POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Coding at Microsoft : Re: Coding at Microsoft Server Time
3 Sep 2024 19:19:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coding at Microsoft  
From: Darren New
Date: 28 Feb 2011 12:14:44
Message: <4d6bd804$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> *possible* to have more than two monitors. 

I'm guessing multiple video cards.

> (I'm still trying to figure 
> out why you'd want two in the first place...)

Because you've never tried it, or you don't seriously work with computers.

Does your desk have room for more than just a keyboard and mouse? What else 
do you put on it?

> I still find it scary that people have written C programs that take 
> longer than 0.003 seconds to compile. How huge would they have to be?

Last one I worked on took about 45 minutes to compile, and it included tons 
of already-compiled stuff for which we didn't have the source.

> Also links to some interesting stuff about source control. I'm presuming 
> it's talking about the traditional, centralised kind, rather than the 
> new-fangled "distributed version control", where every repository is a 
> branch.

Hard to say. I'm a little surprised they don't seem to use the tools they 
sell to others.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."


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