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I think you missed the point. I'm not ready for any large change. No one is. What I have done is get myself into a position where I can do what I want to do before there is a change and hold out as long as possible. It's a dampening effect, a parachute. I'll be in the same shit as everyone else, just later.

I had something I wrote in the 90s I wasn't proud of that was a word macro that read Excel sheets for a list of instructions and used those to compose documents and print them. I feel sick thinking about it.

I have a lot of experience, in the real world, which is somewhat less ideal than "just use Qt - it's a breeze".

How do you manage a 15 million LOC desktop app originating from the late 90s which contains chunks of win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers all sorts?

Aye you fuck off and work somewhere else that's what you do. Which is why it's still written in win32 native, ATL, MFC, custom GDI+ wrappers.

They paid two companies to come in and rewrite it, first in Qt which was a complete failure. Then in Electron etc, which was also a failure.

Mostly just locking fields. I don’t do anything procedural. It’s usually calculators, stats and modelling stuff.

Yeah. I want IP67 and have to replace my battery every 2 years.

I don’t mind taking it to Apple for that. It’s less often than my car went back to the dealer for service. And my dealer wouldn’t give me a new car if they fuck up my old one in the process (Apple did this when they broke mine during a battery swap).

Totally agree with this.

I’ll get shot for this one but I write most of my GUIs in Excel these days.

The painful bit is C++. I did a fair bit of that going back to MFC. Knocking stuff out in C# with WPF and WinForms was quite nice in comparison. I haven’t found anything nicer.

I can grow vegetables and fix my own car. However I’ll be dead before I have to rely on either of those.

My hedge is to simply be less fucked than the person with no assets and huge debts. The world doesn’t go to shit with a boom but a slow whimper.

It’s not if it leverages the risk.

I concur. Any time I see tangles of regexes and if statements, it's going to be full of holes. I spent several months replacing messes like this with proper parsers and you'd be surprised at how many fuck ups fell out of the mess.

That's fine until there is political or financial instability across the world which is increasing.

Well I’ve pretty much pulled it out of everything and bought a house (no mortgage yay) but I rode NVidia, BAE Systems with a safe position held on an actively managed ETF.

I’ve got a huge pension lined up so I’m going to go on holiday a lot basically. I get a lump sum early payment of that soon so I can invest that somewhere more productive.

I think you are crazy putting money into passive index funds.

As for the investors, knowing when to pull out is when they start pushing articles like this. They’re already out and want your capital to go where they are going next.

The barista doesn’t want homeless people in the toilet because inevitably crack paraphernalia goes in there too.

Better to have shit on the street than crack paraphernalia in your business toilet.

As a data point, yesterday I was walking watching two guys smoking crack outside Costa in Covent Garden, London.

Alas it works to the lowest common denominator. A better solution would be government investment in mental health and housing but most of the world works on “fuck you I’ve got mine”

There were no applications that couldn’t be solved cheaper an easier using some other method.