Hover over a format change on the ribbon in Office and it is instantly previewed in your document. Huge usability improvement and not possible with a drop-down that covers the document.
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The developer needs to fulfil as many of the requirements of the client as possible, given available time and resources. It is not the developer's place to dictate the requirements to the client.
FTFY
Technical debt is not just incompetence: sometimes, there is no optimal solution, and you cannot know which tradeoff is the best. Then as you have a deadline, you get something out, and you hope that iterating to a better solution will not be too painful. Sometimes, I write code that is there purely because it might be needed later -- and this time ends up sometimes having been a waste, and sometimes a saviour. In general, it is not wasted, but I have the luxury to do such developments.
I often see technical debt emerge when the world around an application changes. This can put even the perfectly architected system out of position. You could argue that a competent engineer would have implemented a design flexible enough to adapt to change, but accounting for all possible long-run outcomes would be very expensive if not impossible. In civil engineering, this results in things like traffic jam.
Transfers involve bandwidth and so cost money. It seems that an easy and free option to permanently delete would suffice. If you care about the data and don't have a copy under your own control then that's your problem.
The bulk of legislators and judges are/were lawyers. The entire system is designed to perpetually create work for lawyers.
Supply and Demand be damned, this is a command economy in this respect with the legislators and judges creating more demand every day.
That's the demand side. On the supply side bar associations dream up achaic rules (state-by-state bar exams, continuing legal education, etc.) to restrict the supply of labor and prevent wages from falling significantly.
It's a trap! I already own the Golden Gate Bridge and it is definitely not for sale.
My dad spent most of his career as a developer for a federal agency. He always lamented that the direction of the organization would change according to electoral results. Not so much because R's and D's disagree on how to run IT, but because a new regime means new appointees at the top. The tendency is for them to advocate for the latest and greatest (buzzword) so that they can show cool bullet-points for their bosses. In reality, the IT planning/testing/implementation cycle in a federal bureaucracy turns out to usually be longer than the election cycle so the impact is minimal. By the time it's conclusively proven that the
So, he should just create jobs for the sake of creating jobs? What would the job description be, "Head of Wall Staring?"
"Head of Road Building" seemed to work out pretty well for the country in the New Deal.
Except of course when a large North American army is passing through Kamchatka.
er.. well.. yeah not so much.
Words are cheap, including (often deserved) anti-MS comments on
Linux servers also have Linux admins who are paying attention to security. Windows desktops for the most part, do not.
I guess that's just a business school thing?
Nope. I've taken tons of business and econ classes and have never seen a mid-term or final that came from the textbook publisher. It's a pretty mediocre prof who would rely on such a crutch.
And it really does load 2TB drivers.
Streaming Netflix has NOTHING last time I used it on my Roku box. I only found some of the worst b-rated movies and documentaries and a tiny amount of semi-new releases. No Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark...nothing.
1. It is getting better. Roku also has a new Netflix interface that makes things way easier to find.
2. Selection is WAY better than basic cable, which comes in at at least twice the price.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
