It wasn't my call. In fact I campaigned against is extensively. We have been a MS shop for years. It was brought in by the previous manager and his friend/buddy/pal/ex-employee/consultant that the company paid thousands of dollars for extra work even though they refuse to pay extra money to any current devs who are willing to do extra work from home after hours. Conflict of interest and all that, but paying a former employee who is buds with the manager is not. The current manager thinks it's great. Unfortunately we found out after the fact that it is less than secure. We were informed of this by a security consultant we hired, because we can't figure this out on our own apparently. But we're still using it. We have a new site that is again begin written in Angular, go figure.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

Sorry, couldn't find a more appropriate forum to post this. We have a Angular/.NET Core app that we are attempting to upgrade to .NET 8. I have the Angular Language Service installed and working with no problem in VS2019. With VS2022, not so much. Every time I load any project with Angular code I get this error, "Task Failed - Activating language client Angular Language Service Extension: The JSON-RPC connection with the remote party was lost before the request could complete." I've tried everything I can think of, including creating a ticket with MS. Surprisingly, they actually attempted to help resolve the problem. We renamed the cache folder, ran VS as admin, reset all options, disabled the extension auto update, repaired VS2022 (appropriate reboots), checked the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Default.err file, checked the log files (%temp%\VSLogs), uninstalled/reinstalled VS2022 (cleared temp files, rebooted), insure Node.js is installed, insure Win11SDK (both) are installed. I'm at a complete loss as is everyone else. Other devs working on Angular/.NET projects in VS2022 do not have this issue. I was seeing this error before attempting to upgrade anything on the solution. Oddly, break points in TypeScript files work, but viewing the value of TypeScript variables does not work nor does F12 in TypeScript code. I'd rather get this working in VS2022 instead of using VS Code for Angular development and VS2022 for .NET, that's just ugly and messy.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

Even though I'm a nobody where I work I've read several books on leadership. This is by far the best, Turn the Ship Around![^]. It tells the true story of how David Marquet took the USS Santa Fe from the lowest rated submarine in the U.S. fleet to the highest rated vessel in U.S. Naval history. And he did it by doing the opposite of what the U.S. Navy teaches their officers, and what most managers would never do, by giving up control. It talks about his frustrations, his disappointments, his failures, and successes. As one person put it, if the leader-leader model can work in the most stringent of organizations (U.S. Navy nuclear submarine fleet), if it can work at the GE Equipment Repair that was failing, it can work in any organization at any level.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

It's not really YouTube. There is a Rick Beato video that pretty much explains it all. He knows what he's talking about. He's a former producer and recently testified to Congress just how stupid this can be. He's had any number of his own videos blocked by these companies. The various artist hire companies to scour YouTube looking for any copyright violations. Most of these people are just a little overzealous and tend to flag videos with even 10 seconds of a song. Some, like the Beatles, will not even allow people to play a song on their own instrument. So no unlicensed covers, etc.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

And...already blocked by YouTube watchdogs.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I'm sure this has certainly been discussed before, but I just had to rant—or show how stupid I am. Today during a conversation about a query I was working on that involved some scanned business documents the conversation somehow turned to an open source system we have implemented to help retire old mainframe systems written in the late 70s and early 80s. These systems were later converted to a language that was pathetic attempt to get COBOL to compile to .NET, this was about 20 years ago. Sorry...rabbit. The conversation centered around that if your current business model is failing, you need to change your business model and that was the reason the open source system was brought in. And how the company should have just fallen in line and changed how they do business instead of demanding the open source system be modified to support how business is currently handled. Now I may be a moron, but I always assumed that software was there to support the business model and the company. I never thought a new system was going to save a company all by itself. To me that just sounds to much like saying if a restaurant is failing, even though it's in a good local, you need to move and build a bigger, more expensive restaurant thinking that will increase business and fix everything. But then don't do anything to improve the quality of the food, service or atmosphere. It might work for a while, but eventually you'll be right back where you were with little or no customers. Do I have any clue what I'm talking about or have my brains fallen out of my ears?

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

How can I get my manager to read this, and actually believe it? I've been trying to get him to understand quality over quantity for a long time. But his priority is all about pleasing the people at the top.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

"With many software companies switching to the cloud because of its ease of use and scalability..." They've obviously never attempted to setup and get anything working in Azure.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

FOOF, everyone needs a little FOOF[^]

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

This sounds a bit like my current workload. Four high priority projects that have all been assigned over the last two weeks. I can concentrate on one, maybe two, in which case something will actually be completed. Or I can try to split my time between all four, in which case nothing will actually be completed. I classify this as manager with zero common sense.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I haven't seen this posted yet, but I could have easily missed it. Halo: The Master Chief Collection is finally coming to PC. Includes Halo 1-4, Halo 3: ODST, and Halo: Reach. Reach will be released first and then the other games as they are remastered. Yes, it will be through Steam. Microsoft brings Halo to Steam, pigs fly[^]

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I just ran into this with my new Windows 10 machine. After a bit of looking online I either found the solution or it came to me while searching. Open the application as administrator you want to associate a file type with and associate the file types using the Windows 10 'Choose default apps by file type', or other appropriate Settings page. Problem solved.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

Five lessons from Microsoft's Azure cloud outage [^]

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

About a month ago the motherboard on my daughter-in-law's PC crapped out. They could have picked up a new motherboard easier, cheaper, but instead decided to purchase a brand new PC. And being the online shoppers they are found a reasonably good deal at CyberPowerPC. They do have a really nice customization page. I've been wanting a new PC myself for about a year and now that the bottom has finally dropped out of the cryptocurrency market the price of video cards has once again become much more reasonable, I decided to do some shopping myself. I to decided to take a look at CyberPowerPC and found myself a decent rig. Not top of the line but a good rig that should last me several years. And with a bit of customizing should be more than sufficient for my needs, and the most I've ever spent on a PC. Intel(R) Core™ Processor i7-8700K 3.70GHZ 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Coffee Lake) 240GB WD Green SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3000MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1) Raidmax Monster II ATX High Airflow Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0 LG 16X Internal Blu-ray Burner ASUS PRIME Z370-P ATX w/ USB 3.1, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 6 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe 850 Watts - EVGA 850W GQ 80 Plus Gold Power Supply GeForce(R) GTX 1070 Ti 8GB GDDR5 (Pascal) Windows 10 Pro (64-bit Edition) With plenty of case fans. 15 days for them to put it together and ship it. Now what really drew me to purchase from CyberPowerPC was their partnership with Affirm. Online loan approval, much lower interest than we could get with a card, 10%, and no late fees. In fact no hidden fees, you can see all your payments online. And then it shipped. Que the horror movie music. The package was scheduled to be delivered today, a package I have to sign for, and the UPS tracking site indicated it was on a truck and out for delivery by 8:30AM. I was able to get permission from my boss to work from home for the day—no big deal really. My wife is a scrapbooker and we get a lot of packages delivered. Some are delivered before noon, some after, not that unusual. But no package before noon, so I head to lunch. Before I get three blocks I see a UPS truck, turn around, go back home. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, no truck, go to lunch anyway. Get back home, it is now 1:30PM. Spend another 30 minutes working...and then my remote session to work drops. This has happened before, no big deal. Wait five minutes, attempt to connect, fails. Wait 15 minutes, attempt to connect, fails. At this

According to our CIO, "If all new applications aren't web apps, we're not doing it right." What he doesn't seem to understand is just what this article is talking about. Not everything needs to be a web app and I can easily write a WinForms app in half the time it takes me to write a web app (with the obvious disclaimer that I may just suck at writing web apps).

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

:thumbsup:

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I have determined that for myself the two most important questions I would ask are: 1. Define leadership in one sentence or less. 2. Define teamwork in one sentence or less. If they can't adequately answer these two simple question, run.

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I'll just leave this here. [We May Be All Alone in the Known Universe: Oxford Study | Fortune](http://fortune.com/2018/06/26/humans-alone-known-universe-a-new-oxford-study-suggests/) [^]

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

Pretty sure I saw a couple of these people on a episode of Vikings?

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos

I'll trade you. Actual production code.

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(results))
{
// Add your error handling here.
}

"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos