snorkie wrote: I guess I'm saying meetings are bad enough The 4 day work week. These companies tried a 4-day workweek. More than a year in, they still love it : NPR[^] "They keep all meetings to 30 minutes and make sure those meetings start on time."

Steve Carell NO GOD! NO GOD, PLEASE NO, NO, NO, NOOOOO HD - YouTube[^] copilot is a steaming pile of half decomposed.... ask me how I really feel. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

Thanks. He was using his main hotmail address. Not sure how the school set up the codespace he was using or how what he was doing would result in such a high push rate. He is continuing with the course using a standalone environment. He said if Github does not respond to his ticket he will create a new email and Github account and only use it to submit the finished projects for grading. Thanks again.

The reduction of quality is most certainly not limited to self published books. I guess every English IT book I have bought(*) was published by what everybody would classify as highly respected publishing houses. These no longer need to spend resources on keeping the quality up, through editors and reviewers. The books sell anyway. One thing that one could mention to explain all the talkety-talk and lack of conciseness: The entry of the PC as a writing tool. When the authors were still using typewriters, doing editing was much more cumbersome; it required a lot more work to switch two sentences around, or move a paragraph to another chapter. The first thing that happened was that authors wrote down every thought they could think of, without filtering the way they did before. The second thing was that they forgot how to use the delete key, and how to do cut and paste to clean up the structure of the text. I guess that the cost of publishing, the process, makes up a larger fraction of the budget today. The cost of the paper is a smaller fraction than it used to be. Publishing/printing a 600 page book is not three times as expensive as a 200 page one. (Well it never was three times as expensive, but the cost of the materials made much more impact on the sales price 50 years ago.) (*) I have got one self-published IT book - Ted Nelson: Computer Lib/Dream Machines[^], the book introducing the concept of hypertext. It was published 49 years ago, before you had MS Word for writing your manuscript. Most of it is typewriter copy, or hand written. This is probably the first IT book I'd try to save if a fire broke out in my home.

Can rewrite it in C# in a bit, it's not a piece of art or complex. Might be worth an article. Basically, you send a header to the MVPS host file, asking if there's a change to the file since that date. If it is, download and put it somewhere (I used SQLite, to propagate across my linked pc's). Add your own domains to it, merging two text files. Then overwrite your hostfile. Could prolly be done from a powershell script, but for me it was quicker in C# because I have more familiarity with C#. The PI Hole might work better, especially for a network, and your host file should not be huge. I like it because it works nicely on laptops where the PI Hole isn't always available. But basically it is download and merge, and the only nice thing about it is that it asks the MVPS host file if it changed, and if it didn't it won't download again. So, not a huge project, but I find it valuable for the moments that all other stuff fails. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

We still use our personal devices, but have to run out to our car, storage locker, etc, where our phones are and write down the code, then bring it back into the secure location. It sucks.

I'm happy to restart the straw polls if we get some good suggestions. I'm letting them sit for a bit. I'd rather post a question people are interested in than post a question for the sake of asking a question. cheers Chris Maunder

Ah yes, the year-end Holy Grail: "rev rec", or revenue recognition. Even though you haven't received the money (and may not for months), the customer commits to paying you and you can therefore 'recognize' that the revenue was received this year rather than when you actually deposit the money. Software Zen: delete this;

I saw that as well. I think it might have to do with failed and retried download attempts, so it might be showing the total of all the downloaded data. This update cost me half a day due to our slow internet speed, canceling it and having to completely reinstall it.

The wonderful world of accounts & synch Just migrated from a carrier phone (ATT HTC One M7) and found I had 4 different sets of contacts on the old phone to coalesce and weed duplicates out of. Calendar was not an issue as I do it the hybrid way of using installed Outlook on gmail account which populated both contemporaneously. Now that I am once again on a Nexus, I get the stock functionality and don't need to deal with HTC's or AT&T's layered abstractions. I am fully capable of distracting myself.

The Snipping Tool has nothing to do with how PrtScn works. Immanentize the Eschaton!

Espresso in London tends to be undrinkable. The most common mistake is making it too long, thus washed out. * CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.

Same in the UK.. only use Royal Mail if you don't want your item delivered :laugh: Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

I once worked with a client who wanted to send out faxes. Luckily they had some third party tool that did all the heavy lifting. All I had to do was send an email with a PDF attachment to some inbox. No prob. Except that the fax never got sent. The tool they used had no documentation, I could not access the inbox, nor the server where they installed the software. All I knew was "it isn't working." So I called their sysadmin and he checked the logs and the server and the inbox, but he couldn't find anything and he'd call me back. I called him a couple of times over a two week period, but he never had an answer and he never called me. Then, months later, I got a call that I had to fix the faxing issue NOW! So I told this guy I really didn't know anything, he said "hold on, I'll check" and not five minutes later he told me what was wrong and I was able to fix it :doh: Amazing how long a single guy can stall progress :sigh: Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Regards, Sander

We would do that here in the US, but it would ruin our image of being fat and lazy :laugh: Hogan

Just started using slack and I must say I am more than happy with it. veni bibi saltavi

TL;DR all the comments (I read a lot though). I thought I would add my 2 cents here. I have noticed this myself; people in my circle of friends who do not have children are MUCH less flexible. I have a couple of related theories: 1) As a parent you get used to occasionally having other people's vomit in your face and diarrhea on your lap, so you learn to flow with life's little hazards; whereas adults without children likely do not experience this, and are used to things being 'just so'. 2) On the other hand, adults without children may be self selecting. They do not have children BECAUSE they want to avoid experiencing these things.

Where you went wrong is that you should have used Excel. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

That is awesome! I didn't start my career till 2000, but I still feel old school compared to many of my peers. Hogan