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Raise your hand now if you assumed this was going to be a rant contra MSDN ...
From the copy text in an e-mail message advising me of an upcoming SyncFusion "Partner Webinar" ... note I am not a SyncFusion "partner," nor have I purcha$ed the company's software tools, though I hear they are quite good.
"Fast code is good code. However, in the .NET, world almost none of your performance problems are not algorithmic problems. Your problems are memory and the use of the garbage collector." Given the webinar is being done by one of the Wintellect gurus, I am sure this copy was not written by anyone from Wintellect: them folks got beaucoup de smarts !
The co-sponsor of the Webinar is listed as "Lidnug" (which I've never heard of), but it turns out to be some kind of "linked .NET user group" whose website (lidnug.org) now has a single page with the title: "Lidnug is now currently being re-born," and no other content.
Well, I would never hold being reborn, and, I assume, being temporarily content-free until the winds of karma sucked-in by the blank-slate-bardo-state rush in to create a mind-self, against any being, since I'm counting on it, myselves, but I do admit to a prejudice against double-negatives for the same reason I believe being too clever by half is so often worth less than a paradigm, let alone a quarter. When things come back from the recursive laundry; oh yes, you may not be able to see the little spots with your naked eyes, but they're there.
I mean: isn't that what quantum theory, and string theory, are trying to tell us; that's it's an endless romance of pixels and anti-pixels all the way down to one singularity pixel-egg, and then back up to a giant squawking Apocalypse Rooster mating with a giant clucking Black-Hole Hen, to the tune of an ∞ with an א (Aleph) greater than the reputation of even OriginalGriff ?
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Wow. even your rants are wonders of the English language! Can't you just for once give us a proper "Why X Sucks"* rant
* Where X != any person in Thailand...
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Turns out that I know one of the people who set up LIDNUG, the uber clever Peter Shaw (aka Shawty). Yes, they are rebuilding, but they are still very active and I will be doing at least one webinar for them next year, so I hope you haven't been put off them. They have done some great webinars in the past and I hope I can live up to them.
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Not put-off a jot or a tittle, Pete. All in the good clean fun that comes from trying to digest my daily dose of "wonders never cease."
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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BillWoodruff wrote: I hear they are quite good
You are not listening...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Maybe the pertinent bit was at the bottom of seventeen tiers of parenthesis, so it was missed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: You are not listening...
I have yet to find your frequency, but I am trying.
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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There's nothing wrong with using double negatives. Comprehension problems only occur when they're used in error, so they're pretty much like anything else in language usage.
Using multiple and/or extremely long parenthesised statements causes many more comprehension problems, but that can be corrected by working on the structure of the content, rather than attempting to force spiral emotional content into the rectangular hole of a sentence, to ensure that the actual intent of the words is what immediately reaches the mind of the reader.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Using multiple and/or extremely long parenthesised statements causes many more comprehension problems, but that can be corrected by working on the structure of the content, rather than attempting to force spiral emotional content into the rectangular hole of a sentence, to ensure that the actual intent of the words is what immediately reaches the mind of the reader.
Hi Mark, This is a wonderfully self-referential sentence, which reminds me of one of the nights in "The Thousand and One Nights" where Scheherazade tells the Sultan the tale of the telling of the "The Thousand and One Nights!" itself ... or, in Don Quixote where the "Knight of the sorrowful countenance" appears as a character in another author's bogus novel that he's passing off as a novel by Cervantes about Don Quixote.
If you can think this way, you are ready for Jorge Borges.
Congratulations !
cheers, Bill
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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BillWoodruff wrote: a wonderfully self-referential sentence
At least someone noticed.
BillWoodruff wrote: you are ready for Jorge Borges
Being something of a stickler for details in punctuation, I prefer one Victor to multiple Jorges.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm mildly curious what your response would be if they went for that grand old construct as a content placeholder instead...
"Lidnug is currently finding itself."
I'm also wondering how you let "now currently" slide.
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Lidnug[^] is the first LinkedIn forum (or whatever they're called) that I actually actively participate in. There's some really intelligent people there (Peter Shaw being one of them and introduced me to Lidnug) and I enjoy the discussions.
As to the double-negative, yeah, it makes me wonder how these things pass proof reading. Oh wait...
Marc
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Message Closed
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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That depends on your nose, and how you feel about maggots.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Minor verbiage slips don't bother me especially when the content seems obvious.
Of course, hopefully, the total content of this article/webinar isn't claiming that all performance problems are caused by memory.
That of course would be flat out wrong. The vast majority of performance problems, the ones that actually matter to the business (versus research bit twiddlers) are architecture and design.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
It was the mirror!
Of course it was. Now which movie?
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Phone Taping for Fun and Profit
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Must be from the movie Blind[ ▌]
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Paris Through The Looking Glass?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Quote: snow white and the huntsman
Ravi Khoda
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Tommy
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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