The Mythical Man Month 👍🏼

Did you know you can work with your IBM i (AS/400) directly from VS Code? Neither did we! Liam Allan from IBM is here this week to walk us through modernizing #developer tools! Set a reminder and join us ⏰ aka.ms/code-livestrea… #vscode #COBOL #RPGLE #IBMi Liam barry

The mark of a great programmer is not doing exotic stuff. It is writing code that anyone can understand and see is obviously correct by inspection. Once a year you might do something extreme--and then write a giant comment explaining why it was unfortunately necessary.

Woah, Code for IBM i changes are in the #ibmi 7.5.1 release notes. Neat ibm.com/common/ssi/Sho…

Momentum builds for Code for #IBMi (IT Jungle) itjungle.com/2022/11/07/mom…

Why are the same words spelled differently in American and British English?

Very important!

Happy Birthday IBM i. You've had a great run to get to 35, but I expect more great things in the future from you. Have a super celebration today. Enjoy your friends! Then... come back to work tomorrow and do something amazing. All the best! Scott #IBMi #Db2fori #SQLcandoit

Loved this comment from a candidate! Interestingly, the variable names are not bad! Most other candidates have much worse names. If you're aware of the Dunning Kruger effect, this is not at all surprising: more qualified people are more self-critical and vice versa!

Electric vehicle infrastructure is still shoddy in India. Lot of places claim to have it but absent in reality. Long distance drive is still very risky in #EV, can cause emergency. Not going to go for an #EV for the foreseeable future in India.

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves. Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a

Exactly the same for programming contests.

How programmers comment their code:

Devon Eriksen i keep two copies of "the mythical man-month" on my desk so when a non-engineer insists that we can halve the dev time of a project by putting double the engineers on it. i give them both books and ask them to read it in half the time since they now have double the books.

“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome” —Charlie Munger If you want Google to have less of your data, use Firefox

At the exec level of corporations you can't say "the thing" out loud for political reasons, and this is (sometimes) why orgs like McKinsey get hired: they say "the thing" out loud so nobody has to pay the political cost of doing so, backed by lots of nice graphs and data.

Programming is thinking + syntax. Maybe 90% thinking and 10% syntax. While you can automate away syntax, you can only ever outsource thinking to someone/something that can think. Attempts to outsource thinking to a syntax generator do not end well.

The only thing that matters about the first programming language you learn is that it get you to the point where you learn your second, and almost every language can do that.

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) has written an article describing the coming "Intelligence Age" that ChatGPT will usher in. What can we expect?

. Eureka Forbes I regret buying your product. Your engineers are just closing the requests without solving the issue. Such a pathetic service! #waterfilter #eurekaforbes #customerService