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they tried this a long long time ago, and the United States Government - that I don't really care for - called BS on it. Years later, we're back to this BS?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Similar to what i mentioned a few days ago.
I get this message 'Edge is using your webcam', this is with Egde not even being opened.
Makes me feel whether Edge is sending these webcam images to some server, for further use as image dataset for AI.
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going to go find my blue tape. I've never seen a message like that but holy f**k batman comes to mind.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Interesting exercise (best on a VM):
Install Chrome/Vivaldi and make it the default browser.
Then open File Explorer and go to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application and rename msedge.exe (I named it msedge.exe.FO)
See what works and what doesn't. 
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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In July.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Last time I tried something like that (it wasn't Edge but I had the same idea), some Windows monitoring component undid that after a while, if not the next reboot.
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funny, and that tells you all you need to know. Why do I find my life looking like I am in conflict with the Borg? I refuse to be assimilated 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Is it just me or is it time developers stopped adding those annoying GOT IT? popups everywhere. You're trying to use an app you've used a million times. You open it up, start diving in and..
Did you know you can change
the colour of the menu bar
to a slightly lighter shade of
purple!?!
[ Got it ]
And you can't do anything until you click "Got it". And then another pops up telling you that you can announce you can connect your spreadsheets to your social media account, and you can get notifications you don't want. And that they changed the menus to third-person plural.
I don't care, and you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for. And none of this is even vaguely important enough to stop me from doing anything until I acknowledge you.
Has anyone implemented these types of announcements, and if so, has there been a case where, in all honesty, it's important enough that someone acknowledges before they can do anything?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is there a hidden option to have the app not show these "helpful" tips?
/ravi
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Did you know you cannot disable
these annoying Got it popups?
[ Got it ]
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Chris Maunder wrote: you're stopping me from using the thing I'm paying for
I can see a solution.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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We used to call them Tip of the Day. They were as annoying back then as they are now.
And CP may be complicit, as it's hosting at least one article that shows people exactly how to implement this. 
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It is not just you. I've been noticing this on everything from MS products to Adobe lately. Darned annoying "feature."
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Ahhh, brings back memories, what you are experiencing now, and the grand daddy of them all, was called "Clippy" - The Twisted Life of Clippy[^]
After banning and exiling poor Clippy came all of the other tweaks (children if you like) to get you involved in NOT doing what you are suppose to but to pay attention to our "super hero geeky pop-ups" like...
[Got It] 
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I'm working on a react project that has a component and related components named filter, filter group, etc. They need a complete overhaul and I was told to create a new set of components so that we can slowly implement the new one. Now I'm having the mental dilemma of figuring out what to name these new components. I flat out refuse "NewFilter" or "FilterNew" because you know it's going to have another iteration one day..."Filter2" seems blah. Does everyone else fret over naming things? What would you pick?
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Ha ha...I was looking at thesaurus entries. I was almost considering "sieve" just to be fun.
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Another choice is translate.google.com
Put the component name on the left and go through various languages on the right, you have
filter
in Lithuanian is filtras
in Igbo it's nyo
in Scots Gaelic it's criathradh
now you have the benefit of learning new languages while you program
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Chris Nicolatos wrote: in Lithuanian is filtras
in Igbo it's nyo
in Scots Gaelic it's criathradh
now you have the benefit of learning new languages while you program
What is it they say again about writing software as if the next guy that has to maintain it is a psychopath who knows your home address?
Yeah, that.
I don't see this as being any better than using random 2-character variable names. Or complete gobbledygook.
The smiley at the end of your post probably saved you.
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Having grown up using FORTRAN IV where there was a 6 character limit to variable names using only A-Z and 0-9, you had to be very inventive to avoid everything being A1, A2, A3, I, J, K etc
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I started off with Commodore 64 BASIC, where everything pretty much was A1, A2, A3, I, J, K.
You couldn't pay me to go back to that sort of thing.
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I started out with "Real Time Basic" on a Univac 1100 mainframe; it was the that way. String variables were A$ through Z$.
"Real Time" because up until then (1975), Univac 1100 had run batch jobs only, submitted on punched cards. The Basic system was interactive (sort of...) through a Teletype with a 110 bps acoustic modem - Univac's first attempt at interactive time sharing. The machine did not make it through the acceptance test. Midway in the test period, it was discovered that Univac engineers had secretly doubled the amount of RAM to make it through the tests. The test was interrupted an a new test period started. It didn't go through that test round either, so the huge mainframe was returned to the manufacturer.
Later, in my student days, the brightest kid in my class was caught coding a rather large homework problems using variable names I00 to Inn (for integers), F00 to Fnn (for floats) and so on. We told him, "Prof. R.C. is going to blow up completely when he sees that!" But this classmate of ours was calm: "That's only while I am working at the problem. Before I hand it in, I will replace I00 with NumberOfApplesPerCase and F01 with AverageWeightPerApple and so on, but I can't bother to write such variable names while I am still working on it!"
Well, as I said, he was the brightest kid in the class. His brain had no problems associating I00 with the number of apples per case and F01 with the average weight per apple. He had no need for the mnemonic function of variable names.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Many moons ago I worked on a project in need of a file record manager. We didn't have the resources to build it from scratch, and searched for a library. As we would have to make adaptations, we needed open source solutions.
We settled for one alternative recommended by several users - but it turned out to be useless to us: Every internal function, every variable, every comment was in French. None of us knew any French at all. We made a serious try to understand the workings of a few of the functions, but had to give up - it would be easier to write it from scratch ourselves (which had been ruled out for resource reasons).
Even long before that, I have in my code followed two rules: Everything that only a programmer will see is in English (including off line documentation). Anything that will be seen by a user, including the most advanced users, is in the language of the user (including all the online or offline documentation a user will ever see) - i.e. it may appear in multiple languages, so the texts should be organized for simple translation, in separate modules/files. So I never use Norwegian variable names in my code, even if the all the users of the program are Norwegians.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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