Comment Re:The poor UI limits LIbreOffice. (Score 1) 254
The default icon theme (Breeze) in LibreOffice 5 uses a capital I. Maybe your recommendation worked!
Comment Re:Good For Him (Score 1) 74
He never mentioned he was in a hurry. My bet is, they have a few ceremonial migrations per FY to justify the project cost, and in just 20 or 30 years their old ineffective legacy systems will be replaced by a single new ineffective legacy system.
"The longer-term, 24-month plan will then include the ‘shift’ of data to the cloud-based, common data platform and the rewrite of legacy systems as processes on that platform."
I think I like your timeframe better...
Comment Re:This is News to Them? (Score 1) 212
I did a similar thing (the 3rd time they called me) except I played dumb and kept talking to them. Got passed through a couple of different guys before some grumpy guy had a go at me and hung up. Had them on the line for 27 minutes. That was the last time they called.
Comment Re:Holding off using it for other reasons (Score 1) 265
XSLT, trivial? Have you ever tried doing anything useful with it?
I agree, XSLT didn't turn out to be as good as what it promised, although I find XSL-FO alright for generating PDFs. These days I find JSON a lot more useful than XML.
The HTML spec people took 10 years to realize the mistake of going the XML way. It seems that you still have yet to make that realization.
I quite like the progress of HTML5/CSS3 so far too, hopefully the browsers will keep up and include more of the specs.
Comment Re:Laws have become horribly, horribly complex (Score 5, Insightful) 270
Gameplay in my clone is very similar to the old game
Pretty much all games have used and extended ideas from previous games, copied user interfaces, themes, etc. So I don't think you'd get into trouble making something similar (at least a token effort should be made to put some original styling to the game).
and my clone even has a very similar name
but I think this is the bit where the pants get sued off.
Comment Re:Has No One Actually Studied This? (Score 2, Interesting) 580
If not, someone really ought to do a serious study. And then start teaching people something that's actually known to work.
I'd be interested to see a study, but I'm sure it'd create more questions than answers given how hotly every side of this argument is debated. I think that writing good comments is much like writing good code, the only way you get good at it is reading, writing and re-writing lots and lots of code/comments. After a while you know what needs to be commented, the way it needs to be commented and you know what doesn't need to be commented. Writing relevant information clearly and concisely is a skill that must be learned and practiced.
Comment Re:At Least... (Score 3, Informative) 379
OpenOffice is a total mess of staggeringly bloated Java components. It's by far the most sluggish, memory-devouring application on my machine and integrates badly with my GTK theme.
I think this is a bit of an exageration. I use OpenOffice on XP at work and OSX at home and find that performance is at an acceptable level. Everything that I need to do in an office suite I can do in OpenOffice and I've found with each release it's slowly improving.
And there aren't any good ideas in OO, it's like someone bought Office 2003, made a list of features they saw, and tried to implement as many as possible throwing everything together without any kind of purpose or vision other than to take as much market share as possible away from MS office.
There are a lot of good ideas, they're just not original ideas but this is not unique to OpenOffice. It's not as polished as MS Office but I don't find it as thrown together as you're implying.
Comment Re:music as a distraction? depends (Score 1, Interesting) 1019
however i don't think slapping on headphones is the solution; music is also a distraction; you should be thinking about the problems and coding rather than focusing on the deep beats of the music
As a programmer I disagree with this statement. If you're coding anything that is complex or requires focusing then the music disappears but has that wonderful side effect of drowning out all that annoying background noise. If you're coding that boring repetitive crap that seems to be 90% of what we do then the music is the only thing getting you through.
Comment Re:Please "dumb it down" (Score 0) 418
I know now that "parsimonious" is actually a word. I've learned enough for today... I'll move on to the next article now.
Well I looked up "parsimonious" in the dictionary and I think I understand what it means, but in that sentence it has me stumped. Are they saying that they think the explanation is bullsh*t?
Comment Re:I can see plenty of uses for it. (Score 1) 557
add $1k for windows server...
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