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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Apparently, you can disable it, though.
I wonder how this works vs in the current W10 release? In the latter I have it disabled as collateral damage from wanting start menu search to be local system only; Because Reasons(wtfm) flipping that switch also disables Cortana from the taskbar search (and everywhere else in the OS). As a result it's the most visible headline feature that I've never even tried. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Asking here because I'm hoping a knowledgeable Win32 developer will know the answer:
Would it be possible to use SetWindowsHookEx to intercept messages to and from the Cortana process and just swallow them so Cortana couldn't actually do anything?
I know this wouldn't be useful if it's still possible to disable Cortana. But sometimes I like to take on little projects that are useless but fun. 
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If Microsoft fixed it, I'm fine with that. Unfortunately, right now Cortana on the desktop is useless. (Google Voice on Android really isn't much better. Usually, if you ask either to take you to a configuration setting, they'll start a web search.)
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Not all that useful on a phone, either. Pops up randomly, if there's a loud enough ambient sound.
And HAS to be turned on in order the Bluetooth-Text Message Reading to work.
Freaking stupid.
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Virtualization, cloud data storage, micro-services, the "DevOps" approach to building and running applications, and a number of other factors have significantly changed how organizations store and manage their data. Who else is going to reject your stored proc request?
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According to the organization, today about 90% of teams use Scrum, and more than 1 million people have taken the Scrum.org assessments. You know what would help them finish it? Scrum.
90% of teams use it? Have I missed them all?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Have I missed them all?
Yes, they all stopped using agile when they realized it was only ever meant to be a joke...
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Out of 6 teams I have worked with claiming to use Scrum only 1 did so . The others just used Scrumfall or some other Fr-agile methodology and lived in total denial . And it was always the same in every case , every case the business refused to step up as Product owner and basically bullied the devs . And this is speaking as someone who has worked as developer , Scrum Master and Dev manager .
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Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s third interactive ranking of the most popular programming languages. As defined by the official IEEE random number generator
Although they do use more criteria than the other RNGs
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While we can all agree agile is better than waterfall development, the iterative methodology has an awful lot of detractors from it's history of misuse. Because we've seen too many other "Silver Bullets"?
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Because it doesn't work?
Years of failure must tell us something. Either we're all stupid (possible) or agile (in its present form) does not work when the rules are slavishly adhered to. Actually, nothing works properly when you have slavish adherence to a set of rules that can only be applied to a very limited set of specific contexts none of which ever seem to fit the real world.
I propose a symposium to discuss and formulate the next big thing - I say we call it "contextual development". [Edit: looks like some smartass already thought of that so how about "sensible development" or is that too straightforward?]
[Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
Any takers?
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: [Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
That's the bees knees of names, mate!
I'm in as long as we could have status meetings every 2 hours with this new shiny methodology.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: [Edit: "holistic synergy application development"?]
Does it come with incense and free massages?
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At last a methodology with a happy ending.
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no, but you get free sausages. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I suggest clustered elephant development.
Because elephants never forget anything and a cluster looks like a meeting; and that'll help get PHB buyin. 
Thinking about this a little more, cluster also has the scent of cloud computing on it; so we'd be buzzword compliant from the start. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 27-Jul-16 9:00am.
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That's like "sensible gun laws". They're only sensible to the people that make them up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I suggest Rapid Clusterfuck Development?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I have written an article about the topic of the thread but can't decide if I should post it or not. Hmm.
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Might better be a soapbox item.  
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Haha: no, it's not quite as whimsical as this thread!
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Because - and I may have said this before - "Agile" is a team management process, not a software development process. When it is explicitly used as a software development process it doesn't work...but nor should it, because that is not what it is for.
Then, of course, we have airline magazine articles from the weavers of the fog like:
"Agile for distributed development teams"
"Agile for the enterprise"
etc. that just compound the madness.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: "Agile" is a team management process, not a software development process.
Thank you. 
It amazes me how otherwise reasonably intelligent persons think you can somehow slap on an agile process to a dev team and magically solve its woes. If your company doesn't operate in an agile manner, don't waste your time trying this.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: If your company doesn't operate in an agile manner, don't waste your time trying this.
BINGO! DING! DING! DING! DING! ...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: BINGO! DING! DING! DING! DING! ...
Heh. 
In my previous and current lives, it was the CEO who decided that we (the company as a whole) would operate in an agile fashion. We had to take the time to educate the entire workforce before this happened. I ![Heart | [heart]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) working in small early-stage companies where a large percentage of management is technically competent. As a developer, I rarely have to explain or dumb down things to management. Or beg for better hardware or tools.
/ravi
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