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This morning, FireFox (Ver 25) started to display all of the various alerts and option-menus as full-screen. I can set them back by right-clicking the top bar and selecting restore, but I can't seem to get this to stick (nor do I know how it was invoked).
Anyone out there have a clue as to how to fix this? (Premptive: not by switching to IE, Chrome, etc.)
It's quite annoying.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Premptive: not by switching to IE, <layer>Chrome, etc.
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A high end car is 100 million lines of code? My god, that's supposed to be in the car? Or are they talking about the design and manufacturing software / equipment, etc?
Well, it's not all Ruby code BTW - apparently RoR is used only for the front end. I imagine there's quite a bit of Cobol code still lurking in those cheapskate criminal thieving lying murderous insurance companies.
Marc
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Java backend if the article i saw on it was correct.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I'm a .NET and c++ developer, so Java bashing is right up my alley.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Who are you calling pompous and arrogant?
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Who are you calling pompous and arrogant?
The proof is in the pudding. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: free reign to champion whatever technologies they wanted
The wonders of maven[^] - like nuget, and other similar tools, it makes it far to easy to add just another framework to your application. When used as they were intended they are wonderful tools, but more often than not, they are used to create SaaS (Software as a Soup) software.
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Marc Clifton wrote: My god, that's supposed to be in the car?
Try getting a replacement for your cars main computer, some have several - a high-end workstation comes cheaper. Implementing software that complies with MISRA[^] also tends to make the size of the codebase explode, and much of the code is a result of code generation tools that translate various homegrown logic languages into c.
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That's a joke right? How in the world is that possible?
CleaKO
"Now, a man would have opened both gates, driven through and not bothered to close either gate." - Marc Clifton (The Lounge)
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it's not.
some jackass made up a number and the media has deemed it a 'fact' that's too good to check.
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yeah, right ...
"APPARENT" size of ...
from the NYT article used as a reference :
"According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code. By comparison, a large bank’s computer system is typically about one-fifth that size."
I'd rather be phishing!
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except that the "500M" lines of code is utter BS.
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Chris Losinger wrote: utter BS.
...much like the 2500+ pages of the law itself and the 10,500 pages of its regulations.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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IT takes a lot of code to BS everyone that signs up...all 6 of em! 
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the front end of Healthcare.gov is written in Ruby on Rails?
Really?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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yes. the front end really isn't very tough.
it's the backend stuff that's the hard part: interfacing with all those different govt agencies and insurance carriers.
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That explains the mess.
They should have reversed it, and let the govt agencies and insurance carriers adjust to them instead.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Now, now. That wouldn't have given cronies contractors a nice kickback now would it?
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And it was the contractors that made the specifications I suppose...
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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<quote>the front end really isn't very tough
Indeed
I would really like to know who made the decision to choose a platform with known and documented scalability issues.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Well, I once tried asking a few awkward questions on the Ruby on Rails: Talk[^] mailing list related to security.
I just wanted to know about support for impersonation, constrained delegation, etc. on Windows - and not surprisingly, nobody cared to answer - even if I think I was quite polite about it.
In general I feel that the Ruby on Rails community is more of a religious fraternity, than a programming community - that fraternity, admittedly have a few very tallented members, but in general they, about 90 % of them, are deep into denial that there is sentient life outside their sacred Ruby On Rails fraternity.
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