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On the serious side: Too many academic style developers have no idea about what the customer really needs. They insist on absolutely everything being toally perfect according to every academic principle ever thought up. The customer cries for "something that solves my problem - now!", but the academic developer says "We are not going to give you that even if we could, because that solution will lack perfectness according to some academic disciplines!"
I have worked with some developers of that class. And argued with a lot of that class. What made IBM more or less supreme in some markets in the 1960s-70s is not that they provided perfect solutions, but provided solutions that were good enough, and that with a reasonable margin. Microsoft has repeated that: They have, in a number of market segments, been big for the last 20-30 years not because they are perfect, but good enough (once more: with a reasonable margin). A major part of the critisism against MS (as it was against IBM) is that they are far from perfect. Which is true. By some criteria, Linux is closer to the perfect ... but unable to provide to the non-programmer user what solves his problem now (that is, without having to wait for some other successful windows application to clone).
Don't let the best block the road for the good. But we too often do. We do not listen to what the customers really need but let our own ideas of perfection stand in the way of what would solve the user's problem. To say it bluntly: Having to restart your machine is a far more essential problem to developers than to users! (I restart my car whenever I manage to kill the engine. As long as no expert car driver is sitting in the passenger seat shaking his head, it doesn't bother me to turn the ignition key for half a second. .. I have a somewhat problematic driveway for backing up into.)
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Member 7989122 wrote: Microsoft has had repeated that:
I give you Windows 10 is not really that bad (ignoring the messy updates) but current Microsoft is far behind from what it was.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Most managers don't, so doesn't matter much what devs want. Security is a non-issue nor is quality when compared to meeting the deadline and the promises of sales.
We want to deliver secure and tested. Much software in the wild isn't.
Don't blame us. And stop wasting money on "studies" for the why; it is a budget/time issue, and most of them prefer sub-standard results, and they get those, as deserved.
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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It's a 30\70 split for managers too....
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And yet most of us manage to deliver low quality software late....
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How can I get my manager to read this, and actually believe it? I've been trying to get him to understand quality over quantity for a long time. But his priority is all about pleasing the people at the top.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Microsoft's C# programming language climbed a year-over-year notch on the TIOBE Index, which measures popularity among developers. "Or art thou base, common and popular?"
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The problem is how those Python, Javascript, Tcl, ... are going to handle all those error messages from the compiler about type mismatch, undefined symbols and all the other compile time stuff, if C# takes over.
Maybe they won't be able to handle all those pesky compile time warnings. Maybe they will simply reject to develop code where you have to relate to syntax errors before the code ships to the customer.
You can't argue it: Wasting resources on handling errors in an error handling routine for an error that never will occur is a waste, no matter how you look at it. So what is the gain in having a compiler force us to worry about it?
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I think you're missing the point of type checking. The entire reasoning is that it makes certain classes of error possible to pick up during compilation, so you don't need to write handling code for those classes of errors, as the compiler has ensured they can never occur at runtime.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The new theory is based on the observation that more galaxies are spinning counterclockwise than clockwise, New Scientist reports, whereas previous models expected a balance between the two directions. Maybe that explains why I'm dizzy
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I wonder: In the mirror anti-universe, would the majority of the galaxies spin clockwise?
Maybe the clocks are mirrored as well... How does that affect the direction of rotation?
Or, if we turn the clocks upside down?
Or even worse: What if we are using digigal clocks?
(like Jeff Dunham: Very special Christmas special[^] at around 5:40 - but watch it from around 2:20 to get the full story!
(I am happy not to be the daughter of Jeff Dunham...)
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Microsoft has begun to notify users via Windows Update if they are currently blocked from upgrading to Windows 10 2004 due to a compatibility hold. Although you do need to go to Windows Update to see it, so let's call it Windows Roulette?
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Schrödinger's Update?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I'm sure I've read something about that[^] before... 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What?! Like I pay attention to anything *that guy* says? 
TTFN - Kent
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Developer of AppGet was fine with Microsoft copying his project for WinGet, but annoyed it didn't bother crediting him. "The more things change, the more they continue to be the same"
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NOW I believe MS is in the open-source business...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Pity that we can't report them for plagiarism over there... They would have required / still require a kick in the ass for that.
Credits only because people have complain and still no apology 
Arrogant bast...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In addition to fueling my excitement about space travel, this launch also made me curious about the tech which goes in these rockets. I did some research from the Computer Science perspective and wanted to share what I found Just in case you want to become a rocket surgeon
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Hard not to put a comment in about Boeing. Good for them it did not blow up as the prototype. And the previous versions. And the Tesla's.
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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Yeah, I hope they astronauts didn't see that prototype go up (the wrong way) the day before their launch.
TTFN - Kent
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Vortex lasers are named for the way light spirals around their axis of travel, thanks to a property known as orbital angular momentum "Come on twist again, like we did last year"
And here I thought just plain lasers were cool
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When your module becomes bigger you want to divide its functionality into manageable components. C++20 modules offer two approaches: submodules and partitions. Let me discuss both approaches in this post. Nothing funny here, I'm just desperate for news items today
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but apparently one image is worth potentially thousands of headaches for Android users recently. That's...an interesting bug. Did the Boeing developers start working on Android?
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