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Quote: The half-life of XML is about three years. It's sad - with XML you could have validating schemas, data type specifications, simple rules, references (and therefore reusable) sub-schemas, and it was extensible and one could write awesome queries. I personally think we lost a lot particularly in terms of data validation, moving to JSON.
But nowadays we have the opposing forces of dumbing everything down contrasted by a plethora of overly complicated front-end frameworks. It's stunning to me that some of the front-end programmers I've worked with know (after spending hours or days figuring out the framework) how to do something in a complex framework and yet have no idea how to implement the same functionality in pure Javascript / TypeScript which takes me a few minutes. Anyways, I digress.
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Marc Clifton wrote: But nowadays we have the opposing forces of dumbing everything down
JSON was too complicated so Rust uses TOML[^] (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language). No joke.
You'll see resemblance to old windows (3.1) .ini files.
modified 2-Aug-22 15:30pm.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with the old Windows .ini files. They're a heck of a lot more readable than the XML .config files that have been foisted on everyone.
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json u mean the txt file with { : ,,,, etc
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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React Native builds on top of the native platform for every OS it runs on; on Windows, this translates to producing a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. Create Windows apps in JavaScript? Sure, why not?
"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
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Quote: The MIDL compiler is run to turn IDL files into Windows Metadata - this is required to produce information used by the XAML compiler
the XAML compiler is invoked to convert XAML markup files into C++ code
the MDMerge tool runs to merge all Windows Metadata files from the application
C++/WinRT is invoked to turn Windows Metadata into C++ projection headers as well as component sources
Only then, the C++ compiler and linker run on the app Really, what can go wrong?
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who get time to do all this ? msft?
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"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Docusaurus is a static site generator that helps you ship beautiful documentation websites in no time. I'm not sure naming your doc tool as though it were extinct is a good idea
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With the speed at which tech changes, maybe its just an homage to how relevant documentation is the minute it's completed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm not sure naming your doc tool as though it were extinct is a good idea
You have a point.
Quote: late 16th century: via Latin from Greek thēsauros ‘storehouse, treasure’. The original sense ‘dictionary or encyclopedia’ was narrowed to the current meaning by the publication of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852). vs.
Quote: mid 19th century: from modern Latin dinosaurus, from Greek deinos ‘terrible’ + sauros ‘lizard’.
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Then Comet 1.0 shows up...
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what happen to robohelp?
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"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced to employees Wednesday a new effort called “Simplicity Sprint,” which will solicit ideas from its more than 174,000 employees on where to focus and improve efficiency. Cancel projects more efficiently?
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they can have that ai take over as ceo
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"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Investigators found that the company collected geolocation data without consent for over a year. They're double-double sorry
And I'm even more sorry to keep using that joke with Timmie's, but there you go.
With any luck, some other company will provide the coffee and donuts.
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Hit'em with a 2-by-4.
For non-Canadians, that's one of their coffees with double cream and quadruple sugar. Or is it the other way around? Either way, the sugar makes it gross.
For East Ponders, a 2-by-4 also refers to the most common size of lumber used by home builders.
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Greg Utas wrote: For East Ponders, a 2-by-4 also refers to the most common size of lumber used by home builders.
We still use "four-b-two" downunder. For some reason, "be" not "by" rolls off the tongue easier.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Making it even more fun, a 2 by 4 isn't really 2 by 4. It's more like 1.75 by 3.75. Inches by the way. I do not know why we are being cheated like that. Been that way for as long as I've been aware some 50 years.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Shrinkflation really got underway just over 50 years ago.
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That's similar to the difference between a US Survey acre of land (43,560 sq. ft.) and a "builder's acre" (40,000 sq. ft.), which is about 10% of the US Survey acre. They use the builder's acre in real estate listings, so you're not getting the acreage they advertised.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Because people used to buy rough cut 2x4's from the saw mill and run them through joiners to smooth out the edges by shaving some off. So when the lumber yards started selling smooth boards directly, they did the same thing. Started with a rough cut and shaved it down to the same size consumers were typically doing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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"Register here for free to get your free donut".
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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The lawyers for the plaintiffs also need to receive their fees in coffee and donuts.
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Software has inertia. Best not make any early decisions then
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Best not make any early decisions then I know some "specialists" that don't take any early decisions, nor in time decisions, nor late decisions...
And the worst is... my work was depending on the work of one of that class for a good while. Man was I frustrated...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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