I program uCUs using C, a language I first learned over 30 years ago at the start of my career. (Note that this is hobby stuff for me now and I do it on my spare time, not professionally.). No doubt both C and ASM both feature prominently on this list due to their use in this space. Iâ(TM)ve been using the Microchip XC compiler for some years now, and prior to that Hi-Tech C compiler (before being acquired by Microchip). Although off topic Iâ(TM)d like to voice my fury at the licensing moving from perpetual to subscription based for this particular product (for the advanced compiler features). Same with my accounting software (imagine not being able to access your business accounts if unable to pay a subscription) and, while Iâ(TM)m at it, Autodesk software.... Anyone in agreement with me on this issue? How I bloody hate subscription-based software licensing and to see it in use for a compiler product leaves me furious... I believe in supporting commercial software but the move to subscription has become a plague...

For /. Whatever happened to âoestuff that matters?â I could easily go to Reddit for this type of story but come here for what I thought was curated content.

Vaccine you say? Oh that will require an Oracle Java support contract, licensable on a per CPU or per user basis.

Oh the humanity!

Disagree with USB-C being mechanically robust. Iâ(TM)ve wrecked cables and also fried a macbook usb-c port with a splash of water on the laptop.

IBMâ(TM)s mainframe business model is sustained by encouraging organisations to run outdated legacy code instead of upgrading Their systems to modern platforms. There is NOTHING exceptional about the mainframe architecture except that it allows organisations to avoid redevelopment and to instead continue to run their old code at great expense. Heck, back in the early 1990s a buddy of mine who at the time just graduated with an Engineering degree from university had a job offer from IBM Canada to join their mainframe group and even 30 years ago he said Fuck That and joined Nortel. (Ya not much better, but hey...)

@netscape.net checking in.

Nice one Bob, and interesting that it took an interview to show you what else you could be doing. Sometimes we need that outside perspective. All I can say is that Iâ(TM)ve been in IT for over 30 years, but only spent the first 10 doing systems development and programming work. I grew tired of it after a number of years and thus sympathise with the article. Moved into consulting back in the late 1990s and mostly do business facing technical work in procedural (Read: Bureaucratic) enterprise environments. Get my hands dirty on occasion, but IT consultancy is more about cobbling together existing products and services to meet Business needs. Suits me fine, pays well and should be able to keep me busy until retirement. There are lots of other jobs in the technology sector besides coding. (I do have an electronics workbench at home and on occasion am known to dig out my C skills and do some embedded systems development as it is truly rewarding, but for me it remains a hobby.)

Oracle will apply their per user licensing model to TikTok at $1000/user and also require a 3 year support agreement be included at $200/year. Users will be entitled to future versions of TikTok during this time. The product will be riddled with bugs requiring regular patching and half-way through they will discontinue the platform/OS you happen to be running forcing you to replace your current smartphone with a different one. Oracle will Then try to sell you their own smartphone with an OS nobody else uses just to run TikTok.

Look out Coronavirus: Japan is coming for you...

MAME BigBallOfString.rom

Started out as a C programmer back in the late 80s/early 90s. I remember coming across an article in a Microsoft journal back in the mid/late 90s in which the author wrote and implementation of pong (of some similar game) using C++ in an attempt to demonstrate the superiority of the language and I remember thinking the same thing...

Along with âoeupgradeâ and âoerebootâ.

Thank goodness Iâ(TM)m using WindowsNT 3.51!

Yes, I remember a floppy-based one for DOS 3.3 on the Apple // called âoeCancer DOSâ also back in the mid-1980s. It would stay resident in memory after booting from an infected floppy only to replicate itself to the next floppy inserted into the drive. When operational it would randomly corrupt/overwrite data on the disk.