Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe programming

Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog... by criddell on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:41AM (#16144204)

I don't know if it counts as embedded, but about a month ago we bought a new TV (Sony xbr65x900e) and the built in software is unbelievably bad. Our three year old Roku has better software than this thing.

I wish Sony sold a non-smart version of this TV because other than the software, it's pretty nice.

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Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog... by walshemj on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:14PM (#16146104)

I don't use my sonny's smart function just use an xbox to feed it.

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Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog... by criddell on Monday January 15, 2018 @07:50AM (#16150160)

How can you not use it? IIRC, you have to go through the setup steps for the TV to work.

Even if you aren't actively using it, there are things running in the background that crash. I was watching football yesterday and I kept getting "The Samba Service has Stopped" messages. The only option in the box was OK to acknowledge it. What am I supposed to do with that? It kept coming back so I googled it and found how to disable notifications for that app and that eventually stopped the problem.

I also found the Samba service watches what you watch so that it can target ads better.

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