Java for this flash in the pan mobile shit? Sure, they like breaking things.

Java for enterprise? No. They’re probably only just finished converting that COBOL system to it, and they started 20 years ago. People have died while making it. They will never change anything.

There used to be a UI library on the Amiga called MUI.

It used a bunch of C macros to let you define the window and all the controls. Was honestly pretty good considering it was like 30 years ago.

Oh look, new money was old money all along.

Guess even they are cashing out.

//look, I know this makes no fucking sense, but Debbie at MoronCo insisted it worked like this or she wouldn't pay us

Nothing wrong with a, i, s and x.

Which CSS framework is it that puts this shit everywhere?

That one can die in a fire.

Not at all.

You can’t force anyone to carry on running servers after their business dies, and you can’t force them to release code that might be licensed from somebody else.

Realistically, the onus is on us, and all we can really do is refuse to buy or engage with games that use this model, and if we do then at least accept that one day it will be gone, no matter how much time and money we’ve tipped into it.

Why is OnlyOffice getting traction all of a sudden?

Is there something it does well that LibreOffice doesn’t?

I’m always a bit dubious about new software, especially something as massive as an entire office suite.

Isn’t that Tackleberry from Police Academy?

Fox News viewers would need the concept of “sharing” explained to them first.

And don’t even get them started on doors.

I’ve been asked for a referral twice in my life. Both times the person the referral was for still worked for me, so I got them to write it and just sent it on.

If somebody wants more money than we pay I won’t stand in their way. I also don’t care if you get a good employee or not. Shit, I’d write a complete dumb-ass a glowing referral if you’re a rival company.

Congo was part of the wave of creature feature movies that followed Jurassic Park.

Anaconda, Lake Placid, etc. All chasing a high they had no chance of ever reaching. They’re all a bit shit, but I can’t help have some nostalgia for them.

No, I think you’re right.

Being lesser known doesn’t make it worse.

I still do.

I wish they’d open source Delphi (and most of the libraries). Might actually breathe some life back into it.

Fortran has a logo now?

I’d rather recommend every CEO see it in action…

They’re the ones who would be cock-a-hoop to replace us and our expensive wages with kids and bots.

When they’re sitting around rocking back and forth and everything is on fire like that Community GIF, they’ll find my consultancy fees to be quite a bit higher than my wages used to be.

I consider boilerplate code output like that to be well within reach of simple tools though. Tools that didn’t need a year to learn from hundreds of terabytes of examples, 20GB of VRAM, or the power use of a small city.

Given how it “learns”, asking for the same homework questions people have asked for on stack overflow a thousand times already would likely give a decent answer.

Asking it something new will produce plausible looking gibberish.

It has no idea which is which. It doesn’t know where the limits of its knowledge lie. It just knows that the answer looks like code and is very confident, and that any follow up issues can be dealt with by outputting more nonsense code and an excuse.

One of the Red Dwarf books has a subplot where they send hundreds of stars supernova at once to spell out an advert for Coca Cola in the sky.