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You get 15 minutes?!?! I get 5 as deemed by Security. I'm entering my password to unlock about 150 times a day on about 20 machines.
What you're bitching about again?
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There is nothing like being a domain administrator (and I used my rights to cancel password renewal every 90 days  )...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Depending on how strick the admin are.....there is a mouse juggler program (or write one yourself) that will stop the screen saver / password from coming on 
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Hey, try this one: remote into a server, forget to wiggle your mouse from time-to-time to keep it open, screen times out and you lose your session and everything that you had running stops.
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Change your password to something that is easy to type fast.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My answer to idiotic group policy settings was to write a small application that overwrote those settings. I then set up a scheduled task to run it every 15 minutes when I am logged in (GP is updated once every 30-90 minutes). Only rarely do those policies ever show up.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Group policy disables the UI on my machine, but I am local admin sooo....HKCU -> Control Panel -> Desktop -> ScreenSaveTimeOut
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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...are masochists.
(it's been a rough day with Android)
I just need to add that trying to find and run an actual Xamarin example project for Visual Studio that works out of the box seems nigh impossible.
What has happened to development? We used to share code, throw it at a compiler and it would compile. That's simply not the case these days. Nuget packages disappearing or being updated so they provide conflicts with other libraries; the npn nightmare of downloads hundreds of Mb of packages; The mind boggling Android SDK hunt and seek (and make sure you have plenty of disk space); the soul destroying walled garden around iOS development. Not to mention the explosion of here-today-gone-tomorrow frameworks.
Something's gotta give. This space is ripe for an upheaval.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 23-Oct-17 21:17pm.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Nuget packages disappearing or being updated so they provide conflicts with other libraries; the npn nightmare of downloads hundreds of Mb of packages
And NOW you want to bitch about open source and the fracturing of the tech stack. BRING BACK SILVERLIGHT. Now there was a tech stack I could deal with.
I know you are talking about android development but the same argument applies.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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And people wonder why I still haven't moved onto mobile development. I'm still waiting for things to settle and a clear winner to be identified. Frankly at this rate I'm beginning to doubt I'm ever going to do any serious mobile development before I retire (and I'm in my 40s).
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Everything will boil down to TypeScript and HTML.
Or, and this is a long shot, C# will win. Microsoft are killing it with their work on cross-platform. That would make me laugh till I cried.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Apparently the guys who develop this framework (ahem Microsoft now) don't develop any android apps ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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So glad you posted this. It's all so true.
It's more about tooling and libraries and hunting and all that bother than it is about actually programming.
I complain about Xamarin and in the same moment I think it is quite amazing and quite terrible.
It does all this -- suddenly turns to it does nothing!
I develop native Android and think, "You know what I think Android is the best of all. Then I run into this problem -- Android Nougat: Why do checkboxes on Fragment have incomplete state when selected programmatically (but look fine on Lollipop) - Stack Overflow[^]
...and I think Android is terrible. 
I move begin work on native iOS on the same app and I think, "Oh no, I have to do all that stuff again. Give me Xamarin!"
Then I switch it up and write the app as a Web app (HTML5, JavaScript, Bootstrap) and I go crazy all over again. All because of caching issues with JS and weirdness on specific mobile devices.
The WinForm app works really well, but of course when anyone wants to install it then Windows warns them it's an unsigned app and could be dangerous. 
Well, that means I need to get it into the Win10 App Store, but to do that I need to write it as a UWA. Arghgh!!!
Man, can I catch a break? You're worn out by the end of the day.
Then, the sun rises and you try it all again. 
I thought it was supposed to be one world with one platform by now, eh? 
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raddevus wrote: Then I switch it up and write the app as a Web app (HTML5, JavaScript, Bootstrap) and I go crazy all over again
You mean it's not even easy as a HTML app? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: You mean it's not even easy as a HTML app?
Easy, yes.
Complicated? Definitely.
There's no firm foundation out there. Everything is shifting sand.
Microsoft, the world was easier when you pwned us devs. 
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raddevus wrote: Microsoft, the world was easier when you pwned us devs.
That's so sad because it's so true and it makes me feel dirty and wistful at the same time.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: makes me feel dirty and wistful at the same time.
That's the perfect explanation of how it feels. 
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raddevus wrote: I thought it was supposed to be one world with one platform by now, eh?
I believe this classic xkcd[^] applies.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: this classic xkcd[^] applies.
That is probably the best explanation of the situation I've seen.
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The only way I can see around this is if some new framework which includes a virtual machine that has all the dependencies resolved comes into existence. The framework vm would then need to kick out the binaries with all dependenceis mathematically proven. Then developers will have a development environment that 'works' and a deployment that is proven.
I say all of this from living in cloud cuckoo land...
One of the issues I have seen where we all pull from trunk and 'some people' download and make changes that are then not submitted to trunk so that the build works perfectly locally for them but then trunk is broken and it takes a few days to fix trunk.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 24-Oct-17 4:26am.
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Would require actually hiring people.
Wish me luck! (I seriously doubt the company, a global company) will go for it, as it will require them front-loading 50% of the payment for the staffing process, but I figure my proposal could at least serve as a baseline for vetting proposals from "real" companies that already have the existing staff to handle something like this.
Who knows.
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Or possibly, your proposal will provide the method for them to do the project in house and the cost to justify not out sourcing.
It's happened to me on major difficu;lt engineering projects. They had the people and the resourcxes to do things in house, but didn't have anyone who knew what to do.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: your proposal will provide the method for them to do the project in house and the cost to justify not out sourcing.
I was actually going to suggest that they use in-house people and I can provide the overall architecture and project management skills.
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So, is it $1.2M if you run it; or if someone else runs it?
The implication is, since you know more, any other response should "cost more" due to exta ramping; which makes your estimate (too) "low"?
(We estimate ourselves; then we project).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Good luck! 
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