Posts by Dan 55

Re: Now, if only Git could work under Windows...

1. git != github.

2. Requiring "half of Linux to be installed" is a problem with the Windows port, not git itself.

Re: IMO

Sounds like Hypercard, which came out five years before the patent.

Re: Top 10 far from the most common root causes of failure

Moronically obsessing about SCRUM-agile as your development path to Utopia, and being all smug about how you're achieving your weekly sprint, having implemented x bits of micro functionality, rather than producing quality code and eliminating technical debt.

Oh yes.

But everything needs a billable end customer, so there's no end customer for eliminating technical debt, yet all end customers benefit. So we just layer more and more crud on top of whatever it was the company was originally selling a decade or two ago, and we might even document it.

And then the marketing dept claims it's offering SaaS.

Re: Week-long?

I'm surprised two people managed to parse that gibberish and understand its intended meaning enough to upvote it.

(There were problems that shouldn't have been there two months later.)

Re: Another View

Go through Google News.

Re: "looking at them in one of those electronics shop windows"

Ah, so you mean it was a success outside of the US, like Nokia in its heyday.

Re: Alistair is easy

Yes, it only requires a US megacorp to plough millions of dollars into logistics to keep him happy.

Re: FFS!

Hey, if you're going to execute any old tat through e-mail or a web browser, at least it's readable XML instead of binary as in PIF or LNK files. That's progress!

Re: Nothing new

18 months, as usual.

Which way do you think the data is going to flow in a hypothetical UK-US data deal? It certainly won't be from Google or Facebook to us.

And the EU won't allow the US access to EU data via a UK free-for-all slurpgrab. They have the GDPR, if the UK doesn't implement it then there will be no UK-EU data deal.

So any UK-US data deal is just yet another exercise in Brexit foot-gun national humiliation.

Have they got the money for boxes?

Re: Good to see it's still in development

They don't have enough resources to fork Gecko so they've got no choice.

If Thunderbird pooled resources with Pale Moon, Waterfox, Basilisk, and SeaMonkey they might be able to maintain an older Gecko but open source is like herding cats.

Re: That's an interesting piece of reading for other Orgs

TSB (or Sabadell) also had the great idea of cloud-based banking.

Looking at a comparison of survey software, it seems the only one which gets it is the one from Germany - on premises. All the rest are ripe for the picking.

Re: Wonder what it'll break ?

Indeed. And the end users pay with their data.

Re: Samsung software

The person who downvoted that obviously hadn't read the Enlightened thread on TDWTF.

Re: Dates of birth

You could set that very date on an iPhone 5 or something and it would get stuck in a boot loop.

Re: Captain!

You learn something new every day, I thought he was really called Otto...

Re: PDF viewer...

Web browsers don't show BMPs, they do some layout as well...

Re: Similar Experience

I have to say that travelling on French toll motorways is a pleasant experience. Reasonable tolls, not overloaded with roadsigns, cards accepted by machines without crazy mad crashing UIs, clean bathrooms with baby changing facilities, shops and vending machines which cover practically all food and drink requirements on your trip, picnic areas, bins which are a) available and b) actually emptied.

Then you cross the Pyrenees, and are charged three times as much in tolls for all the same things but with the word not in front of them.

I can complain like the best of the locals.

That keyboard review linked to in the article was extremely forgiving though.