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Bugger! It might be late, I have to go out early tomorrow...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Where's the CCC @User-10476399
You won yesterday, remember? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just about to post it and yes, even I can (just about) remember yesterday 
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I can (just about) remember yesterday
Congratulations! I have difficulty ... what were we talking about?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought it was Can't Cogitate Crap - because I can never figure these things out.
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Except I won't make it daily.
RAV as in Random Astronomy Video???? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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OAV (Occasional Astronomy Video) better  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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AAAV (Astronomically Available Astronomy Video)
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I', just starting out with Xamarin in VS2017. I have no experience at all.
Can anyone recommend a good beginner level book or other learning resources?
Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Q&A: codeproject.com / stackoverflow.com
.... "send me the codez"
^c .... ^v
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I'd definitely agree with this. The tutorials are excellent and, surprisingly since Microsoft now owns them, actually teach you things.
This space for rent
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fresh off the press:
Should I Use A Xamarin.Forms MVVM Framework?
Posted: January 21, 2018 / By: Adam Pedley/ In: Architecture[^].
Ravi Bhavani has posted some interesting comments on Xamarin Forms here, on the Lounge.
Cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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There videos on youtube showing kids that try using old devices (old computers, modem, rotary phones...)
They are funny.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yeah, about as funny as watching old people use new technology. 
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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/ravi
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Yeah, why aren't the numbers on my Nokia 3310 spinning?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I was teaching at a tech college between 1990 and 1995 - that is rougly twentyfive years ago.
Even back then... I was teaching signalling systems in telecommunication networks, starting out with what I considered the simplest and most familiar technology: Pulse dialing (sometimes called 'interrupt dialing), known since the start of the 20th century.
I was wrong. The students gave me a blank stare when I referred to the rotating dial. It turned out that in one class of about 28 students, roughly 20 years old, one had ever used such a phone. I the other class, same size, one student could tell that her old aunt still owned a phone of that kind, but this student had never used it. A fair fraction of the 55 students remembered having seen such devices in old movies, though, but never considered how they were operated.
This was 25 years ago; those students are now around 45 years old and may be grandparents. I guess some of them have been in touch with dial phones over the years, but to a kid of today who wants an explanation, his parents are of little help, maybe even his grandparents!
Note: This is Norway. Up until around 1980, we had the most worn-down telephone network in the Western world. So we threw out all the old garbage, and became the first country in the world to do a complete switchover from analog to digital technology. To use an old dial type phone, you had to use an adapter converting sound, signaling and everything else into ISDN format, before feeding the signal into the switch. I guess this contributed to dial phones being thrown away earlier in this country than in some other countries.
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In the early 90's, I was out with a friend one day while he was doing inspections and I got paged from work. Since this was well before cell phones were popular, I asked the homeowner where we were if I could borrow his phone.
His daughter handed me a phone with the rotary dial built into the handset and said to her father, "I think you should show him how to use it."
I smiled and replied, "This is what I grew up using."
Still makes me smile thinking about it.
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One of the best fiction authors I ever read has died.  Currently, there are no authors ready to fill her shoes. She is, and will be, missed.
I started reading her works when I was in college, way back in the 1960s. She was brilliant, although one of the most difficult authors I had ever read at the time. As a reader, she taught me much about English, sentences and vocabulary. Readers cannot just speed through her works, especially her novels — she hides too much in plain sight.
I wish that I had met her. I will miss her. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Rest in peace, Ms. Le Guin.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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