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Faith in your team members. I was the team lead for a group called Area51 because what we did was a secret. And because of the nature of this group we were always understaffed. Management came to me and said that he had a guy that none of the other teams wanted and could I use the help. Of course I could. He then said you should know why the other teams did not want him. I said I didn't want to know, that was between him and them.
So he reports to me, I told him where his office was and when he was settled in, came back and I'll tell hin his job. When he came back I told him. He seemed a little overwhelmed. He asked how he was to do that. I said if I knew I wouldn't need him. Go research it and come back with some options. I knew how to do it, but I wanted him invested in it. He came back with some interesting approaches. We talked about the pros/cons of each approach. Then he said which one would I take. I said that was not relevant, I wasn't going to do it, he was. Go decide which one and put together a plan and schedule. When he came back he had chosen the one I would have, the one most likely to succeed. His schedule was a little optimistic - as usual with engineers. So I said he needed to add a little time for things that don't go right and I said have at it. If you have problems let's talk about them sooner than later.
Well he delivered - on his optimistic schedule. I praised him for that in staff mtg. In private he asked if I knew about his previous problems with the other teams. I said I knew he had them but I didn't know what they were, they were not my business - unless he wanted to tell me. He then asked if he knew why he kept to the optimistic schedule. Without waiting for an answer he said because you had faith in me and I wanted to earn that. I wanted to prove that it was not misplaced.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain so, treat a man as you want him to be and that is what he'll become.
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This is a glorious tale, thank you for sharing it! (and well done)
TTFN - Kent
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There was a company policy to order dinner for everyone working after 7:30. I was doing a very key part, complicated and tricky. So in order to maintain a train of though, I had worked about 12 hours that day when they came around to take my dinner order. It was another team lead. He said this is great, he took a dinner order for evry member of his team. I said it is greater that every one of my team members are at home eating dinner with their family and they will all be in early tomorrow morning refreshed are raring to go and will have done more before your team arrives than most do all day.
My team always over delivered in under time while the rest of the company under delivered in over time.
My reward for that was I was replaced and let go. Most of the team members left the company soon after.
The CFO was so angry with management that he forced them to compensate me for letting me go. They put me on a $1000/month retainer until they sold the company and all my stock options payed off.
Failure is rewarded, success is punished. I coined that while working for Novell for 10 and 1/2 years. Which was 10 years too many.
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A long article that never mentioned one important behavior in a leader: shielding the team from external nonsense, like corporate politics or customers who call developers.
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Greg Utas wrote: one important behavior in a leader: shielding the team from external nonsense,
not to forget the internal nonsense too... (a.k.a. Time killer useless meetings)
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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Windows Autopatch is designed to make it easier for IT staffers to handle Microsoft’s software updates. They're going to talk to that company producing all those annoying software updates?
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The road to hell is paved with Windows updates.
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Quote: Besides keeping Windows current on workers’ machines, Windows Autopatch will handle updates for Office applications and Edge internet browsers.
So it patches the same stuff that Windows Update does today. Meaning instead of a new Icon, they just came up with a new name that they can charge more for? 
Quote: It’s called Windows Autopatch and will come standard in Windows Enterprise E3 and E5, which organizations can deploy by subscribing to Microsoft 365.
Isn't the biggest problem that the IT Dept at MegaConglomoCorp has with updates that their cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) of software/hardware is so fragile that monthly updates frequently break something. Renaming Windows Update's automatic post-patch Tuesday install and reboot won't help with that at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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Honey might be a sweet solution for developing environmentally friendly components for neuromorphic computers, systems designed to mimic the neurons and synapses found in the human brain. Sweet!
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I do? I am? 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You are!
Most brain-like.
(Actually, I’m shocked that a few of your creations haven’t started taking over)
TTFN - Kent
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It's just a load of buzz.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Microsoft Corp. today revealed how it has been working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop and test artificial intelligence models in orbit aboard the International Space Station. It looks like you're trying to orbit the Earth. Would you like help with that?
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Microsoft is bringing tabs to the File Explorer in Windows 11 soon, alongside a refreshed design that makes it easier to quickly access folders or find favorite files. Take two tabs and find the file in the morning
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Surprised they're not making it into a web app. Then you could have all the tabs you want!  But rounded corners were so hard in CSS for so long! Maybe that's why not.
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I find it amusing that they didn't mention that it also contains ads...
".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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The biggest innovative technologies include Lumen, the dynamic lighting system that eliminates the need for pre-baked lights, and Nanite, the micro-polygon geometry system that offers much higher details while also taking the usual scaling systems out of the developers hands to free up time and resources. So it is real then?
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No it's still complex.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Code shack GitHub is aiming to help users avoid inadvertent leaks of confidential objects like access tokens by scanning repository content for such secrets before a git push is executed. Get the gits out before you get got
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Microsoft is looking to blur the lines between physical Windows 11 and Windows 365 Cloud PCs with a number of new features coming 'soon.' Into every life a few Cloud PCs may roll in
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Her Majesty's Treasury plans to enter the crypto asset game with the issuance of the nation's first official NFT sometime later this year. It's a picture of the Queen, with a sailing hat and laser eyes
*accuracy of this blurb not guaranteed
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Quote: Turkey seeks 40,000-year sentences for alleged cryptocurrency exit scammers
One of the headlines on that page, awesome!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in some Android smartphones could be used to eavesdrop on a user's credentials when the user types these credentials using the smartphone's on-screen keyboard, making it an effective target for hacking. What kind of world do we live in when we can't even trust the devices monitoring our very lives?
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If you are currently using .NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, or 4.6.1 runtime you need to update your deployed runtime to a more recent version – at least .NET Framework 4.6.2 before April 26, 2022 – in order to continue to receive updates and technical support. Too many versions of .NET? Why would you think that?
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Carefully limiting choices (and complexity) lets developers focus on innovation and not worry about security and operations. Don't think of it as a ball and chain, think of it as an opportunity!
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