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The keyword here is 'in principle'.
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That's two words 
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I thought about that as I typed it, but the sentence 'the operative two words are...' doesn't really work. 
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You wouldn’t download a car
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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As far as my expresso machine isn't hackable, I don't mind.
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CPallini wrote: As far as my expresso machine isn't hackable, I don't mind.
That depends. May be you'd want it to be hackable, just for convenience. See f***ing-coffee.sh[^] on this page.
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With all this talk about Docker and how containers are the future, etc. I can't help but think, Macs have been doing this for decades now (in a rudimentary way) with their apps. Everything is always bundled into one file. I mean everything. To "uninstall" an app, you simply delete its file. Boom. Done.
The longer you are in the industry, the more you see things come back around that's already been around in one shape or another (looking at you XML). And instead of getting surprised and excited it's more like "well, that figures." And I can't help but think this is what getting old feels like. Like you've seen it all before. It's the same old tune, but in a different song.
Does anyone else know of good examples of rehashed ideas we just assume are novel in tech when they aren't?
Note: I do not hate PCs. And, I'm only going to reply to smart replies, not the kiddie Mac bashing replies that's based on zero education and extreme prejudice.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 6-Oct-17 15:55pm.
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The Cloud: centralised computing rebooted.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah, I can't believe that one didn't come to mind. To us old farts the Cloud really means "someone else just does it for you... with VMs and a web interface."
Jeremy Falcon
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Yep - the cloud is just mainframes redux.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Does anyone else know of good examples of rehashed ideas we just assume are novel in tech when they aren't?
This
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Jeremy Falcon
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Ah yes, the low bandwidth non-volatile variable writability storage medium once used by the Ancients.
Interesting bit of trivia, it was originally designed to be written to using a voice to text slave device using a an amusingly termed process called 'dick-tation'.
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You need to sign up for Quantum computing[^]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Absolutely!
I didn't realise until recently that NoSQL and document-oriented database systems Like MongoDB are based on pre-relational database systems.
As for XML it reminds me a bit of my first IT job as a COBOL programmer in 1989, although the analogy is more with regards to the set up required in order to write a few lines of logic. The actual code that contained the logic was perhaps only ten lines but the code to define the report and set everything up could easily span 300+ lines.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That is what I have been saying for years.
I started in the profession in 1974...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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XAML comes to mind....
but then again, this really should not be surprising. The industry tends to burn out the veterans, so the noobs get to learn all of our mistakes again
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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ASP.NET MVC's introduction in 2010 was just a rehash of Classic ASP with more bells & whistles...
Besides, the entire framework already existed in .NET form with The Castle Project's, MonoRails...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Are not most data centric websites just another form of green screen? 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Windows --
C-style DLLs (no registartion, use PATH var to find them) were incarnated into the .Net assembly DLLs.
Dror
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