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I've been discriminated against - items that deserved copious up-votes had few - sometime even none!
It's beyond discrimination - it's conspiratorial.
My only hope, at this point, to mollify my mental state, is for any of you who ever failed to up-vote me at any time to make cash offerings to, well, how shall we put it . . . 'buy me silence'.*
* buying my silence, in general, is worth the few bucks, isn't it?
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I thought you have been silent. Is this different?
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Jim_Snyder wrote: I thought you have been silent. Is this different
Previously, it was amateur silence. He's now going professional 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Made me laugh out loud.
Very funny.
Thanks
(That URL is available if you want it.)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Prisoners worked hard to be held in (11)
AS time goes on I'm sure I'll get better at knowing the level of difficulty of these. But, easy or not this is straightforward enough... next time I'm going for fiendish.... <evil grin="">
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Constrained
con - prisoner
strained - worked hard
modified 7-Nov-17 4:14am.
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Wrong tense? "ED", rather than "ER"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes - so who's the winner? You or Pom Pey?
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Him - he got it even before I saw the question! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just you wait... next time....
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Cheers fixed but it wouldn't be an A_Griffen clue if there wasn't a tense issue 
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Yes, alright - I think we can allow that (with a nod to OG)
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Actually works as
cons
trained
also.
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Actually, that's how I meant it! I didn't rad your original answer closely enough!
You're on tomorrow, btw...
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Anything outside Microsoft has been a bitter pill for me. I'd blame it on the MS-centric career 'brought up' I've had. Right from VB/VC to .net / Azure. Most of them are like piece of cake. Visual Studio is the major spoiler. I'll be able to work on given requirement, IF the dev environment is set up with Visual studio & the Microsoft stack.
There were times, if I was asked to code without Visual studio, I'd rather chose to quit and find some other job.
Now I'm gradually getting to explore things outside MS, and I have to tell you, it's such a BIG pain. My brain is struggling to get over the habitual MS stuff.
These bitter pills, it's not just about "Swallowing"in a shot. These are pills that I've to CHEW everyday. Some of them are in Php/Linux without intellisense, Even a code review is painful. 
I should've at least practised php stuff with it's bare bones dev environments, in my younger days to be well set for my later part of the career.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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So I guess you never user an AngularJS, NodeJS or related packages then?
Working with Angular is writing in notepad and then running in the browser, getting an error, fixing the error, running in the browser again and so on....
Requires patience.
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Even there MS has spoiled us now with tools like Visual Studio Code 
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Even though I used the term in my own post, don't you find it odd we use the term "spoiled" which has so many negative connotations? Productivity is the driving force of our industry yet we refer to advances in productivity as being "spoiled" implying that less productivity is superior
modified 7-Nov-17 2:41am.
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Are you from the Winzigweich propaganda department?
And how productive are you without all that stuff? If you can't get anything done without your tools and assistants, that would be a good definition of spoiled. Then, the productivity gain by using these tools is also questionable. It could be that there actually are not quite as helpless and feel they are being hindered and annoyed by these tools. That does not sound like breathtakingly high productivity.
I have ditched Visual Studio years ago and now use Sharp Develop, not despite it being simpler, but because of it. And I do get things done.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Being able to do something and being able to do it easier are different things. I'm not saying other tools are inherently worse simply by being different. I just find it odd that productivity improvements are viewed negatively by so many. "Real programmers use notepad and a manual" and all that nerd bravado
Obligatory xkcd.[^]
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I have nothing against useful tools or getting brainless code generated instead of writing mile long source files. I use web services to separate the application logic from the UI. A lot. A web referece and autogenerated proxy to call the webmethods sure beat spending a few hours to write that thing. But I know how it works and could write it manually when the generated code does not work. Don't tell me that does not happen. There are some bugs which still appear since I started using webservices in .Net 1.0.
Even worse, I also know enough people who could not do some very basic things like implementing a custom event and a delegate. The same goes for the simple task of writing a simple event handler and wiring it up to an event. I would not like being helpless just because some editor does not do it with a simple double click in the right place or because the editor has decided that this is not the way how we do things. Don't tell me that does not happen. All I want to do is to edit some XAML. I don't expect the form designer to work, simply because the UI has nothing to do with WPF. You would not believe how much work it was to tweak my classes so that the designer lets me edit my XAML and otherwise staying out of my way. And I don't like it at all when tools obviously think they know better what we are doing and where we want to go.
It's not really productive when tools encourage ignorance or lazyness and it's not helpful when tools limit what I am allowed to do. I think it's more productive to work on a task instead of finding workarounds to make peace with some dumb tool. A little less may often actually be more.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I didn't mean that people shouldn't learn how to do things manually. I write WCF client proxies manually because I dislike reliance on an active service reference to auto-generate the proxy. That active reference might not always be available. Everyone should learn the fundamentals of the technology they use in case they are in a position where it's appropriate. I was more talking about the people that look down on or subtly demean those that take advantage of convenience tools because that isn't "real" programming. I just don't get that mindset.
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Quote: What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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