Posts by Madre O'Fender

GCC 15 is close: COBOL and Itanium are in, but ALGOL is out

Re: OMG - COBOL

Upvoted for the recognition.

I would have been one of those who wouldn't admit to knowing anything at all about COBOL.

Which wasn't entirely true, COBOL did take up one stream of lectures ("Business Computing") for a semester of my 1970s post-grad CS course, and taught me everything I'd ever need to know about it.

Which was that I never wanted to see it again, and therefore should not mention it in polite company, or on my CV.

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Re: Simple Perfectly Rare and Raw Uncommon Sense

Normans had reverbs? That was not known by me.

Re: He's right, of course

Bertrand Russell was onto something, then.

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

Re: Ferengi

Like this?

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Ryanair faces GDPR turbulence over customer ID checks

Re: I never fly Ryanair

Three good reasons to fly Ryanair:

1. There's no other airline flying the route you want (such as to/from small airports in Ireland).

2. er, can't think of 2

3. see 2

Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile

Re: He's right about black boxes and over-abstraction though

I understand the problem, but I'd put the blame not on OO, but on OPC - Other People's Code. That's the main cause of undebugability IMHO.

Core Python developer suspended for three months

Re: Bad journalism

Thanks for the clues as to what the OW (Offensive Word) was.

Now tell me it wasn't a Unit Test for something like a "Sorted List" or whatever commonly (in the codebase) abbreviated to SL.

Because, I'd probably want to shorten "SortedListUnitTest" if I was coding it.

Too late now for canary test updates, says pension fund suing CrowdStrike

Delta's most obvious deficiency was being a MS-only shop, followed by being suckered into deploying CS everywhere.

Yeah, it's a Falcon mess. Sorry, had to get that out there. Better out than in. But I don't expect I'm the first.