That’s a really useful answer. Thank you!
That’s a really useful answer. Thank you!
“Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?” pause “Is it plugged in?” pause “You’re welcome”
For some reason it reminds me of When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, a short story about sysadmins dealing with the apocalypse.
My entire career is based on “yeah but you’re good with computers and programming!” I just wanted to do fine arts and paint for fuck sake. And I could have made a career out of it, as history as since shown! Ah well. Maybe my kids will fare better, we’ll see.
One of my colleague is leader of the team managing our internal software systems, but also a potato farmer. Somehow.
I’ve had this so often… very frustrating.
I like to think the 400 within a 200 is for “look, I managed to reply to you. But there is bad news”
More useful would be what sort of values is acceptable there. Can I use team number 2318008? Can I use team 0? If not, why not? WHY / WHY NOT is often useful.
I was taught it around 1988, most likely on a Thomson MO5 ? Or maybe it was a TO9. It was a while ago :,) I just remember the fascination watching the little pixels color themselves and experimenting with the instructions to see what we could come up with.
If you like turtles and programming, you might enjoy hearing about LOGO.
Back in the day, that was the first programming language I was taught. Years and years before I’d learn C or ASM.
You’d give instructions to a “turtle”, moving it about the screen, drawing as it did so. It was a magical experience for 9yo me.
Not sure for triple, because you can face the central screen and have two satellites, but for two screens yeah, one wide is much better. I’m not going back! Was always turning my head and having to pick one or the other. Was not convenient at all.
It was called The x86 Assembly Bible and I would not have been able to do much of anything without it.
Keeping their admin password in the history so they don’t have to alt+tab to their Secret Server webpage? W-who would do such a thing?!
Y’all haven’t heard of Windows clipboard history? Windows + V will change your life, I tell ya!
I cannot express how much I loathe antivirus software. Mostly it’s been because it has been nothing but trouble in my work environment, without ever catching anything, for over twenty years. It’s the modern corporate snake oil.
I like your enthusiasm. I remember when I believed the same. The last 16 years have clearly shown this is not the case.
Oh I love that one! Cheers for the explanation !
Context is always useful, though. Because sometimes the person asking has gone down the wrong path and you could help them see the problem from a completely different angle.
Or maybe that context will let you know that yes, they have to use that ancient tech because that’s what they have to use at work and no they can’t install the latest fancy tech that does it so easily…
Oh my colleagues love hearing about using Node.js for the backend…
What a kahoot?
The alternative is not super exciting though. My experience with NoSQL has been pretty shit so far. Might change this year as the company I’m at has a perfect case for migrating to NoSQL but I’ve been waiting for over a year for things to move forward…
Also, I had a few cases where storing JSON was super appropriate : we had a form and we wanted to store the answers. It made no sense to create tables and shit, since the form itself could change over time! Having JSON was an elegant way to store the answers. Being able to actually query the JSON via Oracle SQL was like dark magic, and my instincts were all screaming at the obvious trap, but I was rather impressed by the ability.