McAfee Total Protection is a shining example of why no company should ever use Agile. I’m a long way from newbie in the software world. I mean over 30 years of software consulting on many different platforms in quite a few different industries should count for something. Heck, I even write an award winning technical book series. This software is looking up at worthless hoping to one day be that good. ☆☆☆☆☆ Forget About Your … Review – McAfee Total ProtectionRead more
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What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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A std::vector Example and Explanation
If you want a really good method of identifying a legacy C++ library/framework, see if it provides a vector class. For C this would be a set of vector functions. Arrays in C and C++ are hard coded at compile time. This dates back to the beginning of the languages. During the early 1980s VAX BASIC was the only widely used programming language supporting dynamic arrays. You may not be familiar with BASIC but the … A std::vector Example and ExplanationRead more
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The Danger of Tuples
No matter how much academics and the industry tries to shit on BASIC, C++ and every other newer language tries to move closer to it. Tuples are the re-introduction of a very bad thing. Well, not so much bad as highly abused. To understand my viewpoint you probably need to read page 4-100 (page 278 in the PDF) of this manual. FIELD The FIELD statement originated in BASIC/PLUS on the PDP-11. Might have started with … The Danger of TuplesRead more
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Scrum Destroys Consulting Firms
Agile and Scrum are quickly destroying the human species, I’ve even written a book about it. Here is how it is single-handedly destroying IT consulting firms. I’ve been at IT consulting for over 30 years now and watched as Agile rotted firms from the inside out. What destroyed them (and most IT projects) was the adoption of scrum. How I know Just being an IT consultant for over 30 years doesn’t give a person this … Scrum Destroys Consulting FirmsRead more
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Myth – Nobody Wants to Work
I’ve been hearing this myth, nobody wants to work, repeated by Qanon nutters and Trump supporters (same thing?) who are too stupid to look anything up for quite some time now. Every now and then you will get a propaganda machine that calls itself a news network (FOX) trotting out phrases like There are over 9 million open jobs in America. Propaganda networks What happens is they take well meaning valid data from the 50,000 … Myth – Nobody Wants to WorkRead more