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Comment Re:Everybody Hates Documentation (Score 5, Insightful) 73

It remains worth the effort to write a novel around your code - not just what you did and why you did certain things a certain way, but the meta-reasons

I don't know if I'd go full novel, but I try to write my code so intention and implementation is clear with commentary to fill in the gaps. The farther things stray from that and/or the weirder the code gets, the more documentation I leave, especially if, for some reason, it needs to be like that.

While I enjoy the old saying, "Real programmers don't document 'cause if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.", I don't follow the practice; the harder it is to write the more documentation it needs. I also try very hard to be consistent in my implementations, style and commentary and have had several co-workers say they can tell it's my code just by looking at it. I learned that over time, mainly because I looked at my own earlier code at some point to reuse it and had trouble figuring out what I had done and why. I thought "Not cool, me."

So, I don't mind documentation, but will say that management is often loathe to allocate enough time for it to be done/maintained well.

Comment Ya, but ... (Score 1) 87

Investor Tilleard says "Renewable energy is now unequivocally the fastest, cheapest, and most bankable way to connect people, companies and economies to the megawatts they need to grow."

It's a scam - the U.S. Dear Leader has said so many, many times, so it must be that. /s
(And his Party and followers are happy to acquiesce.)

Comment Re: Huh (Score 3, Interesting) 35

To be fair, nobody ever should think "we lost the election so everything the winners do should be accept unopposed no matter how much harm it does." As long as the opposition means are legal, they shouldn't be scoffed at. Some are deliberate checks and balances against abuse by the elected. On-topic, why datacenters - which contribute nothing but tax money to a community - should be enticed with... a tax break is questionable at best. It's almost like building a landfill solely to accept someone else's waste at a discount under the rate your own waste costs to dispose of. Vacant land won't remain vacant forever.

Comment Google Web "choice" (Score 2) 23

(And CNET notes Google include an AI-free "Web" choice in its results if you just want a page of traditional blue links.)

Which isn't available on the main/initial/default page (as far as I can see) and buried under the "More" option on result pages - so not super convenient. So you get results with AI before having the choice to see them w/o the AI crap. Noting that you can (apparently) manually add "&udm=14" to all your search queries to skip directly to the Web results, even from the start, which is okay, but not as universally convenient as DuckDuck's method.

Comment Re:Something Something Peanut Farm (Score 4, Insightful) 52

Dear lord, why would Hillary's emails allow this all to happen?

Maybe they were on Hunter's laptop? :-)

On a related theme, imagine Biden or Obama doing just 10%, or any one, of the sketchy and/or self-serving things Trump has done / is doing and imagine how apoplectic Republicans, and Trump himself, would be.

Comment Re:Something Something Peanut Farm (Score 5, Informative) 52

One big winner in the Dell pop is President Donald Trump, who became a shareholder in the first quarter, according to filings with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. At a White House event earlier this month, Trump said, “Go out and buy a Dell.”

This also couldn't have hurt... Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon software deal after donating to Trump accounts

Possibly less dubious than this, though: The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. - company is Vulcan Elements.

Or... just Google trump sons government contracts

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