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They'll be digging the road up within a couple of days -- burst water main/broken cable/whatever -- and NIMBY locals are bound to complain and petition, so don't take it as gospel.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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10% of all newly created projects in Visual Studio 2013 over the past 60 days are WPF.
And I should be impressed by that number???
Marc
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Of course!
What's impressive is that 83% of those projects were opened by people who just want to see for themselves how bad it is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It depends if the other 90% were mostly Winforms (in which case someone in Redmond should be  into his ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ), or if most of them were web/metro/wp8/c++/non-gui applications and most of the new .net desktop dev is in WPF.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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What does worry me is the 3 bugs they called out as being slated for fixing:
Quote: WPF Touch Event Fires with Delay
WPF Ribbon Window: The border is too thin
Using BitmapFrame.Create with any TIFF file allocates 300MB of RESERVED MEMORY if Microsoft Camera Codec Pack is installed
One is jaw droppingly, how the elephant did they let such a usability fail out in the first place, bad. One is a trivial nitpick item. The third is another jaw dropper performance fail.
Two problems that never should've been allowed to reach production; and one that probably took 10 seconds + bureaucratic overhead to fix. Where are all of the the non-trivial to fix major developer pain point bugs that any major software platform should have in significant quantity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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It appears that Philae has successfully landed! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
[edit] I find it quite amusing how Cpt. Kirk is mentioned, and "The final frontier" and "where no one has gone before." It's really amazing how iconic Star Trek is.
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Marc
modified 12-Nov-14 11:38am.
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And....breathe....
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Let me offer my own personal Bronx Cheer!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Bruce Willis and the gang will commence drilling soon.
Kevin Priddle
Editor and Special Projects Manager - CodeProject
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With "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" playing over Bluetooth (since they can't play it off speakers there).
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That's the best way to play that song.
Just don't connect any receivers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It took 50 years for the Europeans to learn how to fake a landing?
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Your name is Dalek Dave and I claim my £5!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You'll get your... um... eh?
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Sure, because all our best special effects people have been way too busy doing all the difficult stuff for hollywood.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Comet landing - very exciting
come t'landing - Yorkshire foreplay
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Tell it to bring me back some lunch... I suddenly have a yearning for a Philae cheese steak...
Bad jokes aside though... Much awesomeness. Eleven years and four gravity assists to get there, and it actually worked... Mostly... I mean, the thruster and the harpoons are kinda borked, but otherwise...
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There is a show on the Science channel tonight about it. Looking forward to watching it!
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Meh...
I've already been there, screwed the comet and as I was leaving, Chuck Norris was just entering orbit around the comet.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I've already been there, screwed the comet and as I was leaving, Chuck Norris was just entering orbit around the comet.
A certain "direction of entry" comes to mind that I shall refrain from further comment.
Marc
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..shooting stars 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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tldr: I'm able to sleep better after installing software to control the blue light emissions from my laptop screen and phone (links to the software at the end of the post).
Apparently there's this thing about excessive blue light from the displays of our computers/tablet/phone that tricks your brain into believing that it's day time, which could mess with your body clock. As a result, you may not be able to sleep immediately after going to bed particularly if you had just shut down your laptop or finished responding to emails on your phone, etc.
There are these programs (and, "apps") that cut out much of the blue spectrum emitted by the display. Or something like that. That's not important; what's important is that this results in two things:
- The display is going to look somewhat reddish as most of the blue is cut out. It's quite odd at the beginning, but I got used to it pretty quickly. This reduces the strain on your eyes.
- Your brain is no longer confused by the light, and your body clock is not disturbed as a result. You are therefore able to sleep quickly after going to bed, and get good quality sleep through the night
I am able to get better quality of sleep after using these programs for about a week, so I thought I'd share this titbit with you all.
There are a number of such software or apps (depending on the platform), but I'm using f.lux[^] (windows) and twilight[^] (android).
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I've been using f.lux for years and it really helps.
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