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muds were the only way we could get games on the university network back in the 90s the mud of choice back then was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GodWars

It may be work sometime in the future, but having to prefix every query with a null check sounds bonkers. A view can be optimised to do all that for you. I made the what the flip expression reading that they did a prefix on everything.

SAFe seems to be a pyramid scheme to get you to pay for the latest SAFe badge its overly complex and seems to be there to make management feel better about itself

normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already ... not a bug thats been found, reported and "ignored"

this seems to be a zero day just because Apple haven't seen fit to respond the the reporter

0-day ... what they mean is .... I found an issue. Its hardly a 0-day, they've not posted any evidence of it actually being used in the wild, just that "it can be used". Why is a normal "ooh look a bug or two" all of a sudden hair on fire world is burning news.... oh yeh ... I get more attention this way by exaggerating

Apple may have a terrible bug bounty and response process ... but call a spade a spade

... I saw a bird this morning ... help theres dinosaurs on the loose!!!!

Probably better than a huge lump of vibrating plastic plummeting out of the sky at them

we have this thrust on us ... we get pull requests for point release updates but it misses entire versions it decides that packages that have legitimately been forked by a manufacturer should be replaced by the original package because it has a version bump generally it been a pain in the backside

My house is on land that’s on a 999 year lease since 1870(ish) from the county that moved boundaries 40 years ago...and we have no idea who the the lease holder is... so that’s fairly perpetual

I used to work for a large US corp that called us all professional developers, just so they don’t have to pay overtime... professional grades don’t get overtime

I used to remote work in my old job... now I have a commute of at least an hour... and it’s only 17 miles :(

I'm not sure you got the entire impression of what was going on in the early 90's and late 80's then. There was a massive scene in the Amiga and Atari ST market.... over here we also had the Spectrum and Amstrad things in the mid 80's with the BBC Micro too. The cheap home computer era only really came to a crashing halt once Windows 95 got bedded in. In 95 I'd just started Uni and there was still a large user base on the Amiga and Atari ST. I've intentionally not mentioned Apple here... as they have never been called cheap....

Yeh $1500 computers.... you where looking at the wrong thing. Everyone else was looking at the not Microsoft market... commadore, Atari etc. I bought my first computer with Christmas money when I was about 10 for under £100 in the mid 80's. The whole girls weren't into computers is looking at the bubble from the inside and not looking at why there's a bubble. Parents in the 70's tended to point the boys at building and engineering toys and the girls at dolls etc. Those children followed on in the same fashion. That's left us in the gender bias we have now. As for ethnic groups... that's complicated and depends on local demographic, plus imigant families tend not to be overflow in spare cash....

i was going to post a comment along the lines of... and once again everyone has to have perfect colour vision....

what is it with these "experts" that think the way they see things is correct?

ever met someone with less than perfect vision... ever heard of someone with less than perfect vision?!?! this is why you have high contrast modes on your operating system, and colour blind mode in some games (not enough of this)

ffs

...isn't that the standard order size for a week in the states :p

not sure ... was it the time I deleted the table space containing the unbanked transactions for a local council which was about £1 million (I did a very hasty recovery) or when i accidentally deleted the table space of the last 3 years data for another council ... which took 3 weeks to recover ... or when I setup an ISDN modem to dial the wrong number every 30 seconds for 6 months costing £10k after discount (the bill snapped the table legs when it was dropped) .....

If you find a feature nobody has used for the last 6 months... and its to do with some long term calculations... probably safe to say they use it annually. We have the end of year reports that generally kill the database when people try to run 5 years worth of data through them every christmas... they never touch them during the normal working year though.

i feel the obligatory insensitive clod response to be appropriate to this post.... or is that to slashdot for hacker news?

i work for a large US corporation, and also did in my last job (i'm in the UK) .... it seems to be a general thing to forget the US is not the only place people live in the world ... the majority of memo's we get spammed with are US centric and only applicable there. It seems to be a mind set in general thats pervasive in the staes.

nothing like a nice honest bit of gerrymandering

I've found that those in charge also have a budget to run you on... how do they justify you spending x hours updating code to do exactly 0 as far as anyone is concerned? ..plus all the regression testing? They just don't... it gets left as it is

We have 2 apps that are used for the same thing.... the original one and the rewritten one. The rewritten one was coded up in C# over 3 years and isn't anywhere near as robust as the original one. The original one was written in VB3 circa 1995 and dragged to VB6 where its stayed to this day.

Theres that much technical debt on the old app that the first change I made to it 5 years ago caused it to stop compiling because of the single line I added to a function which made it to big to compile.

If you work in a shop that has been around long enough to lose its training wheels and get a driving licence, then you have technical debt thats core functionality that everyone is scared of breaking.

>The process is fine, but sometimes shit is broken and you need to fix it now and clean up the existing mess later.

when did you ever get to this land of milk and honey called later? whenever you have a jfdi because its broken, the way its coded always stays....

I've never seen a manager sign off on reworking code that does the job, just to make it "more manageable" or "standard" or "less of a bodge"

... or whoever wrote the code should have put boundary checks in to make sure a negative altitude was caught and handled properly

that early is fine if you don't have kids... or have kids who start school at some stupid time like 7am.... my kids don't start school until 8:50... so starting before 9 is completely unrealistic unless i get a massive pay rise to cover child care for 2 kids before school 5 days a week

nothing motivates people like having their exact hours monitored

i think your right... sounds like absolute bs brewed in the finest dung pile of clock watching excel pushing loonies. everyone can be autonomous when we tell them they can be, and only then.... I don't start until 9:30 and work until 6... with a bit of flexibility on the end of the day.....people don't care as long as my hours are done

I've been code reviewing everything for my entire team for about 6 weeks. The idea being that we have some kind of quality control on the stuff being developed. We're using TFS to ask for reviews, which actually works really well. ...what doesn't work is the junk I keep being sent....I bounced the same review 3 times yesterday because it didn't even compile... When the stuff you get is decent reviews are ok....when it's junk, it's soul destroying

hummm.... i wonder why jersey and gurnsey have 1 different in their numbers... considering they're both channel islands... thats a fairly odd chart

Enterprise applications moved to Java on purpose to lose the issues that memory management causes. In my last job I first came in contact with people who had never had to do any type of memory management, that was only 8 years ago (that guy probably has his PhD by now and will be Dr Coole...seriously). If you can stand the speed of GC languages then, there's a whole bunch of savings you get in development time and especially in support.

I worked at a place ~10 years ago that had full PCI certification, you only have to be compliant if your the one doing the processing. We had loads of 3rd party clients using one of the customer facing applications that's stored the card details and potentially the cv2 numbers in the clear. They then sent them to us to batch process a couple of times a day. If their connection crapped out, they sent them again later. I distinctly remember reprocessing card details of transactions that had happened more than 2 weeks prior. Credit card numbers are incredibly easy to generate too, the check digit routine is well known, and you can just try the other details randomly for small amounts till you hit jackpot.

I haven't read Brian's post though because I'm getting 503 errors atm.