Comment Where do I click? (Score 2) 160
I'm on a Mac, where do I click for a working example?
Comment Blame the design of the Operating System (Score 1) 477
"Worse then that, Adobe against splash screens. Welcome to Photoshop, please stare at this logo while we load plugins and filters you wont be using
Isn't it possible for the app to save it's state, instead of having to load the plugins and filters each time. Except loading plugins involves copying a DLL into memory, so we should be blaming the designer of the Operating System.
Isn't it possible for the app to save it's state, instead of having to load the plugins and filters each time. Except loading plugins involves copying a DLL into memory, so we should be blaming the designer of the Operating System.
Comment How to deal with this inflation of priorities (Score 1) 304
"I work for an IT company that has a steady stream of projects .. our development resources are not sufficient to cover the amount of projects. As a result, our delivery dates are slipping .. How does your company deal with this inflation of priorities?"
Fire whoever compiles the project list and then have the technical staff choose a single project and work on it until completion, then move onto the next one.
Fire whoever compiles the project list and then have the technical staff choose a single project and work on it until completion, then move onto the next one.
Comment Mod the above up +9999 (Score 0) 304
"We typically fire the entire IT staff every couple of years and try to hire replacements at 70% salary under threat of outsourcing.
Haaaaaa !
Haaaaaa !
Comment re: typo ... (Score 1) 416
The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become a manager
Comment I have the solution (Score 1) 416
"I need a break. I need to walk away from it, and want to look at doing something that doesn't focus heavily on the IT industry day in, day out. Unfortunately, I'm locked to a regional city and I've just spent the majority of my adult life coding, with no other major skills to fall back on"
As someone who spent the majority of your working life in coding you will find a reluctance to hire you on in other areas, regardless of what skills you would bring to the task. The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become, but then again you probably don't display the necessary Machiavellian mentality to be a successive PHB. A realistic solution is to go into teaching coding.
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As someone who spent the majority of your working life in coding you will find a reluctance to hire you on in other areas, regardless of what skills you would bring to the task. The usual way out for aging IT techies is to become, but then again you probably don't display the necessary Machiavellian mentality to be a successive PHB. A realistic solution is to go into teaching coding.
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definition: PHB
Submission + - Former Goldman Programmer's Conviction Overturned (cnbc.com)
i_want_you_to_throw_ writes: "It appears the legal woes of Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs Group computer programmer, who had been convicted of stealing part of the Wall Street bank's high-frequency trading code, are now over. A federal appeals court overturned his conviction and recommended acquittal. Slashdot previously covered this story when he was sentenced to 97 months. It will be interesting to see their reasoning (an opinion is to be released) as well as what this may mean for other programmers developing high frequency trading code."
Comment The tip of a very big iceberg? (Score 1) 336
I don't think so, piracy is piracy whether movies, books or software. It's not a big deal unless they go after sites like Project Gutenberg.
Comment Re:Take this with a grain of salt (Score 1) 617
"Good call. You're right. If you actually look into this thing, you'll see that the lawsuit represents only 60 farmers . ChromeAeonium
"The large group of 83 Plaintiffs in OSGATA v. Monsanto is comprised of individual family farmers, independent seed companies and agricultural organizations. The total number of members within the plaintiff group exceeds 300,000 and includes many thousands of certified organic farmers.
The Plaintiffs are not seeking any monetary compensation. Instead, the farmers are pre-emptively suing Monsanto and seeking court protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act, from Monsanto-initiated patent infringement lawsuits.
co-plaintiff Food Democracy Now! has collected over 100,000 signatures on it’s petition supporting the rights of family farmers against Monsanto" link
"The large group of 83 Plaintiffs in OSGATA v. Monsanto is comprised of individual family farmers, independent seed companies and agricultural organizations. The total number of members within the plaintiff group exceeds 300,000 and includes many thousands of certified organic farmers.
The Plaintiffs are not seeking any monetary compensation. Instead, the farmers are pre-emptively suing Monsanto and seeking court protection under the Declaratory Judgment Act, from Monsanto-initiated patent infringement lawsuits.
co-plaintiff Food Democracy Now! has collected over 100,000 signatures on it’s petition supporting the rights of family farmers against Monsanto" link
Comment As compared to fair-and-balanced Faux News :) (Score 1) 617
Comment experience of open source projects (Score 1) 163
"In my experience, it's just as bad, if not worse, developing add-ons for open source projects as it is for open APIs, y _merlin
What open source projects that you have experience writing add-ons for are you referring to here?
What open source projects that you have experience writing add-ons for are you referring to here?
Comment Microsoft vapourPAD .. (Score 1) 282
"By the time you get close to matching iOS, Apple will have moved on to the next level of fashionable semi-functionality" link
And I stopped reading this MS puff-piece right there ..
iPad with external monitor and mouse
And I stopped reading this MS puff-piece right there
iPad with external monitor and mouse
Submission + - Monsanto opposes open-source seeds (rt.com)
microphage writes: Monsanto went after hundreds of farmers for infringing on their patented seed after audits revealed that their farms had contained their product — as a result of routine pollination by animals and acts of nature. Unable to afford a proper defense, competing small farms have been bought out by the company in droves. As a result, Monsanto saw their profits increase by the hundreds of millions over the last few years as a result. Between 1997 and 2010, Monsanto tackled 144 organic farms with lawsuits and investigated roughly 500 plantations annually during that span with a so-called “seed police.”
Comment Nortel and Chinese flood plain (Score 1) 178
"nortel built a plant over there with the promise of getting some of the chinese telecom market share. the chinese sold them a plot of land in a flood plain so they could not use the first floor for about half the year ..
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have any verifiable source for that?
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have any verifiable source for that?
