Graham24

Yeah, if they do not have attention to detail, I do not want to work there.

In the Summer of 1985 (when I should have been outside chasing girls) I wrote a COBOL interpreter in C64 BASIC as the college I was at was still using punched cards and sending them offsite to be run overnight.

That was interesting.

been there done that.

after 25 years, it's institutionalising.

My Dad was a riveter in the Vickers Viscount factory in the 50s/60s. Ok, not Comets, but close.

It was shown in the UK again last weekend.

when I was at university we did a module on Formal Methods including writing Z Schemas. Out of a class of 30 only two people really understood them.

That's why they are not generally used, no one (or at least not enough) has a clue how to create them.

I doubt they are taught on general Computer Science degrees anymore.

I blame the Ministry of Silly Walks.

I am currently DMing The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, every Sunday at 8:30pm.

Yeah, it sure did.

Whoops, sorry, forget I said that...

I'm expecting him to announce that he's bought an old extinct hollowed out volcano and is recruiting for goons.

{cough cough} West Ham {cough cough}

This is six months old

there was a great radio 4 adaptation of this from the 90s, but I can only find references to a 2015 version.

being English, every Christmas there was always a box of Turkish Delight on the table (and dates of course).

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Make sure you know about Orders of Complexity. Read the Mythical Man Month and other old books on theory.

I've heard the Vulcan fly a few times and it sounds as if the very air itself is screaming in complaint not the plane.

I'm glad my team play all-out attacking progressive football, rather than the negative 11 behind the ball defensive dismal displays I've seen the away teams do at Dean Court.

I've done this, leave an obvious trivial bug for the QA to find otherwise they'll keep digging until they find something pointless and hard to fix, which is not a problem in the first place. they have to find something to justify their jobs.

I wonder if there's a name for doing this?

Try the 8 bit guy's you tube channel.

I pity the poor fool who tries to point a laser at my eye.

I used to listen to Beefheart on The John Peel Show.

Don't forget Old Boney.

probably to do with Armistice Day.

Many a True Nerd The 8 bit Guy

There is no silver bullet. Never was, never will be.

OS/360?

I would like to see a timer on the desk during meetings, not showing the elapsed time, but the total wage bill the meeting is costing. I think that should concentrate minds a little

I couldn't read to the end of that article, I just felt myself dying inside.