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Technology has more and more made me appreciate the value of simplicity and predictability in design. Too many of today's "problems" are solved with complicated technology when something much simpler would suffice and be better (my definition of better). Not everything needs an iPhone App. For example, I like to …
You and I are a similar age Dani and have been at this programming game for a similar amount of time, you perhaps a little longer than I. In my experience I don't feel like much has changed at all over the last couple of decades, my current professional project …
> Link Building Without Being Spammy Such irony.
A QA tester walks into a bar, orders -4 beers, "2" whiskeys, and Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1 packets of crisps.
I purchased a Markdown editing tool called Typora. I paid my money, I downloaded the tool, activated it, and I can run it on my computer forever-more. No recurring subscription.
This is going to sound flippant but I promise it's not: You need to pay more attention to the details of your object references. That's making sure your variables point to actual objects rather than none, which is null. Programming is a very precise discipline that required exactly correct syntax, …
Are any of you Daniweb folks into doing [Advent of Code](https://adventofcode.com/)? If you've never heard of it, here's an introduction from their website (also linked above) > Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any …
I was 21, so circa 2000, and I made a HTML only website to share the photos I took while on a skiing holiday to Lake Tahoe, Nevada. I didn't buy a domain for it, in fact I didn't even know how to do that back then, so I hosted …
Why a Telegram group? It feels like you're immediately constraining your audience.
I believe there to be an element of group thinking where the herd follow the current trends and fashions. At one time being part of an open source project was seen as the height of cool so everybody was doing it, which was great because the availability of small reusable …
For the times when I really want to search for something that isn't just "what was the link to that site I already know about" I would use Kagi. There are no ads, no sponsored results, just stuff that's relevant to your search criteria. It's free for low usage but …
> bakery app I don't think phones are very good at baking cakes
The constantly moving configuration and interfaces of modern technology frustrates me deeply. You may have heard me extol the virtues of technology built decades ago. In the 90s I bought some HiFi equipment, I learned how to operate it, and have done so with little bother ever since. In contrast …
It seems to me that the key to getting anywhere useful with AI tooling is to be very very very precise in what you ask it. And the problem with that is that natural language, such as the English language, isn't all that precise so is extraordinarily difficult to achieve. …
I'll second a few already mentioned: * Burn Notice: Fun entertainment, worth it for Sam Axe alone. Makes you want to drink more Mojito's * Red Dwarf: Technically sci-fi, but outrageously funny (in a very British kind of way). * Banshee: Way more violent and saucy than is necessary but …
> I would first support a tech tax on auto-trades - the millions of stock market trades that are done automatically by bots. Even a small amount would bring in a lot of tax $$$. If it was applied to **all** trades then it would have only a small impact …
What you have described isn't what I would call micromanagement. The choice of language and build tooling are what I'd consider "architecturally significant" decisions which have likely already been made by the team you are joining, so for your part you fall in with the convention already set by the …
I believe so, yes. The physicality of being away from your normal workplace makes a big difference for me in terms of taking in the content of the talks and not being distracted by the other things happening on your computer, email, messaging, or whatever. Also, there's enormous value in …
Hello Norm, we have 'met' before on a handful of other forums over the years.
I haven't run a desktop computer for about 15 years.
This is really interesting to hear everyone's stories about programming at different times in history. Last weekend my Dad and I visited [Bletchley Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park) where they did a lot of the code breaking of encrypted German messages in the lead up and during World War 2. While the code breaking …
While I was at university 20 years ago one of my course friends regularly extolled the virtues of Linux. He was a big fan of Gentoo which I never really got into, he like fiddling with the configuration and I liked a working system, two characteristics that rarely overlapped for …
I've avoided most of the wild variations of source control systems thankfully. My first job was just a team of 2 and the other guy decided rsync would do just fine for us, and it did. Then in my next job we used CVS, then the next SVN, and all …
I'm a bit of a technology hoarder. In my home study I have Technics HiFi separates and B&W speakers that I bought in the early/mid 90s, and they're every bit as top notch quality now as they were then. I also have a Sony MiniDisc walkman, but it has recently …
On a practical note: Are you intending to use an external service to generate these AI Overviews? Or host your own? Either way it sounds expensive. Is it?
AI is an accelerant for already existing behaviours. Good developers will become more productive, and poor developers will produce rot at a faster rate. It also extends beyond the technology industry, medical research will be accelerated but so will cyber crime.
I've spent most of my career writing Java which uses the semicolon to signify the end of a statement. Using the auto-complete features of my IDE (IntelliJ, naturally) I very rarely actually have to type them out so they're not the burden that this topic implies that they are. In …
I name my devices after family cats. For example my phone is called walter and my old iMac is called duchess.
> Does it count that I didn't expect Blu-ray to win the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD war? I was working at Sony around the time this was happening and you might not know that it was the Playstation 3 that won the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battle. At the time players for …
Not a silly comment, but an unfortunate one. We discovered that a colleague had accidentally pasted the contents of a rather contentious email into the JavaDoc of a Java class. He reckons he must have been scrolling down a file with a wheel mouse and clicked the wheel without realising …
Imperative programming meets document styling. I'm not convinced this is progress.
I'm not opposed to getting an electric car, but only a small one for poking around town. I'd still keep our other car as an internal combustion engine car for longer journeys. One of the biggest deterrents I have with new cars is the trend of sticking a massive iPad …
The first computer that was mine, and not my Dad's, was an Amstrad CPC 464. I used to copy programs out of magazines into it, but they seldom worked, probably due to mistakes because I was an impatient 10 year old. My Dad worked for Burroughs who became Unisys so …
As a fella who learned to drive in the mid 90s, back when cars were mere tools that did what you asked it to do (for good for for bad). I have mixed feelings about modern cars. On the one hand engine development has come a very long way and …
> Simple software running on some Arduino 100% this. Simple is better and remember not everything needs to be solved with AI. The rest of the World will figure this out at some point and the current hype cycle will subside.
Hello, I'd probably start with an open source off the shelf solution such as https://www.home-assistant.io/ There are tutorials on their site that cover installation onto a raspberry pi so you should be able to get to and running fairly quickly. It sounds like a fun project so please do let …
I'm not a keyboard fetishist so don't go in for the whole mechanical keyboard thing. I'm typing right now on my standard laptop keyboard, which is a standard UK qwerty layout. For my more permanent setup I have a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard which is very comfortable and has pretty …
I'd be very surprised if Amazon and the other big courier firms don't already have this.
You'd be looking for some kind of Export function in the Yahoo mail settings. I gave up my yahoo email address a couple or three decades ago so can't direct you specifically to it, but that's what I'd be looking for. A way to export the emails to some kind …
When I was about 10 years old I would copy out code from magazines onto an Amstrad CPC 464, usually unsuccessfully. Later on at college I programmed assembler with a 6502 processor. That was good fun.
When I was at University nearly 20 years ago we used Oberon2 for some of our programming classes. I've never encountered it since but I remember liking it very much because of it's very very strict typing. I like strongly typed languages. I've also long been a fan of Erlang. …
Markdown. I approach markdown like it was the first time I ever saw it. Every time.
My Dad was an electrician (now retired) and he was always buying stuff from a supplier CPC Farnell. I discovered the pattern that they used for applying promotional codes to their products so I wrote a Groovy script that took a product code and then tried out all the promo …
The only browser extension I have installed right now is Proton Pass, which is a password manager tool. I have also used Privacy Badger but don't seem to have it installed right now for reasons lost to history. (i.e. I can't remember)
"Wrong" is often subjective so it's hard to state for sure whether anything I have written was wrong. Our tool choices are a product of the time the choice was made, including our own knowledge, our teams collective knowledge, the tools we know about, the tools we're skilled at, etc …
I wish I was better at Maths. I feel like there's a whole world of knowledge in there that I just have no clue about.
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Java for me. I've spent the majority of my career working with Java so it feels the most natural to use and thus allows my thinking to detach from the language and into the problem domain, which is where the fun really is. In general I like strongly typed languages. …
Let's turn this question around: Do you think programming today is much different to 10 years ago? What about 20 years ago? What about 30 years ago? I don't think that much has changed in past decades, not really, so I don't expect much will change in the coming decades. …
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