My CPU fan turns at 569rpm, the others are off until the computer determines they're needed. I would describe myself as a person with very sensitive hearing*, that's why I asked. * I can hear turned off Xbox One in instant-on mode from the mezzanine above. I hear my old secondary monitor's induction coil. I catch all the kind of quiet background noises that other people miss - yet, I can't hear my PC (using a Fractal Design case and Thermalright Macho radiator + fan + Silent profile from my ASUS motherboard).

My PC is wired on a gigabit LAN and the ultrabook can use a 5GHz WiFi network, so that wouldn't be a problem. They don't need to be connected to each other directly.

That's an interesting setup. But why is your PC hot & noisy? :) Do those VMs run at the same time? All of them? Maybe you did not invest in a quiet case and good fans (like Thermalright Macho). My PC is noiseless unless I'm playing games.

I'm right under the roof and the only windows I have are skylights. The roof gets hotter and hotter thorough the day. This was the smallest room in the apartment, that's why I made it my office, but it's a terrible choice during summer.

I use a powerful PC to work with Visual Studio, SQL Server and so on (regular .NET stack). It is summer and it gets really hot in here (no AC). I was thinking about using my new balcony to work in the mornings (so that I can be outside). I'd also like to move out of my home office in the afternoon when it's boiling hot inside. I don't really need a laptop, I currently don't travel and don't need to work on the way. It's all about moving out of the office furnace. So I started looking at ultrabooks, because they are small (13.3) and lightweight. But it turns out that if I want something that will make Visual Studio & stuff work, I need to shell out a big sum. But I don't need this hardware for more than a couple hours a day, I'll still be working on my PC powerhorse. Then I thought... What if I bought an ultrabook with an energy saving mobile processor and only 4GB RAM and only a 128GB SSD (think of Asus Zenbook UX305) that's small and really light... And I used TeamViewer to connect to my uber PC upstairs and do my work that way? What do you think guys? Have any of you done that?

It happened to me on a German site named DLGamer. I didn't even want to purchase physical goods there. All I wanted was a bunch of Steam keys to games. They asked me for a scan of my ID. I immediately wrote back to cancel my order and will never be buying with them again.

Thanks for the story. :-)

Happy me. Found another bug caused by the same developer during the same changes, but in a different place. I fixed the last bug...

Just usual rant. I got a functional spec. I implemented it. The app was deployed on the server, I marked the item done. The manager (who wrote the spec) went in, claimed she did not see any changes and moved the item back to me. I went to the server and confirmed the changes are live and working as per the spec... Except that I found out that she's looking for different results than what she described in the document. Again. FUUU!! :mad: I lost track of how many times the spec has been changed after I pointed out such issues. Because somebody is going to bring it up - no, it's not the scenario where a developer misunderstood the spec. Trust me. :cool: I'm 100% sure of that, because the requirements are explicit in that place.

I used to list HTML under known programming languages on my CV. ;)

I'm not a native English speaker, so I'd appreciate if you could elaborate. :) Perhaps the word choice is incorrect in the first place. Maybe one can't "cause" a bug. I guess I should have said "introduced".

Great, thank you!

Are all code samples fine? Do you read on an actual Kindle device?

Are they Kindle formats (MOBI, AZW) or PDF? I know PDFs don't work well on Kindle.

Is the Kindle format ebook from Manning actually readable on a Kindle? Does anybody have that ebook? It has a lot of C# source code listings inside, I wonder if the publishers actually used some special formatting.

Why not? I did not mean real shaming (there was a winking emoticon), rather something like described here[^]. It's a joke. :)

What, there are unemployed software engineers?!

LOL. That's awesome. :laugh:

Of course it would! I have never met a developer who never introduces any bugs. I am fully aware I'd be shamed on occasion as well.

newton.saber wrote:

He who touches code should fix it!!!

THIS.