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  • RE: Go Small

    In the UK, many pubs would be happy to do a plate of sandwiches and a few chips for very little. Sometimes for nothing. This works for them by using...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    Dalkeith (12/15/2014)


    ...I think the internet is a good example of what can be achieved by the democratisation of access and control.

    The internet is a good example of it working whereas...

  • RE: The Last Job

    15-25 years of freelancing to go. I have no plans to stop yet. Life may have other plans 😉

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    I love citizen programmers. They are can do kind of people and just want to make their job easier. What I dislike is when citizen programmers use professional tools because...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    stephen.kemp (12/11/2014)


    ...He or she is not interested in code re-use (the dogma of the object oriented programmer) because citizen programmers don't work in heirarchical teams. If they want to re-use...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    stephen.kemp (12/11/2014)


    ...Few programmers would open a text editor to write their Java or .Net app...

    There are always times. This is when I am glad that I started coding just before...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    Sir Slicendice (12/11/2014)


    One thing that occurs to me after hitting 'Post' is that the most successful of these citizen-programmer oriented language systems have very 'messy' foundations, while the languages which...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/11/2014)


    P Jones (12/11/2014)[hr

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    They wouldn't fully re-wire their home themselves but would call in a professional and they should do the same for business software.

    I...

  • RE: Managerial Moneyball

    I truly believe that people in a management position who are deemed "poor managers" need support and encouragement into a role that better suits them. That way the company will...

  • RE: Holiday Struggles

    If there is any lull for any reason I tend to find it useful to catchup with all those tasks which must be done but are difficult to justify the...

  • RE: Software Projects: the important boring bits

    Steve Reich (12/8/2014)


    I wonder if anything could be more boring than COBOL. All the remaining COBOL programmers I know are securely employed and well compensated.

    Regards,

    Steve

    As someone who has had...

  • RE: We Still Need Human Judgment

    jay-h (12/8/2014)


    Gary Varga (12/8/2014)


    Raju Lalvani (6/23/2010)


    We will also lose our ability to spell. Spell check will take both lose and loose as correct. 😛

    Enough people fail to hit the...

  • RE: We Still Need Human Judgment

    jay-h (12/8/2014)


    Gary Varga (12/8/2014)


    No different in the UK. Friday night I was getting Fish'n'Chips. It came to £11.20 so I gave a £20 note a £1 coin and a 20p...

  • RE: We Still Need Human Judgment

    Raju Lalvani (6/23/2010)


    We will also lose our ability to spell. Spell check will take both lose and loose as correct. 😛

    Enough people fail to hit the "Spell Check" button...

  • RE: We Still Need Human Judgment

    blandry (6/23/2010)


    Personally, I think its worse than that...

    A few days ago I was at a convenience store picking up a few essentials. My total came to $10.47 and I...

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