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I'll be very interested to go through it once you get it straitened out as I use Serial comm. a lot with my embedded stuff.
Nice start!
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Still messing trying to get the code blocks sorted and get the demo project uploaded but am getting odd errors...
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Yeah the hamsters getting grouchy every now and agin.
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It is a nice start, and I'll surely take a look at it once everything is straightened out - It's an interesting topic.
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Ahh nuts it looks as if I am being grabbed to do something else and why does the web upload not letting me alter things...
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glennPattonWork wrote: and couldn't find the button for uploading my source code as a project to be downloaded as a zip file.
Assuming your not joking, just add the zip file (you can drag & drop it on the little square next to the article window.) The submission wizard detects it as a zip and checkbox will appear which you can then check to indicate that you want to use that zip file as the source download, and it'll automatically add the HTML into your article at the top.
Hope that helps!
Marc
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Umm that's what I though but when I do I get:
"Unexpected error during upload. One or more files may not have been uploaded"
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It looks like you are trying to attach a zip file which is greater than 10 MB Size.
Ranjan.D
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Hmmm, I have got a version attached I am not really sure its correct but I think I have it now on the approved release...Don't think its working I will have to have another look!
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Yes, you now have two downloads - I'd edit the text for the "no-exe" one to simply say, "Download Source - No Exe" to make it clear to the reader, then you should be good!
Marc
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My job is in peril of being out-sourced to an off-shore contractor (I'll let you make any assumptions you'd like about what that means).
I'm considering a change in career path because American companies don't want to spend the money for American programmers. They'd rather hire off-shore personnel because they don't have to pay for health care, or unemployment taxes, or any other number of back-flips they're forced to perform by US government.
It's getting harder and harder to be a citizen-developer in this country...
".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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That's accountants for you. Anything to save a dollar a unit...regardless of the cost in the long term.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's getting harder and harder to be a citizen-developer in this country...
So offer to go abroad and manage the team.
You'll live like a king, on a Western salary.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or live like an outcast. Since the "cost of living" out there is different, the bean counters may just "adjust" your salaray to match. It's happened.
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That sucks. I'm sorry to hear it.
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Yeah - accountants run companies - and when faced with £x to outsource and £x+y for in house its an 'easy' decision.
I've also thought about what else I would do, but so far am at a loss to come up with a job that I can get as much enjoyment out of - for a similar wage.
I think the best thing is getting into areas where the software can't be outsourced due to National Security or patent issues for example...
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote: I think the best thing is getting into areas where the software can't be outsourced due to National Security
I'm more likely to refuse to work for the federal government.
".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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The U.S. government hired a Candanian company to put together a large part of Healthcare.gov. Even they don't reliably hire citizens anymore.
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Testing 1 2 ... uh... 7? wrote: The U.S. government hired a Candanian company to put together a large part of
Healthcare.gov
Correction... the U.S. government hired an American branch of a Canadian based company. If you search back in the Lounge, you will see that there are strict requirements placed on personnel at these entities in regards to whom they are allowed to communicate with.
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I'm sorry to hear that. What you need is a security clearance and a job that requires it.
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Not the best news to start the week with..
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's getting harder and harder to be a citizen-developer in this country...
I'd even generalize that to "...harder to be a citizen-decent-wage-earner in this country."
Marc
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Don't be so negative, while it is true that bean counters believe that "out-sourcing" saves money on developers and also believe that developers are an unnecessary expense that can be interchangeable with someone with any title it is also true that companies that outsource still need project managers and architects ... which interestingly enough pay more than developers. Someone has to actually communicate with the outsourced team and it isn't the business people. They don't have time; implementation is someone else's job. (An interesting disease but that is another subject) so they have to hire a doer to make sure the doing get's done.
Unfortunately, your job will consist of documenting work for others to do and documenting when and why they failed and measuring service agreements and such but ... you will make a lot more.
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I thought you worked for the defence industry and that was about as safe as it could get in that context.
They should start offshoring the bean counters instead.
As an interesting twist, I talked to a representative of a consultant company the other day that told me that they have started offshoring to the US. It apparently minimizes misunderstandings and results in higher quality than the classic offshoring countries.
In the same context: While GM moves their factories to Mexico, BMW opens a factory in South Carolina
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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