|
And queues around the block outside every Apple store. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
Just like the iPhone, you use it then the next year you get a new one.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
|
|
|
|
|
Merry Crossfitmas and a Hipster New Year!
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
OK, this is just a theory - wot I came up with! By the time we get to Season 3, (of pretty much anything), the actors have all b*ggered off to do other stuff. So it's impossible to get them all back together at the same time to start filming a new season.
But rather than wait, the producers introduce convoluted, (and stupid), plots to accommodate actor availability. This usually results in characters being: in hospital; kidnapped; on a different planet; etc. Anything that can explain why they're not all together.
Once you know about this, it is very annoying. Now, when I'm watching Season 3s, I'm constantly analysing the plot for telltale signs of missing actors, rather than just watching the show. And I've now probably spoilt it for the rest of you!  A story line should not be based on who's available when.
|
|
|
|
|
5teveH wrote: the producers introduce convoluted, (and stupid), plots to accommodate actor availability.
As well as lengthy clips from previous seasons as the character has flashbacks that are somehow supposed to move the plot line along.
|
|
|
|
|
5teveH wrote: So it's impossible to get them all back together at the same time to start filming a new season.
Covid. It's actually affected how shows are filmed.
Of course not knowing which show you're talking about, I have no idea whether it's a factor here or not.
Besides, beyond that, they have contracts. If an actor isn't available, then there's a producer somewhere who's not doing his job.
And I'll counter your argument by saying it's not until season 3 that Star Trek Next Gen really hit its stride. Any show today that took this long to "get good" would already have been cancelled and buried.
(the fact that I had to bring up a 30+ year old show to use as an example really shows how little TV I watch these days...)
|
|
|
|
|
I agree. I'm close to finishing a binge of the Blu-Ray Star Trek: The Next Generation. The first season had some rough spots, but by the third it had become pretty good.
The Blu-Ray, BTW is beautiful.
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The Blu-Ray, BTW is beautiful.
I bought the original ones on DVD (they take a lot of space on the bookshelf!!) and then went for the Blu-ray when it came out.
I haven't yet committed the time to watch them. Part of me fears the show might not have aged as well as I'm hoping. Although TOS has held up, and the newer versions look glorious.
|
|
|
|
|
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Blu-Ray Star Trek: The Next Generation
Is there any benefit to having the Blu-Ray set? I always thought TNG was recorded on low quality film.
|
|
|
|
|
Randor wrote: Is there any benefit to having the Blu-Ray set?
IMO, yes. I don't know how much better they appear than the DVD's, but they are worlds better (pardon the pun) than the original broadcast or VHS. Small details are much more visible like ship markings, planet details, screens and control panels, even tricorder screens.
The only downside with the Blu-Ray's is that make-up is more readily apparent, even in the regular cast where more attention to detail was paid.
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
I guess there is probably some truth to that.
But honestly, I think a lot of shows just don't have the ideas/writers to keep them up to standard. They bust all their ideas on the pilot/first season just to get the show picked up and then they run dry quickly after that.
One series that always comes to my mind with things like this is Wayward Pines. I really enjoyed the first season because there was so much mystery to it, but for obvious reasons they couldn't continue that and I didn't even finish the second season... just wasn't interested any more.
|
|
|
|
|
Um ... it isn't always true: Season 3 of the Expanse was excellent for example, as was Babylon 5, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and loads of others.
In terms of "unscripted" series where the outline of the whole story isn't pre-planned at all season 3 is where the studio execs are reluctant to make changes in case they alienate existing viewers, so it gets very "formula" scripts (often by new writers / directors) and you get a worse season as a result, I suspect.
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
And they jump the shark when they run out of ideas for plots! 
|
|
|
|
|
A great theory! I think it holds true for most stuff.
Some exceptions...
like Star Trek TNG (already mentioned above)
And all seasons of Breaking Bad were overwhelmingling good in so many ways.
...Dexter bends this rule a little, season three was good as the first, so it's seasons four and five were it's "Season 3"
|
|
|
|
|
A bit of a rant....
I'm overwhelmed with new technologies.
I'm starting doing some html/css/javascript/typescript/vue work.
I'm supposed to be fully productive this week. (according to everyone, lol)
Every examples, tutorials or paid online courses, I see have different configurations, different versions of those things, clone their github repos, try to run their things, nothing works, obscure errors every time.
They all start easily enough, but BAM, in a few minutes, they go to console.log("hello world") to full fledge web sites with gazillions npm packages.
There doesn't seem to be a real progressive learning curves to these technologies.
Am I seeing this the wrong way ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
|
|
|
|
|
I am the same with some of it, but that is probably more a reflection of my aged brain. Fortunately I don't need to use such skills to earn a living any more.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm not old, but at the age of 45 in tech terms I'm ancient.
my decades in development have helped keep the door open for new opportunities, but I think I've found a nice spot writing code for a local community college. the work load is just about right, still try to push myself to learn something new all the time, but damn some of the new platforms are so much waisted processing power for little gain, and it really hurts to see such inefficient layers of code.
|
|
|
|
|
Maximilien wrote: I'm overwhelmed with new technologies.
Yes, I was. I started programming before the web was a thing. Also doesn't seem worth to study the tech of du jour, since it obsolete tomorrow.
Maximilien wrote: They all start easily enough, but BAM, in a few minutes, they go to console.log("hello world") to full fledge web sites with gazillions npm packages.
I don't use npm packages. I'm responsible for the result, so I don't muck around with code that I haven't read in detail.
Maximilien wrote: There doesn't seem to be a real progressive learning curves to these technologies.
Not from a Garfield-approach ("what is in it for me?")
Outside of the learning curve, there is the issue of trusting other people's work. I'm not sticking a backdoor in my software after that work, forget it. Log4j? Not in my code, it's not like a logger is too complicated to write.
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.
|
|
|
|
|
Another benefit to writing your own logging code is that you can make it uniform across all your systems.
|
|
|
|
|
Yep! It can be a challenge. It helps if you can find a work buddy to help you through the tricky stuff - as this definitely saves a lot of time. On the downside, if your "buddy" is doing it the wrong way, you just learn bad practices. Which, pretty much, is the story of my .Net/c# learning curve: quick, but rubbish! 
|
|
|
|
|
Maximilien wrote: with gazillions npm packages
And therein lies the problem.
Certainly on the front-end, I refuse to use packages. Yes, there are the occasional exception to that rule, but when it comes to any of these krufty overly "crafted" front-end frameworks, they can all burn in the dumpster fire as far as I'm concerned.
So, no, I'm not overwhelmed with new technologies. Whenever I ask "why should I use this?" the answer is quite simple: nobody, not my fellow developers, nor anyone here, not the websites themselves (which always fail to answer the "why" question) can give me a good answer. So I simply don't use them.
And being able to say "I only do back-end work", I can leave all that "craft" to others, because I have absolutely no intention of ever learning any of it.
And I quite enjoy doing front-end development in TypeScript for my own projects, mainly because I'm not pulling my hair out.
|
|
|
|
|
Sadly, I don't think you're going about it the wrong way.
I ran into the same mess, and I thought it was because I was deliberately avoiding web work (which I was) and that the industry had moved on without me (they did), but it's more than that.
There is so much "web" out there now, that the # of technology stacks exploded. Elephanting exploded.
That's what it looks like to me.
I'm sure that there are currents in this sea you can swim if you look - you're actually stuck with a stack you were given though. 
I can't help you learn this stuff, nor really point you to resources very well, because I'm in your same boat in terms of my lack of exposure, and also I don't learn well with courses and books. I dive in and google my way through problems these days. People mock the googly coders, but what can I say, it's just faster for me that way. 
All I can really say is best of luck with this.
Real programmers use butterflies
|
|
|
|
|
The worse part is I don't know what to google for.
Most of the time it returns stuff with different technologies/toolkits.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
|
|
|
|
|
I stay away from anything 'new' for professional development. I'll wait until it becomes mature enough to have an established knowledge base.
I am a team of one and have no use for github or npm packages...the closest to this I've come is jquery and even then, refuse to allow external links/resources.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
|
|
|
|
|
When do I know it become mature enough ?
HTML/CSS/JavaScript seems very mature.
TypeScript seems to also be very mature and well adopted.
Vue (in this case) also seems to be well adopted.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
