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I was on a contract back in 2003. All of the coders were located in one large room with cubicles. I had been there just a few weeks when the manager stormed out of his office and headed for this young coder (early 20's). The manager called him all kinds of names, which referred to his lack of intelligence. After 20 minutes or so of yelling and name calling, the manager went back to his office. The coder left for a while, tearing up as he went.
This same manager, a few weeks after this incident, sent out a global email berating another female coder about some bad code, supposedly she had written. She was humiliated through out the company.
It turns out that neither coder had done anything wrong. This manager had tooled around with the production code and made the mistakes. Last I heard, he made another mistake by berating a client in front of his boss and shall we say, that was that. I think he's a janitor now for the local school system.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: I think he's a janitor now for the local school system.
I do so love a happy ending.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: The coder left for a while, tearing up as he went.
That would be only one kind of tearing if I was at the coder's place. Possibly legal, as I prefer victories over which I can gain, but if all else fails the Olivia Newton-John in me wakes up and "let's get physical".
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Is this a hint to, well, you know who?
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Ah, that's why Agile and DevOps is not working for us.
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The last thing automakers want is for bored drivers to default to their current time killer: their phone. The circular object on the communal road vehicle go round and around
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With a simple exploit, browsers like Chrome and Safari can be tricked into handing over your credit card information to hackers. And you wouldn’t even realize it. Convenience for everyone!
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Is that why the Insider News page has all sorts of hidden text boxes?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Is that why the Insider News page has all sorts of hidden text boxes?
A brother's gotta make some green. 
TTFN - Kent
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Another year and another C++ Status! As usually, C++ language is very alive. Those builds really do take a long time, don't they?
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Except Clang's C++14 and 1z support as of 3.8.1 was so buggy, I gave up on it. GCC, on the other hand, continues to impress. Visual Studio C++ slightly less, but still better than Clang.
Unfortunately, at my new job/contract, I'm stuck on a horrible version of GCC with half-baked C++11.
EDIT: My biggest criticisms of C++17 are that ASIO wasn't added and Filesystem could have been better. I would have also liked to have seen a standard way to change std::thread priority, even if was a +1/+2/-1/-2 type of thing. Other than that, I don't mind C++17 being on the lighter side so everyone can catch up.
modified 11-Jan-17 2:24am.
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At the end of the day, in a managed environment (VC++) your process priority is set so the thread priority is stuck between 6-10 (Lowest, Below Normal, Normal, Above Normal, Highest) unless you want to invoke the Time-Critical level only Administrators can enforce. While 0-31 is available on Windows, you aren't getting much priority relative to processes that aren't standard user-mode applications. You'd have to delve into Windows-land to manipulate the process priority higher in order to gain access to higher thread priorities.
Note: This default is -2/-1/0/+1/+2 based on thread priorities Lowest, Below Normal, Normal, Above Normal, Highest. The Idle (-3) and Time-Critical (+3) are off-limits for normal applications.
Highly recommend "CLR via C#" if you haven't read it 
modified 11-Jan-17 12:28pm.
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I know threading extremely well. The issue arises when going cross platform and trying to avoid ifdefs.
(I can do it, but avoid any job requiring managed code.)
Note: I modified my post to make it clear I was talking about std::thread, a feature of the C++11 standard library.
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Ah, I get ya now. I agree I don't do much unmanaged development anymore and when I do it's targeted at Windows so I can just toss a SetThreadPriority where I need it and go about my business. I can see where cross-platform would be irritating.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Those builds really do take a long time
Thankfully[^], yes
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There's an xkcd for every occasion. 
TTFN - Kent
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Although most recruiters try to balance the needs of job hunters and hiring managers, surveys show that tech pros don’t always feel that third-party recruiters have their best interests at heart. It's not a contradiction in terms?
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Who finds "a recruiter"? Besides, even the nicest recruiters represent the clients not you. (One rule is if Wipro, or any company working on their behalf, calls, hang up and block the number.)
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Now, a team of philanthropists and tech luminaries have put together a fund that's aimed at bringing more humanity into the AI development process. You can buy ethics now?
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When could you not? 
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'Alexa, order me some Guns'
'I'm sorry I can't do that'
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The Google-grown language bests Dart and Perl, while Java, C, and Python slip. I'll take, "Give me an intro to stats" for $200, Alex
I just felt I needed to share this. The cure for foolishness is sharing it, right? 
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Quote: It is not about theoretical concepts, such as virtual inheritance and nomads, but about hands-on experience
i.e. it's the VB of the new millennium.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Straw poll time. Do you think that its more likely that:
0) In the last year:
Go has become 14x more popular
C has lost 42% of its popularity
Java last lost 20% of its popularity
or
1) The Tiobe Index is produced by spiking elephant food with laxatives?
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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In their annual security report ESET has praised Microsoft for finally securing their browser by default, resulting in no active exploits in the wild. Hackers were heard to say, "What's Edge?"
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