Category: James – Himself
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New Version of Black Inventors Image/Document
There is an older image going around that lists common black inventors, but it is dated and the image quality is poor. I decided that it was time to generate new versions of it. So here you will find a PDF versions as well as PNG versions of the updated document. BlackInventors –…
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We Just Have a Difference of Opinion…
“We just have a difference of opinion” – remember that? We heard that a lot during the pandemic, usually from someone that is talking out of their ass and comparing their opinion to something stated by a doctor, scientist, researcher, or in a published article. This other person is often comparatively uneducated, and inexperienced with…
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Covidiot BINGO!
I have long since observed a predictable and rather consistent set of behaviors with the anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-whateverbullshittheycomeupwith crowd that keeps popping up during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Lemme know if you spot anything familiar: They misspell vaccine as jab or poke They claim the vaccine is poison They claim there will be long-term effects of…
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So-called Web “Developers”
So, I have been seeing this more and more. I see the term “Web Developer” being applied to anybody that can do basic HTML5 and CSS scripting. Even worse, I see the term being applied to people that do not know enough to understand how the back end works, or cannot even spell LAMP. If…
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Manager Red Flags
(Attention lawyers and previous employers: the following information does not specifically identify a particular entity. You have nothing to worry about unless you think this represents you or your company and you know there is some truth to it.) As I have worked with a few different kinds of managers/supervisors throughout the years, I have…
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Agile Development – Scrum Pitfalls
I have been subjected to a few so-called agile development methodologies over the years. Most recently, Scrum was the one in question. Well, it was kinda-sorta-almost Scrummish, which means it was not really Scrum at all, but we will ignore that for now. All in all, the use of stories and a Wiki to keep…
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Another Downside of Browser-Based Apps
I once again find myself having to use a web-based application. This is a often just a fancy name for a bloated set of code that provides a little more functionality than what a set of CGI scripts could provide. The beauty of CGI apps was that they were often very succinct – they were…
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Assumption is the mother of all Fuckups…
How would you move a file in an atomic fashion? What? Not enough detail for you? Do not worry – I have made some assumptions regarding the scenario, that I just pulled outta my ASS, and you better get the same asnwer I did!!!
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Software – Robust vs. Works
I got myself involved in a thread on The Code Project Forums that lead to the idea of Robust software, and one of the posters said: I call an application robust if it’s in use in the real world for a lengthy period of time and no data has been lost and no one has…