Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Boomerang

A new fangled electric device that boils water for coffee, tea etc..

Oh, ....... ya'll got electricity now ......??


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Oh, ....... ya'll got electricity now ......??


humfrz

They have had AC/DC for decades. It is getting a bit old and broken down now though.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

They have had AC/DC for decades. It is getting a bit old and broken down now though.

*insert obvious joke here*

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

They have had AC/DC for decades. It is getting a bit old and broken down now though.

Oh, old ...... I get it now (I think)......


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Oh, old ...... I get it now (I think)......


humfrz

Well I was more talking about the old broken down AC/DC

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by cjd

JavaScript is compiled to bytecode at interpretation in modern JS engines, and optimized further as it runs. It's definitely not a traditional compiled language, but it is no longer purely interpreted either.

That's fairly accurate.

Your previous comment:

Originally Posted by cjd

Every time you visit a website you compile code. And very few of the guys shipping that code to you know how to write it, so it's slow as heck... gotta get more processing power just to keep the interwebs moving along!

That looked misinformed at the time. Now, it looks condescending.
Here's some friendly advice: Don't talk down to people. If you don't know them, treat them as equals. If you know for a fact that they are stupid, be nice.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

.......and the snow was how deep and of course, it was uphill both ways .....


humfrz

Haha... I saw a quote from you and I KNEW your were going to say that.

Actually, Rt. 104 is called Ridge Road because it is truly a ridge. It is the ancient shoreline of an early post-glacial Lake Ontario. The ride home was the bitch. It was a long gradual uphill slog.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

If you know for a fact that they are stupid, be nice.

And I thought it was because we're friends.

[Sarlacc]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

And I thought it was because we're friends.

I am trying hard to be nice to people. Especially my dwindling collection of friends. It doesn't come easy to me. Probably because deep down, at the very core of my being, I'm an asshole.

[cjd]

Originally Posted by Sarlacc

That looked misinformed at the time. Now, it looks condescending.
Here's some friendly advice: Don't talk down to people. If you don't know them, treat them as equals. If you know for a fact that they are stupid, be nice.

It was meant as a poke at the industry in general, and at myself in particular, but not intending to talk down to anyone. Just that sites are shipping even more JS and it's not getting any faster... Even thought the engines are improving.

I have a low opinion of that vague unnamed dev shipping JavaScript based on how many times I have to sit and wait for execution, but never apply that to an individual even if they earn it. At most it makes me sad, and leaves me wondering where I could have done better helping them learn and improve. The chances for me to be the one learning are further between, sadly - I don't consider myself particularly good... Not bad, and certainly have a record of working magic, but nothing special. The reality is that corporate pressure and piecemeal additive "one more feature" without attention to the whole is more to blame for the sad state of client-side code these days than the older "ceo'son whipped this up, anyone can JavaScript" attitude... Though it's still hurting the industry through the low opinion of the language it fostered.

I had to wait three seconds between typing characters on my own employers site the other day. I've helped try to diagnose, but it's in the Someone Else's Problem circuit now. I can't fix everything for everyone... I've also been told my 19mo old phone is too old and slow and isn't the target (different product, same mentality... It's the user device, not the code or architecture)

I must be harboring some gripe that's coloring my comments because I've been getting lots of "be nice" feedback online. Time for a LOA maybe.

Cheers

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Haha... I saw a quote from you and I KNEW your were going to say that.

Actually, Rt. 104 is called Ridge Road because it is truly a ridge. It is the ancient shoreline of an early post-glacial Lake Ontario. The ride home was the bitch. It was a long gradual uphill slog.

Of course, you had to stop at the dairy and bring home some milk .....


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[Cole]

About to go a brewery here in beautiful Sault Ste Marie to grab a drink with an old army friend. Will need to get drunk to tolerate the family stuff here.

There's so much drama in the gfs family. It's awful. This is exactly why I want to distance myself from it as much as I can.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Cole

About to go a brewery here in beautiful Sault Ste Marie to grab a drink with an old army friend. Will need to get drunk to tolerate the family stuff here.

There's so much drama in the gfs family. It's awful. This is exactly why I want to distance myself from it as much as I can.

Reminds me of back-in-the-day when we would go over to visit my wife's family. She has 8 brothers and sisters and each one has a slew of kids.

They would sit around and drink beer and get all "chatty" with all kinds of drama. I would peacefully get drunk (because an in-law dare not try to interject anything into any conversation) and drift off to a dark part of the house called the music room and go to sleep on a couch.

Between the constant loud conversations and screaming kids running around everywhere ..... it created a sort of "white noise" and I slept quite well.

Well, the tough part came after I quit drinking ....... I had no escape .....


humfrz

[Cole]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Reminds me of back-in-the-day when we would go over to visit my wife's family. She has 8 brothers and sisters and each one has a slew of kids.

They would sit around and drink beer and get all "chatty" with all kinds of drama. I would peacefully get drunk (because an in-law dare not try to interject anything into any conversation) and drift off to a dark part of the house called the music room and go to sleep on a couch.

Between the constant loud conversations and screaming kids running around everywhere ..... it created a sort of "white noise" and I slept quite well.

Well, the tough part came after I quit drinking ....... I had no escape .....


humfrz

That's kind of what I want to do. Even if I wanted to interject, the things they talk about have about zero relevance to me, so I just sit there quietly, and every so often, I get asked why I don't talk much.