Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Voting for the lesser of two evils or not voting" narratives involving the USA Presidential election seem to be concentrated on worst case outcomes vs mediocre gains. #fuckednomatterwhat #capitalismsucks

Africa made a dumping ground of corporate waste and greed?

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/19/africa-plastic-waste-kenya-ethiopia/

When I started to look seriously at using Linux for my day-to-day, desktops played a big factor. All my recent Unix workstation experience had been Sun Solaris and HP CDE; my current day-to-day usage was OS/2 (by then eComStation). KDE seemed similar to Windows; Gnome seemed more like OS/2. Never tried KDE again.

@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz Yes. The term is not well defined, because it mixes generations and abstractions. I should quit using it. Capers Jones has an interesting chart in ISBN: 9780071502443, that assigns productivity level to programming language. ASSEMBLY = 1.0, C = 2.5, PASCAL = 3.5, C++ = 6.0, Smalltalk = 15.0, SQL = 27.0, Spreadsheets = 50.0

The numbers are based on actual data collected, but sample sizes may vary. They also change with project size.

@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz OK. That clarifies things. It should be noted that it's hard to KISS at that level of programming. The best way to simplify is go as abstract as possible, but many people concentrate on becoming good at the one thing that fits their current viewpoint and stagnate.

I've learned a lot from a lot of people who for various reasons never went to college. School is no measure of intelligence; it just a measure of how well you can follow orders. Too many so called progressives don't seem to know this. They want to stereotype people into categories that allow them to feel more comfortable with their world views. Then they can feel better about buying a house in the "right" neighborhood with the "right" schools.

" "Don't ever play a worker to be a fool," Jim Wright recalling his days as a steward for [FE] Local 236. " - The Long Deep Grudge by Toni Gilpin. The FE (United Farm Equipment Workers of America) was a progressive union racially integrated from the leadership in down in the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s.

The UAW used red-baiting and race-baiting to finally overcome it. Kind of like what the Democratic Party is doing to progressive movements right now.

DNC should need the quote.

@byllgrim@mastodon.xyz weird to classify Unix (OS) and oop (Programming style) as peers and somehow at odds. If you view Unix as represented by C programming, and oop as represented by C++, then yes, at the 3GL level, there is argument over which to use. Maybe a broader OOP vs functional/procedural programming?

Hopefully you're saying you've learned how to get out of the 3GL mud, which where the real problem solving should occur.