@JeremyCherfas I've been meaning to catch up. I've enjoyed them so far.
@matigo It's one of those things I hold onto. Before I graduated beyond BASIC, Pascal and Assembly, I only had a minimal at best indication during compilation (In the case of BASIC, of course, none)
Once I graduated to C and Unix/VMS it was a whole different world.
I don't know why it soothes me but it dies.
It's weird but there are few things in life that soothe me like watching compiler output scroll by. It's as if that stage is the actual travel of the journey. The road sailing by,
@matigo Doesn't really help me in the software end of things though. It'd be nice to not wear so many hats but that's the situation I'm stuck in.
It's unfortunate that the only thing that can stop my mind from racing and cause me to approach a task with anything resembling calm is alcohol.
It's a "cure" that brings a worse disease, so, it's out of the question.
Yoga and meditation helps to some extent but not much.
@matigo White Nationalists sinking their claws into angry white kids and them marching with torches in Charlottesville chanting, "Blood and Soil". (That's White Nationalist rhetoric I thought had died out with the Metzgers)
It was only a matter of time since the black militants were sinking their claws into black kids.
This shit has to stop and fast.
Do NOT like what I am seeing tonight. Expected it and surprised it didn't happen sooner, none-the-less.
@matigo I can see the issue there. For me, with limited manpower and hundreds of servers out there I'm grateful for the reprieve.
You know what's good? Stringent unit tests
You know why they are good? I'm drinking quite a lot more than usual and have moved onto revamping some code responsible for payroll and taxes.
Why am I doing this?
You do this for enough years and it gets boring. I am trying to add some challenge.