Posts by sabroni 4141 publicly visible posts • joined 11 May 2007
It's also the fact that well paid work is tricky to find so anyone with a little nous now gets into software development. And if you've only got a little nous then all you care about is that the list of things on your CV matches the list of things on the next job spec.
It used to be that the approach was important, understanding patterns and knowing when to apply them. Finding out how much a candidate knows about development is a lot trickier than checking a list though....
Open the debugger pane and watch the network tab. You'll often see much more useful messages there.
While the "something went wrong" message is useless there's no point in showing technical error messages to most users. A way of getting the technical error from the user error page would be helpful though.
I don't get this. You should need admin rights to install stuff on Windows but once a game is installed why do you need admin? You should need write permissions to a save file folder in your user directory and read and execute on the game files.
Valve have been doing this for ages, they should have worked out what permissions are needed when by now. Are they actually Linux Devs slumming it on Windows and refusing to do things the Windows way or just incompetent?
(This is why i game on console. I have 0 time for anything other than gaming on my gaming machines!)
How is that better than having a bevelled sensor on the back? You know, round where your fingers are where you hold a phone.
I can see a few disadvantage: not obvious where the sensor is, you have to block the screen to use it and more grease on the screen (you have to provide more of your finger to get a print than you do to tap a button).
So, what's the point of the sensor on the front then? I mean, I understand that it was an interesting challenge, but that doesn't make it a useful feature....
Google have won this one. There may be some who'd pay for the chance to gamble on becoming more popular than Google but I can't imagine there are many that would do a better job of integrating with Android.
And if they do Google can keep changing things so google search works and the third parties don't. It's how they managed to kill the rendering engine in Edge.
Stuart, you work with Windows all the time.
This thread is for people who use Linux, don't understand Windows, always approach Windows as if it's Linux, try and apply Linux fixes to Windows problems and see Windows as a bad Linux implementation.
You using your experience to bang on about the reality of actually working with Windows is just going to upset them.
Please keep it up!
Is it? In my family of 4 I'm the only one who still uses a Windows laptop and that's to run Visual Studio and IIS.
I totally understand the point you're making but it misses the the fact that a Chromebook is a consumer device. A full stack Linux or Windows machine is never going to be as convenient and easy to use as a Chromebook. Though I would never own one the reality is that it's a consumer pc that satisfies most user's needs.
Don't allow your distrust of Google to impede your ability to think objectively about things.
You wouldn't think it was cool if your phone could double it's display area when you wanted to watch something?
I get that no-one is shouting for this. No-one was shouting for smart phones till Apple made the iPhone. Back then you could easily have looked at the iphone, compared it to your Nokia, and quite rightly said "another solution in search of a problem".
That's the thing with inventions, until they're invented people have no idea if they're useful or not.
(And as for "does anyone genuinely want a folding phone", I'd love for clamshells to come back. The motorola Razor I used for a while was awesome!!)
You posted an article about a non-facist being attacked by "antifa", sort of proving my point that you can't target racists with the accuracy that racists target black people.
But maybe, maybe there is genuinely a hard core of people that hate facism so much they're prepared to be facist about it and attack people. The best answer to that is to get rid of bigotry, which surely is a much better plan than getting rid of black people.
When you provide your workforce with hammers and screwdrivers, and the screwdriver users only occasionally fuck up a screw and the hammer users regularly fuck screws up, then your answer isn't "who do you blame, the hammer or the person using the hammer badly" it's "why are you consistently using this tool that evidence shows doesn't produce good results?".
You can say it's not the tools fault all you like but the data shows there aren't enough devs who are competent enough with the tool they've been given to do a good job. Moaning that the tool is perfectly servicable does nothing to help fix the problem. It's just sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la, can't hear you!".
If the system works for me it must work for everyone. If the system doesn't work for everyone then the flaw is in them and not the system because the system worked for me.
Yup, seems water tight to me! The plebs clearly need to learn to be robots.
Because in normal software development we all agree on the industry standards first!
Oh no, sorry, this behaviour is normal throughout the industry and has been for at least thirty years.
You'd have to be pretty blinkered to see this corporate willy waving as anything other than a spat about field names.
So if your Alexa accidentally records me while I'm round your house Amazon will let me browse the recordings stored on your device so I can delete myself?
That can only work if everyone has access to all Alexa recordings. How can I tell where I've been "accidentally" recorded?
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