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I'm disappointed you didn't manage to work in a reference to:
"Revved up like a deuce, Another runner in the night"
"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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Wow. And to think I paid my ophthalmologist a crap-load of money to do that with my left eye in a procedure called Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty, which uses a yellow laser to reactivate dormant cells in the eye which help moderate fluid balance. It's a treatment for glaucoma.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Fortunately, Microsoft is working on AR goggles for people who have been blinded by lasers shooting into their eyes.
Unfortunately, hololens 2 is also laser projection to the eyeballs tech. Just an earlier and bulkier implementation.
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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New study challenges the idea that hunting for an individual star developer will boost productivity. "It's a long way to the top"
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OK, got it.
Lemme just change the want ad to "Script kiddies needed".
You hire the best programmers you can find. End of pointless discussion. Give back the money that was wasted on the "study".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You hire the best programmers you can find. End of pointless discussion.
It is hard enough to define "best"; but I would not blame people for expecting more results if they have to pay more.
Given the mythical man-month, if you switch out an average programmer for a better one, will not mean cutting your development-time in half.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That's true enough, but you can normally spot whether or not a candidate has got a brain and enough experience to back it up (and will be willing to spend some time with his bum in his seat doing the work).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Brain and experience is not everything. I got those.
I'm also rather slow in thinking and have the attention span of a goldfish right now. Also knew a rockstar-developer that split the team into two camps, hindering all progress. Would outcode three of us, but in a team of seven, that's a bad strategy. Adding a 10x-dev is not always a net to the project; sometimes you're better of with willing mules.
Mark_Wallace wrote: (and will be willing to spend some time with his bum in his seat doing the work).
That sounds like "working on it in their spare time". I know no professional outside of IT that's crazy enough to do so. No plumber, no cleaner, car-mechanic. Lawyers and doctors even bill in minutes 
I don't do unpaid overtime anymore; done it long enough, because all that is good for the company benefits all employees. Nowadays I'd point to the contract; that's the deal, that's the hours sold against the agreed payment.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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In my experience it will, but you won't notice for years when you aren't fixing old code.
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As I get older I realise that I am only a 9X developer, I didn't manage to get that last 'X'.  
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: I didn't manage to get that last 'X'
Don't worry. She's out there somewhere.
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.
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No.... All my X's are dead!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Owners of Philips Hue smart bulbs are being urged to check its firmware, after the publication of a vulnerability in how the accessories communicate with each other over Zigbee could allow an attacker to gain control over the whole home network. I knew those bulbs weren't a bright idea
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There is an advantage to using these smart bulbs, though: if you've got too much money in the bank, they'll get rid of a chunk of it for you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, so now I *finally* understand the purpose of these. I've stared at the display in the hardware store, but just couldn't understand them (until now). Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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A bug in the Windows 10 Search is causing blank results to be shown in both the Start Menu and in File Explorer. This is making it impossible to search for and launch an application from the Start Menu. How is Redmond doing lately? Search me.
Because you can't search them.
I'll get my coat.
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In other news, none of the third-party search tools are broken, and the vast majority of them work better, anyway.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah, but this part is the part that hurts most(only):
Quote: This is making it impossible to search for and launch an application from the Start Menu.
The bug isn't affecting me (I seem to be immune to all these flubs for some reason), but I can see this as being a hassle for people that don't have their desktop/task bar loaded with apps they need.
TTFN - Kent
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Which one would you recommend? I have FileLocator Lite. I would really like to have a service that maintained a SQL database and then name search queries would be near instantaneous.
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I have Everything[^] installed. It's lightweight (no frills at all), and pretty damned quick.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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“We can sew pouches, create tubes, valves and perforated membranes” Now you can knit yourself a humanneck sweater?
Not really on topic, I was just really interested.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was just really interested.
Have you considered therapy? 
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I did - they ran away, screaming.
TTFN - Kent
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