waspentalive

The mad rush to sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Wouldn't it be nice to have one company create a simple printer that just prints. It does not have a local webpage. It does not monitor your ink supplies. It does not phone home. It uses ink from bottles sold inexpensivly.

The way gravity plating works is not given as far as I know, Perhaps the gravity generators simply alter the number of gravitons in an area of plating. Once that value is set it remains until changed again. A sudden power spike can cause the generators to withdraw the extra gravitons, as a result sometimes certain kinds of emergency can "turn off" gravity in an area of the ship.

If they overlap, aren't you in danger of having your company try to take over your passion project?

I write programs for myself. I have learned enough C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic to write small things and even larger things like a visual file manager for MSDOS, or my own version of the venerable STAR TREK game. I even know of big O notation (But I don't know how to calculate it for a given algorithm)

But I never wanted to be a programmer - having to work on other people's programs 8 hours a day. That would ruin programming as a hobby. When I am self-directed it is fun.

I was a Data Center tech instead. Minding 3 football fields of other people's computers.

Worf may be a badass, but there are many that are just badder than he is. But as the Jem Hadar guy said "I cannot defeat this man, I can only kill him".

You don't really change the compiler itself. You can build up libraries of your own subroutines and link in the ones you need in any particular program, just like you might in C.

This is why I never became a programmer. I am retired now, but for the last 10 years, I have been a data center support agent. Programming is fun, I would hate to ruin that fun by having to work to someone else's rule.

I am interested in all things random or mathematical. I have written programs to simulate the decay of radioactive 'stuff', a program that simulates the CA Lottery by flipping a coin (someone said that your chances are about the same as flipping a coin 25 times in a row in a run of either heads or tails).

On the mathematical side, I have written a program to run the 3n+1 (Colatz) series and record process features, like counting evens and odds, the number of steps, and the maximum value found in the series. Perhaps the average of the values in the series would be interesting to calculate...

Combining mathematics with randomness - I have worked on the 100 prisoners idea, How many loops are created in this run, and how long is the longest one? If any loop contains more than 50 members then the prisoners lose and don't get to go home.

I have ideas for a traditional basic interpreter only lines are labeled not numbered.

I have a traditional Star Trek program that I have written many times improving slightly each time.

But that was just Q's ad hominem response to an even better exchange: Q: What must I do to convince you people (that he is mortal and without powers) Worf: die.

Sorry I know you said "not epic" but most things Worf says are epic.

And when it is powerful enough you can make it self hosting.

Perhaps I just refuse to click thru things that look to me like I might be signing up for something. No worries.

Not all of us have Apple Music Accounts.