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I used to work in an office where a guy had an ogre style voice that growled "Am I disturbing you?" whenever an email arrived. Which was about every minute or so.
Stopped being funny by about the third minute ...
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I guess a long time ago. I lead developer should have bought a keg to figure it out. The keg was for the team he was leading. Techies be techies
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Heh, I used a Jetson's quote, "You must have goofed up somewhere", when there was a compiler error.
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The day I'm required to code in a cube farm (or worse - in a open office) is the day I quit. 
OriginalGriff wrote: Dumb idea, MS. Just dumb.
They'll position it as part of their support for the blind - audible icons. 
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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I used them back in the day, well the events breakpoint and the like, but then I did use headphones.
"Where's the KaBoom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KaBoom."
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I'm also glad I don't code in a cube farm (I would never do that!) but I do make cautious use of the audio cues. (I work alone in my own office in my own home.) I sometimes leave a long-running debug session to continue while I get on with something else. A discreet "ding" when it hits a breakpoint is quite helpful.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Windows has always been filled with audio cues. Most of us turn them all off - the only two I allow on our systems are the dock and undock signals. I'm not surprised that VS now has them.
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You thread title got me thinking. The 'farm' word is used in relation to a number of things in the hi tech world (cube farm , render farm, etc.). The term is probably used to point the repeating pattern that emerges in some hi tech environments with distinct items looking the same and executing identical work, which makes a dumb approach to things from a programmer`s perspective.
I wander, could a certain central district in Madrid be referred to using the label "farm".
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So, I get an email from Google telling me I have until Sep 30th to set up billing for my Workspace Business starter account. For which, I have no recollection. So, I connect (after resetting my forgotten password). There is email in there, the newest item from Feb 2013. I guess I had this "try it you will like it plan" some 9 years ago. Go Figure.
Don't plan to set up any billing, wonder if they will carry me for another 9?
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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If you want to keep it, they backed down from forcing those accounts to be paid. You can promise them[^] it's a non-business account and it will stay free.
TTFN - Kent
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Thanks for that. I had forgotten the account.
So, I can promise to play nice and then forget it again. What a deal.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Mysterious whale swims around augmented reality. (6)
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Arcane?
Whale (cane) swims around AR?
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What's the whale <-> cane connection?
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Apparently there is whale cane - I thought it was arcane purely because it has the the rca from orca in it and ar - but I've done one this week
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think it's "to whale away at someone" = thrash = cane. Rather tenuous IMO.
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Arcane, even. 
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The last two cryptograph clues were not Ximenean at all, I had Dilatory on my list yesterday but removed it early on because Tory doesn't mean politician.
And today we get Whale which is a slang term.
Whale[^]
Cane[^]
modified 16-Aug-22 7:02am.
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In the UK members of the Conservative Party are known as Tories. Hence a Tory is a politician.
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...as is a holder of conservative principles, or a supporter of the British cause during the American revolution. I get the link but not all Tories are politicians by any means. Never come across "whale" in that sense, either. But we live and learn - that's one of the things I enjoy about the daily CCC!
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DerekT-P wrote: but not all Tories are politicians
Quite true; but I was trying to keep things simple. I just looked up whale in Chambers and it gives: whale (vt) to thrash violently.
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Yes I was pushing it a bit with tory but the other part was Ximenean, I've never heard of whale being synonymous with cane though.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well, I seemed to have caused quite a stir! 
It would appear I got a little too cute setting my clue. I will admit to the tenuocity (hey, if I'm going to set an improper clue I might as well use an improper word too) of the whale-cane connection. It seemed OK when I thought it up but upon reading the above I stand corrected. It seems I was assuming some equality property of synonyms (whale can mean beat, cane can mean beat, so obviously whale can mean cane - and vice versa  ) Actually, to me, cane can mean to beat, but it implies a stick is involved, whereas whale has more of a Chuck Norris connotation.
I've read several articles on Ximenean crossword rules. I've read the rules, I understand the words in the rules but not always how to apply them. It's like telling my sister that addition is commutative. She'll accept that statement as true but has no idea what it means or how it's applied.
So, like today whale-cane: not Ximenean. Agreed. Too far apart in meaning making it an unfair clue. Yesterday's clue: politician-tory also not Ximenean. Not sure why. A Tory can be but not necessarily is a politician; a politician can be but not necessarily is a Tory. I started down my arcane clue path using a staff-cane connection. I've seen that used in clues a few times, once even here on CP I think. Is that Ximenean? Based on observation I'd say no. What would be?
Anyway, I'm not going to let fear of Ximenes stop me from trying. I do believe I'm failing better now. As Derek says, live and learn. Also, thanks for all the discussion, it will help me out in the future (maybe you too if and when I next set one  ).
Eleven guys and a barcode standard. (8) Ximenean? 
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No need to whale yourself. I've seen far worse, and some might say that about a few of mine.
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