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I wish they'd make their bluddy minds up!
One minute, it's "You'll be able to tell a computer what you want it to do, and it'll write the code itself", and the next, it's "We need everyone to learn machine code!"
I wish people like this would pour all their evangelical energy into the correct causes, e.g. Political Correctness, Abstinence, Anti-smoking, Immigration, or any other hate group.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Applying this philosophy to other things:
Learn to write and you will produce Shakespeare quality work in no time.
Learn to add and you can solve Hilbert's problems.
(I'm a very good coder. At times I wish doing software engineering was as easy. Then I look at my paycheck and smile.)
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I worked with a guy who was making a scripting language and he was going on and on about how it needed to be so easy to comprehend that even non-programmers could write in it. It turned out that no one who was a non-programmer ever used it and those who were programmers didn't want to use it. Personally, I thought it was absurd and driven by a bogus premise. I don't think the world needs a whole bunch of non-programmers writing code. We have enough bad code from people who are professionals, nominally. Who really thinks turning a bunch of non-programmers loose is going to result in code that is worth anything?
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At Flutter Live today, we announced that we are experimenting with running Flutter on the Web. Because the world doesn't have enough ways to write for the web
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The world definitely needs yet another PhD thesis or senior project turned into a product.
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I have had the misfortune of working with a few of those. They were truly revolting experiences. To give an example - one was a FSM framework where a change of state was done by throwing an exception. I have heard of very few ideas dumber than that. It was little wonder when the company practically shut down that entire division.
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Attackers with admin control can abuse the feature to create a persistent backdoor. They really want to know your pet's name, but are too shy to just ask
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Oh, come on!
Right from the get-go, it was patently obvious that you should never give the correct answer to any of this type of "security" question; just enter one that you'll remember, or anagram it and add a few characters, or whatever.
Are the geniuses of today finally waking up to what was completely intuitive to the rest of us twenty years ago?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Are the geniuses of today finally waking up to what was completely intuitive to the rest of us twenty years ago?
No, they aren't and that stuff is STILL intuitive.
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The Software Heritage was launched with a mission to collect, preserve and share all software source code that is publicly available. "Sometimes dead is better."
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The guy in charge of the "This doesn't work, any more" rubber stamp must have really sore arms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's a reason you don't keep all your kids' art and it's not just storage.
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IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive AI-assisted IntelliSense recommendations even better. You can download the updated IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio and IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio Code today! tab, tab, tab. Job done!
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Does it also give an OCD rating (based on how meticulous you are with formatting and naming.)
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Because there was such massive user demand for this.
What if, instead, Microsoft fired most of its designers and used that money to hire more, qualified, QA engineers?
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Yes he did. Worse, he's doubling down on the insanity. I could live with a few bugs, but the specific decisions being forced on users is repulsive. I run Windows 10 Professional, mainly for the one feature I need - some semblance of control over the update/reboot process. I can understand wanting to encourage users to update the OS with security patches, I cannot understand forcing them to update their OS for features (like new icons). Further, forcing reboots of Pro installations is simply criminal.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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They keep going on and on and on about how animation and blur are the flagship features that form the backbone of their Great New UE.
Animation is a resource hog, and blur is extremely bad for the eyes and the occipital lobes, so their "Great New UE" will be laggy performance, optician bills, and brain damage.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That is rather revolting news to read. Especially the part about the OS people working with the Surface people. That means their user interface is going to get even worse than it is now. The last one I liked was W7 and it has been horrendous in every release after that.
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I really dislike Microsoft's direction the last 15 years or so. Every 3 years they come out with a new half assed framework, only to ditch it and replace it with the next half assed framework.
The reasoning being that old equates to bad, and new is good. Wrong! Good is good, and bad is bad, and more often than not in the case of Microsoft new is bad.
I wish they would fix the 20+ year old bugs in GDI+, invest a bit in Win Forms so it's up to date with multi-monitor setups. They should never have released WPF and UWP.
The couple of things I do appreciate out of MS are SQL Server and ASP.NET MVC. They just work and they didn't unnecessarily over complicate the tech.
Wout
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well they just want to keep the shareholders happy and sell more licenses ... who cares about some 20+ old bug in gdi which was there when bill gates was there.... now they are in compete with awz , google , apple ... and ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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It’s a prediction you’d expect to hear from a doomsday prepper. But a scientist at the US space agency claims aliens could have actually visited Earth at some point. The truth is somewhere out there
Again, I'm guessing the important word in that title is, "could"
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The absence of proof of alien life makes that extremely unlikely.
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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Just more proof that you don't need to be right to work at NASA. 
TTFN - Kent
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