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"Terminally ill" is when I buy hardware that goes on clearance sale.
This explains this phone, my Windows RT tablet, my Blackberry Playbook tablet, and my Zune.
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Software Engineer (Nerdious Geekius)
The elusive Software Engineer is a nocturnal creature, rarely found at their desks before 10 or 11 in the morning, but often staying late into the night. They dislike being interrupted while at work, and is theorized that their penchant for twilight hours is an evolutionary adaptation to reduced breaks in their trance-like state of coding.
Not surprisingly, Software Engineers are solitary creatures, except for occasional gatherings called "code reviews." In these gatherings, engineers gently pace around a clearing, sizing up each other's work. Although occasional battles will erupt, they mostly end without injury and the engineer will retreat to their desk and continue to hibernate.
Diet: Pizza, Caffeinated Beverages, Potato Chips, and the assorted dry fruits
Conservation Status: Endangered due to poaching and head hunting.
Fun Fact: Software Engineers have been known to kill each other in brutal fights over indentation styles and level of code comments.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Much more interesting creature is the Junior Web Developer[^] according to some canadian "companies" should master in 1-2 years around 50 different technologies, languages and APIs, which means around one per week.
Now that IS a true genius.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I have never met a software engineer.
I have met many software architects and developers, but never an engineer.
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Nice to meet you
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Thank you for your kind words yesterday. I successfully stood out on the pasture and also found a lot of cows. Fortunately I did not have to buy the pasture, nor a cow and much less had to get married.
Look for yourself.[^]
Putting together this video was a lot of work. So please, if you look at it then leave a comment or raise a shitstorm or whatever. Make it worth the time.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Sweet! What is the maximum payload of that thing?
I'm thinking of a CO2-powered, Gatling-action BB gun attachment for herding purposes...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I really have to guess because I usually fly as light as I can, but perhaps up to three pounds. The next bigger size, a T-Rex 600 has stronger motors, but also needs a second battery (another pound).
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I have found something for you. Look what two 700 class copters[^] can lift.
Edit: This one is even better.[^]
Someone wants to sell some more Gaui 700s
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Sweet! That thing's pretty damn quick as well.
I was sure you were about to buzz the learner driver...
Next time, perhaps replace the white noise from the rotors with Ride of the Valkyries?
Or perhaps Ode To Joy (Beethoven symphony #9) would startle the cows less?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The valkyries are reseved for the Huey, once it's finished. Poor cows, but they only react to the model when they can see it. They could not care less when it is up in the air.
I think there is nothing worse than some elevator soundtrack to make a video unbearable. Not even motor sounds are that bad. Speaking of those, I can clearly hear the motor and the gears, but nothing from the rotor. It makes a deep, low frequency humming sound at every abrupt change of direction that carries further than the motor. It sounds somewhat like the effect they used for a Star Wars light saber.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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A few years ago, I created a tip: Using the Article Editor (without losing your hair in handfuls)[^] and as part of it, I added a download (so I could take screenshots for the "how to add a download" section) - which I titled "Don't bother to download HelloWorld.zip" as it was just a placeholder with no real use.
And I just noticed that someone did download it ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just noticed that someone did download it ...
That someone must be curious
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Updated the software to iOS10.
WHERE IS MY SWIPE???
Now I have to hit the home button twice to do anything. WTF???
Why??? Give me back my swipe you barstools
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Come on, they only just removed the headphone connector and you want swipe back already?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Maybe you're holding it wrong.
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it is now a double tap on the Home button
You havent understood the product
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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So glad that you don't let the little things in life affect you so much.
Jeremy Falcon
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It took me a whole day to get used to the loss of swipe to unlock. I actually like it better now, it's faster when using Touch ID.
In case you REALLY can't go without...
How to Enable Slide to Unlock in iOS 10 on iPhone and iPad[^]
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Until the damn home button starts to get a bit dodgy. Then it's a pain in the a***%#
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Ummm... you have to press the button once to wake it up so does it really matter if you need to press it twice?
Geez! Some people would complain if you hung them with a new rope.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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My iPad get confused as to what it should do when the button is click. Sometimes nothing, sometimes shoes all the apps running, sometimes the password lock. It ( or I) struggles to detect accurately double clicks, single click or holding down the button.
It a work device and I doubt they would replace it for me so, if I give it up I'd have to buy my own and it definitely would not be a apple.
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