Continuum: I want that guys' dev environment
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
Loved the first season but the second one seemed to go off script and by the third it was a mess. Victor Webster and Rachel Adams do a great job nonetheless...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I'm watching this series while I spend my endless hours on the trainer trying to maintain fitness during the endless frigid months between Toronto unfreezing, and weeks later, freezing again. For those who haven't seen it (and honestly: avoid if you can) it has the classic "Cute cop / nerdy programmer" team up. Nothing unusual there, including the endless scenes along the lines of: Her: I need [incredibly esoteric piece of data that would require a serious amount of access, data mining, analysis, bandwidth, and full security access] Him: I'm on it Computer: lots of beeps as he types Him, seconds later: I have the [plans to the nuclear weapons / complete genome of the person standing next to her / the full backstory including kindergarten photos and psychologists notes of the bad guy] Never one do you see the guy swear at his IDE for locking up, or have to wait for a long query to execute only to get a timeout, or to find that the latest update to Chrome screwed up that clever regex he was using to parse HTML. Though no boy genius would ever [use regex to parse HTML](https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/), right? I get that it pushed the story along and it's certainly fun to dream, but I think they are missing such an opportunity for comedy if they included just a tiny bit of our lives.
cheers Chris Maunder
All I can say is, at least Continuum was better (subjectively, and by a very small margin) than Street Hawk or Mantis were. Those were real "lets see how badly we can use tech at the core of a TV series" bombs. ---------- Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Spaceballs. I have the same combination on my luggage btw :) :)
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events. - Manly P. Hall Mark Just another cog in the wheel
Once one a Micrsoft seminar 'security' the first question to the audience was "who of you is using his birthday as unlock code on his mobile phone". 25% of the audience raised there hand. The speaker replied: we have a lot of work to do, as it is already unsafe to use your birthday as unlock code, but telling in public your are using it.....