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WhatsApp - would it serve your purpose?
Of course, a lot of discipline is needed with WhatsApp. For example, I only connect to the Internet twice a day (from my mobile), for about 10-15 minutes each, so useless things don't nudge out useful things from my timetable.
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No, not an Option with my Virus safe ten year old Nokia
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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this is not a recommendation, but I'm curious so I want to ask...
What's wrong with having the latest updates of a working and free software in your computer?
I do install the service packs of Windows when they come and I'm happy with that... Meanwhile they are not forcing me to change the software I'm using (i.e. win7 to 10) I'm OK.
Skype is a good/interesting option when you have the Skype wifi, Skype plans to call abroad... which both of them are good for small businesses.
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On most Points you are right. What's bugging me is that (at least) the last two updates from Skype were very bad and such things I would not have automatically installed.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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(In the following message I'm referring to VS Pro editions),
So MS announced at Connect2015 that Visual Studio can now obtained on a monthly and annual subscription.
Looking at the comparison, monthly does not give you the benefits of access to the other software stuff like windows editions/SQL server etc. etc.
It also looks like the Annual is almost half the price compared Visual Studio + MSDN renewal price.
I cannot see what the benefit is now of the VS+MSDN option, from what i can see you get a couple of support incidents thrown in, but with google and the likes of you guys who needs them!
SO, Thoughts on the new subs options?
hmmm...
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Hi, Dave, Do you think it's possible we haven't sussed out all the Catch-22's yet ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I did consider it!
Nothing is simple........they [MS] have made a right mess of the credential management across the various platforms, add this to mix and I have a feeling I'll end up doing something and losing a bunch of other stuff.
Fortunately I don't have anything really in Azure at the moment to worry me and haven't migrated to O365 with the family fully yet, but only one of my domains. Tried to link my Azure AD O365 directory (on an Organizational account) to my Azure AD (from MSDN Sub) on a Personal account and it just doesn't play ball as per expectations and appears to just fail silently. Spent hours last month trying to work out WTF was going on and still not got to the bottom of things.
The password rules on O365 Web Interface are too strict, but can be toned down via Powershell and AD, but still too complex for my kids email accounts, was trying manage via one place, but it is a nightmare....
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First thought would be can you keep using VS after letting a yearly subscription? With MSDN you're allowed to keep using anything you had after letting your subscription lapse.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Looked at the comparison table[^], and yeah you lose the ability to keep using anything after your sub runs out. I'm a bit curious how this will work in practice; does it require VS to have internet access to periodically phone home? (At times I need to work on an airgapped network; so that's completely out.) For business users it looks like the traditional version only needs paid up every 3 years; which'd make it significantly cheaper for businesses; maybe not though the other VS pro[^] page makes no mention of longer than 1 year terms so who knows...
For small businesses/etc they might be deliberately pricing the cloud subscription significantly cheaper to convince people to switch over. That at least puts them one up on Adobe's pricing when they switched to a subscription model.
For the high end VS Enterprise[^] version, over the long term the conventional MSDN sub is still cheaper. OTOH with it needing 7 years to break even, that might not matter much unless businesses can xfer subs to new hires when old ones leave.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I find it hard to take design patterns seriously when they have names like "The Revealing Module Pattern".
Makes me think of those badly made seventies kung-fu films where someone boasts that he can do the "Drunken ugly-donkey style".
Ignore me. It's Friday and my mind is wandering...
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: "Drunken ugly-donkey style". Is that the style that uses the 'five-point-palm exploding heart technique'?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: Is that the style that uses the 'five-point-palm exploding heart technique'? Best pattern with the Crane stance
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I pefer the one point foot exploding rear technique. Usually it`s not lethal, triggers high brain activity and helps over the steepest learning curves.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 21-Nov-15 1:11am.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: "The Revealing Module Pattern" That's the pattern I use to pick up chicks at the club!
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Nobody expects ... no wait .. wrong quote. What I meant to say is that all design patterns suffer from the problem that ...
Quote: people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non subjective point of view it is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff
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Yeah, Pattern-slingers give the rest of us a bad name. This song reminds me of that type...
The Backblock Shearer lyrics on G'Day from Down Under by Unknown Composer
I'm only a backblocks shearer boys, as easily can be seen,
I've shore in most of the famous shed in the plains of the Riverine.
I've shore in most of the famous sheds, I've seen big tallies done,
But somehow or other, I don't know why, I never became a gun.
Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.
I've opened up the windpipe straight, I've opened behind the ear;
I've practised every possible style, in which a man can shear;
I've studied all the cuts and drives, of the famous men I've met.
But I've never succeeded in plastering up, those three little figures yet.
Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.
The boss walked down the board this morning, I saw him stare at me,
I'd mastered Moran's great shoulder-cut, as he could plainly see,
But I've another surprise for him, that'll give his nerves a shock-
Tomorrow he'll find that I have mastered, Pierce's rang-tang block.
Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.
And when I succeed, as I hope to do, then I intend to shear
At the Wagga demonstration, which is held there every year
And there I'll lower the colours, my boys, the colours of Mitchell & Co.
Instead of Deeming, you will hear of Widgeegoara Joe!
Hurrah, my boys, my shears are set, I feel both fit and well;
Tomorrow will find me at my pen, when the gaffer rings the bell,
With Haydon's patent thumb-guards fixed and both my blades pulled back,
Tomorrow I go with my siding blow, for a century or the sack.
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This is making sense ....so keep wandering
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- Design patterns are a response to solving the entanglement nightmare that OOD, while not creating, made more complex.
- While the formalization of the patterns was in some ways useful, the implementation often results in over-complexity and misapplication, especially by inexperienced programmers.
- Experienced programmers were already implementing decent ways to disentangle non-OO and OO code, so really, I think very little was gained by formalizing patterns. If anything, it made things worse for experienced developers who had to go in and fix the insanity of bad pattern application by less experienced developers.
Marc
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I can relate to 2 & 3, we let a senior guy loose using MVC on one of our internal apps, bloody thing is unsupportable, he used a weird collection of patterns and achieved a brilliant form of obfuscation.
I hope nobody wants changes before we get it rewritten!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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What an excellent analysis (+5).
I am an old dog learning new tricks. When Design patterns were first revealed a decade ago, I didn't embrace the hype surrounding them that others were so eager to display... but I tried to give them a chance and accept them where appropriate.
Your comments describe perfectly what I experienced and struggled to encapsulate.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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It always seemed to me that Patterns were a sort of matryoshka doll attempt to fix that OO design mixes data and code, and not in the functional, 'the code is the data,' sort of way.
And I'm not too big on premature encapsulation, either.
As much as I am fascinated by Conway's Life, I wouldn't use gliders as a data transmission mechanism.
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First your programmer's oath, then this. I can't fill my sig or bio with all of your posts!
I can relate to #2 and #3, we now have a lot of perfectly obfuscated code full of guru tricks that simply does not what it was supposed to do. Secretly my developing team isn't using that code - since 15 years and nobody noticed.
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
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I find it hard to take design patterns seriously
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Wow, after all these years, the "pattern" was the BAD names!
(Light goes on)
That's what you get for taking coding advice from a Gang!
Which also explains why the term "Singleton" has an almost blatant "idiot" sound.
They like gangs. They hate individuals they are required to rely on.
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Which also explains why the term "Singleton"...
I've been around for a while (I got my CS degree in 1978). An interesting programming "technique" called "The singleton" was described to me by one of my professors circa 1975. This was long before OO technology was thought of and likewise long before patterns were formalized by the gang.
The patterns guys stole the concept and described it as their own.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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