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah! All of that surely enlightened me! Thanks a lot! Now I understand!
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My job here is done.
[Tips hat, mounts horse, and rides off into the sunset]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, I remember hearing about that (I think here), um, last year. Note the article date: Quote: August 26, 2019
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Came here to say that, along with the fact that in response to internet outrage the developer ended his ad campaign and NPM banned the process going forward.
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
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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