![]() ![]() So my goal is to apply my talents on an amazing team and make the world a better place. But while solving hard technical problems is fun, I’ve also learned that in the end it is the people I work with that make all the difference. I enjoy working with Microsoft Research and I am co-inventor on 16 patents. I’ve done this several times in my career and had a blast in the process. I love writing code and starting new projects on small fast paced incubation teams and growing that to successful product. The opposite of complexity is beautiful, elegant design. The world doesn't need any more stupid software. Simplicity is too often an excuse for being simplistic. The fact that Microsoft owns the Scalebound IP isnt an insurmountable. I decide to do a quick web search to see if there’s an easy way to re-associate all Office files with the applicable Office programs, since I don’t want to do them all by hand.Simplicity is not the opposite of complexity. PlatinumGames wants to bring Scalebound back to life, but Microsoft currently. I quickly check the start menu and see that Office is correctly installed MS Word opens, so I know the install wasn’t botched. So I reopened the folder that has the chapter of my book I am currently working on and I noticed that the docx file was no longer associated with anything. I got back in to Windows and of course only my browser reopened (and saved all my tabs, thank you Chrome… why can’t Windows do that?). In those cases exists 3 possibilities: 1. Oh well, I figured I was almost done with the torture of giving Microsoft my money but I was wrong. It took a bit (and that custom feature selection is hideously archaic and incredibly unintuitive), but the progress bar made progress and then suddenly I had windows popping up asking if I wanted to save my–oops, nope windows were gone and computer was restarting. Money is constantly updating the file in real time and expects the file to be constantly under it's control. Second, never open a file that is in a OneDrive folder. If you move it and just click the Money icon, it will look in the old location and not find anything. So I click the only button, “Okay,” and suddenly it’s installing without a problem. First, Money remembers where a file used to be. Um, okay… what’s that? It’s not one of my opened windows. I went into Word and activated it with the key and then I got a warning that I needed to shut down “Office Starter 2010” before installing. Finally, things seemed to be good and I was able to get confirmation of the order and a key. So, I typed my name and address and credit card info again (carefully picking the card type before entering my name) and submitted. Then it presented me with a new form to fill out that had all the same fields as before but the email and password fields were replaced with a pre-populated email field. That’s the point at which I scanned the blue on blue design to find out this was a Live login and I signed in. ![]() The choice was go back to my shopping cart, so I did that and continued again to get back to the sign in form. No, it didn’t even do the next nicest thing: let me log in from there. Reach your financial goals & join over 600000+ registered users for free at Money. Submitting the form told me that I already had an account with that email address… but it didn’t do the nice thing (try logging in with the email address and password I had already entered… hell, I had typed the password four times at this point). Discover our multi-award winning budget app & save money on the go. So I fill in the fields again and submit. I can’t imagine who thought, “I know! When the user changes a required field, we should delete the content of other required fields,” but that person was an idiot. It erased the “Name On Card” field as well as the two password fields. I change the credit card type from Visa to MasterCard and the page reloads. Then I get to the top right and put in the name on my credit card. I go down the full left side, filling out each form element. ![]()
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