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Comment on: After All These Years, the World is Still Powered by C Programming

I develop and do consulting on electronic toll collection systems (E-ZPass and similar) and the vast majority of the work I do and oversee is written in C. GUI elements like toll collector touch screens, and front ends of systems that administrators use, are often written in higher level languages, but the core stuff is almost always in C. Particularly roadside stuff: the computers that process vehicles going through booths and under gantries, and the cameras, RFID readers, and other sensor systems, all work in soft-realtime and need to be written in C.

For what it's worth, it also pretty much all runs under various flavors of Linux. Big iron stuff like backend databases tends to run on corporate distros like Red Hat or Oracle, while smaller systems run on specialized distros aimed at embedded systems.

4 21 Jul 2015 23:20 u/setitimer in v/programming
Comment on: No Code of Conduct

It's one of my favorite movies, and the double negative bit was always one of my favorite moments, along with the singing telegram of course.

0 23 Jun 2015 19:18 u/setitimer in v/programming
Comment on: No Code of Conduct

"Sounds like a confession to me!"

2 23 Jun 2015 19:11 u/setitimer in v/programming
Comment on: No Code of Conduct

You have to keep the context in mind: the two recent examples where SJWs called for CoCs happened because someone said something on Twitter, an SJW took offense, the SJW investigated the person and found out that they were part of an open source project, and then went to the open-source project to complain about it as a means of harassing that person. There is no benevolent intent here, it is purely intended to silence and harass.

8 23 Jun 2015 19:06 u/setitimer in v/programming
Comment on: No Code of Conduct

It's eminently clear that the whole purpose of these demands for a "Code of Conduct" is to silence people who say things SJWs don't like.

That being said, the wording on the actual page is contradictory (emphasis mine):

We are simply trying to end this idea that how people contribute to an open source project, and what they do on their personal twitter account, by default, do not need to be dragged into their open source project.

The "end this idea" part should be changed to a positive statement -- "We are simply trying to promote the idea". As it stands, the passage makes it sound like the author is in favor of dragging Twitter posts into open source projects.

8 23 Jun 2015 18:23 u/setitimer in v/programming
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