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I have learned the same with this as I have learned with partners, or employers, or other individuals who are under the delusion they have some magical "better than you" decisive judgement.
Their head is in a dark place, and they have no intention of taking it out.
You warn them once.
You warn them twice.
And at some point after, you don't warn them anymore.
If you're good enough to get the subtlety of what I am saying, you can also "predict" what I did after I purchased a new computer 2 years back.
BTW I don't mind tabs. But I don't care enough either.
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As long as everyone puts up with shoddy products and indifferent customer service from MS or anyone else it will persist. Grumbling won't change a thing.
Alternatives are available, so
vote with your feet. It's the only thing big business understands.
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You don't use the tabs and you don't like the icons?
Madness. :P
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Nearly all the time, if you have two folders open, it's because you want to compare contents, or copy / move files. Tabs just get in the way of that - and the MS trend towards monochrome, "square" icons make sit harder to work out which icon does what. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I must admit that having tabs on the file manager can be really useful sometimes. Been really handy for me this week, sorry! But agree on the whole Settings/Control Panel thing.
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New device for mental masturbation. A 12 key programmable keyboard, 4x3. Fun creating macro's to send to system. I know, I know, what fun is that?
All great but so far, don't care about the LED's, not fond of color shows. Has a small OLED screen and an encoder that makes for a possible gazillion macro's. Well, until you run out of RAM. Program in Arduino or python, QMK coming.
Stress reliever. Have avoided "hello world" so far.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Can you also program different combinations of key presses? Eventually see if you can replace your full-sized keyboard with it... and hide it in your jacket pocket so you can take it with you on the road as you start hacking into Starbucks for free coffee.
Just a thought... 
Jeremy Falcon
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Not sure about that, haven't been to a Starbucks in several years.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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But ... Will it run DOOM?[^] 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Working on it. OLED screen is a little small.
It can spell farm: eieio
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Hi All,
On Friday I posted about the useless bit of Friday. Chose a task that should have been done, so I would treading already well trodden ground. Found a 'mess' up (choose your own profanity!) of Biblical size. Spend the weekend working out how to tell people about it (company issues, I'm in Production, there in R&D, last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files). Company politics got to love it!
Glenn
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files
Instead of thanking you for finding a bug? 
I see what you mean about company politics - sorry to hear that.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Instead of thanking you for finding a bug?
The more incompetent the developer, the more protective they get - and being shown publicly to have made a mistake so obvious that a production person found it ... doesn't reflect well on them.
Company politics is usually there to protect "high value" incompetents unfortunately.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It kind of sucks and it's uncomfortable but admitting to mistakes is perhaps one of the most important things I have learnt in my software career - it feels uncomfortable but it's usually a much bigger relief than hiding things.
A lot comes down to the culture of the company and the leaders nurturing an atmosphere where making a mistake and owning up to it is not seen as a problem.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Some years ago i was responsible for writing the user interface to one of our systems. As a design document I was given the user manual, so I had to guess a lot. When I suggested to the team in the US (responsible for the underlying system) that the document wasn't clear on a few items, I was given very short shrift.
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"No one reads the manuals", they told me. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Isn't the very definition of politics to protect the incompetent from the consequences of their actions?
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Not that I saw that one coming or anything...
The Lounge[^] 
Nervertheless it's no fun to be in that position.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Oh dear, I forgot I had the foresight to post that. Friday afternoons should be spent on CP's lounge and not doing anything 'useful'.
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Now you're getting it!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Tell your supervisor and let him/her do the telling.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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This one. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: I'm in Production, there in R&D, last time I found something like this I got a telling off by R&D for looking into there files
Term problem there?
R&D should not be something that goes directly into production. Should be R&D => Development => (QA) => Production.
And in that scenario there is no reason for Prod to be looking at R&D code bases.
I would also expect that R&D code to be less than ideal anyways. For example I would not expect proper error handling (and perhaps even no error handling), layouts that were less than ideal, layouts that do not fit into production layouts, potential integration problems, etc.
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Ahh, yes, but it's a case 'it works', 'ship it', there is no QA dept, the best one I heard in a meeting with the senior management 'Yes it ready to ship, build & release, but Glenn keeps finding faults', so my boss came back with 'So, it's not ready then.' and that person looked like a mug . Prod tests the stuff to make sure it works (?, Q&A, never mind!) before it's shipped.
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Ok, so what happened with your original post? Did you raise the red flag?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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