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Yep that's horrible whatever the basis for it is.
Oh wow that's just horrible. I wish I hadn't looked now!
It does but as you say due to the emperor's new clothes every few years, the loyalty isn't there now. I know of no companies doing greenfield desktop dev that are using any of their tech. It's all Qt, CEF, python/wx and JavaFX. Even the financial companies we deal with who were pretty heavy with the WPF are canning it next cycle.
Incumbent MFC, Winforms and WPF stuff will live as long as VB6 did (and still does) though.
Edit as HN won't let me reply (submitting too fast). In Europe and JavaFX also has hardware acceleration as does CEF as it uses Chrome's rendering engine.
Yep definitely the worst thing ever. Not just that though; everything. I've lost so much hair in the last few months over trying to get a CD environment up on windows.
Because people would build for that instead of Win32.
Hell yes. Watching packer shit a brick 5 times a day trying to upload virtualbox guest additions via WinRM makes me want this yesterday.
Also I had to up the memory ceiling on WinRM to 800Mb (WTF!) to even get it to complete.
Yep. Java looks good on paper, is mature, has good libraries, good IDEs and good support but boy is it painful to write it in any large quantity.
They place restrictive rights on the usage of the software and retain the ability to revoke your license. BSD does not, ergo it is different.
Makes sense. Bet it's a Broadcom NIC if it is. Those things are nothing but trouble. I have no idea why HP ship them in their mid-high end kit.
Why use sqlite when you can invent something new which has no concurrency semantics and eats up inodes?
No it says nothing of the sort.
Versus BSD:
Whatever, just remember we wrote it and if it fucks up, don't blame us.
Don't worry there's still plenty of wrong out there to be ( www.abovetopsecret.com )
Definitely. My mother has a 3gb cap on her broadband every month and this is going to basically break it.
Fuck them for even daring to do this. It's authoritarian arrogance, nothing more.
It's even worse for some enterprise with VL agreements like us. We have a 1 year window to get everyone on windows 10 from the release date.
Needless to say a few macs and centos boxes have made an appearance and everyone suddenly knows python.
I'm making the jump when 7.2 drops and moving to windows in a VM.
I do a lot of voluntary support on reddit. There are literally 10 people a day who this breaks for just on there.
If only they did this in the UK.
Although when I went through school, A level mathematics didn't even touch anything past polynomials and physics didn't go much past classical mechanics and energy. Now they're all over calculus and quantum mechanics!
I've used 7, 8 and 10 extensively.
Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell's start menu is the sweet spot at the moment if you ask me. It has the explorer and task manager additions that windows 8 brought in, boots faster than 7 and doesn't have as much of the UI replaced. I'm going to be honest and say that if there was a way to get rid of the charms bar and network panel, it'd be perfect.
TBH I'm going to use it until EOL in 2023 and then do something else.
> Yes. You can downgrade Windows 10 to whatever you installed it on top of.
This doesn't work in a huge number of situations. It just reports failure.
I agree. This is the fourth major issue. Firstly they told everyone that they're not going to fully describe updates any more. Then there was the whole telemetry thing. This was closely followed by a test update was pushed out recently as well which caused major administrative panic. Now this.
I'm not sure that firing people is the right approach but this is not acceptable.
My EE professor said to me once:
"Quantum electrodynamics and shit. I'm not a physicist."
I wasn't all that impressed with that answer until many years later after reading Feynman lectures.
For reference, Gamma Group are a well known bunch of evil bastards in the UK. Nothing they do is considered honorable. Literally nothing. They also pretty much have a license to do what the hell they like under government mandate as a lot of things they do are actually pretty much illegal if someone founded a startup to do it today.
It says everything about the place when I had my CV put forward by an agent a few years ago for a "high tech position" in the "expanding data sector". Wouldn't reveal who it was to start with due to an NDA. Moment I got told who it was, it was "fuck off". And you know what I got stick from the agent for actually having some ethics. Clearly it's not common these days otherwise outfits like that wouldn't have any staff.
Then again they seem to groom people without experience or understanding of exactly what they do at university job fairs.
I await my bag and tag for criticising them.
That's ok if you have a known good baseline configuration. In that case it's no different to say a Dockerfile.
However the config management stuff seems to come to light when you've got a mess on your hands and need to rationalise it and make it consistent.
I'm slightly leaning towards the "rebuild with known good baseline" state of affairs these days however even as a long time Ansible user. Rather than upgrade stuff, I build something new alongside and then do a switcheroo nearly every time.
One day, hopefully containers will allow us to have consistent state everywhere.
I thought this was why things like the big end ThinkPad W-series exists?
I still run 3-4 VMs at the same time on my ancient X201 on Hyper-V.
Britain doesn't surrender. It just wallows in indifference ignoring laws and then promptly loses its shit when something is inconvenient.
Err but old Ben's quote is invalid here. We didn't surrender, nor did we vote for this, nor did we want this, nor did we expect this, nor do we have any power to stop it or prevent it from being introduced.
Well there goes democracy.