I reported this to ZipRecruiter months ago. When you use Agile, off-shore and “priced right” labor, one cannot expect valid software or anything that was even partially tested. Agile is just hacking on the fly after all. To start with, C++ is one of the most popular embedded systems programming languages ever. It’s predecessor, C, is the “portable assembly language” used to write numerous operating systems, including Linux. Anyone who went to college for an … ZipRecruiter Duth SuckethRead more
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FDA Must Ban Agile and Mandate Static Source Analysis
Yes, we have complete whack job in charge of HHS, and the FDA is lead by an anti-vax nutter, but, they could still do something that would greatly benefit mankind. They could ban the use of Agile in the medical device and software industry. They could also mandate full static source analysis for all medical device code. This means from the UI all the way down to the OS, not just a tiny portion underneath … FDA Must Ban Agile and Mandate Static Source AnalysisRead more
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Changing Default Compiler on OpenSuSE
Every Linux distro seems to include a default compiler that is horribly out of date. Many times this is because academics on standards committees don’t have a clue about the real world. In particular how academics decided without seeking real industry input to force C/C++ compilers to store all integers as 2’s complement. Obviously they’ve never done device interface programming or worked on a Unisys mainframe. Yes, I’ve written about academics and their butchering of … Changing Default Compiler on OpenSuSERead more
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RedDiamond 3.6.4 Released
A new release of RedDiamond, version 3.6.4, has been released. You can find AppImage, RPM, and Debian packages here. For those of you unfamiliar with this OpenSource project, it really started off as part of the How Far We’ve Come series. These dovetailed into the CopperSpice Experiments series. Having come up on real operating systems with editors like EDT, I have always been annoyed at how futile most PC based programming editors are. They pack … RedDiamond 3.6.4 ReleasedRead more
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C++ — Never Do’s
No, Never Do isn’t a new loop type though it can be what happens when you ASS-U-ME a default value for a loop variable. These are some things you should never do in your code. I’ve spent nearly 40 years in IT now. For the past decade I’ve been working in the medical device realm. Prior to that I wrote great big boring systems for great big companies. This be what you don’t do in … C++ — Never Do’sRead more