Posts by BlindProgrammer

JetBrains announces Project Rider, a cross-platform IDE for C#

I bet it aint accessible

I doubt it is accessible, as with other JetBrains 'cross-platform', or indeed a lot of other 'cross-platform' IDEs

Ouch! Subaru telescope catches astroid prang

Hit by Google car?

Perhaps it was hit by one of Google's autonomous cars. The sahpe of things to come

TalkTalk attack: Lad, 15, cuffed by UK cyber-cops

Sorted

If it was him, that's his career in security and his pension sorted then

You can hack a PC just by looking at it, say 3M and HP

Re: virtual monitors

I have the solution. As a totally blind programmer I don't even have a monitor. Nobody can hear my screen-reader through my headphones. If everybody else did the same for security's sake maybe somebody would give me a job on the back of my 25 years experience and not care about my blindness

Gissa job then

I'm not a security risk! I am a totally blind programmer with 25 years experience. But I can't find a job. But when I'm wearing my headphones and listening to my screen-reader with my monitor switched off or not even plugged in I could save the day!

Linux kernel dev who asked Linus Torvalds to stop verbal abuse quits over verbal abuse

Nobody has the right to avoid offence

It's childish in the extreme to suggest anybody has some kind of concrete never to be offended by anything they read either online or anywhere else. Sure we have rules about how to communicate, both specifically laid down in black and white, like in the workplace, and by unspoken cultural rules. But constantly striving to remove all sources of offence from every scrap of media is a dangerous and stupid expectation. Sure Linus and the other devs are sometimes rude and aggressive, just like the world

Is John McAfee running for US president? 'My campaign manager told me not to comment'

Piggy-back

He could just piggy-back into the Whitehouse attached to some other poor sucker, like President Adobe

Difficult to remove

If he once gets installed in the Whitehouse, it will be impossible to get him out again without trashing the place