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You said it all when you said "the entire profession is a mess."
That's why I'm asking the question.
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I feel your pain.
Here is the dilemma: Ease of use for the programmer.
As a programmer, I don't want to declare:
int4,int8,int16. The concept was that int was the DEFAULT machines bitness, which allowed it to move across platform. In memory this is great. Reading/writing to disk, created the Endian problem.
Then when you are not looking you get coercion of types, etc. Add in signed/unsigned, and pretty soon you realize you need a completely Object Based system.
To fix what?
Write once test everywhere?
I feel your pain, but see no solution outside of custom managing types that go into and out of some kind of storage!
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Write once, run everywhere.
How many times have you heard a senior management type say "We need it to run on Windows laptops for Accounting but Marketing uses Macs and Engineering uses Linux. And by the way, can you make it accessible from my phone?"
If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that, I would make Bill Gates and Warren Buffet combined look like paupers.
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That's why the DOCKER concept was so exciting to me, to be honest.
UCSD Pascal had a runtime. Under DOS it was dog slow, but the idea was basically a VM...
It ran on Linux and DOS the same, and anywhere else they ported that too, if memory serves me.
Imagine a world where (X-windows tried this), you run your application, and the GUI attaches to it!
Meaning you need only configure standard IO parameters.
Now, this was the beginning of EVERY COBOL program (remember: Environment Division, etc).
We have evolved really far, and we are getting places.
The one upside of the web was a "Standard" GUI available to program to.
Making things like Proton or Docker with a port to do things workable across platforms.
And I see that is where we seem to be going.
But like Scotty in Star Trek said "The fancier the plumbing, the bigger the problems" (or some such)
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For years the image of developers has been the living in their parent's basement, never sees the light of day, lives on sodas and pizza.
For many, I am sure this might actually be accurate (I know at least one person who precisely matches this description - he used to write video codecs for fun).
For the rest of us I am sure travel and enlightenment (and occasionally family) are just as important. I have worked and lived in five countries and visited many more. Here are my lists:
Lived in: England, Sweden, Germany, France, USA
Additionally visited: Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Scotland, Wales, Tunisia, Barbados, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Crete, Corfu, Hong Kong (deployed - didn't see the city), Luxemburg, Lichtenstein, Mexico, Canada and sundry US States.
Bucket list: New Zealand, Iceland, Russia (maybe), India, Hong Kong (now it's no longer British), Norway, Denmark, The Moon (low-gravity retirement home). ...and Japan.
Where have you worked/lived/visited/been deployed?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 27-Mar-19 13:31pm.
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Lived in: UK
Worked in: UK
Bucket list: Get the kids off my lawn
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Get the kids off my lawn
Whose kids?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I have lived/visited/worked in 10 countries so far. Now that I am in Netherlands, that number will increase a lot due to open borders.
I still have not been in South America so any country from there would be fun!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I live in the Netherlands and I've been to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia (Sint-Petersburg), Estonia, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary (Budapest), Slovenia, France, Italy, Spain (Barcelona), Madeira (does that count as Portugal?), Tunisia (Tunis), Malta, Greece, Israel, Kenya (where the giraffes are and the zebraaaas, forget Norway!), Indonesia, Canada, Costa Rica, Suriname and Cuba.
Not in that order.
Now that I'm counting them that's one country a year on average since I'm born (I'm 31)
And, my favorite country of them all, Germany!
It's beautiful, it has mountains, forests and plenty of castles and, huge bonus, it's relatively close to home!
Perfect for a couple of days out of the house
According to TripAdvisor I've seen 18% of the world...
Japan and New Zealand are on my bucket list.
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Oops! I forgot Japan for my bucket list.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I am a Jet Setter. Ok maybe 85 octane.
Southern California in the 80s when tech was king and money flowed like water.
Summit County Colorado where there is Moose, Elk and Bear and just enough tech to keep us above water.
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I did became a computer addict in my parents house (no basement, but used the most remote room and the attached - closed - balcony)...
Lived only in Hungary and Israel so far, but visited in England (London only), France (south, along the Spanish border), West and East Germany, Italy (Milan), Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria...
I do not plan to visit places abroad for now... There are a lot of places nearby that I want to see (and show to the kids) before that...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Environment friendly too, all that kerosine guzzling flying around the globe is not good at all
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lived in: England, Germany, Canada (4 months), Northern Ireland, technically Australia but I was delivering software to someone in an airport.
Visted: Italy, Czech republic, Spain & islands, Portugal
Bucket List: St Petersburg, Caribbean, Various places in the USA, Japan, China, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and other nordic regions
I have lived in various places in Germany but that was due to my father being in the armed forces and got to see Berlin before the wall came down, as the wall came down and immediatley after. But would love to visit again.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Forogar wrote: Where have you worked/lived/visited/been deployed?
I've lived in the USA, Venezuela, Mexico and Bolivia and visited Aruba, Ecuador, Colombia, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina,Peru, Canada,England, The Netherlands,Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and likely a few other places.
I have a trip to Malaysia in the works later this year and will return to Venezuela as soon as the situation there stabilizes.
In addition, besides taking time off when
I had a stroke, I completed my PHD, sdo I've managed to get out and stay busy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Oh, this game looks interesting.
Lived in: New Zealand, New York, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne
Visited: Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, China, Fiji, India, Croatia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Russia (trans-Siberian train trip), Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina (5 months in South America, 10,000kms on a motorbike) and Antarctica.
Haven't been to Africa yet, and would love to spend more time in Europe. Problem with living back in NZ is everywhere is so far away.
Oh, and I've seen NZ on bucket lists - drop me a note when you've got plans to come visit.
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Lived in: United Kingdom, Israel & Japan.
Worked in: Israel, Japan (I'm not counting business trips )
Worked with: Israelis, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Brits, Indians, Russians, and too many other nationalities to count.
Visited: United Kingdom (England, Scotland), France, Switzerland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Denmark, Holland, Japan, Hong Kong, China, United States, South Africa, Canada, Germany.
Bucket list: Anywhere off the planet (unlikely, given the current spaceflight technology )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Oops, I forgot to add Lichtenstein. to my visited list. I would have missed it if I'd blinked and hadn't had to stop at the traffic lights.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lived in Catalonia (Spain).
Worked in Spain, England, Denmark, Brazil, Italy, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, China.
Visited France, Andorra, Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Rep. dominicana, Mexico.
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Quite an international league of gentlemen!
But hey, I worked abroad too for a while ... in Belgium
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I don't travel a lot, but I do outdoors activities like mountain biking and trail running
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Sadly I'm one of the guys they made up that cliche about. I pack flares and beef jerky when I have to go to the grocery store, just in case.
Explorans limites defectum
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Hey @OriginalGriff, from the makers of your favourite Imaging software.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro[^] is free today but you'll pay for updates later. You can pay to get lifetime upgrades for a fee, but I won't mention that as when I do I get visits from men in Mankini's telling me not to post that type of stuff. So just keep that last part quite.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have it already - it does what it says on the tin!
Thanks for the heads up though.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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