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Contract work is becoming the new normal. On the bright side, you can put 'CEO, Me Inc' on your business cards
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It's a sad thing that it is becoming the new normal and I wonder that next to no one is upset about it and everybody just goes with it because the only advantages are hands-down on the side of the contractor: No layoff protection (depending on where you live), often combined with fictious self-employment to circumvent social security payments... just to name a few, I'm not even starting to talk about the modern slavery called time-work. It's a simple lie that (young) people entering the workforce today value flexibility and autonomy over social security and a safe job. The idea of life long employment no longer applies? Please, why, exactly? What's wrong with it? How to you expect people to start and raise family under such uncertain job conditions?
Companies/employers have to be aware that they have a social responsibility. At least they had once. It seems like all they care for now is profit margins and their own salaries.
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So, military will become contractors? Farmers will only work on demand?
Employment is not ending; the amount of work is shrinking, again. Something that happened before.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There is no other ritual that is as thoroughly dehumanizing, utterly useless, tediously time-consuming, here's-a-banana-dance-monkey-dance freak-show of zero predictive value, as the supreme haze-fest that goes by the name Silicon Valley Casting Couch. How about FizzBuzz instead? (Caution: uses strong language)
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One does not simply invert a binary tree.
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Those moments between Wi-Fi connect and VPN launch can give away a lot. "Security is an illusion"
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Many of us are very likely familiar with "browser toolbars," which reside below the browser's address bar, and aims to provide "extra functionality" on our internet browsing experience. Good thing we're all in agreement then
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Yeah!
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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I gather Oracle are now replacing their Java download with Yahoo! toolbar!
Kevin
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Back in November, after a rocky landing on a comet, the Philae lander went into a deep hibernation. Now, months later, the spacecraft has finally woken up, according to the European Space Agency. "Good morning starshine. The earth says hello"
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This is great news. I feared the lander was lost.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sort of another successful failure
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The next version, Philea II, will come back quicker.
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Since WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) was introduced by Microsoft in 2006 as part of the .NET framework, the platform has been on the rise in popularity among Windows developers. Don't go into the (Silver) light
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Only 10%? So Visual Studio is about 90% useless?
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WPF Local is the first step to open sourcing WPF. Of course, you can't tell anyone I told you this.
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I am pretty sure that Microsoft's improvements won't target keyboard-users, they'll rather include more and fancier bells and whistles.
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A recent survey by Microsoft solution provider Adaptiva indicates that the vast majority of enterprises will wait at least six months to begin deploying Windows 10. "Wise Men say, 'Only fools rush in'"
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We just got everyone moved to Windows 7; so it'll probably 3 or 4 years before we get to Windows 10.
The problem with this is being a developer; it is difficult to properly test when a user is using a new OS with a new browser. An example is we still have 2003 Windows Servers and IIS doesn't recognize IE browsers above IE9; so certain things don't work.
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jgakenhe wrote: IIS doesn't recognize IE browsers above IE9
IIS doesn't care about browser versions; do you mean ASP.NET?
Microsoft released hotfixes for .NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0 on all OSs a few years back which should resolve the issue:
Alternatively, you can set Page.ClientTarget = "uplevel" in or before the Init event to tell ASP.NET to assume that the browser supports everything it cares about.
"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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Yes, Scott Hanselman's blog pretty much explains the problem. The __doPostBack doesn't work for Windows 8 and IE10+. The problem arose when people started getting new computers. The server is 2003, all the code is legacy, updates weren't kept up, there's no redundency, and the environment is mission critical. I didn't realize that there were some hotfixes. The hotfixes you listed looks like they'll fix the problem. I'm scared to do anything with it until my new environment is ready and migrated.
Thanks for the reply and good information.
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And only fools build on an ever-changing foundation
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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