The Borland products were so solid. I remember Microsoft was making "Quick" versions of languages/IDEs as competitors. They were nice, but not as robust as the Borland products (but also quite a bit cheaper). I do remember, however, you could call up the developer teams at Microsoft and they'd fax you small white-papers and articles on how to do things... sort of like a rudimentary stack exchange. This was back in the late 80s. They had Quick Pascal, and Quick C. Quick Basic was the only one that seemed popular, probably because it was compatible with QBasic that shipped with DOS.

It's trivial until you go to IT and ask them to build this out. Which you have to do because nobody but IT is allowed to set up a database server and build an application that other users can use.

You tell them what you want and they say it will cost $5 million and take 3 years to scope out and build. So let's say you agree. 5 years later, and $10 million poorer, they deliver the application but it doesn't do what you need. So you still have to export all the data and manage the actual business in a spreadsheet.

I've been on both sides of this and it sucks. But it's how corporations work and so in most big companies, the most critical operations and data are still done in a spreadsheet.

Well, aren't you just the perfect little citizen-consumer. Perfect for not having kids, perfect customer for the airlines, perfect at packing your bags, perfect for the stores at your destination. Keep on quietly consuming, good little citizen. And don't stop being so gosh darned perfect.

Not if you're a W2 employee, which even most corporate "contractors" are because they work as W2 employees of the contracted company. I haven't seen many larger corporations (the ones most likely to insist on keylogging, etc.) who are willing to bring people on as 1099 contractors.

Roads are pretty old technology too and congress spends a lot of effort and money on them.

I was looking at installing a lightweight GUI editor for LaTeX. The "normal version" takes 1.2 MB. The Flatpack version is 4.6GB because it insists on incorporating the entire texlive-full distribution. That's a ridiculous amount of space for a tiny application, especially when the system already has texlive installed. Even worse, that extra 4.6GB of texlive that came with the package can't be used by anything else. That's not a trivial amount of diskspace... I can only imagine what happens when you have everything installed via flatpack.

That's because there are twice* as many breasts as there are prostates and men like to think about them with their boners.

* actually 4 times, since men can get breast cancer too.

Medicine in the US is all about saving men's boners.

Birth control for women, not covered.
Viagra, covered.
Woman has "issues", total hysterectomy.
Man has prostate cancer, rename it so he doesn't lose his boner.

Thanks for that explanation!

So when you use npm as part of your website build, does it only read npm when you deploy (you get local copies)? Or does it get accessed/read as users interact with your website?

and it's never mentioned what NPM is, other than a "repository of packages".

Ask and receive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I originally saw this as a single video (instead of a bunch of 3 second ones) and it was so much fun to watch!

The writer of the article exhibits a common fundamental misunderstanding of evolution because they present humans as the pinnacle of evolution where everything else is just a step on the way to "us" and whatever we become. Where in fact, every single living organism is merely the frontier of a long history of "just good enough" organisms that were its an ancestors. Every organism right now is the "last stage" in its own line.

Zoom does.

Is cyber security (outside of research) really a career area that any people in CS aspire to? It seems more aligned to something like information systems. I'm not sure understanding big-O notation, or the merits of DFS vs BFS in tree searches, or parsing complex grammars helps much in the cybersecurity space.

Back in the 90s, I was studying electrical engineering and we called "Electricity and Magnetism" "S&M" because it was so hard. The people who could design antennas and (good) power supplies were practically considered wizards. I can't imagine it's any easier.

I'm fairly critical of Apple, but at least they're not rushing forward with something that's only half-baked on this one.