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Exactly why I don't have any of the above.
Now I've got to worry about blocking keyholes and windows against lasers ... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Visual Studio 2022 seeks to greatly improve your overall development experience, and we’re moving forward with that journey in improving VS extension writing and usage today! I'll tip my hat to the new extension model...
Caution: Article contains a high volume of exclamation marks!
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Is it only me? Or did someone from marketing take over the management of VS Team?
I fear they are trying to make it soooo cool and extensible, that will end breaking one of the few really, really good products they have.
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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A look at all the different ways to build for desktop today. Choose your life partner wisely. A roadmap for the lost
Either before, or after. Your choice.
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And then there are things that actually work: Win32 API, MFC, Qt, Tk, GTK, ...
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When it comes to remote work, security is often the last thing on the priority list. The other 9% were doing it anyway
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When it comes to remote work? Hah...
Security has been dropped down to the bottom of the list in most business, no matter in which aspect.
First when a company gets hit (and I mean hit hard) there is maybe a change of mind.
M.D.V.
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Researchers describe how they applied rheology to the seemingly quaint purpose of improving the quality of a cup of black tea. Because not everything is solved via coffee
Sometimes you just need a cuppa
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because not everything is solved via coffee
Of course not... we do have bacon too 
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Google on Wednesday ramped up cloud collaboration tools for businesses, expecting "hybrid" work routines to remain even after the pandemic has ended. So we'll be powered by both electricity and gas?
The addition of electricity to my office will definitely help the ... ambiance.
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Visual Studio Code is now using machine learning to detect what programming language is being used in a pasted-in file and then automatically set the appropriate mode. Good luck with this one: for(i=0;i
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I suppose they have been inspired by the paste assistant in CP
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LG says it’s developed a new material that can create displays with “a surface as hard as glass and folding parts as flexible as plastic.” Is that a folding phone in your pocket, or do you just have too much disposable income?
I guess that's more of an "and" question.
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If I wanted such a big display I would buy a tablet...
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Technical debt impacts the whole company, but it especially affects engineers as more tech debt means more bugs, performance issues, downtime, slow delivery, lack of predictability in sprints, and therefore less time to work on new exciting projects. Declare technical bankruptcy?
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I love technical debt. No employees want to work on "old stuff". Meanwhile, I'm paying off my mortgage. 
Technical debt is a buzzword that I believe has no real meaning.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Technical debt is a buzzword that I believe has no real meaning.
I think you're correct.
It seems to me that what people increasingly call "technical debt" is just... code. The stuff you wrote yesterday. You know, the stuff that actually sells licences, seats, whatever.
There is far too great a trend to declare everything over a certain (ever-shortening) age as "legacy" and pretend that one should just start again from scratch. No. This is a lazy and, frankly, incompetent approach. Sure, I accept there does come a point when starting afresh makes sense but it should never be a common choice. The cries of "legacy" are becoming too common to be realistic or sane.
Coding is about maintenance, not just the new and shiny.
Yes, I know that the spotlight and fame tends to get focussed on the new and shiny, i.e. on the re-invention of problems already solved with "legacy" code, and on those who work on the new and shiny, but this does not make maintenance any less important, any less necessary, or any less valid.
Everyone wants to be a new and shiny superstar. This is understandable perhaps. But it doesn't mean that wasting money on starting afresh every year or whatever is justified, sane or sensible.
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For us, technical debt is code that (appears to) works fine, but that everyone recognizes could use a rethink/re-implementation without changing the result. We have a number of things that are technical debt. Some are (much) more involved than others, and most of them are in the back-end. The two most annoying to me are:
0) For instance, we have a table that has over 600 columns, and that requires a crapload of dynamic sql to access. This could easily be stored in an unpivoted fashion and eliminate the dynamic sql altogether, yes still provide the same data that was expected.
1) Another technical debt item is our javascript. Instead of using a single function to create a grid that accepts an "options" parameter, we have about 30 different functions that create their own grids, each in a wildly imaginative way. We could significantly reduce the code footprint if we used one grid function to rule them all.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: We could significantly reduce the code footprint if we used one grid function to rule them all.
Obligatory XKCD[^].
Between devs who don't know that it exists, and devs who need an option that it doesn't support but are afraid to modify it, 18 months after creating the OGFTRTA function you'll be back to at least 31 grid functions.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If code that uses the grid function is well documented to indicate the existence of the function, you shouldn't have that problem. When beginning work on an established product, most of us look through the code to see how something was done and imitate that methodology as closely as possible, and chances are pretty good that you'll notice the comment about the existing grid function.
Since you know all of the properties of the grid ahead of time, the grid function can be written in such a way as to support all of its potential properties, and handle the absence of associated properties in the options object (default functionality), making the function robust and reasonably future-proof. That way, the options object only has to be initialized with properties that matter to its current implementation. It ain't hard to do or conceptualize.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: It ain't hard to do or conceptualize.
Famous last words! Have you visited QA recently? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This is all fine and well, but the underlying assumption is that it needs to change because it's nasty. Are you trying to add functionality to this mass of porridge? If so, then I grant the technical debt. But so many times, when people say technical debt what they really mean is old code, old products, etc.
Even if the products are still producing revenue.
One place I worked at had developed a system that interfaced with all 50 states driver databases. Insurance companies would submit batches of customer names (think hundreds of thousands at a time). The system would sort the requests by company, state - send them to the DMVs and then parse the responses back. It was written on a "legacy" system (VAX, OpenVMS, mostly C code). Because it was not fancy, and it wasn't using "new technology", etc they were actually going to chunk it.
I had an Ernest conversation with the VP telling him if that was the company's direction, I'd purchase the system in a heartbeat. And I was serious.
The system sits in a corner and still makes the company 40 million cash a year.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I see technical debt as being existing code that works (reasonably bug-free), but in the interest of ease of future maintenance, or to support upcoming features, should be refactored. We have a poorly designed database back-end that has been overcome by events, and it could really use a good general refactoring.
One instance of tech debt for us was that we made infrastructure changes in our back-end almost two years ago that were intended to support a new feature that we finished started at the beginning of August, and finished last week. I had to implement the back-end stuff without visibly changing the current functionality. We're all glad that I did that infrastructure stuff back then. Otherwise, we'd still be working on the new feature.
The product I work on is a "living" app where requirements change on a weekly basis. Maintainability is the key, and right now, it's not very maintainable. I was working to change that, but well, you know - DoD. I would simply add comments to stored procs when I had to go look at them for some reason, but now I can't do that because of our scrum/agile rules. It's maddening to have to work with code that's 14 years old that has almost no comments, and there's simply no way you can commit the intent of hundreds of stored procs to memory. You MUST have comments in the code.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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realJSOP wrote: I would simply add comments to stored procs when I had to go look at them for some reason, but now I can't do that because of our scrum/agile rules. It's maddening...
 Maddening? Your rules need to be double-tapped.
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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