bjornjajayaja

I’m sure they were already planning the migration...

Honestly what good comes out of any “industrial scale” chemical? I think people are screwed because this is _one_ chemical; what about all of the synthetic materials in peoples houses these days (the carpet itself)?

We need to go back to basics here instead of trying to over-science things. Bust out that bottle of vinegar and keep things simple in my opinion.

I think the barrier to entry in the problem domain for C++ is much higher than something like nodejs. Installing dependencies is the least of one’s worries there.

Also, how many dependencies are we talking about? Node apps have a million dependencies for, I think, stupid simple stuff that should just be reinvented in a given codebase. In a C++ app too many dependencies invites incompatible stylistic choices which I think will turn to a Frankenstein codebase.

In Go this isn’t a problem because of “go fmt” plus a simple language at its core.

We need software that works on the client side sans internet connection. Devices are really powerful these days so it’s funny things move to the cloud. It’s funny I’ve been using cloud storage for the past several years but I wonder why I don’t just back up to external drive or two. The convenience doesn’t buy much. I think folks really buy into laziness and technology hype. But fundamentally not much had changed in the software space compared to 20 years ago.

Personally I haven’t seen much change in the features of office (that I use). Is there a reason for folks not to migrate to LibreOffice? Office 365 barely works nowadays without an internet connection, which is really annoying. Cloud first technologies are ridiculous, IMO. Developers out there: please test your code without and internet connection. Thank you.

I tend to disagree with many of the sentiments. In particular, many software folks don’t know the most rudimentary data structures and algorithms. Those should be memorized, frankly. Lately I have been exploring old programming books on archive.org and realize how downhill the industry has gone from fundamental principles, which leads to “language-z” zealots to satisfy some business need.

The author mentions COBOL as being antiquated and irrelevant but in all honesty, modern languages don’t improve upon much. Underneath all the layers people add to modern languages (so the rest of the developer community can push buttons without even the faintest idea) lies assembly language and the machine.

Knowledge of the systems is abstracted away so much that people are focusing on mastering the wrong thing. One should be able to implement algorithms in C or COBOL or even assembly. Otherwise, it’s like learning to google the notes of a concerto without understanding the chords, scales, harmony, melody, etc.