Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit

Subject	Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit
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From	"26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net>
Date	2022-12-13 01:12 -0500
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On 12/11/22 5:49 AM, Pancho wrote:
> On 11/12/2022 04:06, 26C.Z969 wrote:
>> On 12/10/22 9:36 AM, Pancho wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2022 07:48, 26C.Z969 wrote:
>>>
>>>>    Good "moral revenge"/karma story. Lucky the corp survived
>>>>    to PUT you at that desk. Lots and lots of "software"
>>>>    companies are undercapitalized and lack product diversity and
>>>>    so the first failure is the LAST failure.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Credit Suisse, just about survived. :-)
>>
>>    Let's wait to see how much they were invested
>>    in FTX Crypto  :-)
>>
> 
> I very much doubt it is significant. The proof of work/blockchain always 
> seemed a very bad idea to me. If you have reliable/reputable servers, 
> and we do, there are so much more efficient ways to distribute a ledger.

   But "blockchain" sounds so COOL to the managerial
   set - something they can brag about !  :-)

   Pointless/useless ... irrelevant so long as there
   are short-term profits and promotions.

> I see CS have current difficulties, but I've no idea what they are. It 
> is a long time since I took any interest in that kind of thing.

   Well, almost EVERYWHERE has "current difficulties". Combine
   the usual managerial idiocy with years of destructive Covid
   over-response and, well .....

>>    In any case, CS would be considered a "diverse"
>>    company - a broad line of profitable products
>>    and investments. A few disasters here and there
>>    have little impact.
>>
> 
> I was just making the point that the antics of a few programmers are 
> small potatoes to such a company. 

   As said, they're "big" and diverse. This is protective.

   But even THEN ... wise programmers would seem a better
   investment than a gaggle of idiot programmers. Banks
   ought to understand "investments".

> The failed project would not have cost 
> more than 1 to 3 million GBP. The solution I delivered significantly 
> less. I was a cheap RAD developer. Knock something up, if there was a 
> need for more it was handed over to more strategic developers, who 
> adapted or rewrote it. At the time it pissed me off that others were 
> given better resources and timescales than me, but in hindsight I see it 
> is what I was good at.

   You were "cheap labor" - so you got the corresponding
   salary/recognition ....

   I like RAD development/environments myself. My fav is Lazarus/FPC.
   If you need a passable GUI by friday, that's the way to go. All-
   purpose script languages like Python are also good for whipping
   up something usable quick. Plain old HTML/PHP can deliver functional
   browser interfaces pretty quick as well (never liked javascript, but
   a sprinkling here and there CAN add a little eye-candy).

   Seems like whatever I write it in FIRST, a week or two later
   I re-write it - "better" - in something else. This week I'm
   making a functional clone of a recent FPC app in Python3 because
   the likely Next Guy to use/tweak it is mostly only good at
   Python (and Winders, so I've gotta do it cross-platform). In this
   case it's "better" because it has a longer future, not that Python
   is a "better" language than Pascal( ok, ok ... DO like the string-
   slicing and EZ lists and they have a library for EVERYTHING ...)

   I do like Pascal ... you can do almost anything you can do
   in 'C' but it's more elegant and for sure more self-documenting.
   Got into that with the MS/IBM multi-pass Pascal compiler for
   early DOS in the pink ring-binders. STILL sorta have it too ...
   in a DOS VM ... just for fun. However Turbo made a gigantic
   diff in the utility of Pascal and Delphi provided the
   super-tweakable slap-it-up GUI capability (until it priced
   itself out of any sensible market).

> When I worry about the impact of the work I did, it is my “successful” 
> projects that worry me, not the failures. Worried others, too. :-)

   Uh oh ... what WERE you successful at ... something wicked to
   exploit the masses ?  :-)

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    Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-11-27 22:19 -0500
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                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-11-30 08:00 -0800
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                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-01 23:39 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-12-03 07:21 +1000
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                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-12-06 07:59 +1000
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                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-07 09:46 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-07 20:25 +0000
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                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-08 00:38 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-08 17:36 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-08 00:31 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-08 17:36 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-09 01:23 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-09 01:42 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-08 08:47 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-07 22:19 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-08 00:37 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-08 08:48 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-09 10:24 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-09 01:06 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-09 10:25 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-10 02:48 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-10 10:09 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-10 23:21 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-10 14:36 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-10 23:06 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-11 10:49 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-13 01:12 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2022-12-14 23:30 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-08 00:12 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-12-13 12:09 +1000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-13 23:21 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-12-15 07:39 +1000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-15 01:43 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-15 10:10 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-15 23:26 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-16 09:24 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-17 01:29 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-17 07:08 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-17 20:13 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-17 09:14 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-17 20:36 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-18 02:26 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-18 12:11 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-12-17 21:04 -0800
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-15 10:12 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-16 00:07 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-01 07:53 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-04 22:30 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2022-12-05 19:55 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-06 23:21 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-01 10:59 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-02 01:43 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2022-12-01 13:23 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-02 01:46 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2022-12-02 14:17 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-02 09:48 -0500
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2022-12-01 20:53 +0000
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            Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-11-30 09:31 +0000
              Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2022-12-01 00:46 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-12-01 10:59 +0000
                Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit "26C.Z969" <26C.Z969@noaada.net> - 2022-12-02 00:38 -0500
          Re: Bashing Bash Just a Bit The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-11-30 09:32 +0000
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