Yah, both of them.

Mine died when I wanted to sell my house ... I come home after multiple showings and 3 of them were chirping! Why then? Why did 3 start at the same time? If multiples fail at the same time, why didn't all of them fail at the same time? Very odd coincidence.

Each time I see development stats, it looks like Java is slipping. Add to that the vast use it currently has, and the inability of most industries to quickly replace an entire software architecture already in place... and Oracle is able to milk it for quite a lot. Some devs refuse to change and will be a driving force in their company to keep using Java, this money is just overhead if there is a large development group that would have to be retrained/replaced to get off Java. This will affect Oracle long term (beyond my productive lifetime), but I see it as a huge short term gain. However, if I was a Java dev, I would be highly upset.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

they expected everyone to work at least 60 hours per work week

**Run away** At any interview, when asked if I have any questions: "How many hours per week do you work for your check?" If they get uncomfortable - I expect it is more than 40.

Read that again. You missed the joke :laugh:

Pom Pey wrote:

A female colleague has just come to a stop outside the office toilet (which is near my desk) and with a puzzled look has just asked me "Does vacant mean empty?" I had to bite my tongue so as not to say "No it's a statement about the contents of your head"

You don't have to be rude and mock me on a public forum! I am filing a discrimination complaint.

dandy72 wrote:

So I'm burning through some vacation time right now.

dandy72 wrote:

I promptly fell asleep

dandy72 wrote:

I can't help but feel like I'm not exactly making the most of my first day of vacation.

I don't know... it sounds about like what I would do for my vacation.

Wow... I remember using that years ago to solve a lot of problems...

Mel Padden wrote:

I was a huge fan of the original Gran Turismo game and owned it on a PS2

Um... I have no valuable input, but that was at least version 3 or 4, not the original. Unless you played PS1 games on the PS2 (who am I to judge - I did it :laugh: ).

Munchies_Matt wrote:

I can envision a future where robots do almost all the manual work, and crucially, they are payed a wage and taxed at 100% on it. ie, the company employing them pays, at a reduced rate, the commensurate wage a person would have received, direct to the government as tax.

Then you will be paying tax every time you use a computer to do any manual work - like accounting. You will be paying chauffeur fees for self-driving cars. You will not receive any reduction in price for efficiencies derived from automation (cheaper food, cheaper production of vehicles, etc). In effect, you will have to get a job, because we all know the government won't pass that tax back to you - unless you plan on living on welfare.

Nish Nishant wrote:

things are done way differently in modern .NET than it was during the VB6 days

:-D :laugh: ;P ;) That is highly dependent upon who you work with ;P ;) :laugh: :-D

eh... I'm whatever the job description says. Just tell me the technologies used and the pay scale. Call me whatever you like, just don't call me late for dinner.

Hidden fields within the form data are the way we go here. They are encrypted with the form, but not logged. You should never be able to reproduce a users password (thus the 1 way comparisons in the DB). If it was safe to have plain text passwords anywhere, there would be no need for this.

raddevus wrote:

Also, I believe querystrings are encrypted via HTTPS.

link URLs are stored in web server logs - typically the whole URL of each request is stored in a server log. This means that any sensitive data in the URL (e.g. a password) is being saved in clear text on the server

I've never had the option of bonuses... ...but I have received a pay cut due to the company not making profits. It was 5%, but even then it was frustrating. Not enough to make me 'have to leave', and so I didn't. I stuck it out, and was loyal. Then many months later, after surviving about 4 rounds of layoffs... the business closed, and I had no job. My personal recommendation: start discretely looking now. They have until you get a better offer to turn things around. If they do indeed turn around, you can always choose to stay. If they don't turn it around, there is no need to be satisfied with a hope that cannot be fulfilled.

You mean working without wages? X|

I'd start looking for a new job before the house of cards falls down.

Marc Clifton wrote:

yes, that means you, Angular

X| I thought I was the only one that hated it.

It is not entirely the fault of the coders... I remember being able to find manuals accurately documenting APIs and giving examples of how to use them. Now, if I can even find the necessary documentation for something, it is just as likely to be incomplete as inaccurate. I have to rely on web searches to find code snippets where documentation does not exist.

My wife used to say if there was a beggar around, he would find me. I used to help a lot of folks, just because I could. I've since learned to give to specific charities instead of guys on the street. Now if someone wants money, I can offer to help them by directing to said charity. If learned a lot of people don't really want help!