On 07/29/2016 06:27 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
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>> ... and in a place where "the IT world starts and ends with Windows" (or more or less did when I started here) that's not a bad result.
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> And bear in mind that when I started here and pointed out that as a Mac user, half of our internal systems didn't work properly* - the lead developer told me in no uncertain terms that it was my fault for not using IE6 on Windows and no they had no intention of "fixing" anything. My suggestion that this was a rather short sighted approach fell of deaf ears ... for a while - they've had to change their tune these days !
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> * For years I had to fire up an XP VM just to do my timesheet. As a parting gift, another dev just before he left had a look and fixed the one missing or superfluous (can't remember which) ";" in some javascript that broke this particular system on anything but Windows/IE6 :-/
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Oh man, it sounds the same all over the world. (face palm)