Comments on: Programming is a Super Power

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By: Tip #1 for young programmers: Specialize in something | ?????

Tip #1 for young programmers: Specialize in something | ????? — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:42:36 +0000

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By: Tip #1 for young programmers: Specialize in something

Tip #1 for young programmers: Specialize in something — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:13:41 +0000

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By: FanGaocheng

FanGaocheng — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:17:20 +0000

Programming is so hardly, studying…

By: Chaser

Chaser — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:50:41 +0000

In reply to Jose. Jose, that depends on your definition of hacking as well as your abilities. I'm with Aminedigirep on this :)

By: Marco Romagnoli

Marco Romagnoli — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:48:51 +0000

Hi Antonio,
I can agree with you that programming could be a super power, but what I would add is that “with great power comes great responsibility”.
Often programmers loose the perspective on real world.

Marco

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:54:47 +0000

In reply to alone_in_boat. Saying that is like saying people who invented computers were lame because they didn't invent electricity, they just used it. Technology is about progress and specialization. Nobody can be a master of all.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:51:44 +0000

PROGRAMMERS ARE DYING HUNGRY. THERE’S NO GRATIFICATION TO BE A PROGRAMMER ANY MORE. BEING A PROGRAMMER IS CLOSE TO BEING A SUCKER.

By: Mikey Mike

Mikey Mike — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:02:40 +0000

In reply to Leor Zolman.

Well BDS C was a very important part of the CP/M ecosystem for a while. I think it had a lot to do with the general takeup of C programming at that time. It was lightning fast compared to the others, and generated reliable code. Most of the BBS systems of the day were compiled with BDS C. I used your compiler at one time to write an assembler for a 6800.

There was an active homebrew community on this side of the Pacific (Sydney) during that time. We messed around a lot here with S2650s, 6800s Z80s. Euro bus kit was pretty popular too. Later on CP/M took off. I remember drooling over the ads in Byte magazine for S100 cards, Tarbell tape interfaces, ADM3A terminals and crap.

My day job at the time was fixing minis and super minis in the field. You should try changing the heads on a washing machine sized disk drive at a customer’s premises after a head crash 🙂 . I kind of drifted into hardware design, communications controllers mainly and then software got to me and for the last 25 years have been solely a software developer.

Today there are so many tools and technologies available to explore that it truly is a wonderful time to be a programmer.

By: On_land_with_friends

On_land_with_friends — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:08:35 +0000

In reply to alone_in_boat. No wonder you're alone in a boat. What a naive comment grandad.