tiredofsametab

I mean, LOAF was a thing (Linux on a Floppy) that had basic functionality even as most distros were downloaded or on CD. I can’t imagine anyone still develops it, though.

The term of a US president in the early 1980s.

1 + false ? (I have no idea in which order JS would evaluate things as I rarely have to touch that language much anymore)

die unless $keyword == “unless”;

There was an old bug up through at least XP (maybe gone by SP3, but I don’t remember) where there would be certain SSIDs or network names that incremented because of how networking was implemented. I’m doubtful it’s the same thing, but you could try searching there for a start.

That’s a problem with no coding standards, peer review, etc.

write_good_code() or die(qw(enough rope to hang yourself));

or die unless write_good_code();

Ah, unclear on my part. I do use vscode on Mac, but still want a text editor to do other stuff.

“perl was probably useful once”?!

I’m willing to bet a TON of medical and banking data is still making its way through perl today. (I’m not necessarily saying this is a good thing, but I have years of experience in healthcare IT).

I don’t use JetBrains because it’s not free, I mainly use VSCode since it is and works fine, but I would use np++ after that. I spent years working in np++.

I played with linux in the early '90s, but mostly got started on GenToo Linux years ago and they had people installing Nano when building from the ground up. I grew to like that and never really learned VIM. I did use emacs every now and again, but all of those have lots of unwieldy key combinations that require memorization and don’t work like a lot of other programs people coming from, for instance, Windows would be at all familiar with. The barrier to entry was too high to bother with so it was wine and np++ since I was also still using Windows for work.

I’ve been forced to use a Mac for work for the last almost-year and still can’t find anything as good as np++. BBCode is as close as I can get and I’m still not really a fan.

Writing code is for chumps, and the more code you right, the more of a chump you are.

So you’re the one in there wronging up my code?

Write smaller units. Test those units. Save time.

I am technically, but I almost never turn on my second (vertical) monitor. Usually when I have my main set to a different source and I want something from my desktop PC on the other monitor.

Can’t sleep, the borrow checker will eat me
Can’t sleep…

I stopped using anything meta years ago. People who want to stay in touch with me and I them continued to stay in touch. If those people will not stay in touch with you, good riddance to them.

And you thought the USA was a bad place.

I can think that both are bad places to different degrees for different reasons. Particularly when some would like for the US to become more like that.

I go to the office a few times a year, mostly for all-hands meetings that are often also parties. Any more than that, and I’m looking for a new job. Recently, the company mentioned something about making the office more enticing. That went over like a lead balloon. There are a lot of other companies in the same city with better pay for in-office and hybrid work, and many of us live 1.5+ hours away.

Security in IT here in Japan has largely been an afterthought or security theatre. Passwords stored in plaintext are not uncommon (I’ve signed up for things and had my password in plaintext sent in email back to me). It seems to be getting better slowly. My current company has a whole security division, which is a nice change.

NDAs prevent me from being too specific, but I worked previously at another company in Japan that refused to hire security staff or even pay for the occasional pen test and audit. I fixed everything I could find on my own, but I highly doubt that there were no other issues left as I’m not a security pro.

Then you have things like https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026 – the cyber security MP has never used a computer. Even if their job is mostly to appoint the right people and manage that sort of thing, they still are doing a clearly terrible job of it.

No issues in Tokyo. Status page shows nothing amiss.

eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two … ew

I was always partial to groovy/grails, personally. Springboot basically killed it. I mostly work in Go these days and enjoy it well enough.