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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your facts change but you won't change your mind, you're foolishly consistent.
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So I sent someone a link to semi private page on my site where the link is created partially with GUIDs (it's not a link that is publicly available).
Not sure if the person book marked the link in Windows or it's sitting in hotmail or windows live - but I now have the bingbot trying to take thumbnails of this page (IP 40.77.167.84) quite often.
This is nothing short of invasive.
I am of the right mind of doing a redirect to Microsoft's front pages so it takes a screenshot of itself.
Unreal.
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There must be far more better pictures than the website of Microsoft.
How about cats? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Which was just the subject Le Gogh[^]
Tickled me, anyway... 
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That's only funny because you English pronounce his name all wrong 
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It only works because Americans pronounce his name wrong.
We English pronounce his name wrong in a way that it makes no sense at all.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Le [Go] 
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I get the joke, just pointing out it works because American's pronounce his name wrong (van Go) whereas we English pronounce it wrong (van Goff) in a different way.
I've never met an Englishman (who hasn't been radicalised by the Americans) who pronounces it van Go.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know you got it 
Never knew the English and Americans pronounce Van Go(ff) differently.
Of course the only proper pronunciation is Van GoGGGGH, but no English speaking person (whatever English) can pronounce that
It's funny to hear you say "Van GoGurgleGurgleGurgle" though 
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I bet the Welsh would give it a go - if they can pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (🎤[^]), this one should be easy. 
"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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Whilst playing in the fields of QA tonight, and hitting a break-point (note: not a 'breaking point'), suddenly I thought: why doesn't VS201X (or ReSharper, for cryin' out loud) let you select code in the current file at the break-point that would be "legal" to evaluate in the Command Window, and by some keyboard-chicanery copy it into that window, switching : simulating you opened the Command Window, typed "? " and pasted in some ripe object/code ?
Yada, yada, yeah, I know you're going to say that you can hover over whatever, and see the results with the inspection pop-up, which 'tis a wonder sure, but there are many cases where you might want test some sub-expression.
Is that too much too ask ?
If you can levitate, please raise my hand.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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That's close enough, although QuickWatch doesn't quite permit the voodoo you could do if you had the selected code in the Command Window where you might edit it a bit, perhaps do something like change the pasted text to add 'GetType or whatever:
? honkingBigObject // hypothesized keyboard-mantra writes this
? typeof(honkingBigObject) // i modify ...
I owe you an elephant ride for reminding me QuickWatch is there ! Suggest you come to Chiang Mai before Jan. 15 while it's still (relatively) not-burning-bloody-hot.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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There are a gazillion things I do manually every day, and I wonder, why the heck can't Windows do that for me? Anything from resizing columns in a file list so that the filenames (or date/time, or whatever I'm interested in) resizes automatically without my having to use extreme fine motor controls to get to just the right point where the change-width mouse cursor appears...
Or resizing windows automatically into a sensible tiling for easily moving files between folders...
or remembering my last console window or file window position...
or for that matter, being able to easily say "hey, I'm working on this task" and automatically open all the apps and windows I've designated as involved in that task...
or showing me just the browser tabs for a task at hand (I have yet to find a plugin that comes close to doing that, on any browser)...
or, if you're talking VS, having a real way of separating project files into separate solution panes, not the useless thing that VS does right now...
...etc...
Marc
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Amen !
And, how about the never-ending from-the-beginning-until-now disgrace of Windows scrambling the left-to-right order in which columns are displayed as you use Explorer in details-view ? ... uhhhh is Win 10 any different in that regard ?
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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BillWoodruff wrote: Windows scrambling the left-to-right order in which columns are displayed as you use Explorer in details-view
That really used to annoy me, but I haven't seen that problem in 8, 8.1 or 10.
"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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Because half a dozen highly trained linguists still try to make sense of your request. Discussion currently has devolved into a highly polarized "these are the rules" vs. "language is what language does" debate. We are down three linguists already, and expect the trench construction to start anytime soon.
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If a bike pump now costs £20, is that inflation for you?
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Well that certainly fell flat.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Just like Griff when he doesn't have stabilisers
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It must be hard to function under such pressure.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This has been blown up out of proportion...
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Yeah, what an airhead!
/ravi
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That's right - just puncture my self-confidence!
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