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That's because AI allows poor programmers to appear as good programmers, which is actually a good thing as otherwise they'd be writing crap you'd have to code-review, but their und…

"Why didn't the semantic web happen?" I have literally been doing we development since their was a web, and the companies I developed for are openly hostile to the idea of putting …

I'd be willing to bet that the problem is the work isn't getting done. I've seen this many times now. No one is going to care how much you time you spend walking your dog if you're…

I see this too, and not just post-COVID. 10+ years ago we used to have "Let's Learn This Now!" where the developers would agree on particular subject and then learn and discuss it …

Tomte, thanks, not particularly for the original reference to the article about smell, but for directing us to the person in question and all the great stuff she has written. I got…

Ah, I see you've learned quite well from them!

Makes me want to go code...

But it hasn't really dropped off since earlier today.

Kind of makes me wonder - why let up? Can it be mitigated at all? Wouldn't they have done so by now. Be interesting if they just kept piling it on until they've got the whole inter…

ARPANET is nothing like the monstrosity we have today.

Quarter of a million?! Maybe in 2009. Now, 1/2 a million.

Until you've had to kill people yourself, seen the results, and lived with yourself afterwards, I don't think you have anything to say about what someone else has been in that situ…

>> I don't get why this was deemed an accident. Reading the story, there is this little voice saying in the back of my head, "They don't want to treat it as a crime because they kn…

I have mixed feelings about this, but I cannot disagree with it. a. I haven't written a program in C in over 10 years. I wrote software 5 days a week for those 10 years. b. I would…

That has to be a joke. By pursuing this Oracle just makes themselves look like idiots to anyone who actually has an technical knowledge. So, they're idiots.

Well, to be honest, that's why there are no iOS apps worth a god-damn. We got a bunch of junk as apps (programs now). So much wasted effort and time.

Uhhh, apparently Spencer Gundert is too young to remember all the other times there have been election fraud (Bush-Florida) and the brew-ha-ha over the crappy voting machines we've…

I have nothing to add but what a great post.

I'm going to be a contrarian here and say that if unit tests, in most cases, made economic sense they'd be a given in almost all software development. But they're not. Do we assume…

"...but let's have a productive conversation." Okay, I'll bite. With a web browser, a DOM, and Javascript, where do you see this all heading that's full of truth and beauty? Where …

What isn't being said, and is painfully obvious to me, is that almost everything the article talks about wouldn't be happening if a. Browsers had a decent UI capability, and b. Jav…

Some payment gateways offer "gateway recurring billing" where the credit card data is stored at the gateway not on your most likely less secure servers. Ashley Madison could have d…

I can't think of two many companies that are more irrelevant to the future of computing. What does IBM actually do anymore? Seems to me they just need legions of consultants and ch…

It's no longer a business issue, and if it is, then Apple is just posing. Apple's positive affect on our economy, our technology, and even our nation, would make such a line that o…