i read a blog post by a former MS employee who shed some light on the situation. apparently the windows dev team is entirely made up of junior developers. As soon as anybody gets any experience, either MS tries to promote them to management, or they leave to find a better job.
what that means is there is nobody at MS who has deep knowledge of the Windows kernel. So instead of re-writting, re-factoring or making additions, all they know how to do is add things on top of the existing OS.
that explains why the idea to replace engineers would enter peoples minds, but not why they would try so, so hard to get people to believe it.
sometimes, it feels like managers hate engineers, and are constantly plotting their replacement. maybe its because it hurts their ego to know that the engineers they manage worked harder to get there and deserve a higher salary.
or else, it could be office politics. anyone who can claim to have removed an entire department from payroll is due a huge raise.
oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
I want to point out that, just like in real life, its the inclusion of that “++” which complicates things. Without them, it would be straightforward and elegant, having only 1 logical solution.
Makes you wonder why people keep insisting on having the “++” around. Why not ditch them and go back to basics.
Seat 2. The guy in seat 1 already uses Linux, so someone ought to tell the wolves.
I’m actually curious to know, how is Linux inherently more secure than windows?
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
-Edsger W. Dijkstra
Is this a NTFS meme that I’m too ext4 to understand?
Why C ‘hackers’? Why not just regular C users?
Wasn’t expecting it to be easy. Think it will be much more rewarding though. Already has been thus far.
Edit: wait, that was a pun, wasn’t it?
I’m training to work in hardware currently. Its my hope that there at least, people still care about min-maxing power vs performance.
You could make your own smart devices. You don’t even need to be smart in embedded systems these days either. Just use a cheap SBC.
I use Linux because it plays games better.
We’ve come so far for there to be truth in that statement
If you ask me, the only reason for objects to exist are for preventing stale references. Anything more than this is unnecessary.
I used to think I was just a fanboy. But as time went on and I gained more and more experiences, I’ve only become all the more sure that ANSI C is the only language I ever want to write anything in.
“I need a computer that jUsT wOrKs”
I/O Issues are problems that come with the territory for scripting languages like python. Its why I prefer to use bash for scripting instead, because in bash, all I/O are strings. And if there are ever any conflicts, well that’s what awk/sed/Perl are for.
SO in a nutshell:
“I need to do X”
“Have you tried Y?”
“No, because I don’t need Y, I need X.”
“Well you can do Z if you can’t do Y.”
“OK, sure. But how do I do X?”
“Why do you need to do X?”
(Explains why in my hyper-specific situation, I need to do X, and Y and Z won’t work)
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