Things you'll never code
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
Explorans limites defectum
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing.
It's not just you. I'm a control freak as well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Dean Roddey wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing.
It's not just you. I'm a control freak as well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Thirded. I use them but MAN I don't like it. Especially when I can't dive into them via the debugger.
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
Explorans limites defectum
Another problem with using some monolithic cloud API is that the company responsible for it will inevitably adbandon it, and even worse, may just delete it when their "new thing" is available. This is the primary reason I don't load jquery or anything like that from a remote location on the web. I don't trust the host to keep the files around as long as I might need them, and a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Another problem with using some monolithic cloud API is that the company responsible for it will inevitably adbandon it, and even worse, may just delete it when their "new thing" is available. This is the primary reason I don't load jquery or anything like that from a remote location on the web. I don't trust the host to keep the files around as long as I might need them, and a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013#realJSOP wrote:
a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything
I've experienced that too. It's not a panacea but unit tests really help with this sort of thing where you can catch broken dependencies early. As well as using package managers rather than using the online versions of libraries. The downside to this is that it does add a considerable amount of time onto projects and you can find that you are spending more time with fixing the deployment issues than with churning out new code.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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#realJSOP wrote:
a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything
I've experienced that too. It's not a panacea but unit tests really help with this sort of thing where you can catch broken dependencies early. As well as using package managers rather than using the online versions of libraries. The downside to this is that it does add a considerable amount of time onto projects and you can find that you are spending more time with fixing the deployment issues than with churning out new code.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Can you unit test javascript?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Can you unit test javascript?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Yes - Jasmine is a framework I have come across for javascript as well as an older unit testing framework I have used the name of which I have forgotten. You can also use something like Cypress with Cucumber and Gherkin to write really decent UI tests using fairly normal English syntax and sentences. As an aside I started learning Python recently, as I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Python has a unit testing framework included within its standard library and by using unit tests and test driven development I was able to develop a working project very quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Another problem with using some monolithic cloud API is that the company responsible for it will inevitably adbandon it, and even worse, may just delete it when their "new thing" is available. This is the primary reason I don't load jquery or anything like that from a remote location on the web. I don't trust the host to keep the files around as long as I might need them, and a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013This is something that really isn't discussed enough. There's a guy who has done a lot of stumping on this subject and wrote a book on it and such. I heard a little talk by him and I'd really never considered the consequences of this model fully. Basically, it's the Google model, where you make money from your customers without ever selling them anything outright. So you have none of the traditional obligations that companies that sell actual products do. They never paid for it, or at worst you legally owe them another 30 days' worth until their current payment period is covered. And of course, people being cheap and not so bright on some subjects, happily go along with this to get stuff for free, which makes the strategy effective. That means that more and more pressure is put on companies/people who want to actually make a product and sell it to move towards that same model in order to be competitive. And of course how do they make their money if they do, the same way, largely by selling you as the product instead. And then the VCs now see the writing on the wall and mostly want to back those types of new enterprises, so you have to convince them that you are going to get a steady stream of data to sell or leverage and ongoing fees without real obligations. And so the cycle continues until before long none of us will actually own our code or sell actual products, and we'll have come back full circle to the glass enclosed large computer that everyone basically just connects to with a smart terminal.
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Yes - Jasmine is a framework I have come across for javascript as well as an older unit testing framework I have used the name of which I have forgotten. You can also use something like Cypress with Cucumber and Gherkin to write really decent UI tests using fairly normal English syntax and sentences. As an aside I started learning Python recently, as I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. Python has a unit testing framework included within its standard library and by using unit tests and test driven development I was able to develop a working project very quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Because yet another framework is what we are wanting. More external crap to keep updated.
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Because yet another framework is what we are wanting. More external crap to keep updated.
Yep, I get what you are saying and agree with you to a large extent. It's just that much of the software world is heading that way - not saying it's right and I used to be very much a roll-your-own code type of developer. That said having been exposed to some of the more 'modern' ways of doing things I am finding that these frameworks do have something to offer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
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I'm here/there with you. I can't know it all but I've come to grips with that. But I know something and how do I save others from wasting time? I'm old and gray too. Where I work we have a couple of different attitudes on using others code. The "build it our self" mentality is strong with some of them. A couple of years ago there was a meeting to discuss developing a requirements management system for use to use as the free one we were using apparently wasn't meeting our needs. Everyone was for it but I kept my mouth shut until I was specifically asked to comment as my unusual silence had been noted. I spoke for a few minutes but the gist of it was why the hell do we have the arrogance to think we can develop a system to manage requirements when we can't even write one. There were no more meetings on the subject. Most of the reason I'm here today I find to be very close to the reason you started this thread. I'm working in an environment (SMART on FHIR) that is deep and wide. I want to share the knowledge I've gained but I'm so overwhelmed with new stuff I have to learn and become an 'expert' at that I find it daunting to figure out how to write a blog and other articles on those subjects. I was looking for mentoring and ended up here. So, yes, this about me.
MArk (The Code Gorilla) B.
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Another problem with using some monolithic cloud API is that the company responsible for it will inevitably adbandon it, and even worse, may just delete it when their "new thing" is available. This is the primary reason I don't load jquery or anything like that from a remote location on the web. I don't trust the host to keep the files around as long as I might need them, and a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013BTW, this just happened to the other guy in my company. He has another company (well a couple, you know how that whole serial entrepreneur thing works) and they were using something I think called Busy Beacons from Google I guess it was. They were working on a product and had it testing in some places, and then Google just dropped them. So all that work went poof.
Explorans limites defectum
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
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I agree totally. I have so many interests and so little time to do them. I'm old now and what I do with my time is limited so I try to chose things that I can do as opposed to what I would like to do...that list is so long I don't even have time to read it!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally! JaxCoder.com
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Thirded. I use them but MAN I don't like it. Especially when I can't dive into them via the debugger.
MarkTJohnson wrote:
the debugger.
I've heard of that thing. I believe it's something inexperienced developers have to use, right?
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I agree totally. I have so many interests and so little time to do them. I'm old now and what I do with my time is limited so I try to chose things that I can do as opposed to what I would like to do...that list is so long I don't even have time to read it!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally! JaxCoder.com
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I'm old now and what I do with my time is limited
First of all, please forget such thoughts. Live/learn/enjoy and don't think about age! This from also an "old" one ;)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
My problem is I have so many other interests that I have to budget my time accordingly to be able to get all I can done. Travel, camping, photography, reading,computers, embedded devices (IoT lately), Windows Forms apps, Web site (my personnel site), etc..
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally! JaxCoder.com
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
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Dean Roddey wrote:
and code you'll never be able to write.
Conversely, there's code I wish I never had written. Not that the code was bad per se, but rather the industry / technology / management which I endured writing the code. Two industries I've worked in so far that I will never ever do again: financial and insurance. I found both to be evil and soul sucking, especially as I learned what went on behind the scenes. Favorite industries: commercial satellite manufacturing, security (video surveillance stuff back in the 1990's), control systems / sensors (mainly high speed, low light level, and multispectral cameras), and of course the "lay in my arms" industry -- lots of cool hardware (*cough*) to play with there -- bill acceptors, fingerprint readers, barcode scanners, annoying receipt printers, etc. Basically, my favorite industries involve innovation, hardware, and UI / UX / usability challenges, and the ones I loathe involve writing SOAP calls to get some number that is used to increase some rate that the consumer has to pay which basically just lines the pockets of "the man."
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
Explorans limites defectum
I look at apps in my phone and sigh... maybe someday.
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The poll on the main page about things that interest you got me to thinking... It's one thing to be interested, but another thing to actually have any realistic chance of doing anything serious in a given area. The time investment for a lot of new things these days has gotten huge, and to be anything more than a code monkey using a magic wand style high level API you will have to really dig in. But life is short (even if it doesn't seem that way to some of you at 18 or some such) and diving deep into one of these areas will come at the expense of things that you might be less interested in but that would probably be more practical or that are immediately necessary. And if you are older, it becomes even more of an issue. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have a lot of interest in letting Amazon or MS effectively be part owner of my product, and just use some cloud API that I have no control over or understanding of the workings of. I always want to understand and control what I'm writing. But things like AI and serious DNN based speech recognition, which I am very interested in, I've dug into enough to know that I won't be able to go there. They are already too 'mathematics doctoral thesis'-like for me to take on in the time I have left, at least without completely discarding any existing obligations which ain't too practical. It's kind of depressing to realize that there are races you'll never run, arms you'll never lay in (well, OK, that includes 99.9999999999999999999999999999% of them), and code you'll never be able to write. Things have gotten so much more complex now. Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
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Back in 'my day' when we coded by rubbing sticks together, a single person could pretty much encompass almost all of the art and science.
Back in the early 80's when I was a Professor of Computer Science I probably knew, or knew about, 85% of what tech there was to know in our industry. These days I might know as much as 0.85% of what there is to know after over 40 years of experience it in!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Another problem with using some monolithic cloud API is that the company responsible for it will inevitably adbandon it, and even worse, may just delete it when their "new thing" is available. This is the primary reason I don't load jquery or anything like that from a remote location on the web. I don't trust the host to keep the files around as long as I might need them, and a perfect example of that is our 13-year old app suite that use ancient versions of everything.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
