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I had to develop a web portal for a car distribution company that uses fixed-width files for two-way communication with their AS/400 system.
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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Do they call them "fixed" width because they chop the lines off at the carriage return?
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You never read or wrote data from/to magnetic tapes? Fixed width records (very handy for COBOL) in fixed size blocks.
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Only in school...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Last month, it was reported that a coalition of activist groups had sent letters to Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, petitioning that they do not sell facial recognition technologies to governments. "You've gotta be cruel to be kind, in the right measure"
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It's a ridiculous demand, anyway.
The cat's still in the bag, so there's no room for the worms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe they'll be able to tell me where I was late Friday night as I sure haven't a clue!
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The traces of black ink on your fingers might be a clue.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Last April, Microsoft open sourced the original File Manager that shipped with Windows 3.0, allowing users to make changes and if they want, compile it for use on Windows 10. Now, the firm is making it easier to run the legacy app, as it's offering the Windows 3.0 File Manager through the Microsoft Store as a UWP app. Because... Because... Nope, can't think of why.
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In other news, Intel is reintroducing the 80286 as the Core i0.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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On the minus side: 8:3 file names.
On the plus side: No effluent interface.
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OK, I'm sold. I'd rather suffer the file names than the effluent interface. It'll become the only UWP app on my machines (discounting the ones I can't uninstall).
Although where they get off labelling a win 3 app as UWP, I don't know.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hope the icon is different from Windows Explorer...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Best known for its use in Go and Swift, C# proposal #1398 seeks to add defer statements. If you are not familiar with the concept, it can be summarized as a finally block appearing at the beginning of some code instead of the end. I could leave this feature for later
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It's not at the top of my list.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just because they implement a new feature doesn't mean you have to use it. I wish they'd quit putzing around with the language and make Visual Studio more reliable. Furthermore, Visual Studio could really use a freshening up of its icons..
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static void Main() {
Console.WriteLine("Hello");
defer {
Console.WriteLine("Foo");
}
defer {
Console.WriteLine("Bar");
}
defer {
Console.WriteLine("Baz");
}
Console.WriteLine("World");
}
Gives:
Hello
World
Baz
Bar
Foo
(Obviously)
I can only say:
Wow! Just wow!
No, hang on, I meant:
Why!? Just why!?
We seem to have gone from spectacularly minor gains to complete insanity. Please stop fixing a language that wasn't previously broken!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Looks like a goto in a fancy dress.
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Are all these digital connections opening new networking doors and personal growth, or are they mentally restricting users into self-indulgent, walled communities? "You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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As many other things... the problem is not the use, but the abuse. And there is a bunch of people abusing it A LOT.
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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Isn't it remarkable that the benefits of not using fb are clearly observed, defined, and expressed, but the only benefit given for using it is:
The authors wrote in their conclusions: Our results leave little doubt that Facebook produces large benefits for its users. A majority of people in our sample value four weeks of access at $100 or more, and these valuations could imply annual consumer surplus gains in the hundreds of billions of dollars in the US alone. The 60 minutes our participants spend on Facebook each day is itself suggestive of the substantial value it provides. So, if I've got this right, the only benefit of using fb is an imaginary amount of money, which, if you live in a world of unicorns and flying pigs, you can pretend pretend is real money, and further imagine what effect it would have on the world if it were real money, not imaginary money in a world that doesn't exist.
Which essentially proves that, to use fb, you have to be out of your bleeding mind.
Case closed. Next!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pioneered by Tesla, over-the-air-software updates allow automakers to make changes to cars without owners having to go to a dealership. Just wait until we get a car running on Windows
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Is it just me, or is it bleeding obvious that such a machine should:
0. Reject update requests if the vehicle is in use?
1. Allow users to get out of the car after having made an update request (since you presumably can make such requests from the interior controls)?
Sorry, but if the guys working on them are making mistakes that are at that level of moronic, you won't catch me alive near one of those cars.
But you'd possibly find me there dead, because of some "minor design flaw" that makes them decide to run into groups of people at high speed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BigInternetOfShit
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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We’ve all seen the action movie trope where our hero needs to defeat a ridiculously complicated doomsday device, and the plucky engineer has to explain how to reverse the polarity or engage the spatio-temporal hyperlink. The hero inevitably responds, “In English, please?” "What we've got here is... failure to communicate"
I'm sensing a theme forming today.
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