tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3282507395058044951..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Public Places, Public SpacesFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-21672711961484828312018-03-09T10:41:35.971-05:002018-03-09T10:41:35.971-05:00(chuckle) Well, Glenn, as a former assembly-langua...(chuckle) Well, Glenn, as a former assembly-language and microcode slinger, I'd say that "young skulls full of mush" are probably a total loss from the get-go. I was once responsible for training young software engineers, and I discovered that many of them had never learned how to think. They couldn't sustain a line of logic for more than two or three seconds without haring off into the weeds. I was only able to salvage a minority of them; what became of the rest, I cannot say and, in all candor, don't care to know.<br /><br />The great problem in the software arts is how pathetically <i>unprepared</i> are most who come to it. The ability to think linearly -- to conceive of processes, decisions, and mandatory consequences -- is a prerequisite. It's why most of the top performers in the trade came to it from some other field -- a field in which they had to learn how to think.<br /><br />I could go on, but this isn't the proper place for it, so I'll spare you. Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-80159562875688427752018-03-09T10:29:40.854-05:002018-03-09T10:29:40.854-05:00The owners of the mall should have the inailable r...The owners of the mall should have the inailable right to set the rules of deportment on their property. <br />In a neck breaking change of topic.<br />What do you think of box diagrams as an aid to teaching young skulls ful of mush how to code 'PROPERLY'.sneer quotes from an 83 ye ar old assembly language programmer who loved to write jumps to the middle of code just to save a few cycles.i think I wrote a self modifyIng program that is lurking somewhere only to emerge..<br />Best<br />Glenn<br />It takes a heap 'o homin' to make a pigeon toed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10707544900488913761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-89900427661275088302018-03-08T07:41:47.529-05:002018-03-08T07:41:47.529-05:00Oh, Thank God! Someone not overly prudish also thi...Oh, Thank God! Someone not overly prudish also thinks that mandating at least minimal covering of the privates in public is a good thing.<br /><br />The last thing I want to see, when seated at a restaurant table, is someone's who-haws dangling in my face.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.com