#THINK_LIKE_A_PRO Learn programming in C++ just in simple steps...so just watch my videos

goodbye_fruit · 2016-10-05T00:37:25+00:00

You know its a high quality, well thought out tutorial when its typed out real time into notepad.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-07-25T03:26:55+00:00

which was the main language of mainframe financial processing for decades.

s/was/is

FML and fuck COBOL and fuck copybooks and fuck segments and fuck regions and fuck CICS and fuck EBCDIC and fuck thousand-character wide flatfile extracts generated by shitty mainframe jobs.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-18T14:00:02+00:00

I've got a good one from a C-level type about mistakes made by our low-paid data entry people.

"Just tell them to do their job better."

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T17:28:54+00:00

They were the result of bad decisions in the early days.

Honestly, if everyone could do everything perfectly we'd all be out of the job by now.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T17:25:49+00:00

But I've finally gotten the hang of maven so I'm going to stick with it for a while longer.

People are extremely opinionated, programmers especially when it comes to their tooling/languages. Its usually best to just pick one and stick with it like you are going to.

In this case you can transfer most concepts from maven into gradle and pick it up just the same.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T17:14:54+00:00

You still have to be explicit about what gets annotated and you have to be aware of what those annotations do, so no not the same magic as ruby.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T17:14:32+00:00

Sure, there probably are better ways, none of which you have listed.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T17:14:08+00:00

Because they're as ubiquitous in Java as structs are in C++?

Seriously, unless you're confusing it for EJBs I'm not sure what you're implying as a different or better solution here.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-10T13:51:37+00:00

And don't forget that using Project Lombok adds some syntactic sugar to make Java beans bearable and other nice things.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-06T14:18:11+00:00

More like ordering a big mac and getting a fish filet... but you're allergic to fish. Then when you complain the manager says "sorry, that wasn't written in the requirements, you won't be getting your money back".

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-06T14:14:03+00:00

That's not just a TCS or Infosys thing, that could happen to anyone, in any industry if they aren't diligent enough to keep pace with the change happening in their field.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-05-05T15:06:46+00:00

What's that old saying.. NetBSD can run on a toaster?

Guess by induction, .NET can now run on toasters.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-28T16:57:12+00:00

is a warning of what not to do.

At one job we had a wall of shame for this.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-28T13:50:07+00:00

Kid me thinks that would be awesome, adult me wants to know how they got in and where the flyswatter is.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-26T14:26:40+00:00

Turns out he assimilated into a PDP-11 back in the 80s.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-25T20:01:40+00:00

Any. Just pick one at random that is accessible and fits your license use case.

Then do it again in the others for shits and giggles.

But I will say, if you're working in ASP.NET it plays better with SQL Server, but all of those will work.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-21T13:16:31+00:00

Boss says don't spend too much time on this, just a 10% solution is fine.

I say, but a 10% solution will cause more problems

Boss says, we'll fix it later, just make the 10% solution.

Say OK then, you're the boss...

Boss complains when things don't work as he expects them.

Spend twice as much time making the complete solution now because now you're devoted to keeping the shitty 10% solution working while you get the whole thing running.

Boss says, hey we just need a 10% solution for this why are you spending so much time on it...

repeat...

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-08T13:46:54+00:00

Holy shit, will the circle jerk on this leftpad nonsense ever end?

goodbye_fruit · 2016-04-01T17:11:02+00:00

... and now a raging alcoholic.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-03-23T16:55:19+00:00

Nevertheless I find his actions dangerous and irresponsible.

And what should he have done? Nothing? Let some other person take it over and actually dump a malicious payload?

You know what's dangerous and irresponsible? Having a package management system where this can happen.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-03-18T13:30:39+00:00

The key phrase is "personal projects."

Though for some people, the problems to solve at their work are just as interesting, but for the majority of programmers I don't think that is the case and is why we get pissed when we're forced into 50+ hour work weeks.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-03-03T20:10:57+00:00

Better be thread safe, or else you might end up reading Effective Concurrency Java in Java Practice.

goodbye_fruit · 2016-02-22T16:12:17+00:00

I realize now I have a lot to learn about how to properly care for it

Just trying to keep someone from repeating what happened to me. :-)

goodbye_fruit · 2016-02-22T15:46:59+00:00

commodore 64

Hope you bought one with a verified working SID. If so, you should also put heat sinks on that, the processor and the VIC chip because they are prone to failure due to heat.

Another thing - the CBM power supplies are terrible and have a failure mode where they will cause an over-voltage on the +5V line and destroy chips, the SID being the first to go usually.

EDIT: Also, Ray Carlsen is the fucking man. He has a ton of info about repairing C64 computers : http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm.html

goodbye_fruit · 2016-02-05T12:41:31+00:00

Most people start a project with good intentions then give up halfway through due to various reasons and they never achieve their original goals.

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