no, it'd take you 10 minutes in Visual Studio - not quite the same time as it takes using anything else, and VS doesn't exactly run on Linux or Mac which is the point of Mono and even then you get a very non-native GUI.
nevertheless you have to run it to give feedback - so run it, in a VM. Then you can legitimately say what you think of it, not what you'd like some imaginary OS to be.
...after eating a thousand burgers.
one of the dlls is mshtml.dll and I know several applications that use it - anything that has an embedded browser for example, MS Money is one that uses a browser control as its entire display surface.
The other is ShDocVw,dll which is a browser control - Explorer uses this.
lol.The guy I sit opposite has to support a solution built around Biztalk. He continually says "it must have seemed a good idea at the time".
Unfortunately, he has to maintain it, the original weenies who wrote it have moved on to devastate other projects with some other cutting-edge, 'cool' new technology.
Yes, but somebody had to do the proving
somebody else can do it - somebody who isn't trying to make a product that will last. Startup type people who will bang something out and then, if it proves successful, rewrite it in boring technologies anyway.
I think the simplest way is just to use boring technologies anyway, if you consider anything that has been around for a few years becomes either old and boring, or dead and unused.
like storing passwords in plaintext. That's just fucking stupid
not as stupid as you think. Sure, encrypting your passwords is another layer of security but really, if an attacker gets your password database, then they can (and will) crack them quite easily today. Given that all you're doing is slowing the attacker down, it can be better to store them in plaintext.
Because - if you know your passwords are precious and need to be looked after, you will take many more steps to ensure the attacker doesn't get them in the first place. Too many websites think that if the passwords are encrypted then they're all secure. They don't think the (small) effort to properly put the DB behind a middle tier layer and not allow any web application to directly access the tables is worth doing, and so they get hacked and the passwords get cracked.
I blame the web development frameworks, if your idea if security is running it all inside the webserver that's public internet-connected, then you're going to get hacked.
I think this shows the education of modern programmers.
Take a string, append 1 byte. Repeat a million times. Say "why is it so slow?".
Its probably because every time you write to most strings classes, you're making a copy and re-allocating the whole lot, and then deallocating the original.
If you knew C, you'd know what was happening here. This is why we need to teach C to programming students and not Java. Once they know C they can learn Java or whatever takes their fancy on their own time.
(although even Java and
Brokeback mountain was not a better movie by any standard despite being love interests.
FWIW, my current project fails since we only have one woman on the team.
right, Julie you can ignore this, but HR has said we have targets to meet so the rest of you have to nominate someone who's gong to have to wear a dress. Wayne, or should I say Waynetta, its probably going to be you.
Not douche, but an insighhtful person who thinks that such positive discrimination and gender bias such as the Bechel test can be so trivially circumvented.
In this case, 2 women talking to each other about.. well, women. Passes the test completely even though its not exactly feminist material (or is, depending).
The rest of us think that if women want to be programmers they will be. Same as if men want to be hairdressers, childcare workers or nurses.
The discrimination and supposedly anti-female culture in IT is really nothing of the sort - its equally pathetic when viewed from a male viewpoint. Me for example, I hate the industry because I am focussed on producing quality deliverables that fit the user's needs, and I can;t stand the so-called 'alpha geek' who thinks he's the best because he's googled the latest cool technology that will be obsolete in a week. That kind of bullshit affects me just as much as female workers.
But it is a very pertinent question - of all the things released, a huge amount of them are written with a win32 API and then wrapped with the WinRT API (or at least, it used to be that way).
For example, I'm looking at code to search through Word documents in
So, has this changed and the Windows team been kicked into developing WinRT only APIs, or will I still see native ones coming out with wrappers developed by the developer team?
I'm not convinced universal apps will create excitement - not if this is the 3rd API that devs have have to learn, you get bored with learning stuff that becomes quickly obsolete only so many times, and many users will still be developing for Windows 7, for many years to come. Universal apps are meaningless if Win7 still has to be supported.
But the offices you mention are all running windows 7 (with a fair few running XP).
None but a very few will be running Windows 10 for about 5 years.
such as restricting advertisers from working with rival search engines
Maybe there is no counter-argument here, and that they are guilty as sin. Just the cost of lawyering up is the only thing stopping them being brought to book. You make it sound like the allegations are just rumour and trivia.
Its pretty reasonable to suggest that justice is not being done at all here - despite what could easily be plain anti-competitive practices. That no-one will take it to court to test it means there is no justice for anyone, an allegation hanging over Google and whatever bad practices they perpetrate continue.
We'll just have to do it ourselves then, we need a massive internet campaign that reveals Google's new branding : "We do evil".
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. -- Phil White
