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I hope they really use the proper dark mode... a bit more towards brown instead of black could be interpreted as the sh1tty mode  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Given the importance of documentation to making software usable, should documentarians earn a bigger paycheck than developers? And certainly blurb writers!
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Documentation doesn't make software usable. Most of the documentation I write is "workaround this", "workaround that."  OK, I suppose that does make it more usable.
But if I had my druthers, yes, they should get paid more. Then I could write about people's crappy software rather than debug it.
Sorry, I'm in a "mood" today. I haven't seen the sun in weeks, except sporadically, the "creek" by my house is a raging river that could solve per minute the world's water shortage, and I'm generally frustrated with work.
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Not in my opinion. If someone is good at both, where will their marginal revenue product be greater?
But hey, people with these kinds of opinions should be allowed to try them out--with their own money, or that of someone they can manage to convince. If all spending was done that way, it would be a vast improvement.
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The program crashed, but the documentation was superb.
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I’d say that was Windows, but… 
TTFN - Kent
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"but..."
You'd be telling porkie pies. I get receipts some days at the checkouts that have more useful info written on em by their producers.
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Hey, it warned you about the crash. What more do you want?
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Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Just in case you needed to read that somewhere
Really?
REALLY?
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Wow, what a novel concept. Let's see how many managers pick up on that. 
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All we need to do is to come up with a way to turn quality into a numeric metric they can use that won't immediately be gamed by someone to code himself a minivan.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Did someone say Cobra Effect?! 
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Even this platitude is occasionally wrong. If a product is disruptive, getting it to market as soon as possible can be more important, with the next release focusing more on quality.
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Different software development teams do things quite differently. Even within a single company, many of the variables can vary from team to team. What? How? Who? WTE? Really? WHY???? (and a few others)
Oh wait, that's the 20 questions a software engineer WILL ask when joining a new team.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What? How? Who? WTE? Really? WHY???? (and a few others)
Oh wait, that's the 20 questions a software engineer WILL ask when joining a new team.
So good 
Nothing to add 
M.D.V.
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 A good article.
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Engineers at UC Riverside have unveiled an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. That wasn't me 'tooting', that was the robot
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The more we can reduce waste in software development, the better off everyone will be. Always put variables in the blue bin after you're done with them (after rinsing, of course)
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Ummm....when I look at time wasted, it comes down pretty much to one thing: understanding the drivel that the other developer wrote, didn't comment (with useful comments) and realizing the whole stinking pile needs to be rewritten.
That's usually the case on the back-end. On the front-end, I would add, understanding why some package was used and how its being used, only to discover that it's being used for some one-off function that could have been implemented in a couple lines of JavaScript, or worse, because someone thought it was a good idea and they just multiplied the complexity of the project 100-fold completely unnecessarily. NgRx[^] comes to mind.
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While we are excited for the next generation of Windows with Windows 11, we are also focused on supporting the more than 1.3 billion monthly active devices on Windows 10. The last version of the last OS?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The last version of the last OS?
But don't worry... it won't contain the last icons.
M.D.V.
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As this Windows 10 release is targeted for the second half of 2021, Home and Pro editions of version 21H2 will receive 18 months of servicing, and Enterprise and Education editions will have 30 months of servicing. In addition, we will also launch the next version of the Windows 10 Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) based on version 21H2 at the same time, and it will have five years of servicing as announced in February.
So the upcoming LTSC will be in until sometime around October 2026; give or take what month it's actually released in.
While Windows 11 marks an exciting milestone for the future of Windows, we will continue to support Windows 10 through October 14, 2025.
Wait a minute... 
On second thought it's no more of a cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) than anything else in their W11 messaging so far. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I love embedded IoT development and when a colleague asked if I’d be interested in working on cloud-enabling an Altair 8800 emulator running on Azure Sphere then I seized the opportunity. Just in case you have an old one lying around
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I kind of drooled when it came out but ultimately decided it would be too much of a pain. I waited and eventually bought an Apple ][ Plus.
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That was a great choice for a first machine! (I had a clone, but same difference)
TTFN - Kent
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