|
And I purposely let it expire.
I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content.
As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time.
- I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development.
- Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems.
- The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas.
- No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues.
IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump
it.
Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
|
|
|
|
|
Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile.
it's not rocket science as to why CODE magazine and others like it are declining in useful content for windows development.
That is my knee jerk reaction to your post. I could be very wrong here.
Kevin Marois wrote: If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump
it.
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker007 wrote: Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile.
I guess that depeneds on what you mean by 'decline'. As I mentioned, there is no shortage of Windows development work that I can see. Most of it seems to be at the corporate level, where companies have IT departments running internal apps. But shiny, flashy new web apps are a dime a dozen, so it's probably a trade of. Both have their uses.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
|
|
|
|
|
The lack of "windows" on web / mobile is a function of the (lame) browser and small (mobile) screens and / or lack of multi-tasking.
The MR / VR headsets (also "mobile") have operating systems that feature "windows" ... because they can. The browser is just another app (window) in this case.
Virtual space / holographics means windows are practical (again).
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
|
|
|
|
|
Kevin Marois wrote: No reader feedback.
At a guess ... no readers.
Printed magazines - particularly computer ones - have been dying for decades. Remember "Computer World[^]"?
Every week a printed lump arrived and was perused while compiling / assembling. Went fully digital kinda late (2014) and was pretty dead from the 90's onward.
Even the printed computer games mags appear to have died - I used to get PC Zone every month - but I haven' seen one even on a shelf in the supermarket for years!
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
True, but I got it both in print and electronically.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
|
|
|
|
|
Too bad, I always liked Code Magazine but as you said the articles are not that appealing anymore.
You can read it online too btw: CODE Magazine Home[^]
|
|
|
|
|
Kevin Marois wrote: If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump
it.
Sage advice regarding any "resource." 
|
|
|
|
|
When they operated on my father, did they open my mother's mail?
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
I assume that the surgeon was a woman. Gentlemen don't open other people's mail. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
I always considered fee-mail as another word for bills.
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
They should stamp that sort of thing out. But did the surgeon have letters after his name, and what did he say post-op?
|
|
|
|
|
|
to be fair, this kind of data breach/hack can happen to any company now, not just Facebook.
|
|
|
|
|
And while Facebook is one of the juicier targets, they have more resources than most to throw at the problem, so it's really no excuse.
And given the nature of the data they host, they have more incentive than anybody else to ensure data security is a huge priority that gets its own fully staffed, well-funded department.
|
|
|
|
|
Facebook has a history of data breaches and selling data. Remember, Zuckerberg got pissed when he found out they sold data to a pro-Trump research group in 2016.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm on FB, so I can expect more body-part-enlargement-pills-spam coming my way soon? Hopefully these ones will wo... I mean, I'll delete them as soon as I get them, thanks for the heads up! 
|
|
|
|
|
Sander Rossel wrote: body-part-enlargement-pills-spam
Mind-expanding pills, I trust... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
Males are known to have two heads when it comes to making certain types of decisions - so mind expansion, one way or another ?
| Ravings en masse^ |
|---|
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
No, the ones I'm talking about aren't illegal 
|
|
|
|
|
Years ago I actually got one of these that promised to expand my parts, regardless of gender.
|
|
|
|
|
With some luck, perhaps your account is not on the list, and this can by checked on the website of Troy Hunt “have i been pwned?”, afaik. Tested this myself recently  , the website seems like a good idea ...
modified 5-Apr-21 13:17pm.
|
|
|
|
|
I've been coming up on haveibeenpwnd for years.
One is a hack of a website that copied data from LinkedIn and the other is a scrape of a MongoDB database that copied data from LinkedIn 
Both instances contain only public data I believe, since they probably copied it from my LinkedIn page directly.
Still, it's a frightening thought that services that I didn't even sign up to (heck, I don't even know) are still leaking my data.
People say "just don't create a FB account", but they don't know FB is still tracking you through things such as like buttons on other pages you visit.
If you think not creating an account (on FB, Google, Amazon...) will keep you safe you're going to have a bad time.
And that's why we need strict regulation.
Except people don't care because "they've got nothing to hide" and so big tech can grow even bigger and keep collecting abusing our data 
|
|
|
|
|
*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
This code should compile but it doesn't
using mono1 = pixel<
channel_traits<channel_name::L,1> >;
mono1 m=color<mono1>::White;
I spent the last two weeks working on a graphics library, only to find out after all is said and done that part of it doesn't work correctly.
None of this is supposed to generate code that executes at run time - except a single assignment from the const value 1, but it won't initialize
The problem is in order to make it work correctly, I need to redesign a significant portion of it.
All of this could have been avoided if the C++ compiler would have thrown an error on my constexpr marked routines like it should have. I know why it didn't - because the offending bits were in a template function which wasn't being instantiated - but still, it should have, because I say so. 
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 5-Apr-21 8:08am.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
