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Frances Buontempo

@fbuontempo.bsky.social

Coder (mostly C++ and Python) and author

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Frances Buontempo@fbuontempo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lieven De Cock is giving free training on "Inside C++ Coroutines on July" 18th. It promises to be a deep dive into how C++ coroutines work, covering coroutine frames, promise types, awaiters, compiler transformations, and C++23's std::generator. See: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inside-c-c... #Cpp

Inside C++ Coroutines: How They Really Work

Learn how coroutine frames, promise types, awaiters, and compiler transformations work together in modern C++.

eventbrite.co.uk

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine if employers were willing to spend this kind of money upskilling their employees or paying for dev tools? Or stop doing open plan offices? The only time they want to invest in dev «productivity» is when they think they can get rid of us all together.

Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 3mo ago

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs. https://bit.ly/4vdizCZ

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 4mo ago

PREDICTION: There will be a lot of media bullshit today about a Reform UK landslide sweeping the UK. When the dust settled it will be found that RUK and the Greens gained roughly equal votes (from Tories/Labour) in England, and in the Scottish Parliament the SNP and Scottish Greens mopped up.

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ I co-own a small software consultancy with only seniors. Tiny right now, since I’m not in a health state where we can hire. But I’ve been doing this for a while, so let’s talk about the financial model of junior software consultants (Americans often call them contractors).

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’ve had this tech for years now. If it was what they claim, shouldn’t the whole software space be upended? Is it possible that maybe this isn’t the productivity revolution we’ve been promised? Maybe it’s mostly just pushing up energy prices, polluting ground water and destroying the climate?

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When I was interviewing (UK) computer programmers for my book Programmed Inequality one of the most striking anecdotes was from Ann Sayce, who talked about her frustration when, even though she was making good money, she was simply “laughed at” when she tried to get a mortgage for a home as a woman.

From page 137 of Programmed Inequality: “In addition to being exciting, computer jobs also often came with above-average salaries. Sayce, who supplemented her hours as an operator with a part-time job doing accounting and another job dealing antiques in her spare time, described herself as very "cash rich" at the time. However, even with her high wages she could not buy a home. Sayce attempted to get a mortgage but was turned away despite meeting the financial qualifications, because she did not have a male relative to cosign. "Men earning eight to twelve pounds a week could get a 90 percent mortgage at the time," she recalled ruefully, yet her request for a modest loan prompted "a spotty eighteen-year-old" bank employee to "laugh in [her] face." With money to spare but unable to finance a home, one lunch hour she instead decided to splurge on a car: "I told the salesman that I wanted a car with a radio, and he sold me the longest car that they had at the time!"*91 Despite the many advantages Gillespie and Sayce enjoyed, the diffuse effects of discriminationThe cover of the book programmed in equality: how Britain discarded women technologists and lost such in computing by Mar Hicks. Shows a woman named Cathy Gillespie working on an IBM mainframe computer in a machine room.
Daniel Nikpayuk@nikpayuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Any software companies wanna hire me for 4000$ CAD a month for a 6 month trial period? They say you should know your worth, but monetarily I'm worth nothing if I'm homeless. I definitely need a job, and soon.