#COBOL

Zed A. Shaw, Writer

lzsthw

I've found that if you dig for original sources of many beliefs in computer science and the tech industry you find some total BS "paper" that was really just a

Bill Hunt

krusynth

4. Fam, choose boring tech over shiny. Those mainframes and COBOL still work just fine after 50 years of service. Those React apps you're writing are legacy before they launch,

Hillel

hillelogram

This is an interesting question, and while I reject the argument that FP is "better" than OOP I think it's worth discussing complex forces at play here. First of all,

Bill Hunt

krusynth

3. Technology is *almost never* the solution to the problem. You need a deep understanding of culture, policy, budget, acquisitions, etc. to be successful. We don't need *ANY* more shiny

Tudor Girba

girba

The governor of New Jersey called explicitly for COBOL programmers to help with the development of the unemployment system:https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792This is how the software environmentalism crisis looks like. A

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

I don't know if anyone else has said this, but payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. They won't do anything to solve the employment crisis, but will

Bill Hunt

krusynth

I see many of my former technology-colleagues now suddenly eager to return to government- or join for the first time- and I'm very excited to work with you all again!That

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

Smithee, A. (2059). "They Never Should Have Hurt That Gorilla: The Surprising Origins of American Imperial Collapse." Oxford University Press.https://twitter.com/Sharon_Kuruvila/status/1296949366478053376 Smithee, A. (2049). "

Tim Myers

denvercoder

Several times I get people that send me a DM and they say, "I am trying to learn JavaScript but I've hit a wall. I'm tired of doing tutorials but

Robert McNees

mcnees

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a

Jenn

geekgalgroks

So at work, I'm having the best conversations with a Java developer.She's only a few years from retirement and has been with this company her entire development career. And talking

JustthefactsAn

JustthefactsAn

Tara Ross: ON THIS DAY IN 1992, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper passes away in her sleep. The feisty Navy officer has been called “Amazing Grace” because of her many accomplishments

foone

Foone

modern linux was a mistakewe need to go back the weird thing is that python2 is still here! It's just called "python2"They just deleted the symlink from "python" to "python2"

Hillel

hillelogram

Kinda bored and want to do something brainless and computery so I'm just gonna look up programming etymologies for the next hour or so (thread) Some I already know:-Python was

Antonia

Flaminhaystack

Things women have invented In 1868, cotton mill worker Margaret Knight invented a machine make paper bags with a flat square bottomA man named Charles Annan saw her design and tried to

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