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Marc Clifton wrote: What about "my employees will be happier" even if there's a cost to the company and no direct benefit
"My employees will be happier" should have measurable benefits in terms of productivity, reduced absenteeism, and retention. When a change to company policy looks like reducing the "bind the mouths of the kine" with no explicit improvement to the bottom line, it's a good idea to point these out. This is especially true for 'knowledge workers' like engineers, where the intangibles become more and more important as their career gets longer.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The baseline logic is easily remembered with the handy acronym: SOMQCB
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to inspire you to go ahead with the suicide plan: [^].
i ain't seen this incredible since Jimi ... yeah, you might bring up Tommy Emmanuel as rebuttal, but that cat's, imho, a god on another plane.
while this type of music is not to my tastes in this period of my life (old, cantankerous), fifty years ago, this would have had me up and dancing ! 
cheers, Bill
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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 Now, that imho was entertainment! Thanks for sharing! I wouldn't call this exactly my style, but I can respect talent whatever the genre...and besides, being able to shift to another genre, (the zeppelin medley was awesome!) and even add to such classics is to be applauded! I will definitely keep that name in mind...if his live playing is that good, I can't wait to find some studio cuts.
If I had been just listening, I would have sworn it was Steve Morse.
On a side note, if you're looking for an audio adventure and like prog/opera rock, I'm on my third listen through of Dream Theater's latest 34 track concept album and highly recommend it for coding. Cheers!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: I would have sworn it was Steve Morse.
Thats what I thought!
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Just a suggestion have a look for some Oli Brown stuff, I think his latest stuff is metally but the early stuff was Blues...
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I wish you best of luck
I can play "baby, I'm gonna leave you" - Led Zeppelin, fairly well, just as some other pieces, but that took me quite some time practising.
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Funny, mine worked fine a few hours ago.
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Mine worked about two hours ago, no problem.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, just a sign that we, as an industry, have made some bad "best practices" choices. Like the one to get modifications into production as quickly as possible, a.k.a. devops. Very high probability that's what happened to BofA.
Sorry, I never drank the KoolAid.
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Winding things up yesterday, I noticed that Windows needed a restart, so I chose to update and shutdown. The first thing this morning on boot was the expected second part of the update, interrupted by an automatic reboot and then finishing out...downtime so far...around 10 minutes...I'm not really bothered at this point.
15 minutes into finally getting some things done and I am prompted again that windows needs to restart...and that this update may take a while!  (I'm assuming it's the much touted Fall CU which probably has nothing of value for me...maybe I'm wrong) At this point, I mildly irritated, but really, how long could this take...it's a fairly speedy machine.
35 minutes later, and stuck on 85% for the time it's taken me to type this on the laptop, and I'm pissed!  The little balls are still spinning, so I guess there's still hope.
So, consider yourself warned. If you have work to do, do not let windows restart until you have the time to spare...or perhaps another workstation/laptop and cant' wait.
...and still stuck at 85%.
Edit: About 2 minutes after I posted, the spell was broken and the update finished only to restart and is now again 'working on updates'. The note at the bottom states that 'Your PC will restart several times'.  Also, it has switched screens and appears to have screwed with the resoluion settings.  'This will take a while' appears to be true...at 14% after 20 minutes.
Edit #2: I gave up and walked away. I've come back after 20 minutes to see that at least the resolution issue was fixed (nice crisp text now) but it seems to be stuck at 61%.  Wait, it's just gone to 63! Total time lost today so far...around 90 minutes.
Edit #3: The last update took nearly 45 minutes to complete. When I finally logged in, I was greeted by this: 'Hi We have some updates for you...and This may take a while'. Nevermind, it just finished and I see that yes, I have the creators update. Hip Hip Hooray! Now, after almost two and a half hours, I might be able to get back to work!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 19-Jul-17 11:48am.
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Come on, come on! It's been nearly 40 minutes since your last update... We can't hold our breath any longer! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, it's called patch Tuesday, not patch 5 minutes.
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"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Did you get CU rev 170624-1334? I was forced to install it a few days ago.
It works fine, except for one minor irritation in Edge:
If you click on a link that's supposed to open a page on a new tab, it works - once. The second time it will open a completely blank page on the new tab, while the page you expected to see, opens on the previous tab. Ah well. 
By the way: My install got stuck for about an hour, at around 80% progress. I did the unthinkable: I forced a restart, and then the install was suddenly complete. Don't try this at home!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 19-Jul-17 13:14pm.
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It appears to be version 1703. I still don't use Edge despite their repeated efforts to convince me otherwise...mostly for incompatibility issues with SSRS, something they may have fixed with SSRS 2016. I'll find out next week after the server migration as it unfortunately won't run on server 2008. It was time for an update anyway. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have three new Windows 10 HP laptops side by side and each one of them has different issues with windows update. including forcing me to uninstall the anti-virus so it can complete!!
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Odd, I had no problems with the patches. Wait - I'm running Win7.
/ravi
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Quote: I'm running Win7
Do they still burn witches in your neck of the woods? 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Am very happy with Win7!
/ravi
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