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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Quite possible : we have to listen to Microsoft's messages.
Any difficulty to use Visual Studio on it ?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: There is; I used it. And checked in Private mode to be sure, and yes, there is; at the top of the list. Want a screenshot?
Well, why not, I do not see it ...
How do I send a screen copy, do I host it on cjoint.com ?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: So are you using Linux or Windows to write this post and reply to it?
I use Windows 10. I have next to see the vendor about a few problems, and then make some place for a Unix partition.
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It was fun; didn't seem to make sense to get a mail with "quote selected text", and could almost feel your frustration after.
Gluups Quite possible : we have to listen Microsoft's messages.
If you work with their product, you'd better.
Gluups wrote: Well, why not, I do not see it ...
How do I send a screen copy, do I host it on cjoint.com ?
Host is anywhere and include a link here.
Gluups wrote: I use Windows 10. I have next to see the vendor about a few problems, and then make some place for a Unix partition.
You don't have to; install any pendrivelinux-supported distribution on a USB stick and give it a try.
As for MS forcing you to login to use your OS; it is their product. If you don't like it, then don't use it. Won't make major companies suddenly switch to Linux; your own choice.
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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you work with their product, you'd better.
For sure. And if their message is "hurry up to install another system", it is somewhat destabilizing.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Host is anywhere and include a link here.
Here it is
Eddy Vluggen wrote: You don't have to; install any pendrivelinux-supported distribution on a USB stick and give it a try.
That is also a possibility. But maybe I have to change my machine next, and so that is the occasion to reserve some place on the disk.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: As for MS forcing you to login to use your OS; it is their product. If you don't like it, then don't use it. Won't make major companies suddenly switch to Linux; your own choice.
Sure. I also have a magnifying glass I bought by the optician, but I feel this is not a normal way to access a key part of the system.
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Gluups wrote: Here it is
Green button at the top toggles all.
Gluups wrote: Sure. I also have a magnifying glass I bought by the optician, but I feel this is not a normal way to access a key part of the system.
You haven't bought a product, but a software-license.
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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Who cares about cookies? Why all the crying over cookies? 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Its not the cookies - its the spilled milk that they are crying over.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Milk and cookies. Mmmmmm. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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A movie from 1929 that shows the launch of a three stage rocket to fly to the moon. Earlier in the movie they even showed the flight path of the rocket through the Lagrangian point[^]. And the movie uses a countdown for the first time.
Rollout[^]
Launch[^]
It's more a self fulfilling prophecy. The advisor for the movie was Hermann Oberth, rocket scientist and Wernher von Braun's teacher.
Here we have the decoration on an A4 rocket from 1942, which references the title of the movie: Woman in the moon[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 24-Feb-20 12:46pm.
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Sure he did, but he shot them there with a cannon. What was his plan to get back home, assuming there was no cannon conveniently parked on the moon?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, I never read the book, but it seems the plan was to land on the moon but instead they got into an orbit around the moon and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
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This seems apropos to the day, since we learned that Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures" passed away today at age 101![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
NY Times Obit for Katherine Johnson
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What, there are people who have a clue what they're talking about, when they write Sci-Fi?
That's just cheating!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It featured a mouse travelling to the moon. There wouldn't be a movie about that in English until 1963!
I don't remember the part about using a divining rod to search for water on the moon. Now I'll need to watch it again. 
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One of my childhood books was the 1963 vintage "The NEW Junior Book" from the Readers Diggable. It might be something published by the Norwegian publishers of the Diggable, but I assume that it was published all over the US dominated world, in different translations (like most books in this class were, in those days).
One of the digests in this book is "Summary of 'First Men to the Moon', (c) Werner von Braun 1958, 1959, 1960", filling no less than 14 large-format pages. I was immensely disappointed when I first discovered that this was a made up history - noone had ever been on the moon! And then, people did land on the moon, but it wasn't at all like the story from Readers Diggable! ...
Then, with Apollo 13, history took revenge! The Werner von Braun story of the meteorite punctuatinhg the space ship created a drama not that different from Apollo 13!
The Diggable book says nothing about where the Werner von Braun story had been published earlier. Maybe it was created for this book alone, 3-5 years earlier, and never published anywhere else.
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Smells spammy to me.
(Ah, so it's site-driving then?)
modified 24-Feb-20 14:28pm.
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Did you read it, or just sniff the link on the screen? 😆
The OP is serious question, with a reference to a specific observation. Agree or disagree is fine, but why one comes to that conclusion makes for good discussion.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Smells spammy to me.
It did a bit to me, too, but the OP has a few CP articles under his belt, so I temporarily unblocked linkedin and had a look.
Nothing for sale, just an article about what it says on the tin.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I prefer to continue to use the traditional way: Go to the harbor, fill up some developers and drag them aboard.
What? Sailors? That could actually be the reason why all my ships sank and all software projects ended in chaos...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I can see the overall point. It would be nice to have more technically-minded people in what are traditionally considered non-technical roles since the duties of those roles are inextricably linked to some degree with technical details, but I disagree with shoving PM+BA duties entirely onto lead devs in all but the smallest of projects. There are only 24 hours in a day.
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Good point. If a lead who is a software engineer cannot distill the PM and BA duties down to about 30% of their time, then they are not right for a “Soup to nuts” lead.
I know this approach is feasible because I have done it and known others who did it, and did it well. But many, perhaps more than half of, software engineers just do not have (or want) the multidisciplinary knowledge, skills, and abilities to do it well.
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MSBassSinger wrote: perhaps more than half of, software engineers just do not have (or want) the multidisciplinary knowledge, skills, and abilities to do it well.
Which is fine, and they should be paid less. 
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ZurdoDev wrote: Which is fine, and they should be paid less.
Seriously? The entire march of history is about economic specialization. If someone is great at software, why saddle them with product management, project management, or other things suggested in this article? Those roles should be filled by people who are also good at those roles, but they don't make someone a software team lead from a technical standpoint.
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Greg Utas wrote: If someone is great at software, why saddle them with product management, project management, or other things suggested in this article?
Because it's a small team.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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