People get upset with me when I say the bulk of OpenSource code is written by 12 year old boys, even if they happen to be north of 40 they simply never progressed past the age of 12 where it counts. This morning I’m digging into some rsyslog code and found this in datetime.c /* the following table saves us from computing an additional date to get * the ordinal day of the year – … And Still We Learn NothingRead more
Y2K
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The Gender Fluid IT Crisis
Most everyone reading this is familiar with the Y2K crisis where lots of computer systems simply weren’t going to work after December 31, 1999. Many conspiracy theorists believe it was a scam to earn more money and that there never was a crisis. The theorists are wrong. IT workers put in millions and millions of hours fixing things incompetent management was too greedy to fix. They were all too busy laying off workers they needed … The Gender Fluid IT CrisisRead more
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C++ 11 and Qt — Part 5 Constructor Initializer List Religion
Okay, we are going to cover this one last time. If you are new to C++ programming you probably don’t know the doo-doo storm I kicked off bringing the subject up earlier in this series of posts. There are a few things which will start a bar fight among programmers. The first is declaring a single editor as the greatest editor of all time. (Besides, you will always find one grizzled troll declaring vi to … C++ 11 and Qt — Part 5 Constructor Initializer List ReligionRead more