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2024-08-31 07:22:23 - Paul D. Foy -
SheCodes

I find I am grateful to the She Codes Foundation, where I discovered the setInterval JavaScript function for calling a function repeatedly at a set time interval. This foundation enables women in developing countries to learn how to code basic languages, functionality and webpages. This is surely a useful female skill which is of developing profundity and use. I fully support. I can now look a Columbian or Romanian lady in the eye as an equal. ;).



2024-09-07 12:17:27 - Paul D. Foy -
One finds in software that it is not sufficient just to tell somebody what and what not to do (to write a manual) but you have got to actively go out of your way to guide them in the courses of action that are possible. You have even got to bar courses of action which lead to deleterious outcomes. Software then is a bit of a nanny state of affairs, but it has to be like this because sometimes not following the 'correct' course of action (for whatever reason) can lead to unwanted, even serious consequences. This website is not a plane that could crash and kill people, but it could still crash and cause an inconvenience (not least to me).







2024-09-05 04:14:11 - Paul D. Foy -
The computerisation of life is probably as fundamental phenomena as the industrial revolution of the (predominantly) 19th century. It is a revolution in many related ways which can broadly be categorised as computerisation (computer control), digitisation and the communication of an online (internet) world. As with the industrial revolution, the railroad expansion this is affecting society in some negative ways for various reasons: there is the concentration of influence, control, and knowledge in the entities (organisations, individuals) which are the technical elite, the knowers; with the exclusion of others. These entities have considerable power which could be used poorly, for their benefit only. And as with earlier revolutions the advantages have been scarred by fiduciary matters, by the use of the only understood (by everybody) facet of a good or service - money. But money is not that straightforward - money is an abstraction of labour, the value of peoples' efforts between themselves - a token of exchange. Perhaps thirdly is the breakdown in communications because computers (the online world) are replacing visiting a shop, speaking to someone for assistance etc. and there is a divide between those who can communicate in this way. Yet for those that can communicate in this way, labour is saved (hence money) and as the elite they are controlling the directions of this advance with the exclusion of others. There's a lot of phenomena that have to be harnessed for the good and I am speaking loosely in this comment.







2024-09-02 09:26:49 - Paul D. Foy -
On recollection I have reroofed a shed on my own before - when I lived in Dursley, Glos. , UK.







2024-08-31 17:17:26 - Paul D. Foy -
This afternoon me and my mother reroofed a shed at the allotment. I've probably done this job once before, helping my father when I was younger. My mother has probably helped my father do it before. I have a spinal injury so I wasn't able to get on one of the standing structures to access the roof but I could use one of them. So we probably did 50% each of the job. I had no problems putting the tar on hitting the felt tacks down. We did a good job. My mother struggled. My mother is an intelligent lady. It's not just that she is older (she is actually more physically capable than me in many regards), she didn't know how to do things, the labour saving shortcuts, the techniques. So she ended up caked in bitumen, nails dirty, and generally flustered. I was fine, clean and not flustered. Is this the same as coding for a woman, is this a man's job? What job is a woman's job may I ask? Is asking a man for a date a woman's job, or does a man do that as well. What does a woman do?.







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