Posts by trcooke

A QA tester walks into a bar, orders -4 beers, "2" whiskeys, and Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1 packets of crisps.

Oops! I tried

It's ok, I know I'm a nobody around here. I think I've sussed the spam bot, links are ok but only if they're out in the open.

This question sounds familiar.....(https://coderanch.com/t/789618/Speed-Replaces-Satisfaction-Coding) I'll repeat what I said over there.

Perhaps fulfillment just looks different with AI "accelerator" tools such as the ones you mentioned. Can you develop code quickly while maintaining your values? Is your code well tested? Is your code beautiful? Do you have confidence in your code? Can you put your code in production and sleep well at night?

I'm a developer too and 14 years ago I bought an entry level MacBook Air and honestly it was probably the best laptop I've ever bought and I used it for development for years and years. It used to creak a bit if I ran more than one instance of IntelliJ, but other than that it took everything I threw at it. I have since replaced my own laptop, but that little Air is still being used by family and still going strong.

Sonos kit is pretty decent. I have a bunch of different models and they all sound great.

Maybe a wee bit older than you Dani, I was 26 or 27 doing a Masters degree when I met my Linux loving friend. I'm 46 now.

I have had Macs but it annoys me that they get obsoleted by software long before the hardware runs out. My wife has a MacBook Air and it's great because it's zero effort to maintain but the cost is replacing it even when it's still in perfect working order, apart from nothing works because Apple have decided it's too old.

While I was at university 20 years ago one of my course friends regularly extolled the virtues of Linux. He was a big fan of Gentoo which I never really got into, he like fiddling with the configuration and I liked a working system, two characteristics that rarely overlapped for me except for rare moments.

But, I was sold on Linux in general and have been mostly an Ubuntu user since then. I've had a few diversions over the years into other distributions but they don't usually last long and it's back to Ubuntu. We use Ubuntu at work too, mainly because I am in the useful position of being able to decide what operating system we use in the development team. Since our production environment is Linux it's really useful that our development environment is also Linux. I will concede that you can achieve the same goal with Apple OSX since it's essentially Unix with a fancy Window Manager, but we didn't have the budget at the time. The company has matured a bit since then, i.e. we have some money now, and I floated the idea of getting Macs in the next hardware refresh but the team resisted it fairly strongly, so I guess they're all Linux users now too :)

Fair point. I have actually met about half a dozen of the CodeRanch staff in person which is way more social than I ever was on any other social network.

I've pretty much excluded myself from all social media things because their primary reason for being is to push advertising and propaganda to you, and I don't like it. I frequently remind myself of the mantra:

If you don't pay for the product, you are the product

The only exception is LinkedIn, because despite my mistrust of the platform I do have to make an effort to stay connected and visible to my peers. I have accepted being treated as a product by LinkedIn as the cost of using the platform.

I never really connected with it so just feels like a long time ago. But I share you sentiments in general for things of the past, such as the 8086 processor and SCSI disks.

Mastadon, well there's a blast from the past. I couldn't even tell you which servers I had accounts on.

Profile spam for sweet sweet SEO internet points. Create an account, put a link in the profile, but never post anything thus reducing the likelihood of triggering the spam alarms and getting deleted down by the site moderators.

It's the back-link on a public facing web page that they want, and for that there's no difference between a forum post and a profile page.

Well hello there Ulf! It certainly has been a minute since we last spoke, in fact I just dug out the last email conversation that we had just over 10 years ago! Nice to be in touch again. I still enjoy reading your one paragraph movie reviews :)

This may seem like a flippant response, but I promise you it isn't.

Why do you feel the need to write a new programming language? (I assume that's what you mean by 'machine language'). What is it you need that all other existing programming languages do not provide?

Like Ron McLeod, who we met yesterday, I'm a moderator and administrator over at the CodeRanch.com forums.

I'm a Software Engineer, currently working as a Software Architect for a medical technology company in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We use Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, we have used many of the related tooling for those languages, and our runtime environment is AWS following an "as serverless as possible" policy.

I've recently started doing some manuscript review work for Manning, for new books that they have in development, which has turned out to be quite enjoyable.

I learned of this forum only recently so thought I'd drop in and see what's going on over here.