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Managing megadata as a developoer

There's no doubt that development has gone just plain bananas.  I remember writing Fortran code back in highschool (that always threw an exception, but not the point), and having to program some sort of strange two-colored spinning pinwheel in an excel sheet back in college (something about float points, it didn't make a ton of sense to me at the time and I still struggle to see the validity of the assignment...). Point is, once up on a time, anyone could open up a notepad, throw a little "print(hello, world!)" (<- That's Python, btw) together, and be on their way to user-level Devops.

These day programing languages have gone absolutely insane, not to mention there are about 8,000 of them to choose from. And I'm not just talking about big-budget million line MMORPG games that make no sense and aren't actually fun to play at all. No, I'm talking that coding in general has gone just nutso... (click to continue reading)