Holy F*** I Finally Fixed the CRHS Photo Site

[Ed Kapuscinski]

In basic English:  The way I interpreted it, it was a software issue, due to the new server software and the old site software no longer speaking the same language.  What Ed did was to change the way the site "spoke" to the server so that the two could understand each other again.

More like a different dialect.
What I did was tell the thing to start using "ou" in stead of just "o" in words like "color".

[nkalanaga]

Is THAT all it took?  I would think that the programmers could have easily written the new software to accept either version, knowing the older versions accepted the American spellings. 

Britain and the US:  One people divided by a common language.  (I have no idea who first said that, and have seen it several places).

JohnB:  Did the model T have a clutch, or was it single-speed, one gear each for forward and reverse? 

[Philip H]

Is THAT all it took?  I would think that the programmers could have easily written the new software to accept either version, knowing the older versions accepted the American spellings. 

Oddly enough this is becoming a real issue in other areas as well.  most of the climate models we use for long range studies (think decades to centuries) were written in Fortran or Cobol or occasionally C++ and can't be run on the newest generation of supercomputers. They need to be rewritten in a more modern programming language but the folks who can parallel program are fewer in number then Zn# modelers working in brass - and said programmers are often paid way more by Google or AWS or Microsoft then they ever will be in an academic or government setting.

So I feel Ed's pain.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Is THAT all it took?  I would think that the programmers could have easily written the new software to accept either version, knowing the older versions accepted the American spellings. 

Possibly, but they didn't.

[C855B]

... the folks who can parallel program are fewer in number then Zn# modelers working in brass ...

Converting decades-old procedural code to "modern" object-oriented BS is a serious challenge. I changed my focus to systems engineering and large-network integration because this old-school C programmer (how old-school? Ever hear of Whitesmiths?) could never grok C++. IOW, in at least my experience, expertise in serial, procedural code did not convert into OOP, and coders who made the jump successfully were rare birds. And these days, mostly retired rare birds!

[MK]

NJ's Department of Labor's Unemployment system has been crashing on a daily basis due to the onslaught of the pandemic and everyone applying.  Especially with the new rules saying gig workers (e.g., 1009 instead of W2) can qualify.  A week ago, they put out a state wide bulletin looking for experienced COBOL programmers to fix/modify the system.  I wonder how many takers they got? 

[bman]

FOTRAN and COBOL? I'd consider coming out of retirement if I can use punch cards. Not that my career as a programmer lasted that long before I got stuck in operations.

[C855B]

... looking for experienced COBOL programmers to fix/modify the system.  I wonder how many takers they got? 

Heh. I made three attempts to take a COBOL class, and withdrew from each one after two weeks. At the time I was adept at assembler, FORTRAN and APL, and found COBOL to be mind-numbingly tedious especially in the keypunch era (and I had a part-time job as a keypunch operator!). COBOL is not difficult at all, just good programming practices made it "wordy" and it took 10X more effort to get to the same result as the scientific languages. But it's what they taught in old-fashioned business-oriented "data processing" curricula, so things like governmental applications were "business" systems. We're just re-experiencing the old mainframe vs. minicomputer thing, this time it's emerging like zombies to eat our brains.

Oh, I failed to mention that many of my peers who also didn't make the procedural->OOP jump went into database admin and SQL.

[johnb]

I haven't driven a Model T in 20+ years, I  mixed up the clutch pedal with the hand throttle...

[seusscaboose]

Greenfield Village

[nkalanaga]

OK, that makes sense.  So they had brake, clutch, and reverse(shift) pedals, and a hand throttle?  Then, after a few years, the reverse went to a hand control, and the throttle to a foot pedal.  I bet that confused a lot of early drivers!