FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for February 20, 2025

No. Comments aren’t executable once the code is compiled. But if the code is interpreted????

My compooter gots a virus and now it gots a code in its nodes.

Only fair, if you think about it.

I am not too upset with Microsoft’s Operating systems. They work. I do object to their business practices where they force Edge, Bing and ads on us and tell us how we are supposed to do business.

This was the great failing of Windows 8. It was a good operating system, under the hood. However Microsoft told us to throw away the desktop. Everyone will be doing their spreadsheets on a touch screen tablet now.

They also marketed it as an expensive etch-a-sketch for little girls to draw pictures of flowers for their daddies. It was neve taken as a serious OS for business.

It is nice that they add new features, even though people don’t want them, but there really is no reason for them to change the user interface and hide things and move them around “just because.”

The reason people skipped Windows 8 and went straight to 10 was because 10 looked more like 7 which sort of looked like XP.

At my workplace (working for the State) in the early ’90’s, our IT guy (before that was even a term) hated Bill Gates and actually went around the state removing Windows (a new thing) from our new computers that came with it. I think he was forced to stop doing that, but would still come in and make changes to our computers while we were away on jobs. I would come back and be unable to find files since he moved things around. He should have been fired, but he stayed on a long time.

“clever microsoft” is an oxymoron … for anything other than making profits

No, the computers are not “swearing back”. Since people are swearing at their computers because of the software, it’s the users who are swearing back at the computers.

Uncommented source code is the guarantee of job security for the programmer, as long he has a fully documented version stashed away.

Haven’t swore at Sequoia once.

Best thing I bought by Microsoft was a mouse that had a side button that let you enlarge the font of what you were reading on the computer

I once worked for a contractor who assembled computer systems and demonstrated them as part of the process to win a contract. We had a very meticulous person doing testing of a third-party software package that was part of the bid, and they managed to find a particular set of conditions which apparently produced an “impossible” program state, and as part of the diagnostic code the programmer had inserted an error message displayed on the screen which included the “F” word. Due to the thorough step-by-step documentation, we were able to reproduce it for the vendor when they told us that wasn’t possible.

I’ve written a few expletives in my code comments. I had one project that I named the “Freddy Krueger Project” because it was a nightmare.

I swear at my pc on a pretty regular basis so I’m sure it swearing back at me in some pretty creative code…