Posts by sabroni

Re: Exactly the problem that DLL hell causes.

You don't know what you're talking about.

DLL hell refers to the way windows used to insist on only one, correct, version of a library being used. You wanted to use 1.2 in one app and 1.1 in another? No way, the OS will only allow one to be installed.

That is dll hell.

What you're talking about is the exact opposite, the solution to dll hell, which is "each app keeps it's own dependencies, separate to every other app". One needs 1.1, it ships with 1.1, another needs 1.2 and ships with 1.2. This was marketed as "xcopy deploy" by MS and promoted as the solution to dll hell.

You're touting a solution that causes dll hell, shared dependencies.

The best solution I've seen so far is how pnpm handles it. That keeps a list of all dependencies and maps them into projects as virtual folders. So you can have four apps sharing a version of 1.1 and another couple of apps using a shared version of 1.2. No wasted disk space but you can still use multiple versions of the same library.

Re: I'll bet their bollocks doesn't smell either.

To be fair, there aren't many women with smelly bollocks.

re: F*ck off. F*ck the news sites, f*ck F*c*book, f*ck the lot of them.

For fucks sake, grow up and stop self censoring.

re: a white middle-class male

That poor, underrepresented minorty.

I feel your pain brother, I too am a middle class white male who's been allowed to cruise through life successfully without much effort. It makes empathy with the lower classes so difficult.

I'm joking of course! It's my superb coding skills and tenacious work ethic that's got me where I am today. The UK is a meritocracy!!! Look around, it's obvious there's no need to try and change things!!

Re: did anyone ever use this? And why?

Your Windows 10 install comes with IE and Edge.

Which would you choose to download Firefox with?

Re: This is not merely incompetence

It's not incompetence at all, it's by design.

Re: What does that even mean?

It means "all our stuff is out of date (but we don't like admitting it)".

Re: I do not devalue myself, my employer does.

And there's nothing you can do about it?

Why don't you try standing up for yourself, don't you think your time has value?

Re: attempting to do business in a country that isn't fully democratic.

Amazon is based in the USA. You know, that country where the "democratic" election results aren't believed by 70million voters so they stormed the Capitol to try and overturn it.

Fully democratic?

Re: Your post stinks of "cancel culture", Grow up.

If you don't understand how this is destroying civilisations you could ask for an explanation.

Or you could shout your latest "get out of jail free" card ("brexit means brexit" is so 2010!) and pretend this is an attempt to silence something.

Is it Google's right to promote conspiracy theories you're worried about cancelling?

I won that EGM!

BY A LOT!!!

Re: EVERYTHING now sounds awful.

Yeah, that's right grandad. You go and have a lie down and I'll ask the kids to be quiet.

Re: operated at the whims of the tyrannical.

Tyrant: an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law

Like the sort of person who would try and stay in power after losing a democratic election.

re: acting responsibly

The article differentiates between the "security researcher" who did the responsible disclosure and the "hacker" who leaked the badly redacted customer info.

this is a story about Sales, not really IT.

It's a story about the head of Sales at an IT company being mismanaged by his bosses.

I guess by this logic we shouldn't have any stories about Amazon's warehouse staff, they're about Warehousing not IT.

We shouldnt't have stories about Uber, they're Taxi stories not IT stories.

We shouldn't have stories about Google, they're Ad company stories not IT stories.

Re: Well....

Look, we know it's a great service for the consumer. What we're talking about is the employees.

Uber run at a loss (and treat their employees like contractors) to finance the service while they drive the competition out of business. Once the competition is gone they will no longer need to operate at a loss.

Think it through.

re: Blocking the ABC is downright dangerous

No, using Facebook instead of setting up your own web presence is downright dangerous.

Why isn't ABC on abc.au instead of relying on a third party?

re: They won't if say a Xiaomi or LG smartwatch had a similar problem

Produce some evidence for that!

Or post "I am a sad Apple fanboy who takes every negative story personally".

re: Racism is bad. Don't be racist.

We love you, go home.