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If anyone saw the Bob Dylan Nobel prize presentation, with Patti Smith performing "Hard Rain", here[^] is her take on what happened. I found it an inspirational read.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Thanks. That was a good one.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I think I have posted this before.
My new job requires me to not to be limited to MS technologies and hence I am learning other things. Looking at the state of other technologies, I really appreciate what MS has done with .Net framework.
Often, in the workshops with technologically diverse audience, my response to "how do you do X?" is Visual Studio or framework provides this by default. I have always liked .Net framework even though I had little to no exposure to Java World and others. But now that I have to really deal with it, I see how awesome .Net framework is.
Once again, thank you Microsoft.
PS: Yes, I know pains of working with some MS offerings.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote:
Often, in the workshops with technologically diverse audience, my response to "how do you do X?" is Visual Studio or framework provides this by default. I have always liked .Net framework even though I had little to no exposure to Java World and others. But now that I have to really deal with it, I see how awesome .Net framework is.
Let me see if I have correctly translated this:
I just discovered that I don't how to program because the .NET framework does everything for me.
Did I get that right?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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LOL, no.
What I mean to say is that even now, there are so many non-programming trivial tasks that require too much to time and effort. Plus, I noticed that there is a lot of effort that goes in to integrating various tools that are employed. In the .Net framework, most of the things are provided by default.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Spotted the person that hates reusability  In all seriousness though, why waste your time coding something if an existing implementation does it within requirements? That just equates to less time on CodeProject (sellout mode activated, staff plz? Kappa). And we all want to maximize our time 
Would you write your own compiler every time you start a project because "using an IDE just shows you don't know how to program?"
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I agree! Just like SO does. Why waste time figuring out how to fixed a trivial error when someone already fixed it. 
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Positions like this are akin to saying that you're not a 'real mechanic' unless you smelt your own metal for the engine blocks in the cars you work on. Get real! It's not the tools we use, its how we use them.
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Why reinvent the wheel when someone else has already done it.
No matter where you go, there you are...~?~
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Are you in marketing?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Ssshh...
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Yah it looks like I am also going to have to dip into the non MS universe out there. I am not looking forward to it at all. Still I detest the web stack that needs to be dealt with, doing it in Java can't be all that much worse can it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It might be. Here are few things you might end up using:
Gulp
Grunt
Maven
Docker
GIT
Blah
Doink
jMeter
Phew
jBoss
Cradle
Toothpick
Gradle
Grave
...and many more in a simple application
I just made up few names here.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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"Grave" probably more sooner than later
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Bloody hell.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Thank you for this reaction. Made me laugh harder than it should have.
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Yes, that is awesome. Read it sometime back, sent it to a JS enthusiast at work. He did not like it.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Because he knows it's true. Elm is the future. Embrace it or be ass-laminated  (still the best Borg bumper-sticker I've ever seen)
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Just started using javascript again after a ten year break. Oh boy has it changed? Except for one thing, it's still an absolute pig to debug or have I been spoiled by C#?
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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You've been spoiled...lol
No matter where you go, there you are...~?~
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Heh, I've never been in the Microsoft world (except for some minor command line tools). As an embedded developer it's been RTOSes, hardware peripheral interfacing, DSP algorithms and C/C++ programming. .NET doesn't seem to be available for devices with small amounts of memory.
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I also wish I could be ten years younger when I also still was in the euphoria stage of my relation to Mickeysoft.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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You are completely right. I felt exactly the same when I moved from developing in .net to Java.
Now let's see how long this feeling lasts and how long it will take you to realize how superior Java is 
Good luck!
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