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author: Peter Taylor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 03:04:18 pm
content: Damn flowcharts and damn the horse it rode into town on.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 03:48:01 pm
content: I love flowcharts and used them actively during my working life and even now that I am retired. I don't always start with one. Someties, I just get the job done, then flowchart it to look for a better way.Now, organizational charts written by functionary managers are another story...

author: Peter Taylor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 03:58:54 pm
content: Exactly. Define the logic first in a flowchart, and then implement that logic. This is why I hate them. Because I have realized that a good program starts with good logic, and now I spend most of my time defining logic. This is more productive, but less fun, than writing a program that just goes. It will inevitably come back to bite me on the arse, if I haven't got the logic right in the first place.

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 04:05:21 pm
content: Post-millenials call them 'journey charts' or 'customer journeys' or 'concept pathway journeys' or 'line flow journeys' or anything else that's an 'exciting journey.'The only difference between old and new school is processing is now done in a cloud graphic marked 'order and progression'; the difficult thinking being left to a third party management consultancy from low wage India/Brazil. Journeys have a shed load of emojis and pointing fingers. I could draw you one in a trendy metallic font, but my computer is not an M1 iMac.Me...? I'm so old school that I save my used envelopes, just in case I need to draw some freehand ideas connected by arrows.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 06:50:20 pm
content: AndyBeez is completely wrong on one point. There is no difficult thinking. There is actually no thinking at all. It all sort of just happens because if you employ enough monkeys for the lowest amount one of them will do something approximately right and you can hand it over to the millennial marketing team to sell the shit out of it.On a positive note, being responsible for some of this shit pays good danger moneyEdit: oh you can draw arrows and lines on iPads these days. They also double up as entertainment devices for those really horrifyingly long management bullshit meetings which is the real reason everyone has them.

author: Peter Taylor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:09:21 pm
content: Speaking of iPhones and all things entertaining, if I didn't have NetFlix, I would commit Hara-Kiri, although I am a bit of a coward, I would probably take up a hobby.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:11:51 pm
content: Netflix is pretty good since they removed Star Trek Discovery from it.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:16:17 pm
content: Uh, Netflix producing all those woke films and series? No thanks!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:43:28 pm
content: Nowt wrong with that. Anti-woke is just pro-regressive which I couldn't agree with for a moment.However Star Trek Discovery is written by people who clearly haven't worked out that a starship is going to go rusty if they keep crying like that every two minutes.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:53:14 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on June 24, 2022, 07:43:28 pmOnly if you consider logic and fact regressive versus logic is meaningless and fact is whatever you want it to be.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 24, 2022, 07:55:57 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on June 24, 2022, 07:53:14 pmCode:bd139.c:5614: FATAL parse error