Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Y2K Redux

Posted on 2021-05-07 by jcs

It’s been a while but many of us still remember the problems, hype, and really bad movie centered around the Y2K bug. For you kids, that was a problem caused by the common practice of storing the year of dates … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: How Not To Design Signs

Posted on 2021-04-30 by jcs

As promised, no journalists were harmed in the posting of this Red Meat Friday. Instead, via Karl Voit, I present this example of really atrocious design. How To Irritate People: pic.twitter.com/Tbrz4myYhy — Bruno Kassel (@BrunoKassel) April 28, 2021 The perpetrators … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Journalism

Posted on 2021-04-09 by jcs

You guys might think I’m hard on journalists but here’s how an expert does it: ‘Journalism’ today is basically what happens when you take science, and you subtract – training – scholarship – theory – data – peer review – … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Python Is Not a Great Language

Posted on 2021-03-12 by jcs

Robin Thomas says that Python is not a great programming language and offers 11 reasons why it isn’t. Reaction was swift and virulent, proving he might have been on to something when he wrote, “Pythonists have a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Programmers—Then & Now

Posted on 2021-02-26 by jcs

Here’s a little red meat for all the graybeards out there waving their canes and yelling at the kids to get off their lawn.

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Red Meat Friday: Word

Posted on 2021-02-19 by jcs

Microsoft Word: What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) typesetting software that is widely used for writing despite its lack of decent version control and text entry/editing functionality#vim #emacs #rmarkdown #pandoc — Martin Skarzynski (@marskar) February 18, 2021 And … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Real Programmers Use TECO

Posted on 2021-02-05 by jcs

Think you’re tough because you use Vi or Emacs? Or even ed? “Real Programmers” don’t think so. “”Real Programmers” FTW #emacs #teco https://t.co/cEUEwClDBg pic.twitter.com/Jwvs87X1AY — (((bob pasker))) (@rbpasker) January 31, 2021 It’s hard to see the entire text in the … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor

Posted on 2021-01-08 by jcs

Is there a backdoor in your editor? Probably not, even if you’re using IntelliJ, but in a moment of schadenfreude for FOSS folks, the New York Times is reporting that JetBrains software may have been used as vector in the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: C++

Posted on 2020-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and it’s Friday so here’s a little gift from the Minions and me: #quotes #tech #CPP #programming #language #emacs pic.twitter.com/K5uWmRuVph — Devopedia (@devopedia) December 25, 2020

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Red Meat Friday: WTF

Posted on 2020-08-21 by jcs

Richard Stallman. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think. On the one hand, he can be extraordinarily irritating and he holds all sorts of opinions that I and many people don’t agree with. On the other hand, no matter … Continue reading →

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