Coming to market about 20 years late: https://jonathangarrett.livejournal.com/32686.html

I work with Qt and that framework has preferences for avoiding a lot of modern C++. I generally agree that it makes better code.

Also, I started with C++ in like 1992 and some part of me still feels like templates are newfangled nonsense.

You know the egg thing is a joke at this point, right?

So you’re saying the destruction of the whole US Government is just fine because egg prices eventually came back down somewhere?

Cool.

In over 30 years in software development, I’ve only seen “programmer” jobs in government, usually using long-dead tech and with published salaries in the $30-40k range. Private employers in industry know that you’re not going to hire anyone by labeling your open position as a programmer. It’s no surprise the position is dying. The article is much ado about nothing.

To answer your question: back in maybe the 1950s to 1970s, an engineer of some sort might “design” a software program, specifying algorithms and dataflows and that sort of thing. The that design would be handed off to programmers to implement in code in Cobol or Fortran or whatever. The division being that the engineering side is more professional, skilled, autonomous, etc. Hence the stigma on “programmers”

The “software developer” role arose from industry trends where the people doing the design of software were generally the ones also implementing the code. Calling that work “engineering” is a gray area where in some jurisdictions it may be illegal to call yourself an engineer with the proper state licensing. I am not aware of this being enforced much at all in the software field.

Main takeaway from the article:

Computer programmers are different from software developers, who liaise between programmers and engineers and design bespoke solutions—a much more diverse set of responsibilities compared to programmers, who mostly carry out the coding work directly. Software development jobs are expected to grow 17% from 2023 to 2033, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau meanwhile projectsabout a 10% decline in computer programming employment opportunities from 2023 to 2033.

Im no more inyalowda, sassake?

It’s a biblical reference that was set in ancient Rome.

Damn, $250 million stolen and she only pocketed $2 million.

You’re not wrong. This is an argument for sticking with Windows. It will suck. But, you know exactly how much it will suck and in what ways. Switching to Linux will suck in new and expected ways.

Choosing a distro based on what it says it does is not on you. Recommending it to your wife without even having tried it is. When I put Ubuntu on my wife’s computer, I know what to expect because I’ve installed on just abuse every pc I’ve ever used in the past 10 years.

Off to search and replace “mRNA” with “messenger ribonucleic acid” in grant proposals.

Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.

They didn’t learn anything last time. What’s different now?

Trump has failed so many times I can’t count them all. I have yet to see America succeed at anything under his “leadership”

Don’t look too closely at your southern neighbor, it might be alarming.

I suggest a tariff on the use of US-based social media. They’re all bad.

Ooof…

I can hear this.

I wonder what fighting a measles epidemic is going to do for their morale.