Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
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- Luker88 - 4167 sekunder sedanfor devops I highly recommend Davide Bianchi's "tales from the machine room".
https://www.soft-land.org/cgi-bin/doc.pl?mode=setpreferredla...
- arcfour - 22086 sekunder sedan> At that point, the telecom carrier's representative intervened and bluntly told the set-top box representative to just shut up.
This got a laugh out of me. The whole scenario was both hilarious and surreal from start to finish. It's a wonder what people get hung up on sometimes, even if getting hung up on it makes them look bad.
- jacquesm - 15825 sekunder sedan> The installer, written in Python, often failed because of incorrect assumptions about the target environment and almost always required some manual intervention to complete successfully.
Nothing ever changes. I spent half a day just getting some SDR development stuff to work just now, long live Python code with baked in hard dependencies on particular versions of obscure libraries... In the end it worked, but what a mess.
- zahlman - 24427 sekunder sedan> With a single jump to the processor's reset entry point, I had somehow inspired someone to step back from academic competition in order to have more fun with learning.
Seems like it wasn't just the processor that reset.
- 1123581321 - 20218 sekunder sedanThese were great. It’s certainly a blessing and curse to no longer dazzle people when solving a tech puzzle as a middle-aged person. I’m hoping I’ll become impressive again if I can still do it when I’m elderly. :)
- latenightcoding - 5509 sekunder sedanworking in software before LLMs, you had to be there.
Nördnytt! 🤓