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Joan M wrote: have you been able to avoid it?
Linux?  
Skype should have an option to "run when logging in", "run maximized" or soemthing similar hidden in the settings.
Slack... I don't know. I haven't used it.
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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When working with a client, I never do a startup at their premises; I setup the windows I want open etc, then suspend (or if it's a long journey to them hibernate) and just resume when I'm there. That way no unexpected stuff, and no time wasted firing up tools I'll need.
Where possible I'll also use their display (be it a large monitor or projector) and startup the machine before plugging in their monitor cable - again, no risk of stuff being visible that "shouldn't" be.
I use a local email client (Thunderbird) that's set not to download messages except on demand.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The nice way is to check the settings of each program.
The easy way is not to have programs that you don't want.
If you need these products but don't want clients to see them, why not have two PCs - one for 'personal' use and one for client demonstration.
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Or virtual machines
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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So the insider news mentioned something about low-code and within a couple of links I was looking up just what it is.
My best approximation is that it's the heir-apparent to the Agile coders modus operandi.
This will, at least, let managers do all the things they want done and flash deliverables and meet schedules and . . .
"A million monkeys on a million typewriters for a million years"
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Our place is jumping on the lo-code/no-code bandwagon. You should see some of the dross that is being produced. 
"Hey, look at me, I'm programming!"
No sir, you are not. You most certainly are not. 
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Strangely enough, it reminds me of formal methods: a quixotic quest. I'd believe "no code"--outside of a constrained problem domain--if the input was a spec written in natural language and the output was code. Although this would be impressive, it would merely shift the problem from one of writing unambiguous, correct code to one of writing unambiguous, correct specs. But think of the benefit. A lot of literature majors and lawyers could finally find constructive work!
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Lawyers? 
They can't write unambiguous and correct English and they have special classes in it!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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From what I observe, it's more than lawyers - it's the whole "smartphone" tribe.
U know that!
So it seems to be too little too late.
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You should understand that 99% of the lawyers give the rest a bad name.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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No code is SAP. It also has some 8,000+ tables and several thousand modules and business rules to choose from. There are now industry templates, to help with the picking.
Used to be that being an SAP consultant was a ticket to financial independence.
It can also sink a company. And has.
(No code really means big cloud servers and service fees ... just like your 70's "data centers". That was "no code" too: mostly Payrolls.)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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| You have inspired me to rename "Low Code" to something more appropriate:
Karaoke Programming
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Very good!
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Some Low Code environments can do everything .Net can do without writing a single line of code. They are very powerful.
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That's called "no code".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Someone always has to write the "deep code", and only a fool would trust that to some unknown party (in Elbonia).
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It's turtles, all the way down!
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FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And I thought your fix was going to be
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What! And send Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen to the Cat food factory?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I had no clue what you were talking about, so I had to look it up. At least he didn't relegate Ganesha to that role!
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I built a system like this years ago for a company I worked for and it worked well within the business model. It basically cut massive amounts of coding out of "vertical" applications we were building for clients and allowed my employer and our clients to make rapid changes.
It was actually pretty neat, but it wasn't entirely cookie cutter. Just most of it was.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Many years ago I worked for a building society (I think that equates to a savings and loan in USA). They had a simple solution to development. The systems analysts would talk to the business managers and figure out what was necessary for the programmers. They then wrote a detailed and fairly logical specification of what each module should do. We (the humble coders) would then turn that into assembler code (or sometimes Cobol) and build and test (using punched card batch input). Very few projects were not delivered on time, but we knew nothing of Agile, Scrum etc. Any consultant looking at that today would probably tell us why we were doing it all wrong.
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But in that era, the people doing the coding were true professionals. And they knew what they were doing.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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