I can fully understand the desire a developer has to protect their creation from being copied illegally. I can understand why some steps would be taken to mitigate the risk of losing money due to piracy. What I can’t understand is why some companies go so far with their anti-piracy measures that it starts to [...]
I have a few questions for you:
How would you feel if TV channels changed automatically because you weren’t paying attention to the ads?
Would you like it if your newspaper closed by itself because you were reading the articles but skipping over the classifieds?
How happy would you be if you were kicked out of a cinema [...]
In my current position I spend a lot of time battling against a fairly poorly-written C++ code base. The code, while technically written in C++, is actually more of a C-like “splat” with a few classes thrown in. Since I began working on this project I’ve seen many cases where proper object-orientation would have made [...]
I find myself frequently concerned with the lack of ability of a lot of people in our industry. Today I found an example of at least one of the possible reasons why software development professionals turn out to be crap.
They start by reading tutorials like this.
How can we expect people to become good at what [...]
