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Re: An update on our Unified Update Platform (UUP)

5-Mar-17 18:00

Windows Experience[^]:
We are excited to begin releasing PC builds to Windows Insiders using differential download packages!

Yay for smaller updates

Mark_Wallace5-Mar-17 22:30

Re: An update on our Unified Update Platform (UUP)

5-Mar-17 22:30

What could possibly go wrong?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-17 23:18

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

5-Mar-17 23:18

Nothing! All could go wrong, went wrong already...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

TDD Harms Architecture

Kent Sharkey5-Mar-17 18:00

How “Game Mode” will make games run better on Windows

5-Mar-17 18:00

Uncle Bob Martin[^]:
The idea that TDD damages design and architecture is not new.

Because the foundation is too stable?

Kent Sharkey5-Mar-17 18:00

Re: How “Game Mode” will make games run better on Windows

5-Mar-17 18:00

Ars Technica[^]:
Plus details on strict limitations for UWP apps running on the Xbox One.

It will pause the Windows Update service?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter5-Mar-17 23:16

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

5-Mar-17 23:16

Quote:
According to Walston, UWP apps and games can only use four the Xbox One's eight shared CPU cores, 50 percent of the system's GPU power, and just 1GB out of 8GB of system memory.

Windows universe is shrinking nicely Smile | :)

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Re: How “Game Mode” will make games run better on Windows

Dan Neely6-Mar-17 3:50

Dan Neely

6-Mar-17 3:50

Hmmmm. that's odd, but II(vaguely)RC isn't 1GB of ram the amount that the OS holds back from games? Makes me wonder if UWP apps are running in non-game mode and resource neutered to avoid bottlenecking gmaes even if they are games.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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

Re: How “Game Mode” will make games run better on Windows

Jeremy Falcon6-Mar-17 9:01

Jeremy Falcon

6-Mar-17 9:01

Kent Sharkey wrote:
It will pause the Windows Update service?

Jeremy Falcon

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to start shipping packages to the Moon

Kent Sharkey5-Mar-17 18:00

Yet another entry to the "Is Water Wet"? list.

5-Mar-17 18:00

The Verge[^]:
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos wants to start delivering packages to the Moon. According to The Washington Post, Bezos — who also owns private space travel company Blue Origin — has written an internal report arguing that a good delivery service will be key to establishing a functioning lunar settlement.

Deliveries will take 2-5 days with Super Saver Shipping

Joe Woodbury2-Mar-17 14:40

Joe Woodbury

2-Mar-17 14:40

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.[^]

Worth the click just to see an [alleged] picture of Facebook's warehouse, I mean workplace.

GenJerDan2-Mar-17 19:29

GenJerDan

2-Mar-17 19:29

In interviews I ask "Do I get my own office?" and "Do I get a parking space?"

We won't sit down.
We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

YouTube
and
My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

Mark_Wallace2-Mar-17 20:38

2-Mar-17 20:38

Open offices are cheaper, so don't expect them to go away.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Wastedtalent2-Mar-17 21:06

Wastedtalent

2-Mar-17 21:06

Metallica at 3pm sounds good to me. I fail to see the problem with open offices. I'm sure there's still meeting rooms if you need to do something private, or quite probably the option to work from home if you need peace.

Maybe people associate having an office with status and like to view others as 'beneath them'.

den2k882-Mar-17 21:23

den2k88

2-Mar-17 21:23

Programmers surrounded by people who moust constantly be on the phone, groups of coworkers that talk loudly from one end of the office to the other of soccer or movies... the perfect environment I'd say. Then one asks why code quality sucks.

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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.

GenJerDan3-Mar-17 1:07

GenJerDan

3-Mar-17 1:07

...and then everyone gets Dragon Naturally Speaking...

We won't sit down.
We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

YouTube
and
My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

Mark_Wallace2-Mar-17 21:25

2-Mar-17 21:25

Wastedtalent wrote:
Maybe people associate having an office with status and like to view others as 'beneath them'.

Noise, Man!

You can't institute a STFU rule, and you can't expect people not to use phones.

If all you do is surf the interwebs, fine, but if you have to focus, open-plan offices* are a nightmare

* The correct term, which the article writer seemed not to know

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Wastedtalent2-Mar-17 21:56

Wastedtalent

2-Mar-17 21:56

I much prefer to work in a lively environment than somewhere silent when I need to focus. If I don't want distractions then headphones and music works fine.

I guess it's personal preference.

Mark_Wallace2-Mar-17 22:36

2-Mar-17 22:36

Wastedtalent wrote:
I guess it's personal preference.

Yup.

I don't even want music, when I'm working.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Matt.L3-Mar-17 0:23

Matt.L

3-Mar-17 0:23

I think the open office environment only really works on a department or team basis. I've been sharing with a call center (noisy AF), sharing with other devs and testers (both single and multiple teams) and now work from home. Sharing a work area with other like minded people feels like it was the most productive and satisfying place to work, especially when working to a common goal.

Mark_Wallace3-Mar-17 0:27

3-Mar-17 0:27

And size matters. More than a handful of cow-orkers is too many.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Matt.L3-Mar-17 0:34

Matt.L

3-Mar-17 0:34

Ideally yes, but I was in an office of over 30 devs, testers, PMs and a systems architect working on 3 seperate projects but all for the same system and they was great.
Disclaimer - Previously us 30 IT guys were in a room with about 150 call center staff so my opinion my be a little bias.

Mark_Wallace3-Mar-17 2:50

3-Mar-17 2:50

Matt.L wrote:
Previously us 30 IT guys were in a room with about 150 call center staff

I'd keep a machete on my desk.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Joe Woodbury3-Mar-17 5:39

Joe Woodbury

3-Mar-17 5:39

There are multiple types of "open" offices; cubicle farms, the same without the walls and what the author describes, which is where you are all sitting around the same physical table without much in common task-wise.

In my experience, the latter two work if you are on the same team and doing roughly the same thing, though it still works far better in the research and design stages, versus actual development.

I actually prefer cubicles EXCEPT when I am in full-blown coding/engineering mode, in which case a private office is preferable. I like being able to be reasonably private, but still being able to hear technical conversations from team members.

BTW, one problem with music in "open" offices is that to the people sitting at a distance from the source, it becomes unpleasant noise, make worse when there is more noise coming from the other direction. The photo of Facebook makes me cringe since it will be prone to echoes. That constant background noise is very destructive to productivity.