Posts by BrownishMonstr

Re: Microsoft has declared its 10 app store principles

None of which were published by Microsoft who themselves think the app store is dead.

What's the difference?

Re: One and the same...

There's been many instances where I said "it's likely they'll change their minds on this so we should make the code easy to change". My assumptions were correct, they changed their minds. But I did not anticipate the level of change in the requirements. To the point where unit tests would have to be rewritten extensively, and the code-changes meant existing tests would be broken.

Re: It will still happen

The thing is, a moment of stupidity can hit anybody and that's what they're hoping for. A moment of stupidity.

A few months ago we were warned of a phishing email and it looked legitimate as well. Not sure how they were able to get the signature but they did that very well.

Re: Meanwhile, in other news

Does Apple sell the iPhones at a loss so they can recuperate the losses from the 30% commission?

Depends, doesn't car mean "carriage"?

Re: Weasels

I thought the issue was Apple wanted all subscriptions to go via their payment system, and they don't want you to be able to distribute content through your app, which they otherwise could. Netflix et al being the exception.

So it will be like you offering a service of using any car seat cover, but you have to pay £30 p/mo. Vauxhall says "fuck off, mate. I sell seat covers so you can't. Even so, your customers would have had to pay us and we'll take a cut. You can't tell them to pay you by cheque, mate."

Re: Cause and effect

Actually, Patient Zero is from the future and time-travelled back to 2019 to see what the big fuss is about with some virus everyone in their time treats as our common cold; we are a bunch of pussies, they think.

Little did they know they unleashed the virus onto the rest of us.

Re: After all the appeals

Plus they're dedicated gaming computers, which though you can download some apps, are still used very largely for gaming.

Smartphones on the other hand are dedicated call and messaging computers, but I would confidently say they aren't largely used for those functions. Web browsing, gaming, and various other things are also used on these.

Re: Is that a hedgehog in your pocket?

Ermm, no.

Covid-19 came from a Chinese person who time-travelled from the future, where people are immune to different diseases than us.

True story.

Re: $$$

Except they have a lot of users so you're making registration easier for those users, they have one less thing to remember and don't need to provide the website with all of the required information. The website may be able to get more info than needed.

Six people disagree with you. I suppose you should choose to be a dickhead, unless it's for your benefit; but even then, maybe not.

Re: I wonder if...

I agree, there would be another type of cost for paying, in that the criminals are more likely to do it again.

Imagine if the Government made it illegal to pay the criminals the ransomware fee. I wonder if companies would still pay, or criminals would resort to something else.

Re: Must be election season in India

1337 means LEET, no?

Re: SMTP ddos

How do you know he didn't mean the chap's ethnicity? He could have very well be born in the UK.

Most people refer to ethnicity as "race", and "Indian" would generally refer to people from the Indian sub-continent. So depending on what was meant, "Indian" could refer to the race.

Re: Slackbot is the worst

Our team is using, er, Teams* on the free-tier. We were using the free-tier Slack prior to WFH, however we needed the conferencing abilities that Free-Slack didn't provide (yes, we're freetards). As we are a financial company, BYOD is against company's policy so WFH is new for most of the team, as most don't have a company laptop.

Slack does feel more polished, or equally polished in a different way. But then my perception of Teams might just be having to work via Remote Desktop.

* See what I did there(?). Yes, fuck all, actually.

Re: advantages all backwards

I was going to write a passive-aggressive response, but I shouldn't.

The whole point of the patent is to allow people and businesses to put their ideas into public and give them some protection in doing so.

If the fee was too high for normal people (without the big bucks) to patent ideas it could prevent them from submitting their wonderful ideas.

Arguably, the fee should be reduced (or waived) for people who cannot afford it, or even for everyone. You want people to put their ideas into the public, even if they don't have the expenditure to see it through to production. Big businesses can then buy the patent from the owner, who are able to see it through to production.

Geniuses are just born into rich families, it's just that they have more opportunities to share their ideas.

Re: Testing

Except you receive a bug report of something not working, but you expect it's because the required data doesn't exist in the 3rd party sandbox account, but you still spend hours because you don't want to be wrong.

Re: In summary

Did racism and football-hooliganism come out of religion or Government? (Sure there's a possibility but I imagine it's low).

There's caste-ism in India, which I doubt came neither from religion nor Government, though the latter may exacerbate the situation.

Humans can only have a limited amount of people in their bubblesphere, people they care about. It's human nature to split ourselves into groups and distrust anyone else. There will always be bad actors who will want to deepen the divide for their own gain, whether or not they are members of the Government.

tl;dr:

Humans are shitty animals.

Re: Corporation Tax should be 0%

He implied the smaller businesses will be harder affected than the big ones.

Re: TL;DR:

Err..What?

I don't think the British Government have had a change of heart over Huawei as much as they feel they've been forced to reconsider their option. Especially when it would increase costs and delay the 5G roll-out. Costs might not be too important, but they wouldn't want 5G to be rolled-out late, not when it's the equivalent of waving your big dick to the world in full display.

Re: Just curious

I have the new edge installed and it's very similar to Chrome (obviously). I even managed to drag a tab from Chrome to Edge.

But to answer your question, no I don't use it.

Re: He may have been taught, but Mr. F**ktard didn't learn a thing...

So, nothing short of suicide/death would be a better apology?

Re: Loaded words replaced by euphemisms

Do you have to encourage the application to work better?

The only benefit could be a shorter commute. I don't know if that would offset meetings (easier face-to-face), your desk requirements (will hubs have good desks), and whatever else (free tea/coffee, secure drawers, which I don't lock but trust my colleagues not to rummage through).

Why is that? So the person who learnt the lesson can now take it to another company?

I don't understand why we always want a person's head when it's a single mistake made public. It's warranted sometimes, but not all.

Re: "HR" - there's your problem.

I knew that comment would come, it was something I was thinking about myself whilst writing it. But I was so pissed off with the way some companies think swapping people wouldn't have any effect I just wanted to have a moan.

But I agree, I think even professionals can sometimes feel they can't move jobs.

Re: Clarification

Hm..death matches. There are those black-friday and pandemic fights, however.

Re: Track record

Microsoft has had some great ideas and could have succeeded, but they're fucking indecisive.

The best they can do now is to create another Brand with Microsoft's investment, but keep its identity far away from Microsoft, to the point where most consumers won't know it's Microsoft. In fact, keep MS's hands away from it and let the company fail/succeed by itself. It could be roaring success if done right.

Re: What database was the AI searching?

You would think the police would be just as terrified as another copper could access their details.

After working within an industry, I realise how trustworthy those operating within it are, hint: not very much. You see mistakes and questionable things, and you realise things, things you wouldn't imagine.

Do coppers, having seeing how other officers act, not think it could happen to them. Do they not pay more attention? Or do they look after their own kind? If the last one, that is extremely terrible and I personally would have zero trust in them.

Fire the fuckers that do that.