Question for you - I have created a few (okay, two) UWP apps, but the limited success of the store has made me look to using Xamarin. Only thing is, Xamarin's XAML is sufficiently different from UWP's XAML that I got disoriented and gave up.
If I want to target cross platform apps (including Linux and Mac), should I wait for Xamarin Forms 3 or will UWP eventually expand to cover Mac & Linux?
I'm only a hobby programmer so I don't want to waste hours learning something that will be a dead end.
Any insight you might have would be very useful! thanks
I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who uses this on the floor. Is it really all they say it is? The marketing and PR looks good, but do mechanics really love it?
"I don’t ask for or expect any sympathy. I am responsible for my quagmire—no one else. I didn’t get gulled into overextending myself by unscrupulous credit merchants. Basically, I screwed up, royally. I lived beyond my means, primarily because my means kept dwindling."
Yes, exactly. That's why I don't get it. I can understand going through a rough patch where you pay the minimum cause you can't afford it, but I cannot understand constantly paying the minimum when you can afford to pay much more
I'm always baffled by one thing in these sorts of articles - the belief that paying the minimum due on your credit cards is the right thing to do.
I'm not going to pontificate about living within your means or whatever, obviously people have reasons for doing what they do. But I don't understand how so many people are cheerfully paying the minimums and treating credit as basically an extension on their salary.
I have seen this at work as well, people making low six- figure incomes paying minimums. I've even had someone tell me that paying in full is bad for your credit score.
Is this a generally held belief? Do most people pay the minimum?
It features the next generation of IBM's CMOS mainframe technology, with a 10-core CPU chip using 14 nm silicon-on-insulator technology, and running at 5.2GHz, claimed to be the fastest processor in the industry. Each core has hardware accelerated encryption implementing a CP Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF). The CPU also has 1.5 times more on-chip cache per core compared to the z13. There can be up to 32TB of memory, three times the z13 maximum, and its IO is three times faster as well.
While I agree with your basic point, there's something to be said about anonymously searching for information in a non-dynamic fashion (that is, the catalogue is exactly the same for everyone - it doesn't rearrange itself based on your profile)
I love technology and all it brings us, but I find browsing in a good bookstore often more helpful than Amazon's recommendations or GoodReads or what have you. And the best part is, no one knows what I'm searching for - it's not stored forever in a database of my "preferences". (Yes, I know that bookstores save data on books that I buy, but Amazon et al track every click regardless of purchase)
I think this depends a lot on two people - your immediate manager, and their immediate manager. I've been lucky to have great management, and I've been able to do a lot of stuff that the article talks about, and I work in a stodgy BigCo (old school tech co).
I once went to 99Designs and paid $2000 for a designer to redo a certain set of pages on our corporate site. Start to finish, the project took 27 days. This is insanely fast in our context - the usual process would have taken 6-8 months, and at least $100,000. The large agency we work with would have dedicated a team, spun up a project, set up a series of meetings...
To be fair, I get the need for process and I totally get the value of working that way, but it's nice to have management that backs you up when you really need to get something done fast. And yes, once the need for those pages was over (conference related), I made sure they were handed over to the right team for long term management, and not just abandoned as orphan pages.
At first I thought this was silly. But on reflection, it seems like a great idea - why not make your solar grid more attractive? Imagine flying over that happy panda and the free publicity for solar energy. You'd probably never notice a rectangular grid, but this sounds like the kind of thing the pilot would tell you to look at.
Australia should build a kangaroo shaped one. Or, even better, a koala!
Sure - this was in reference to my top level comment, but I see that this dropped lower down the page.
I work for a large Fortune 150, one that you've heard of, and we have a security team that is constantly scanning our network for weaknesses and potential exploit vectors. They will kill (firewall off) any sites that might compromise the network and tell the application owner to fix the issue before they allow it back on the public net.
However, it's still better than having expired certs and a team trying to figure out who owns the app, trying to get in touch with them, asking them to update the cert, finding out that they are no longer with the company...
It's even worse when the service is something that a small team created as a POC - which then became customer facing and mission critical, with the team having moved on to something else.
And it's funny how often this happens over a holiday weekend.
Yes, I know that the issues are deeper and more to do with large company process and bureaucracy than anything technical. But at least you can have secure services that don't fall over.