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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You're holding it wrong"
That's a hardware problem. 
I think the bigger factor is that devs shouldn't be doing acceptance testing of their own software. I'm pretty good at busting other people's code; my code OTOH is generally protected against all of my favorite ways to break something. As a result I rarely find problems when freeform testing my own code. Funny how that works. 
The only exception being one mature application that was done back when Work was guzzling CMMI Koolaid and that has an exhaustive test plan that includes bashing every menu item, toobar button, and keyboard shortcut (Did you know that setting a winform menu item invisible doesn't disable its keyboard shortcut - ask me how I know. Also ask me how many testers have asked the same question. *). OTOH running that test plan is something a junior staff member can do for much less than my hourly rate.
- Preemptive answers; it was discovered by the test plan; and almost all of the good ones.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: "You're holding it wrong"
"You attacked me wrong" (Jim Carrey as a karate teacher, may be LSN show).
Developer should never do final testing of its own products.
Simply because another one testing an app will do it differently from the developer.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Most open source companies can't thrive by selling maintenance and support subscriptions. But the cloud may be the key to revenue generation. Because almost everyone is doing it?
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Microsoft is planning to finalize Windows 10 this week, ahead of its official launch later this month. "Are you ready to rrrrrrrrumble?"
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Despite the fact Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 free of charge, activation is still required and it seems the company still has a few kinks to iron out before launch day on July 29. You know what would help with that? A Beta-test program.
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I have installed Windows 10 Insider Program on one machine that I own, and if this is the case I might be looking for my USB stick to install the OS on my own system also. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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FYI, I dropped any further attempt to join the insider program because it seems there's no (easy) way to update my 10074 release to any newer. I tried 5-6 times, but all the times (after Gigs of download) the updater breaks with a strange error...
I'll wait for the definitive release, although this instability scares me a lot.
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I have a VM installed with version 10130, but I had to install it from scratch after the upgrade from 10074 failed.
I will be waiting until the end of the free upgrade period in order to decide whether I should upgrade. I may not upgrade until my employer's IT department starts deploying Win10; paying for an upgrade is much cheaper than having to roll back from a broken install!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Agree.
The "Win 10 upgrade" icon popped out on two PCs (out of many), but since both are very important for my business usage, I think I won't upgrade these machines sooner.
I also tried on a VM (VmWare), but as far I tried, the OS gave many problems on stability: graphics, networking, and other stuffs. I seen the VM closing by itself without any apparent reason while downloading the upgrade.
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Whenever you fix some code in a legacy application you should not leave bigger mess behind you than the mess was when you arrived. But no one follows this rule. ... because no one wants to go there, and you have to ask the barista for a key?
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Good programmers are plumbers. They know when to take a plunger to the clogged toilet, flush the whole stinking pile of crap that the previous coder wrote, and replace the whole contraption with a composting toilet so that after a couple of years of rewriting, you get nice compost to spread over the flowerbed growing on graves of the previous programmers.
Marc
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That... makes the analogy work for me. Thank you. 
TTFN - Kent
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This is, presumably, how the previous programmers died:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Good one.
He died at the console,
Of hunger and thirst.
Sadly, that is how some gamers die. 
Marc
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Quote: With memory-dumps, punch cards.
Well, that's the problem right there! What the eff is that shiz?
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's how the Real Men (and quite a few Real Women) of the past wrote and debugged their programs.
'memory dump': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump[^]
'punched cards': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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  It was a mischeviously rhetorical query!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sometimes it’s not how well something is made, but that it was made at all. I don't think it meets the System Requirements for Windows 10
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In the beginning, open-source software was meant as a way for developers to scratch each other’s back. "Fear is the mind-killer."
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The licensing nightmare of open source, yeah, ok, potentially scary. But what I find really scary is that droves of mediocre programmers are now pushing open source projects that get used without much any thought with regards to the underlying cruft, including the overall architecture. And even scarier still is the "Ooh, look! A shiny new open source project to use on our cancer cell zapper neutron beam gun!"
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: cancer cell zapper neutron beam gun
I totally want to start an Open Source project for this, now.
It would be nodejs, of course. 
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Vark111 wrote: nodejs
yeah, that's gonna workout well. You can even spel* it corectly*!
*yeah, I know it's spelled "spell" and "correctly".
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Well, technically, it was a punctuation error. Not a spelling error.
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