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Comment on: Linux Outreachy Program pays women $5000 to make trivial whitespace changes

I'm sure Linus grits his teeth over this kind of shit, but what's he going to do now that corporate money controls most of Linux.

0 07 Mar 2019 23:54 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Microsoft open-sources its Windows calculator on GitHub
1 0 comments 07 Mar 2019 02:59 u/ratsmack (..) in v/programming
Comment on: Google Says Spectre And Meltdown Are Too Difficult To Fix [With Software]

Good article... I've always liked to keep up on security issues. I actually subscribe to the ics-cert@ncas.us-cert.gov mailing list to keep up on the security issue du jour.

0 23 Feb 2019 02:03 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun

Looks like she left: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/01/01/freebsd-community-breathes-sigh-of-relief-as-toxic-activist-randi-harper-finally-quits/

0 03 Feb 2019 15:34 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Core Debian developer summarily banned from project for referring to a transgender person with a non-approved pronoun

Can you show any proof of that?

0 03 Feb 2019 15:11 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: 10 free tools for journalists to learn how to code

It also requires the ability to grok logic... journalists are inherently devoid of that ability.

0 31 Jan 2019 00:20 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: How many of you can still read your own code you created years ago?

When I read mine, I begin to cry.

5 30 Dec 2016 05:06 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Awesome! Microsoft to be Open Sourcing Windows PowerShell

They really don't understand open source... they "open sourced" DOS, but that was a joke.

1 30 Jul 2016 04:32 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: www.codeproject.com/Questions/1105753/Tools-village-city-island-sim-unlimited-diamonds-h

Now why would someone submit a spam post from another site?

0 10 Jun 2016 04:16 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Stop Teaching Programming, Start Teaching Computational Thought | Make:

Sounds like liberal arts or common core programming.

0 06 Apr 2016 16:37 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

I'm sure it will just be another poorly designed Unix wannabe subsystem of the Windows OS.

0 02 Apr 2016 23:35 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

April 1

0 01 Apr 2016 05:39 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of software and devices vulnerable

While this is a severe bug, it looks like it is extremely difficult to exploit.

5 17 Feb 2016 17:56 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals "unexpected" gender bias

Douche hair, Problem Glassestm, guess the gender..... it all makes sense now.

6 12 Feb 2016 22:29 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals "unexpected" gender bias

We wouldn't want to just accept the contribution based on its merits, now would we.

0 12 Feb 2016 18:45 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Programmer quits work on project after getting triggered by a variable name (The comments, however . . .)

The sensitive little special snowflake needs to move on instead of pissing in the other R developers cornflakes.

0 03 Feb 2016 06:34 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Apollo 11 source code

I didn't recognize any of it. My experience is with Digital Equipment (DEC) PDP 11/34 and Vax assembly back in the 70's and early 80's. I did a little bit of assembly on some proprietary Cincinnati Milacron machine controls with core memory, but only to interface some 8" floppy drives. There are many different assemblers that target specific architectures and instruction sets.

1 01 Feb 2016 05:29 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Apollo 11 source code

Probably, and I think he had a hand in PHP too.

5 01 Feb 2016 00:00 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Apollo 11 source code

Assembly language, the way God intended programming to be.

10 31 Jan 2016 21:39 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Obama Announces $4B for Comp Sci Education

It was a "pledge" and is not guaranteed until congress votes on it. All it amounts to is Obama asking Congress to include the funds in a spending bill.

0 31 Jan 2016 18:20 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: Decentralized Internet Will Save Humanity!

Look at Freenet and I2P, i've been running both for a number of years.

6 14 Nov 2015 21:51 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: App Uses Kids' Obsession With Phones to Teach Coding

I believe that it takes a special personality and interest to be a coder. I began coding in 1976 with no formal training, and It just seemed like something I was naturally good at. With todays eye-candy GUI's, most people only see the superficial surface of the computing world and I believe if a kid has the potential to be a coder, something like this could be a path to real coding which usually happens in an IDE or editor.

0 24 Oct 2015 20:20 u/ratsmack in v/programming
App Uses Kids' Obsession With Phones to Teach Coding
10 4 comments 24 Oct 2015 18:19 u/ratsmack (..) in v/programming
Comment on: [PDF] A big ass timeline of programming languages

And to this day, Fortran and Cobol are still in use. It seems that many languages get traction because they look sexy and trendy, but fall by the wayside once their weakness surfaces and the Next Big ThingTM shows up that is supposed to fix all of the problems of the previous language.

1 10 Aug 2015 05:23 u/ratsmack in v/programming
Comment on: GCC 5.2 Released

Nothing here but a tumble weed and a few crickets, so I'll just yell.... YAHOO!

0 17 Jul 2015 03:23 u/ratsmack in v/programming
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