Posts by Dan 55

Re: Android

It started a bit bad, it got better, now it seems to be slowing down a bit for whatever reason.

Still, add-ons are good and it's not Chrome autologging you into Google's websites and targeted by the Android malware developers.

Where I work there are probably over a hundred hand-tailered slightly different versions of the same 20 year old software for each customer installation. It's a mess and it's becoming unmaintainable.

There's a new platform which is supposed to save everything, however it's Java and it's not high transaction so customers are rejecting it. They probably went with Java because of Java schools producing Java devs by the bucketload. Again, low dev costs and whatever problems come up will be fixed in the future (except they won't).

Agile promotes this, "just do enough now to get it out the door" instead of writing quality code now which can cope with future use cases. Layer on layer, over years, until you're stuck. It's shit.

Re: No vestige of privacy would remain

Nothing Microsoft past Windows 7 under my roof.

Re: QT

It's a going concern, now called The Qt Company.

Re: Instant messaging with E2E seems like a more practical solution.

... and on the same IM network.

Sorry, for some reason I was looking at article 554 instead of article 20. I don't know how that happened.

Well, heroic sacrifice in the face of insurmountable odds has played a great part in Spanish history, why would that stop now? :/

Re: *flicks V's at fate*

Can't they say something that more conveys the urgency of the situation, like "take it off your face now before it explodes"?

Re: Oooh. Italian maintenance!

While South European engineering is generally excellent (both Italian and Spanish produce some really cool stuff), South European maintenance...

Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim?

Re: ?!?!?!?!?!

It might seem expensive but bear in mind it comes in a free cardboard box.

Re: Unsuitable for corporates

No RAM/SSD swap or upgrade ever in five years? You must work in one of those places where they have money to burn.

MacBooks also don't have docks and change ports every refresh which also makes them rather unsuitable.

Re: Labels, labels, labels . .

Those elites must be up to no good, why else would the police be shooting them? They must have done something wrong.

Re: OMG ! Someone has accessed all the details Yahoo has about me ?

I think round about then they changed their profile interface and addresses and other fields were dropped from profile data.

I wonder why that would have been...

There's always going to be some fool who fills it in properly.

Re: Hands up who is still a fan of IoT?

As a curmudgeon, may I be the first to say... I told you so.

Following the infinite monkeys theory it had to happen sometime.

Yes, which is what I thought I was suggesting - instead of wasting effort making a new library when there are already a few around, put that effort into improving an existing one.

I'm obviously not very good with words today. Must be something in the news affecting me.

Re: How can any decent voter

I can only pray that the US doesn't experience the same upswing in racism the UK has since June 23 (*). These guys have guns. Lots of them.

Did you mean the police who will now be busy making America great again? Wouldn't like to be black while living in some* US states at the moment.

*some means most or all.