OT Black Man In Minnesota Dies After Cop Kneels On His Neck/ Portland Riots

asshole

 

How many assholes in this image?

 

Do they still use that?

 

ftp is still used for some purposes in Silicon Valley. And some engineers even stubbornly still use irc! Though that's much less common.

 

Not a real surprise, really. Popular technologies have a very long use tail, otherwise IBM would not still be in business...

 

They should just print the money.

 

Why not? Sure seems to work out nicely for The Federal Reserve.

 

Fortran and flow charts are gone.

 

Hey, I've got that in a Milton Bradley box. Is it still good?

 

A surprising amount of software that banks use still contain Fortran code. And Fortran is still being updated as a language...most recently in 2018.

@andalusian is right about the long use tail, especially when it comes to stubbornness in updating. This xkcd comic nailed it, IMO:

 

Flow charts are certainly not gone - they are seen very often where micro-services based architectures are used.

 

oh for chrissakes....a nerd-fest breaks out in a riot thread

 

Don't worry, though, I'm a jock who just happens to know what Fortran is.

 

I'm talking object oriented programming, now. I went to one of the most advanced robotics labs in the world and the first one to have a robot that runs on two legs, the Oregon State University robotics lab, and asked them what language they used. They answered C++ which was no surprise at all to me. I just wonder if they knew how to take advantage of Visual C++.

 

Frankly, C / C++ are becoming legacy language right now as well. I do not think they are going away, as they will always be the high-level assembly language of the world - but most software written nowadays is much further away from the hardware and will continue to be so - I am willing to bet that most of the code in advanced robotics nowadays is python as the AI portion of the work is the most important thing in current developments and python seems to be the language of choice for many AI developers.



Frankly, the most important decisions most developers do nowadays are much higher in the chain than language. Cloud providers, DB engines, messaging engines and AI platforms are the things that one has to be cognizant about now - the languages are less and less of a critical component.

 

Glorious!

 

I must have reading comprehension issues

the tweet says the city council plans to "replace" police and link directly to a articles that says they plan to "abolish" the police department

but then, right there in the article it says this:

" The proposal states that the council plans to "remove certain functions from the Seattle Police Department to and provide funding for a community-led process to inform the structure and function of a new department of community safety & violence prevention; requesting modifications to policing practices..."

I'm not sure how the writers got "replace the police" and "abolish the police department" out of that. I mean, there couldn't be a right wing agenda at work could there?