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That has always been the main headache. It's just that there is more and more of it as time goes on.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Idiots need jobs too - its just we have to suffer for it 
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That's what I'm currently having with some C# applications as well.
We need to discuss the change, fill out some paperwork about risks, what has changed, etc. then I need to put it on the customers test environment, then they are going to pick a time frame for testing, then we need to fill out more paperwork, and after a few weeks everything can go to their production environment.
All of that, no matter how small the change.
The fun part is, we created a new application during the course of a year, we went over the specs together a couple of times, it cost them a lot of money, and then we did all that paperwork, they tested and whatnot.
A week after that's all done I get a phone call "Hi Sander, when will you be putting that software on our production environment?"
What the... I can't even...  
Shortly after that, a call "Hi Sander, can you just change how that looks?" "Sure, you can have it next month. Maybe."
Or I got questions like "can we do this or that?" while it's all in the specs we discussed together and they approved (I even send them an extra copy) 
All that bureaucracy and what for?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Shortly after that, a call "Hi Sander, can you just change how that looks?" "Sure, you can have it next month. Maybe."Or I got questions like "can we do this or that?" while it's all in the specs we discussed together and they approved (I even send them an extra copy)
I had that problem too a couple of years ago. And in addition, my boss asked (just to say it nicely) me "why so much time to write the specs?"
1 month after I started programming, that kind of questions came...
My answer was... Yes it is possible to change / add that feature, but it will cost XXX
Original offer: Around 1m
Spec points bought: aprox. 45% (concrete features, skeleton and body was already defined)
Project price in contract: 570k
Implemented points of the spec at the end: 85%
Changed specs: 25%
New points: Some
Final price of the project: 1,7m
Then, when customer took property of the results and payed the last bills, I answered my boss... "that's why I took so much to write the specs"
I was never asked again.
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?
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Today we announce Gogland, a brand new Go IDE and the latest addition to the IntelliJ family. Just like their other tools, now with a language you don't use!
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Gogland? is that Gog of "Gog and Magog of Armageddon" fame?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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 I hope so. A good apocalypse will brighten my day.
TTFN - Kent
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Better that than using a tool called "Go Gland" anyway.
TTFN - Kent
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"Go Gland" was my reading of it too. Another candidate for "What were they thinking?"
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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But not better than one named "GoGoLand"... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm, interesting observation. Gog, in the Bible, is the demon angel that manipulates the leader of Magog. Magog is supposed to be due north of Israel, so that would be Russia. Oh no! Gogland is Russian!
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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Well, that's cool. One of my many reluctances (ok, that's not a word, apparently) to learning a new language is the complete lack of a decent IDE. JetBrains has quality IDE's, so I'm willing to take a peek.
Marc
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CLion may be the slickest Java app I've ever used. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck with eclipse for various reasons.
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The zero-day exploits, which Evans published on Tuesday, are the latest to challenge the popular conceit that Linux, at least in its desktop form, is more immune to the types of attacks that have felled Windows computers for more than a decade and have increasingly snared Macs in recent years. Welcome to the real world
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"Will it run Doom?" has become the standard of hacking something to a conceivable point of usability. Which key do you press to strafe?
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AT&T will help NASA beef up its Deep Space Network by providing a high-speed VPN to connect giant radio antennas around the world. It's actually so they can download from the Macroscope without being tracked
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By open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft is reaping the rewards -- as are the developers. "Everybody's happy nowadays"
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It’s still too early to install the latest patches for Win7, 8.1, and Office, but next month things will get less complicated. Now I have to find some new reading material
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Following in the footsteps of other major browser makers, Microsoft announced plans to enable Click-to-Run functionality for Flash-based content in the next public release of its default web browser for Windows 10. Pretty soon, the only place you'll be able to run Flash is in the IDE
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As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way up a layered mountain on Mars, the little bot is finding even more signs that the Red Planet was once a habitable place — potentially capable of hosting microbial life billions of years ago. Then they tried to invade us. Look where that got them!
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WebHooks provide a simple pub/sub model for wiring together Web APIs and services with your code. Insert Tab A into Slot 1
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Insert Tab A into Slot 1
That's what she said.
Jeremy Falcon
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It’s common knowledge that reflection in .NET is slow, but why is that the case? This post aims to figure that out by looking at what reflection does under-the-hood. Why, do you feel a need? A need for speed?
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Because light slows down when it bounces off a mirror due to quantum interference effects of local dark matter created by photons hitting themselves in a causal-reversal time continuum. 
Marc
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