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I think you missed the point. I'm not ready for any large change. No one is. What I have done is get myself into a position where I can do what I want to do before there is a chang…

I had something I wrote in the 90s I wasn't proud of that was a word macro that read Excel sheets for a list of instructions and used those to compose documents and print them. I f…

I have a lot of experience, in the real world, which is somewhat less ideal than "just use Qt - it's a breeze". How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the …

Mostly just locking fields. I don’t do anything procedural. It’s usually calculators, stats and modelling stuff.

Yeah. I want IP67 and have to replace my battery every 2 years. I don’t mind taking it to Apple for that. It’s less often than my car went back to the dealer for service. And my de…

Totally agree with this. I’ll get shot for this one but I write most of my GUIs in Excel these days.

The painful bit is C++. I did a fair bit of that going back to MFC. Knocking stuff out in C# with WPF and WinForms was quite nice in comparison. I haven’t found anything nicer.

I can grow vegetables and fix my own car. However I’ll be dead before I have to rely on either of those. My hedge is to simply be less fucked than the person with no assets and hug…

It’s not if it leverages the risk.

I concur. Any time I see tangles of regexes and if statements, it's going to be full of holes. I spent several months replacing messes like this with proper parsers and you'd be su…

That's fine until there is political or financial instability across the world which is increasing.

Well I’ve pretty much pulled it out of everything and bought a house (no mortgage yay) but I rode NVidia, BAE Systems with a safe position held on an actively managed ETF. I’ve got…

I think you are crazy putting money into passive index funds. As for the investors, knowing when to pull out is when they start pushing articles like this. They’re already out and …

The barista doesn’t want homeless people in the toilet because inevitably crack paraphernalia goes in there too. Better to have shit on the street than crack paraphernalia in your …

There were no applications that couldn’t be solved cheaper an easier using some other method.

Every investment company out there knew this from day one. They were riding the hype and gains. Now the late and individual investors will pay for the losses while the big investor…

Ah yes the implied social contract that it's ok because it happens all the time. That's how society falls.

I didn't even know about this vulnerability and mine are updated. Just how I like things.

Our labour force and developer experience is like a rusty bucket. If we hire any old person quick enough it'll replace the pissed off people leaking out the holes!

$10 a month isn't a lot. Until you have 10,000 staff like us. That's $1.2m a year.

Two reasons they went quiet: 1. At some point it generated something that cost the business money. Happened to us. Direct root-cause analysis lead to ChatGPT generated code not bei…

Don't do it. My sister took up hockey when she was 16 and lost 4 front teeth within 3 months. She's 45 now and just had the second set of replacements...

Only because they had to and couldn’t write it off in any way.

I don't disagree with any of those, other than those I have already caveated, but they are additional points.

They're all written by idiots in C. Why would I trust them?