Libre office has not been stable enough for me. For larger documents I still rely on google docs. For important stuff Latex..

Just because maybe someone’s interested.

The smell thing is just bonkers. I can’t smell for shit. As it turns out I am a very smell oriented person. I smell everything, and now that part is just gone.

Day is now over. Taking care of two little ones with this crap is hard work. I did very little raising today and mostly only keeping in line.

@NeatNerdPrime farts all the way. I really like whisky, and not smelling would ruin the experience

@NeatNerdPrime we’re doing fine thank you very much for asking. It’s the wife and two children. They’ve had it, now we got it, taking care of them and playing will be a challenge, but here we are. Luckily symptoms are mild so far. Let’s hope it stays this way.

The mind blowing thing is the smelling. I smell nothing. I just bought a new keyboard and cannot smell it at all. Kinda sad about that, first new keyboard in 10 years.

@IntrusionCM fuck of with the positivity. Not even I believe in myself. I embrace the shit code..I see it as a job security stratagem. I make myself indispensable for a few years after wiring an important piece

@IntrusionCM agreed..still, I take offense because everything I code is generally shit..

@IntrusionCM I think this is key..for me, SQLite was the biggest driver of change. So easy to compartmentalise apps, pulling only what is required, user management etc. No erm driven design needed.

Anyway..anyone catch the game last night? Copa America is about to start and that’s always exciting..

@dontbeevil well not really..it’s licensed to the machine..they let you move..it’s not the same..Christ is in the details they say

@dontbeevil my only qualm is licensing. I hate the fact that the license is attached to the computer not the person..I don’t quite feel that should be allowed.

There’s obviously no competition..two completely different development scenarios one of which leads to more user driven development I think..I have been a long time Linux user though so I am biased..

@dontbeevil you haven’t lived until you do mate

@MadMadMadMrMim is there ever a way? Do you truly believe the Turing test remains sans solution? Sorry I took longer..my kid came down with a fever..

@MadMadMadMrMim holy fuck..ok. Sure..I have dabbled myself in that topic..in three bullets, outline your plan, just no eugenics please.

@MadMadMadMrMim I am real..yes..Sure the concept behind data flow was shared, but that did no mean that business logic translated well.

It was hard to transition, even if bits were similar..still, one of the nest jobs of my life..

@MadMadMadMrMim illusion as in management thought that is what they had, and not 10 different development teams with little practical overlap..

The owner was (still is) incredibly smart man. Built the entire company (over 50 developers) in order to finance his research projects. He does optimisation and just subsidised his passion software. He’s my idol, but his software products are crap..

Core business was an ERP system for supermarkets..a chain of about a 130 locations and some fancy synching features to allow for network outage..to give some perspective, the other ERP was a cattle ranch manager..

@MadMadMadMrMim now it’s smaller stuff, it’s just force of habit.
I used to work for a company that had the illusion of a core ERP from which several flavours were branched.

In reality these branches were copy-paste code, with the entire thing replicated and modified.

At one point, the largest incarnation of this aberration had 780 tables. It’s been 10 years now and I still dream about it..

I consider ERM one of the great tools..I have been using power designer for the past 15 years consistently and I cannot do without it..even considering that I once quit a job because of sql anywhere..

@spacehash cool..I’ve written a few application notes and sincerely they are my most detailed papers..my PhD years are among the best I’ve had..years just focusing on one thing, reading, learning..no real world. Blimey, I can remember the smell of the lab so clearly..