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Opines that there's 'absolutely no way on Earth this was written from a clean sheet' Because it's taking away so much Windows marketshare
Yes, opinion was from 2017, but it's making the rounds now.
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Good luck to them defending code that they have overtly, openly, and many times declared as being defunct, because the "Last Ever Version of Windows!"* is a complete rewrite.
* Actually, with their twice-hourly updates to emoji libraries, icons, etc, it's become "the last several thousand versions of windows"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Anyone else ever work with Phar Lap ETS, an OS with much of the same API as Win32Kernel32.dll?
modified 4-Jul-19 14:54pm.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Anyone else ever work with Phar Lap ETS, an OS with much of the same API as Win32.dll?
That's because ETS was a stripped down version of Embedded Windows XP resold by a third-party vendor. I believe they added some drivers and claimed it was real-time.
I've never used it so I don't know much more about it.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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It predated XP. I did a contract for a company using it in 1997 or 1998. We did development on NT 4.0 and then [the team lead] did a cross compile for final executable.
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Well,
All of their products were built on top of Microsoft operating systems. It started out as a DOS Extender and eventually became an extension of the HAL on top of various Windows Embedded operating systems.
It's still being sold today under the name RTX.
I've never used it but it looks interesting. I wouldn't mind playing around with it this weekend if they have a trial version. Do you still have a licensed copy of the old ETS?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I never had a copy, I think for licensing reasons. As long as I followed several rules, whatever ran on NT 4 would run on ETS.
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Software changes fast, and developers will need to vigilantly reskill their workers to maintain competence in the highly competitive arena. It's true: resources need to be killed.
Or is he talking about reservations? I hate making those before going to restaurants anyway.
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Oh, seriously!
Am I really going to open an article whose title has the words "reskilling" and "new software landscape" in it?
I don't carry my buzzword-bingo card with me, so it will have to wait.
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I thought that title would be a hit
TTFN - Kent
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But does this paper take into account blue sky thinking and proactive synergy between different developer generations?!
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needs more "paradigm"
TTFN - Kent
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Restaurant Killing developers are the worse.
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The tool takes a natural image of a specific category, e.g. churches or kitchen, and allows modifications with brushes that do not just draw simple strokes, but actually draw semantically meaningful units – such as trees, brick-texture, or domes. Their uncanny valley, your art skills
I couldn't get anything looking even remotely better than a bad cut/paste job. Maybe you'll have more luck?
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from the site: we address these issues by adapt- ing OK, so these guys want me to trust them with highly sophisticated, pixel-depth image merging and transformation, but they can't even handle copying and pasting text into an HTML file from a word-processor that has hyphenation functions active?
Sure. Gonna happen.
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Man, you need a vacation! You're sounding more and more like a Piss-Boy!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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
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Man, this "natural intelligence thing" is not what it used to be, can't even simple text transformation challenge!
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Wow, nice one!
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The cloud is shaking up the database market, with Amazon gaining ground on Oracle and Microsoft. When is Gartner going to be "legacy"?
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Lordy, Lordy.
This is just like the "76% of Internet usage is through mobile phones" BS, that had everyone jumping around like idiots to make stuff suitable for the mobile market (yes, ms, I'm looking at you!)
What the knee-jerkers failed to take into account was that 99.99% of that 76% was ads downloading, apps updating, and things like Poke Mongo, which has a constant stream of data sent from millions of handsets -- not to mention the billions of GB of personal data that google sucks up.
I.e. not something to base plans for your company's future on.
It's the same with aws databases: IT'S ALL TRIVIAL CR@P, GUYS!
No company with an ounce of sense stores its critical databases on aws servers. It's all databases for web-sites made with "You can make a web-site in 20 minutes!" shells, and game cr@p.
If you're in charge of a business-critical database or two, don't even think of moving them to the cloud -- especially aws.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If you're in charge of a business-critical database or two, don't even think of moving them to the cloud Actually, I would.
The cloud is so massive it can take security measures you'd never have on-premises.
Of course I wouldn't be hosting them in America or China, but north or west Europe is fine.
The only reason to host on-prem is speed, but that's not an issue if your applications are in the cloud too.
On my last job we developed a cloud-only application, all data, critical and sensitive or not, was stored in the cloud.
I still come across companies who don't want to go to the cloud, but it's always policy made by people who haven't the slightest clue about technology, like legal, compliance and the director.
And in those cases it always frustrated IT.
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What will drive the would back to on-site or data centre isn't a techie thing either.
It will be an accountant's decision - cloud COSTS and it costs more and more as time goes by.
It's all being done on a Ryanair kind of model - you can have a ticket for next to nothing but you'll pay a fortune for extras like baggage and oxygen.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Having on-premises servers costs money too.
Having frustrated programmers costs money too.
One team lead I talked to told me they were modernizing their applications, rewriting old VB desktop apps to modern web apps, even using containers, but not in the cloud.
That right there costs a lot and adding cloud to it wouldn't increase costs significantly.
They even bought a whole new server park to host all these applications, so money really isn't the issue.
I am able to help customers save money by going to the cloud.
That all depends on how much of it you use though.
So these decisions really aren't cost based.
And even if it was, it would be insane to have an accountant decide over the IT landscape.
You'd get stuff like "We're not using SQL Server because Mongo DB is cheaper (I read that on a forum)".
Although that is what's happening now, we're not moving to the cloud because management "feels" it's not secure or whatever reason they have.
Maybe if all your developers and IT managers are calling cloud you should move to the cloud
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Equally, all your sales people might want to drive a Bugatti and would argue that a happy sales person is a good sales person and that they'd get out to customers more quickly. The FD would probably be more inclined towards a V.W., though.
Yes, there are things where cloud is an obvious advantage, and could be argued as a a necessity but for most in-house systems the advantages become a lot less defined and I think it's often a case of people doing it because cloud is the "new thing" not for any solid practical reasons.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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