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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by jon-wood on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:42AM (#48730410)
I dropped out of college (the UK version, I guess equivalent to senior high school in the US) shortly after discovering that the final assessment of my Computing project would be performed by the examiner reading a printed version of the source code, without ever executing it, because the exam board were so scared of examiners computers being destroyed.
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by mghackerlady on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:43AM (#48732667)
When was this? If this was before virtualisation was common I can maybe understand that but any time in the last 20 years is pretty dumb and the last 10 so braindead I question if they would've been able to judge things properly
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by jon-wood on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:25AM (#48733160)
Oh this was in 2000, when virtualisation was only just becoming accessible so I can get of get the justification. It still made the entire exercise in writing some software feel pointless when I knew it would never get executed by anyone but myself.
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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by L_226 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:00AM (#48733678)
Reminds me of Lord Vetinari from Discworld, reading sheet music instead of listening to adulterated performances by fat sweaty men squeezing the music through some tubes.

Executing the code in your head removed from the nuances of hardware, CPU architecture and compiler versions seems like a virtuous pursuit (?)

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by zbentley on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:09PM (#48734758)
> Executing the code in your head removed from the nuances of hardware, CPU architecture and compiler versions seems like a virtuous pursuit

…and that’s how we got Java :p

And stuff like Pascal, too, so it’s not all bad.

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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:21AM (#48748356)
You haven’t lived life until you’ve sat a Data Structures and Algorithms exam having to write all coding solutions with paper and pen
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