On Friday, October 18, 2024 05:16 PM, Brian Inglis expressed:
> Problem is we are all volunteers on the project, so answers, replies, support,
> depend on whether anyone has enough spare time to do analysis or diagnosis and
> provide feedback, over what we have available to work on libraries, utili
rogrammers need... decades ago someone doing Computer Science at
university probably was taking it because they were the type of person that had
already played around with a home computer for hours, and knew a bit about what
worked and what didn't, and lapped up the knowledge a formal course
read an NSF report titled something like "Towards a Pump, Not a Filter."
What you describe strikes me as a drastic filter. The reason we need "pumps"
is to improve gender, ethnic, etc., diversity in computer science and related
areas. This is not "just" being fai
a musical instrument for quite a while
to do it well, and they need honest feedback (after they get to the level of experience
they can take it).
I think projects/mailing lists like this are pretty close to the essence of what budding
programmers need... decades ago someone doing Computer
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 02:09:31 PM EDT, Jim Garrison via Cygwin
wrote:
> Most university courses in "software engineering" don't begin to cover
> the actual knowledge base and, more importantly, internal mental
> processes, discipline and curiosity required to do quality software
My 2
Very very interesting discussion.
Nowadays many problems seem to be solved by adding another layer of
indirection/abstraction which likely absorbs a lot of the increasing processing
power, available memory etc. introduced by each new generation of hardware.
Eventually, the sheer number of layer
On Friday, October 18, 2024 02:08 PM, Jim Garrison expressed:
> I have an analogy. Coding is like playing the recorder (fipple-flute,
> "English flute", etc). Any 6-year-old can learn the fingerings well
> enough to carry a tune, but drive to insanity anybody within earshot.
> Learning to code
On 10/17/2024 10:06, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 11:07:50 PM EDT, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin
wrote:
The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the
collective power to fix it.
ahem, Microsoft would like to enter the chat...
App
On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 11:07:50 PM EDT, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin
wrote:
> The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the
> collective power to fix it.
ahem, Microsoft would like to enter the chat...
Apparently "unlimited" funds doesn't help either.
I'm go
The education of and practice of software is glaringly lax and we have the
collective power to fix it.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:42 p.m. Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 10/16/2024 6:42 PM, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote:
> > I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted
> himself
> >
On 10/16/2024 6:42 PM, Mike Yearwood via Cygwin wrote:
I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself
into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other
programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During
the next 8 months, I fin
On 16/10/2024 23:32, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
[snip]
I couldn't have put it better Brian, especially regarding grasp of basic
grammar and ability to provide semantic content.
But you're just feeding the trolls. ;-)
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as maintainers not set forth by their
> graduating universities.
>
> Ability to communicate clearly in English is a prerequsite.
> I suspect all software has maintainers who have been set forth in their
> diplomas
> by their graduating universities.
>
> > I am a 2000 comput
their diplomas
by their graduating universities.
I am a 2000 computer science graduate.
Do you mean high school, community college, university, postgrad, or something
else?
With straight A's in prep school I disapprove of the lists on Cygwin
Who cares what you got in elementary scho
On 10/15/2024 6:38 PM, Greywolf via Cygwin wrote:
On 2024-10-15 15:31, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
Then again why does anyone care about IceWM? If you want an X11 it's hard not to suggest just going to WSL and be done
with it.
Lots of XClients already.
Except that, unless I am mistaken,
On 2024-10-15 15:31, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
Then again why does anyone care about IceWM? If you want an X11 it's hard not
to suggest just going to WSL and be done with it.
Lots of XClients already.
Except that, unless I am mistaken, WSL runs in its own window and does not
integrate
> I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their
> graduating universities.
because a CompSci degree != competence in anything.
Prove your mettle by picking up a useful package off the abandoned list (is
this even current?)
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
Personall
I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their
graduating universities.
I am a 2000 computer science graduate. With straight A's in prep school I
disapprove of the lists on Cygwin
As I would like to be a IceWM maintainer but not with every other stock boy i
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