|
Has a measuring cylinder graduated?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
before graduation they would be gradients?
Message Signature
(Click to edit ->)
|
|
|
|
|
Both women and meniscus this question, looking for a solution.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Don't flask me; I think there are beaker questions to be answered.
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: Has a measuring cylinder graduated?
No, it failed and has to take the glass again.
s
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
|
|
|
|
|
CodeProject sent a marketing email today for ossum which "streamlines development, from idea to release." I thought, "hmm, that sounds interesting." So, I clicked the link and I cannot for the life of me even tell what the software does.
It has a link for "Why ossum?" but that just scrolls down the page to a paragraph of buzzwords. I click "Pricing" and it scrolls down the page to the pricing section. "Got ideas" is a feedback page.
"Resources" does not have much helpful.
I can't find anywhere that shows basic screenshots or videos or even descriptions of what the software even does.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
|
That's typical of modern products. You buy a bunch of buzzwords and then have to sort out the mess when it's dropped in your lap.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
Buzzwords have been very good to me.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
|
|
|
|
|
BillWoodruff wrote: Buzzwords have been very good to me.
Genuine LOL occurred here!!
I almost squirted coffee out my nose!
|
|
|
|
|
I think it's for people who code in spacesuits. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: I think it's for people who code in spacesuits.
I'll guess I'll have to wait to sign-up. My suit is on back-order.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
|
Screenshots? The best software is not visible to the eye; it's working silently in the background.
For that matter, what would a screenshot of .net look like?
|
|
|
|
|
PIEBALDconsult wrote: what would a screenshot of .net look like?
I'm not sure. I've heard they just updated the icons.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
|
|
|
|
|
PIEBALDconsult wrote: what would a screenshot of .net look like?
Screenshot follows...
[-- CLOUD-ORIENTED SOLUTION SOLVES ALL YOUR PROBLEMS!! --]
Customer icon with dialog bubble: "But what about...?"
[-- YES, IT SOLVES THAT TOO! --]
That should clear it all up.
|
|
|
|
|
Thank you thank you thank you!
We're working with them at the moment and this kind of feedback is gold. It's a very common thing where a company or marketing team are totally into what they do and what their product is capable of and, well, kinda forget the rest of the world isn't as obsessed as they are with what they do.
So we remind them: there's lots of options for us developers. Lots. Tell us what problem you're trying to solve, how it helps me, what it does, and skip the buzzword bingo.
More often than not there's a sheepish "ahhh...right. Oops" and they tweak.
Not that any of us would ever be so totally absorbed in what we're doing that we forget the rest of the world can't read our minds and be as excited as we are. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
We are a small team and have just launched ossum to market. Over the next few weeks, you will see a lot of new changes to our website to help explain ossum better to developers like you. The ossum team really appreciates your feedback! In the mean time, we encourage you to sign up for a free trial to see the product for yourself and give us additional feedback to help refine ossum functionality. Thank you.
modified 9-Aug-19 15:00pm.
|
|
|
|
|
A couple of weeks ago I posted about a small program I wrote damn' near 35 years ago, in HP BASIC for the HP75C. As I was stuck with two-character variable names, and a huge a miserable 24K everything had to be shrunk down to the absolute minimum, like encoding polynomial arguments as ASCII characters because a byte takes less than an integer.
Of course, limited space precluded any documentation. (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
Some of the old stuff was a bit esoteric, maths-wise, so I faced a problem with the rewrite ...
until ...
in an old folder in my office bookshelf ...
on a piece of yellowing squared paper ...
I FOUND THE COMPLETE VARIABLE LIST WITH NOTES ON WHAT THEY WERE FOR! 
![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) Beers all round!
|
|
|
|
|
Now scan it in and post it to the cloud so it's never lost again ...
(yeah right)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
Doing better than that - I have scanned and OCRed the code listing, and am replacing the old one or two characters names with full meaningful names, and exceptionally verbose one at that. Then I shall write full documentation for each step, and finally fully realize what a colossal genius I was back then!   
So far I have been extending the maths to provide greater accuracy with a gazillion polynomial arguments (20K integers actually), so not worried about the structure at this stage. That, now, will be a lot simpler - I hope!
|
|
|
|
|
i remember your post. congratulations. what a great find!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks! I must say, I am grinning from ear to ear at the moment!
|
|
|
|
|
Now you know what HP stands for: Happy Person !
|
|
|
|
|
Yes!
Nice one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
|
|
|
|
|
So I'm working on this SOAP service, which needs to have a sort of two-layered security (according to specs).
The first is basic authentication, which is, of course, a well known protocol (which I had to implement myself because Azure App Services doesn't support this because it checks the (on-premise) AD by default).
The second is on message level, each request has an authentication token in the form of [username][divider][password].
Seems overkill, but alright.
Except that the username and password for the basic authentication are hard-coded! 
It seems I can set the password in the third party application (although that's not possible/allowed according to the specs), but the username is definitely hard-coded in the application
If the username is hard-coded, but the password isn't, all I can do is check if the supplied password matches any passwords in the database* and then check if the token in the message belongs to that password*.
It's all rather clunky
So basically it's just authentication on message level with extra steps 
* Hashed, of course!
|
|
|
|
|
and you're sending passwords out over basic auth with every message. i mean, i'm sure its over SSL but still.
That seems less secure than simply sending an auth token.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
