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Many of today’s most well-known programming languages are old enough to vote. 10: Do work 20: IF StillWorking() GOTO 10
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ReadWrite wrote: many features have been fixed
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Because those peoples are still working on it and they never died 
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Drinking is supposed to make people look better...can it also make markup languages look more like live code?
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You maybe drunk a bit too much...but HTML IS NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE!!! Never was...Never will be...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It's simply not possible to be a good developer and a good project manager simultaneously. It's true: wearing two hats at the same time looks silly
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A sufficiently empowered and motivated team shouldn't need a project manager - indeed perhaps having a project manager is (like wearing a sling) a sign that you are not entirely healthy?
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That's an interesting notion. I think I agree for smaller groups (maybe up to about a dozen?). But for larger groups, or interconnected teams, there is a need for some external coordinator, me thinks.
TTFN - Kent
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Large teams need managers - to deal with the inter-department side of things and the company admin - but I don't think specifically "project" managers.
With the right tools and the attitude to show everything (online Kanban boards, burn-down charts and test coverage and results) and strong scrum masters you should be fine. With good collaborative software this can be achieved.
(And it is financially worth doing - I think my experience is 1-7 project managers to project workers is the usual ratio)
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The BBC has today introduced a range of computing and coding-related shows, games and competitions for kids designed to help improve their understanding and enjoyment of the subjects. Kids these days! Spoiled! Back in my day all we had was Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant
Mind you, Mr. Dressup was way cool, but Casey was a psycho.
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Microsoft has increased the OneDrive file size upload limit from 2GB to an unspecified new maximum, a new report suggests today. People are posting files larger than 2GB in "the Cloud"? What are they, PowerPoint?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What are they, PowerPoint?
Starting from which version, can you embed virtual machines in PowerPoint?
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Judging from the size of the last few I was sent, I'd say at least 2010. Then again, I have some idi... clients who send me screenshots in PowerPoint, because "they know how to email powerpoint files, but not graphics."
TTFN - Kent
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This is a new low for me. Microsoft have attempted to part of the concept of immutability. Hopefully they will be derailed by prior art, but if not this has worrying implications for the programming language community - if Patents can be obtained on PL ideas, it will prevent new languages evolving the ideas in existing languages.
Lambda the Ultimate[^] has a discussion and links.
I for one will be writing to Microsoft to let them know my feelings on this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All the patent system is wrong - people lack of any knowledge approve applications if fee payed and time passed. And of course companies with enough money make use of it - Microsoft joined the train it seems...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. Oh, no. Whatever can we use as a substitute?
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FTFY...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Communicator was nice, but Live Messenger was awful. We use Jabber[^] @ work.
/ravi
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Lync at work.
Really don't use anything outside of there...
Oh, wait!!! Text messages...
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I liked Windows Live Messenger...they moved all our accounts to Skype...now we never use it.
It was 'NetMeeting' before it was Messenger.
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Hangout is what we use. Text message and for Video conferences
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I have recently found myself using IRC lately... kind of like bell-bottoms in a way
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Henry Smith, a software engineer from Bristol, has been working on a game called — wait for it, 1980s movie fans — "Global Thermonuclear War." He was drawing concepts on a whiteboard, which proved to be unfortunate, since someone mistook it for a plan to nuke Washington, D.C. "Shall we play a game?"
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I'm surprised they haven't done a remake of that movie yet...probably offends the political correct...then again, they did a remake of 'Red Dawn'.
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I'd definitely appreciate an updated version of that. There is definitely newish direction you could go to with current hacker/cracker culture.
I avoided the remake of Red Dawn on the other hand. How could you improve on the greatest movie ever in the history of cinema? (WOLVERINES!)
TTFN - Kent
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