Posts by geekguy

Re: The worst bit....

Unfortunately you are 100 percent right, I remember the ndoc debacle where people abused the author and he just shut up shop, and quite rightly so.

Re: Do I want Win 11?

This is incredibly naive, you are assuming that you will always be able to bypass the checks. Microsoft have stated publicly that you will not be able to going forward.

Re: Want to run it?

Honest question, how do you play games which almost always want a windows platform ?

Re: Excuses, excuses

Totally right, this is unacceptable in the extreme, a private landlord would be prosecuted for this, as should IKEA. A total and unacceptable invasion of privacy, monitoring of toilets by using drug wipes etc is doable, potentially videoing people in the loo.. criminal.

fact is half the population of windows aren't going to be forced to upgrade their machines, the requirements are quite insane ! Fact is these should be features you can enable, not are forced to have

People are missing there has been a shift in peoples expectations, the workplace has changed and big business are going to have to suck it up to a certain degree.

Re: RE: Master / slave

Thing is, that's a voluntary label they give themselves and their relationship style, so not the same thing really.

Re: Sin tax

I'm afraid the idea that no-one should be using C/C++ now is part of the inherent problem. Assembly and its readable counterpart C should be taught as standing still. You cannot build on top without understanding what you are building on.

Re: So, Google is pulling a Microsoft ?

Still using the desktop picasa years later, there is no replacement for it unless you really think lightroom is. Picasa was brilliant at organing your photos, I didn't much care for the online bit of it. I quite like google photos ironically, its a shame it (the desktop app) wasn't opened up so the community could develop it, but maybe that wasn't possible.

Re: In case this is all confusing...

Anyone that signs a contract which states they cannot work elsewhere is controlled and inside ir35, these people are fools its exactly how Christa ackroyd was caught (amongst many other things) some of us refused work based on contracts like that

Re: Obviously they will increase the rates by the customary amount to compensate

This isn't accurate and is a myth, there are limited places to walk to, as the public sector has already had this applied. Unlike when it happened in the public sector and everyone ran to private sector.

Re: Good.

True but you need to understand freelancers != contractors.

Re: up to a 20 per cent pay cut overnight... For many, the cost of their current mortgage

I have to say thats not true, In the north in places like leeds and manchester there is plenty of opportunity.

Re: WSL dead then?

wsl scratches a different itch, to say it is dead would be silly, what if all I need to do is run aws cli and i prefer linux, wsl does that no need for a full blown virtual machine.

Re: Good.

to be fair not having alt tags is inexcusable in this day and age.

Or you could have made sure you had to enter a password before in game purchases happen. Can certainly do that on ps4, so when my kid goes into the vbucks screen or store he can hit "buy" all he wants but he can't get anything because there are two layers of passwords after that (both of which are different , at least 20 characters long and stored in an encrypted password vault)

Re: It was aliens wot did it

Totally plausible response, clearly and Alien Cat energy collector.

Re: You've GOT to be kidding me

Swiftkey

Re: Good.

Agree,

Besides if you're going to use open source in your own stuff, you should be working on a fork and possibly contributing to the main projects with pull requests. Never rely on someone else's repo always being there. That's just madness.

Re: Its one thing to find code...

I would have done the comedy of the following:

Written the white paper, posted it on a wordpress blog that was on the internet under a psuedoname, and referenced that :)

Re: Typical vulture* capitalists...

Investing in companies is like playing cards in Vegas. It's got slightly better odds but it is definitely a game of skill AND luck. The CEO of yahoo is not a muppet, she came from an extremely successful company and was one of the founders of that company.

She knows how to make things work. Perhaps the fact that multiple CEOs have been unable to stop Yahoos decline says something more about their market positioning and brand rather than the actual product.

This sort of change takes many years to happen perhaps they, the investors, should withdraw their money if they expect it to be a steady income stream before market and product realignment are complete.

Re: Silliest thing I've read in a long time

I was in hospital for a prolonged stay this time last year. There was 0 wifi connection, this meant I had to pay for the expensive tv cards and browse on there. Those systems are ok, but it would have been a lot better for me to have my own device.

It was folly to suggest it would aid the takeup of health tools it would have been more honest and equally as saleable to say it would increate the quality of patient experience. Even though I was ill and sleeping an awful lot of the day I still got board, and streaming some music or reading a paper would have been nice, perhaps getting a book down for the kindle. Hospitals already have private wifi staff use.. so to have the guest infrastructure is just sensible.

Re: Good.

Only an element of this is true. Yes computing has got more complex and it is certainly true that you need to learn a lot of basic knowledge to be productive.

But that is all it is base knowledge. It is more important to be enquiring and adventurous. You do NOT need a comp sci degree to become a develoeper although society has convinced people they do. Some of the very best developers (old and new) I know are self taught, there is a wealth of learning material out there and very good industry standard tools are now given away for free.

its never been so easy or accessible to dive in. The real issue is attracting and retain people in the subject as they are increasingly treated like the factory workers of today by management.

What we do is a highly skilled job and when you join the industry you make a life long commitment to a very steep learning curve. That is of course part of the attraction.

Re: Roll Your Own

Samsung already have slot in units.

Re: Fix the stuff that is CLEARLY broken

"C# makes it harder to make UIs quickly than VB decades ago !"

Abject rubbish I'm afraid.

Re: Why??

There are apps to get around tether lockout, foxfi on android is one.

Re: Not surprising

Point 1 is true,

I cannot agree with Point 2, it is not the case that either TDD or BDD leads to poorly tested bad quality code. It IS the case that people have bad practises around testing.

Re: Crapita should read this page

And again Capita do not run the NHSChoices website and haven't done for 1 year, it is run by HSCIC.