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Hate to break the news, but you can all this information from various online services--you just have to pay a few bucks. (Wouldn't surprise me if this data is from one of those services.)
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Reshaping a 44-year-old company to focus on redesigning its future isn’t going to be easy. Battleship grey ought to be enough for everyone
And blink/marquee. Their high-water marks.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Reshaping a 44-year-old company to focus on redesigning its future isn’t going to be easy.
They are proving the point with each new update and step "forward"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Have they learned that hiring qualified QA is worth it?
It's also helpful to have a company president who isn't an idiot.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Battleship grey ought to be enough for everyone
and no one ever use more than 64k of RAM
Ford once said, you can get a car in any color ypou want, as long as you want black!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Docker Hub lost keys and tokens for around 190,000 accounts, which could have downstream effects if hackers used them to access source code at big companies. That's OK, they probably can't figure out Docker enough to use the information
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There is no good technological reason for the creation of a core memory card for the Arduino 32-bits ought to be enough for everyone
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A while ago I ranted about Microsoft and how they have broken the FileVersionInfo API. I posted a bug report about it and the buck was passed to the OS group.
Today I received an e-mail that stated a comment was posted to my report. It was from a MS person who stated, Quote: We are so sorry for you are experiencing. Could you please update your vs to the latest build: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes . If the issue still repro, please create a new feedback for us . Thanks.
Well great, flying elephants. Their answer is get a new version of the compiler and see if that happens to fix the problem. In other words, please test this for us. We can't be bothered to.
Uh, no. HELL NO!!!
From what I have read, VS2019 has zero compelling reasons for me to update. I have managed to mitigate, work around, or just ignore my numerous annoyances with VS2017 and I really don't want to start all over with that. Plus, I am in the middle of an extensive development project and really don't need the headache or distraction of a new compiler when there is no reason for it.
Apparently, the OS group has punted on this problem and consider it a non-issue. All righty then.
What really annoys me is twenty years ago I wrote my own little development environment with a script language and debugger and when I had an update ready I ran it through a torture test that checked all kinds of stuff, every aspect of the language, and all of the environment's library functions - every single one. It took a little while to run but it was very thorough and I considered it necessary. This resulted in very, very few bugs escaping into the wild. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had one. Anyway, I know the Win32 API is quite extensive but I can't believe Microsoft, with its regiments of programmers, can't manage something comparable.
EoR
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Maybe they don't know how. I wouldn't be at all surprised.
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Insider news, really?
Slow down with the kool aid!
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Have it moved. I don't care.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Come down please! Don't compare your script dev what ever with what MS manages very successful (serves millions of users) with more or less no problems.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That is side-splittingly hilarious. "More or less no problems" my fat ass. They have a forum with thousands of bug reports and I will compare those two things if I damned well want to. It's just a question of magnitude and the scales are roughly proportional. Me (one guy) verifying a few hundred API functions versus Microsoft (with many thousands of guys) verify several thousand API functions. Plus, once the verification code is written the process of verifying is quite simple - click and watch.
The real absurdity of my problem is code using that API can't even link or load correctly, both my code and their sample code. As far as verification goes, that's about as easy to check as it gets.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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abmv wrote: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Microsoft-RVW13869308.htm
From there, what ms employees say about ms: "Poor review system promotes mediocrity" (in 530 reviews)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OT. How does this shuffle ahead of more recent posts?
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It's evergreen
TTFN - Kent
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Rick York wrote: I can't believe Microsoft, with its regiments of programmers, can't manage something comparable.
So, you're saying you don't have much of an imagination?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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When it comes to companies in a near-monopolistic position who don't do what I think is the right thing to do, yes, I do not have much of an imagination.
What it boils down to is occasionally my cynicism fails to overcome my idealism. Realism is somewhere in the middle of the two, but closer to the side of cynicism.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It’s been 18 years since the members of “The Agile Alliance” wrote this manifesto. "Everyone's a critic"
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It entirely misses the point that because X does Y, doesn't mean that if everyone who does Y will become X.
Successful developers tend to have a forehead, but somehow they left that off their manifesto.
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This machine learning model produces never-before-heard music based on its knowledge of artists and a few bars to fake it with. "Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune"
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VomitNet responds appropriately.
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Amazon’s fulfillment centers are the engine of the company — massive warehouses where workers track, pack, sort, and shuffle each order before sending it on its way to the buyer’s door. "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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The report claims more than 70% of the entire attacks Kaspersky Lab caught are targeting “Microsoft office,” amongst which only 14% take advantage of browser issues. Very Believable Announcement
Seeing as how they practically train people to "drop your document security to zero" to get macros to work (at least at one of my work sites), it's not overly surprising.
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