Posts by skotl 13 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2020
Teams is the most bug-ridden piece of crap that I'm forced to use on my PC several times a day. The only app that I use more often is Outlook (which works flawlessly).
And *this* is what the Teams product management gurus decide to spend their time on? The way it's supposed to work is that you look at what your customers want and deliver that, not throw all your efforts at trying to turn a business tool into a nursery-school app.
This isn't a bailout, and neither the government, nurses, doctors, teachers or you have spent a penny on it.
HSBC bought the (profitable) SVB UK business for £1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64937251
"Silicon Valley Bank UK was in reasonable financial health when it was bought for £1 by HSBC. It had adequate capital and was making reasonable profits."
It was force-sold to HSBC to ensure the chaos of its parent bank didn't impact the significant number of tech business that bank with SVB UK.
In other words, this is "A Good Thing" - plenty other political topics for you to get your pants in a twist about.
...and you don't understand that Teams comes a part of Office 365, hence most users do pay an annual fee / subscription.
If you're using it for free, just go ahead and switch to Zoom or any of the 500 alternatives instead of raising your blood pressure by posting on here.
It's not a "just-in-case" situation. ServiceNow (like most "good" businesses) bases their future growth on historical trends and buys accordingly - the only difference is that rather than keep the cash in the bank, they ordered 4 quarters' worth of kit in one go instead of quarter by quarter.
It would be a very poor CIO who made that decision without having the data to back it up, an even poorer CTO to make a mistake on what was needed and over-order, and the worst to anticipate growth and have to reject it because "we don't have enough servers"
With ServiceNow's current growth pattern, this is a perfectly sane decision. And, as mentioned by another commenter, it's not up to ServiceNow to solve every other company's procurement problems.
Yep - you can install any old APK, although it's a little protracted.
Download the Android SDK Platform Tools for Windows from https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
Unzip it (nothing to install) and locate "adb.exe"
Download your APK and the run "adb INSTALL <name-of-apk>" and you're done! The Android app is now available from the Windows start menu and can just be launched like a Windows app. I installed the Whatsapp and Kindle android apps last night and both... just work...
I had exactly that with Rair Supermicros in the late 80s. We would lay out looooong RS232 cable to the terminals and configure the O/S to have a VDU on the end of each port.
The problem was if the customer removed a terminal and left the RS232 cable dangling then we would get crosstalk/interference that would flap the pins on the UART, causing the board to be flooded with interrupts. This caused a slowdown over a five minute period until the machine hung entirely.
Restarting it would mean every display showing the start of the "Welcome to Rair M/PM" message getting displayed and every terminal hanging.
Our solution? To tell the customer over the phone "Remember when it was all working and then you changed something (unplugged a terminal)? Well go back and undo what you did". A technique that still applies 35 years later...
Not sure I'd consider Angular an "edge case", or I may have picked you up wrong.
I was a VS fan (despite all the issues you cite, pretty much all of which I agree with) up until two years ago. Then I discovered Rider and Webstorm from Jetbrains (although, to be honest, you could probably get by with just Rider).
It's worth a look - a little idiosyncratic, but a total breath of fresh air compared to Visual Studio (and far more grown up and ready-for-action than VS Code, IMO).
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