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Possibly the first order of business for this Focus Group would have to be to determine what the cross cut of developers look like.
Soon after the Focus group will disband because they can't stop arguing about it 
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Yes I have and I found it to be a complete waste of time. It was for a redesign of one of websites. Everything I argued against ended up being used anyway, because reasons. Then a year after the new site was launched it was redesigned again, this time with no focus group, because "complaints".
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Oh yes - a certain rather well known technology company has used me in the past (used being the operative word here). Let's just say that the products that came out don't represent what we were saying was needed. I'm not going to name the company as I'm friends with a few of their people, and they are good people. It's not their fault that the company behaved like a douche towards us.
This space for rent
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No, no, no...
I refuse to be part of any group that would have a guy like me as a member.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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I was part of a focus group a long time ago for a large software company that shall remain nameless being asked about features and UI options in their latest O/S (let's called it "Doors"). Suffice it to say they went almost exactly the opposite way to my, and apparently most of the rest of the focus group's, suggestions.
One thing they did, as an example, was not to show file extensions by default in their file administration program since the marketing people running the focus group said, "It would just confuse the average user; better to hide them." Since then so may virus hits have been successful with programs called, for example, "cutecatvideo.avi.exe" which of course looks like "cutecatvideo.avi" on the list; totally safe right?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You've got to leave that behind you, though. Focus groups are useless if they don't completely disregard the past and "focus" on what's on the table.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Can anyone recommend a decent tutorial/book for setting up an Azure web site and database? (ASP.Net and SQL Server). Nothing fancy. Amazon had over 100 pages of books and I can't find anything reasonably simple to follow.
Thanks
modified 10-Apr-16 21:00pm.
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Thanks; one of hundreds. I really want a decent book. Should have specified.
Plus, Google is not my friend; it is way too fast and loose with recommendations. 
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My company started our first Azure webapp/sql database solution about a year ago. It was amazingly easy to get working. I know this is no help to you, and apologize for that, just wanted to say that you don't need a book to get it working.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Appreciate that. I'm a reader: like to get some background before I start something. Still, it does appear reasonably straightforward. 
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I have been having trouble off and on on Win10 where I :
Windows Defender Has File In Use
1. download a file to my <users>\..\downloads directory and then when I attempt to copy it elsewhere Windows Defender is taking so long that it won't copy the file because it is busy scanning it.
No Access To File I Own
2. Now, this morning I downloaded a image file and I attempted to preview it and Windows 10 (built-in) photo viewer or whatever tells me I do not have access to that file because I am not the owner. What?
It's quite terrible.
Anyone else seeing this lately?
I'll reboot, but it's so annoying.
Oh, it looks like I was able to rename the file at the <users>\..\downloads location and then I owned it.
Whatever, Win10! 
EDIT
Here's a link to someone else who has seen very similar issues:
[Issue] Windows defender locking up downloaded files for a long time. : Windows10[^]
modified 10-Apr-16 17:31pm.
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It would appear that you are wrong. This is NOT a repost.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If being pissed off at the piece of cr@p that is win 10 means you're a troll, then the number of trolls in the world has increased a thousandfold, in the last few years.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't know. All he said was mine was a repost, but he was wrong as all trolls are.
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raddevus wrote: There's another one who is only a series of numbers for its name.
Not 9082365, Shirley!
Having opinions isn't trolling. It'd be as dull as a three-quid silver teapot if we all had the same opinions about everything.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It'd be as dull as a three-quid silver teapot if we all had the same opinions about everything.
I agree 100%.
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raddevus wrote: No Access To File I Own
But you don't own it. You downloaded it so its owner is clearly not you! That at least is the logic that preview seems to use although I've only seen it with images downloaded from emails. Bring up the properties window and confirm permissions and it'll be fine. A bit annoying but hardly worth throwing your toys out of the pram!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yeah, Defender annoyed me so much I paid for Kaspersky - Defender would come in at 14:00 every damn day and scan the whole PC, monopolising all cores and making it pretty much unusable. And whatever I did to tell it to do it at night it ignored...
I haven't seen any problems with downloaded files not belonging to me: do you use a D/L manager that might be running under a different user?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: do you use a D/L manager that might be running under a different user?
Very good question, but I don't. I was just previewing an image via download from a royalty-free image site. When the image landed in the normal downloads directory it was inaccessible. I just thought it was odd.
Thanks for the input and ideas.
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Call me cynical, but do you have a link for me so I can confirm the behaviour?
raddevus wrote: I'll reboot, but it's so annoying.
In which world does rebooting fix user-permissions?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The Windows World. I have encountered that issue once, and a reboot did fix it. I guess Win10 got confused. I haven't seen it recently, though.
It was late at night anyways, so shutting down and continuing later was needed.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Here's what seems to be happening?
1. The file is downloaded to the user's download directory
2. windows defender grabs the file and takes "ownership" (even though the user is running Chrome) so it can scan it to insure it doesn't include a virus.
3. defender eventually lets go of ownership -- unless something interrupts it where it continues to have ownership.
The reboot was in case something was running slowly or something so that defender was slowed down and I was able to see that the file was in the directory but defender wasn't done scanning it making me think I could grab the file though I couldn't.
This is 100% different from anything I've seen in Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows NT 4 (No ME or 98 for me), Windows 2000, Windows XP (Service pack1, 2, 3) Windows 7, Windows 8.1. So it was a bit odd and I thought I'd report it.
Just thought it was interesting.
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