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I often wonder who makes the UI decisions. My car has a media player that has a touch screen with nice big buttons. When playing music there are three buttons displayed: a large central button that toggles between Play and Pause - so far so good. On the left side of that is another large, but not as large, button that goes to the previous track, on the right another button to go to the next track. All very good and they work fine. Having bought the car second hand it had all the manuals except the media player one so for a long time I was annoyed that I couldn't fast-forward or rewind a given track, especially when I was listening to a long lecture or something.
My son, who has a similar system in his car, said, "Just hold the next-track button for a second or so and it will fast-forward, the rewind works the same way." Obvious! Not!
There is a large unused space beyond each button with plenty of room for more large buttons. Why not have FF and Rewind each side of Play/Pause (as most devices do) and then put next-track and previous-track outside those in the otherwise wasted space? On top of that, all the buttons could be made bigger as there is lots of wasted space in the display around them so when my wife is trying to push them while the road is bumpy...?
Clearly the designer knew how the buttons worked and assumed everyone would have access to the manual so why have more buttons than necessary? Also, it was a German made car so, since German roads are so wonderfully smooth and well maintained compared to the rest of the world the buttons didn't need to be so big as you could easily hit them during the wonderfully smooth ride down the Autobahn! Gaaaah!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Try using Android's Remote for VLC[^] on a tablet.
If you don't hit the progress bar by mistake (when reaching to hit Play/Ppause/etc), or the "Set as Home" area (it's not a button) when you mean to hit the "Home" area, there's something wrong with your fingers.
And three quarters of the screen is whitespace that's coloured black.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Got a reply to a QA answer I posted yesterday.
Two of us suggested that the OP needed to learn to use the debugger to work out what was wrong with his homework (less than 50 lines of C++)
And today I get:
hey just say why "you have not entered any string palindrome" output comes even when i enter a string palindrome.. i did the "homework" and now u should correct it as experts
Is it just me that thinks development is going to hell in a handbasket when the next generation enter the market?
OK, it'll be good for us - in a cynical way - as there'll be plenty of work sorting out the Elephant-ups these lazy sunshines create, but... 
Or maybe I'm just old fashioned, and as long as the code compiles it is correct.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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arrogant cuss isnt the OP ? makes me want to give up when I get cr@p like that
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Comes with the age and lack of maturity, I guess. When Mommy does everything for you, you don't learn the need to be polite.
It'll get kicked out of him when he gets his first job - particularly if it's in retail or fast food! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or he goes into management.
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OriginalGriff wrote: OK, it'll be good for us - in a cynical way - as there'll be plenty of work sorting out the Elephant-ups
Think about a situation where one needs medical care and is connected to different kinds of monitors and other hospital equipment... controlled by a fresh, new, just released embedded C program... 
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What's the problem? It compiled, so it doesn't have any bugs...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: It compiled
That's what I'm afraid of...
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And while you are connected, reading Q/A on CP: "Need Urgent help...."
Then better do not answer: "Have you tried googled"
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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..it is not just the equipment; I'm trying to figure out whether there's something like a "issue tracking" for medication. Can't find any version-information on the package. Imagine those drugs being created using the Agile process.
Scary stuff.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Luckily they have the phases 0-4 in clinical trials and in phase 4 all medication should have fully traceable lot numbers.
But I agree Agile development combined with medical care (in any form) sounds scary
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I think the kid was just a little frustrated and felt offended by not being taken seriously. My first computer is from the time when you had to solder your hardware yourself and I did not have any hair growing in my face yet. What do you think happened when I walked into a store to pick up some RAMs and various other parts?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: to pick up some RAMs
Herk, Herk, it's Daedalus!
No, wait ... nevermind, it's only Polyphemus!
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I built a computer, not a giant abacus. And I'm not that old.
For this[^] I sold all my old toys to the kids in the neighborhood. Whopping 4k RAM. It still works perfectly, but it also taught me that there is no such thing as enough memory in a computer.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: development is going to hell in a handbasket when the next generation enter the market?
No, it's not you.
So, recently they hired this kid who comes waltzing in with all his ego and "knowledge." Tells one of the senior developers, he should replace his custom parser (of some fixed length data stream), which the senior guy wrote in 10 lines of code, with some fancypants Python library that the kid has used and is great.
Four days later, fancypants library is still not working, and senior guy tells kid to stop working on it.
And on my end, because perception is everything, the guy who goes by the title of CTO decided to pull me off the hardware abstraction layer I was 90% done with, written in C#. Why? Because another kid they recently hired can't figure out how to get it working, even though there's documentation and example working code. The irony of it is, he's not even working in C#, he's working in Javascript and all he has to do is make the bridge calls to C# and handle the events in the hosted web app.
But, perception being what it is, kid blames the HAL for his ineptitude. Because the CTO guy loves Python, the decision, without even talking to me, was "pull Marc off the HAL" (remember, it's 90% complete) and throw two kids (one of them is from the first story, the other one --this being the third new kid -- is actually pretty sharp and nice) and have them re-architect and implement it in Python.
So, 90% done by 1 senior dev (moi), vs. 0% done and given to two junior devs. Oh, and did I mention that some of the hardware we're talking to only has API's for .NET???
Well, it's a paycheck.
Marc
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Hi Marc,
For some reason, reading this chilling story of ineptitude brought to mind fragments of two of Robert Service's poems. The first four lines of "I Cremated Sam Magee:" (from memory, may be a bit off)
"Strange things are done beneath the midnight sun
by the men who moil for gold;
the Arctic nights have their secret sights
would make your blood run cold."
And (name of the poem escapes my memory): "We came to get rich (damn good reason)."
My mind then segued into "virtually hearing" a country song ... perhaps sung by Loretta Lynn ... titled: "What I do to make the rent." (a fantasy, that: no such actual country song ... that I know of).
So, thanks for the memories, Marc ! i"m going to go outside and scare away the local geckoes and make another cup of hot soy-milk, and then toast your good health, in a few minutes 
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: reading this chilling story
Sadly, it's one I've seen repeated, though the actors and plot are different, throughout the 35 years I've worked in this industry. And it isn't industry specific either! Just look at the idiocy of insurance companies dictating what health "care" (and by the time you're in the hospital, it usually isn't "care" anymore, at least not in the curative sense, it should rather be called "death care") can be given.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Because the CTO guy loves Python,
We just acquired a very bright spark who specialises in analytics, Python is his flavour of choice so now all projects will be written in Python. I know precisely how you feel but you are NOT allowed to wack the guy with a chair.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: you are NOT allowed to wack the guy with a chair
Tells who! I can do to the CTO whatever I like... in any case I would move out at the beginning of the Python age...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: but you are NOT allowed to wack the guy with a chair.
I can't. I work 3000 miles away. Which is a good thing, for my sanity, and their bones.
Marc
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oh Lord I'm getting depressed by this thread 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is it just me that thinks development is going to hell in a handbasket when the next generation enter the market?
You got it all wrong...
1. Those "lazy sunshines" will be hired by your (not your exactly ) manager...
2. As the only one not threatening the manager "lazy sunshines" will climb to management position when current manager goes up/out...
3. You will be called back (on an emergency base) to fix the wrong, ang banged around by "lazy sunshines"...
Brave new world...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Never underestimate the power of linker and its remarkable wired error messages 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Fret not; this retard will never make it in "our" industry. I don't worry about idiots like this - neither should you.
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