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Let me ask you a question: How much value do you think your source code has? Enough rope, as they say
If source code isn't valuable, try writing a program without it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: How much value do you think your source code has? Kind of mandatory[^]... again
M.D.V.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Let me ask you a question: How much value do you think your source code has? I didn't know when I wrote my first article. I killed an entire company with my first article; it was on UNDU, before CodeProject. If printed, less than two pages worth.
The company was "ExceptionalMagic"; they sold a package that would give Delphi users the exact file and line of their exception, like VB already did. And I wrote an article, explaining the same, using the map file (a debug file) to map the memory location to a disk-location. It was a pricey product, and I gave the source code away. Along with some explanation on how it worked.
And added a bloody large bug that only a beginner could introduce, causing any app to use it to take minutes to shut down. In Delphi, you don't delete the first item of the list to clear it. If you delete the last item, all oke. But deleting the first item means reallocating the memory and copying the damn list. Took five minutes on our software on shutdown and some stern looks before I realized my mistake.
Dunno how large the company was and dunno what it was worth. I don't wanna know either, I was young and there was code.
..later on, I progressed to a 14.000 euro bug. But that's another story entirely
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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A new development skills report from DevSkiller reveals the most popular components in the .NET/C# tech stack. System.Console.WriteLine()?
Gotta debug your code!
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The new version of CListControl ?
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That must be it!
TTFN - Kent
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Microsoft calls Viva "the first EXP built for the digital era," and it's here to help people have a healthier work life. In-office bartender?
Or for Chris, I guess a sommelier?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft calls Viva "the first EXP built for the digital era," and it's here to help people have a healthier work life. So this is the official excuse for the Office 365 productivity statistics? They need all the data to help us from ourselves helping us to have a healthier work life and a better balance?
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Am I supposed to know what an "EXP" is?
Zeitgeist? Bless you.
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Does it add trailing zero's to your paycheck?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The opening sentence to the article:
Quote: Microsoft Viva is a new platform from Microsoft that aims to improve the employee experience.
There's a better (although maybe not easier) solution: higher better programmers to make the applications to begin with. So far as I can tell, MicroSloth has been affirmatively avoiding this particular pathway.
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"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 seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I like the typo (especially if it was intentional):
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: higher better programmers Since cannabis is legal here, we can have 'higher, better programmers'
TTFN - Kent
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Alas, its just that I've always sucked at spelling and spellcheckers, as we well know, don't help much.
I will add that I had my highest HS grad average and University GPA's when I spent more time with the appropriate "herbal stimulants".
Some places offer nice perks - like free snack food, meals, etc., and so this could be added in with the rest. Good for employee solidarity and labor relations.
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Microsoft has addressed a known issue impacting multiple Windows 10 apps and causing them to forget users' passwords after upgrading devices to certain Windows 10, version 2004 builds. I can't remember if I posted this already
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Quote: Microsoft fixes issue causing Windows 10 apps to forget passwords From now on, they will store it in the restore partition in plain text
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The U.S. Navy's “UFO patents” sound like they've been ripped from a science fiction novel. Good, because I can think of one reality that needs engineering
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When someone names an effect after themselves, it's time to be skeptical. (When nobody but that person sees the effect...)
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Motherboard wrote: The patents all build on each other, but at their core is something Pais called the “Pais Effect.” I'm your huckleberry.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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The Rust systems programming language is still in its infancy, having only released the first stable version of the language in 2015, but that hasn’t stopped it from rising to the top of developer charts. It never sleeps
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Hey, hey, my, my.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Because The Next Cool Thing hasn't happened yet.
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+1 The year is new
TTFN - Kent
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An unusually good article from SD Times, listing quite a few pros and cons. Thanks.
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More than 3.2 billion unique pairs of cleartext emails and passwords have just been leaked on a popular hacking forum, aggregating past leaks from Netflix, LinkedIn, Exploit.in, Bitcoin and more. At least they're not trying to make money off of it?
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