Posts by Jonathan 27

Re: Black arm bands for everyone

If Trump is doing what he claimed, why is he raising income take rates for the middle class, meddling with the Middle East, failed to make any lasting changes on immigration, failed to replace Obama Care and completely failed to even start planning to build a border wall (which I feel like was his #1 promise).

There is a huge difference between Trump's platform and what's he's actually doing now that he's in office. No matter how you feel about the issues, I find it really hard to read comments like this were you claim Trump has delivered on any reasonable percentage of his campaign promises. Trump ran on a platform of change, and has solidly failed to effect any of his larger promises and has only delivered on a few token promises. He said he was a man of action, and he's looking more and more like a big talker every day.

Re: "BB10 app store will continue to remain open for another two years"

You're not kidding, it's a ghost town.

Re: Test case

The people investing large sums of money into Bitcoin don't understand what it is. They think of it as a commodity like gold. The current speculative bubble is based on investors with large sums of money and little technical knowledge dumping cash into Bitcoin. It'll be interesting to see where it goes before the bottom falls out. I think we may have a ways to go, it seems that greed is nearly infinite.

Re: Is it just me?

Some of us work in companies that have continuous deployment strategies, so maybe.

Re: They need to enforce the GPL

I think a lot of people are worried that trying to enforce the GPL like that will end in it being determined legally unenforceable. All they need is one precedent.

Re: Simple workaround

If you don't want Windows, Linux is a better option.

Running old versions of OS isn't really a good option, due to the fact that Apple cuts support very quickly.

Re: Not yet

Businesses can host their email addresses on Office 365, like Google's GSuite.

Re: Google's Pixel security team

I see you've either never been involved in software development or are one of those horrible toxic people who have been fired over and over. Almost no one can get away with being as rude as Torvalds is, the only reason he can is that basically no one can fire him.

Screaming at team members is never productive. What you do is calmly explain what people have done wrong. Software development is a group activity and you have to work to keep your team dynamic functional. One person publicly calling out others is not something that's productive.

What does this have to do with "inclusion" and "political correctness". It's not the message that's wrong, it's the delivery method. Someone does something stupid, you tell them, you explain why it's stupid, you don't scream at them from the rooftops (or the internet equivalent).

Certainly more that all the named characters who died in Got. Probably less if you include all the nameless soldiers.

Yeah...

If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Scotland to sell you. Version numbers are often arbitrary.

Re: Well...

Just make sure you never use Android, iOS or Mac OS. Wouldn't want to look like a huge hypocrite.

It's all relative, he means nice for Linus Torvalds.

You don't want to see angry Linux Torvalds.

That's standard practice for many phone brands. Don't buy Samsung or LG either, to name a few.

Re: Sigh

Why does anyone want one of these if they already have a smartphone. It's the smart watch thing all over again.

Yeah...

Your cat will learn eventually.

Re: You can't really measure performance of sysadmins

You could make them log everything they do into a logging system, regardless of why. I've seen it before.

Re: "Long Term"

It counts as long term for Node.JS. Node programs suffer from the possibility that updates will break them, about every five minutes. Either updates to node itself or prerequisites. It's something you need to just live with if you develop node applications. It's the most annoying thing about developing and maintaining Node.JS applications. You basically can't use it unless you're have a continuous deployment pipeline, traditional organizations need not apply.

Re: Horses for courses

I don't agree with you. C# performs very well when it comes to string mangling, provided you use a string builder and not just the string object, which is immutable. You also need to be very careful with what you do with your strings, because implementation isn't always consistent across the framework.. I think your performance issue might be that you have a lot of experience working with Perl and less with C#.

Re: "This was inevitable" - but it also looks stupid

Oh definitely a stupid idea, but it is part of Microsoft's MO. They're not changing with the times, Nadella seems to be a really conservative guy and I think he'll likely lead Microsoft into the ground.

Re: Modernise apps?

I just googled that and apparentfully verbed is a perfectly cromulent word. You Dictionarians need to move foreyards into the present.