In #embedded software, the #C#programming language rules—and for many good reasons, too. I have loved C for more than four decades. But I admit that C is woefully dated, inherently unsafe, and imposes a high cognitive load upon the #programmer.
Newer languages vying to knock C off its perch—Rust, Nim, Zig, Odin, etc.—are overly cute and complicated to suit the real-time, embedded work.
The embedded sector needs a new language with C's simplicity, efficiency, semantics, and determinism and Haskell's safety, effectiveness, syntax, and dash.
Got down to #author stuff, now that I'm retired and can devote time to the #business of #writing#fiction. First order of business: catalog the unsold novels from after the burn out that need revision and rewrites.
Turns out that disconnecting my Mac from my work VPN messed up my folders. I had somehow mapped (don't know the Mac term) my work Windows computer folders to the Mac, and when I look in documents it tries to find it on the network and fails. If I reboot, so long as I go directly from my user's directory to documents directory, I'm good. If I click on Documents in Finder, it redirects and I'm screwed.
First thing I did was copy all my writing folders to the desktop. At least I've lost none of my old novels and short work.
I thought there were 7 completed books, and I said so online. There are actually 9, three that form a trilogy and one novel with a sequel in the mix. There are two incomplete novels.
Some works are older than others. Pages refuses to open one novel from 1996, a fun space opera that possibly has the highest chance of early sales. I haven't tried the others. Now I gotta install Word, of which I am not a fan, and investigate programs that'll open the really old files. If anyone wants to chime in with suggestions, please do! (I can always find someone with a Windows machine if need be.) Putting Google on TODO. I actually have original copies of chapters from my Apple ] days, but thankfully I updated those to the Mac and to a new millennium version of Word in what were my PowerPC days.
Incidentally, there really are three novellas in good shape.What surprises me though? There looks like about 15 short stories, many complete because I see multiple submissions in the various folders. I completely forgot about these, and was sure I never wrote short-form.
"It's embarrassing that MS can't provide 100% backwards compatibility for their own proprietary format." My reason to get [#Libreoffice thread.]
Not that simple.
A #programmer, especially at a big name house costs money, $150k or more, not including bonuses. (I just retired from 39 years #programming at an indie shop.) Maintaining backward compatibility? it's more code to test and—if it fails or causes other #code to fail—debug. It's more code to write again when management changes, changes the programming paradigm, language requirements, storage access, privacy standards, auditablity, or who knows what. It requires at least a dedicated programmer across the supported products, maybe a seasonal team when code changes, and for sure a slice of management time.
100% backward compatibility for what? The vast number of users have no files older than a few years, unlike packrats like me. Max 7 years is a best practice in business. People actually update old files or PDF and archive them. Problem solved.
Moreover... there's always people who work for respect and no money that will do this scut work themselves, maybe because they need to open old files or simply that they can, and make it available for free and nice comments. The LibreOffice dev team, if there is one, sees it as a feature to increase the install base. Remember that they get donations so it's not exactly work for free. If this external programming fails, #Microsoft is more than willing for these people to do tech support, or let them get sued or boycotted—and suck up the bad PR.
The only thing I hate worse than writing all this damn #unittest#code is not having written the tests and as a result spending weeks trying to solve a multidimensional failure problem. Been there, done that.
Grumbling from an old #Python#programmer who has been “just about there” for nearly a week now…catching up on writing the test code while debugging, like you’re not supposed to do.
🇬🇧 I have tried PHP. I find this programming language more embedding in html. They completely get so much. I can code in live html. 🤯
Hence my question, why continue to code in JavaScript if php can do the same things?🔴😅⚠️
🇨🇵 J'ai essayé PHP. Je trouve ce langage de programmation plus incorporant dans le html. Ils se complètement tellement. Je peux coder dans le html en direct. 🤯
D'où ma question, pourquoi continuer à coder en JavaScript si php peut faire les même choses ?🔴😅⚠️
As always a #podcast from the Fediverse and to the Fediverse...
Will update and re-draft again but just for speed boost and let's hear what people think.
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Je viens de terminer la mise en ligne d'une nouvelle version des vidéos de rediffusion du bootcamp Delphi de mars à juin 2020: "apprendre la programmation avec Delphi".
Ces vidéos bénéficient toutes d'un chapitrage des sujets, d'un sous-titrage automatique réalisé par Vimeo et d'une recherche par mots dans la transcription de l'intégralité de chaque vidéo. Le volume sonore et certaines anomalies ont été corrigées.
In 2003, I started my career as a programmer. Every 2-3 years I changed the direction of projects, technology stack and #programming languages. But I still couldn't believe in myself that I would be able to work in game development. After 15 years, I got tired of everything. And one day I just started playing with the game engine. If you are a #programmer who dreamed of #gamedev, don't be afraid, you can do it
I'm going to have TWO full-time one-year #postdocs available from 1 April: one for a historian with knowledge of #medieval Latin #palaeography, one for a computer scientist/#programmer (or someone else with a proven ability to code software). The job descriptions will be out in January, but please re-post this and forward it on to people you think may be interested/qualified. I'm happy to answer questions. @medievodons@histodons
#introduction
Hi Folks! Running from the disgusting world of Facebook that wants to sell my info to the highest bidder! Much love to you all. I focus on spreading positivity and awareness for shitty actions of billionaires. I love TTRPGs, RPGs, cringe stories from the internet, programming, music of most kinds and a variety of other interests as well. Feel free to message me or reply to any of my posts!
Validation of javascript forms - name, password, password retype validation and Number Validation
It is critical to check the user-submitted form since it may include incor- rect information. As a result, validation is required to authenticate the user. Because JavaScript allows form validation on the client side, data processing is faster than server-side validation.15 JavaScript form validation is preferred by the majority of web developers. We can validate name, password, email, date, cell numbers, and other data using JavaScript. https://chat-to.dev/post?id=12#javascript#web#programmer
I suppose I'm a bit overdue for a new #introduction post.
I'm Luke, I'm a #programmer/ #Hacker. I am/was heavily involved with #Parabola#GNU/ #LinuxLibre :parabola: for a long time, but got burnt out and so I've been MIA for a while. But the .org domain name is still on my credit card, and the build server is still in my living room. #homelab.
In October, I joined Umorpha Systems as a co-founder, building #OpenSourceHardware/ #FreeSoftware HVAC equipment. AGPLv3 or bust!
For all you #OpenSource and #Programmer people. If you want to help make #GrandTheftAuto better for #blind players and you have experience with code, here it is, the entire source Code for the mod previously mentioned in my other posts. If this were to be updated to make things better, that would be a major deal considering this game is awesome and a lot of people want to play around with it. Thank you for your consideration. Please do not contact the origional developer. He simply wants peace. If you want to contact someone about this, I'm here on Mastodon or on Discord at gocu#4230. Please help me make this go viral. This is a project that with a lot of people working on it, would be a great service. https://github.com/liamerven/gta11y
Brushing up on my #css and noticing that using the CSS grid system actually makes laying out UI components a lot more doable as a #blind#programmer. Don't get me wrong, it's still CSS which means left is south and forward is towards the fifth dimension, but its a bit more predictable than older methods used to be. #accessibility#BlindlyCoding#webDev
Tragedy of #programmer is the more code he copies and builds , the more productive he ll be counted as , at a typical works place ( at least in 3rd world countries ), as opposed to figuring things out
but if you are cursed with the latter, you ll eventually get to a point where copying beyond a limit ll mean broken build, race conditions, bugs of all kinds failed deployment
actually idk which is more a curse , even if i talk about #career then again , there re various ways to climb the ladder , each to their own
I started on Mastodon.social, then went to infosec.exchange before the c̶u̶l̶t̶ welcoming community at beige.party sucked me in with their p̶r̶o̶m̶i̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶e̶t̶e̶r̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶m̶i̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶n̶e̶m̶i̶e̶s̶ love and kindness.
I didn't officially log out of #Twitter until the 19th (when he reinstated the Orange Fascist), but I was basically done there a year ago today and began working on the #Mastodon experience for myself.
I kept the bots running there for another week or so (the 25th, I believe) until Apartheid Daddy's stupid mods killed my #API keys for "spamming another user's mentions"... even though the other user was another one of my bots... morons.
a year later and I get all I want online from here. there's news if you look, lots of humor and even #weirdmastodon exists and is as fucked up as you want it. my blocklist is fewer than 10 people somehow as well.
I may bring a bot to Sky just because I'm a #programmer at heart and an API whore, so it'd more for tech testing than anything else.
So let's keep it going for years to come on this sore aging parent website, folks!
RocketWerkz in New Zealand is looking for a Vulkan Graphics Programmer and is offering competitive pay and relocation assistance to the right candidate.