As for the top 10 dead or dying computer skills in 2015:
- Even basic testing with real human beings on real hardware
- Solving a problem in as straightforward a manner as possible
- THINKING
As for the top 10 dead or dying computer skills in 2015:
So what's going wrong that virtually every Microsoft-made application for Windows has a terrible, barely functional installer that frequently falls over for no reason whatsoever, craps on everything when it does so (newer VS installs often trash older ones in subtle ways) and as above doesn't roll back well? SQL Server included. Heck, for Visual Studio Code they recently gave up trying to use their own tools and use Inno Setup now.
If the company that made the tool can't use it effectively, it is quite objectively a bad tool.
I kinda wish JS had a ==== operator that compared values, i.e. two objects with the same contents count as equal. And maybe a ===== operator that compared how they look in the moonlight or something I don't know.
Lot of systems 'round 'ere seem to be developing "hardware faults" after upgrading their software, which is odd. (Microsoft is not alone in this)
https://www.reddit.com/r/surface
I wonder if Microsoft makes Linux hardware but ships Windows on it by mistake.
I wish Microsoft would come up with a simple way to handle adding and removing apps. Their own installers, as shown, are rickety and fragile, both in Win32 land and Windows Store land; the former having very sketchy error handling and rollback support, the latter just breaking all the time for no obvious reason. There is a LOT to be said for OS X's "it's just a dumb folder" approach to applications.
So people who don't use PayPal: I'm genuinely interested to know what your alternative is. Handing out your card details to every single online store out there?
I'd rather trust one bunch of idiots (PayPal) who specialize in payment processing than the ~30 bunches of idiots working at the online stores who would otherwise be processing my payments.
And almost every bank screws up security so bad it's not funny. In the past two years a number of banks here have made "three characters from your password" mandatory even if you use a hardware two-factor token they gave you.
So I just fulfilled a support ticket to factory reset a Signature Edition (i.e. pure Windows, Microsoft approved) tablet. Here's what happened while testing it before handing it back:
Ok Microsoft let's try that.
Oh look it doesn't work.
New features? Oh, let me indulge you.
Oh ok. So does anything Windows specifically pops up and tells me to try in this trashheap actually work? Christ's sake this is worse than XP era Linux.
Which was presumably written by Microsoft, who also wrote the API?
Probably Bohemia. I hear they want to skip the swipe card and chip/pin republics and go straight to the contactless republic.
Something kinda weird I've seen on NTFS vs. ExFAT is that anything watching for changes (Grunt, etc.) uses no idle CPU time on NTFS, but a consistent 5-20% on ExFAT depending upon directory layout and size. Assuming NTFS has optimizations for this ExFAT doesn't and ExFAT requires some kind of dirty check.
So what's going wrong that virtually every Microsoft-made application for Windows has a terrible, barely functional installer that frequently falls over for no reason whatsoever, craps on everything when it does so (newer VS installs often trash older ones in subtle ways) and as above doesn't roll back well? SQL Server included. Heck, for Visual Studio Code they recently gave up trying to use their own tools and use Inno Setup now.
If the company that made the tool can't use it effectively, it is quite objectively a bad tool.
I wish Microsoft would come up with a simple way to handle adding and removing apps. Their own installers, as shown, are rickety and fragile, both in Win32 land and Windows Store land; the former having very sketchy error handling and rollback support, the latter just breaking all the time for no obvious reason. There is a LOT to be said for OS X's "it's just a dumb folder" approach to applications.
Most of it is bugs introduced by Microsoft in updates reading the comments while trying to diagnose an issue with a relative's Surface. Basic things like sleep/wake.
If Microsoft can't get their OS working on their own hardware, I think that pretty much proves it's not our hardware that's not "healthy".
https://www.reddit.com/r/surface
I wonder if Microsoft makes Linux hardware but ships Windows on it by mistake.
If it generates a partial class, (can't remember if it does) you can make an interface inheriting from the interface you're currently using which includes the thing you want. It sounds like the abstraction is leaking somewhat though... is this OperationTimeout different to the timeouts which already exist in the binding?
Lot of systems 'round 'ere seem to be developing "hardware faults" after upgrading their software, which is odd. (Microsoft is not alone in this)