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Following on from JSOPs rant!
As a developer the only stuff I had on my office machine are projects I was working on for the company. Everything was both backed up and in source control, no databases on the local machine and no personal stuff at all.
I had access to the development and UAT boxes and intranet. Why do I even need a password there is nothing on there that is not company specific and available to all my peers. And yet every 90 days I had to go through the same old routine.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I didn't know they had computers back then. 
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"My day" finished a couple of months ago 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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On our server, who's file system has been with us since 1993, are drivers for ISA cards.
I'm just lazy, and who knows when they might be needed again.
I actually used our WFW 3.1 disk 3 years ago so, yeah you never know.
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Sure servers, especially file servers, have loads of crap hanging around but what is so precious on your desktop - discounting network access which was very limited for the developers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Cakewalk by Bandlab 
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: And yet every 90 days I had to go through the same old routine.
Started at this company 254 days ago, still using the same password.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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SCROTUM ?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The really silly thing was that they were happy for me to increment the numeric suffix every 3 months. 00 then 11 then 22 etc. when I got to 99 I would just start again. Essentially my password was the same for the last decade.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It'd not so much that they expect someone external to just try to get file access to your machine. If they remoted to your machine, they'd have access to the entire intranet.
Essentially, it's a foot in the door.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, the only precious thing is the freakin' password I have to enter dozen times a day.
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OK, so I've been playing with the node/angular stack for a month or so now.
Short version, it reminds me of a solution looking for a problem. I can write clean Javascript with a nice and simple service-oriented layer. With Angular, I'm constantly adding tags to HTML, C&P'ing common imports into every controller class, C&P'ing common DI's into constructors, often I feel like I'm duplicating things at various levels of the "app" just to support the architecture of Angular, basically spending way too much time managing the boilerplate framework code. All this gets in the way of doing actual real work.
And, while it works great for a small project, and while automatic rebuilding and browser page refresh is great when a code file changes, the warts and the slowness of Angular/Typescript builds reveals its ugly head when you have a real project. And the "real" project at work is actually still pretty small.
And then there's the Node version hell -- I had installed the latest version of Node and Angular, but the product doesn't build with Node v.10, throwing some arcane exception in some C++ code (!!!) it has to compile for something in Node, so I had to downgrade to Node v.8, which involved installing the Node Version Manager so I could switch between the two.
The whole thing reminds me of my Ruby on Rails days.  But maybe with a only dribble of instead of a full technicolor yawn.
On a positive note, the framework forces you to do things the Angular way, which probably cleans up a lot of the crap Javascript that developers would normally write. So, that's a good thing, IMO.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I was just going to say that too 
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One of the reasons why I stopped using Angular and I stopped my series of articles about it. It keeps changing things and it's hard to keep up.
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Yeah, there is so much boilerplate... it would be nice to cut down on that.
For bigger projects there is a way to modularize the app, so only specific parts get rebuilt. That being said I've seen some weird things with the on-the-fly re-building of the app - weird errors which go away once you stop and rebuild.
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Played it on XBox. Got stuck the first time through the Paths of the Dead. Had to turn it off/on.
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Just got this from a server:
The remote server returned an error: (406) Not Acceptable.
That's pretty much how I feel every time I read bad marketing.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At least that's a sensible error. Not like 418. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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418 is so awesome. It does age you a little bit admitting you know what it means 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Here's my handle, here's my spout!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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🎵 Fill me up with gin and pour me out;
🎵 Drink it down; now you've got gout!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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