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I'm working on a piece of "code". Before it was really inconsistent and producing unreliable results. Now it is always wrong. Can this be considered an improvement?
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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An intermittent fault is much harder to diagnose than a continuous fault. I'd say what you have is an improvement. 
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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When your code is consistently wrong it is far easier to diagnose and fix that when it is only "sometimes" wrong
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Ship it! (The Microsoft QA Team)
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The Microsoft QA Team Ship it!
Ship it's good!
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Out of topic: saw that you mention Dave in your sig, are you still in touch ? What happened to M.Vilmos, seems like he is not so often here anymore (did he get a real job, the kind of which one has to work during working time ?
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To quote an old colleague of mine:
"I've had a truly awesome day. This morning, there were 267 issues on my bug list and now I'm down to one. Sure, the software doesn't actually run anymore and that is a bit of a problem but it's 266 fewer problems than we used to have so I think we ought to go out and celebrate. A win's a win!"
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Well known way to reduce number of compilation errors to 1 in C/C++: include non-existing h-file.
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I'll take consistency (even if wrong results) any day of the week over unpredictable.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It is not "always wrong" - it is doing exactly what you told it to do. The fact that there is a difference between what you want it to do and what you told it to do is your problem - not the "codes" problem. 
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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You're right. But it did not take long after that to find and fix the code that was not according to the specifications.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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I do not like the Valentine's Day...
But I *do* like the day AFTER VD!
Soooo much chocolate at 50% off! 
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 post-celebration sales are awesome!
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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Mike Barthold wrote: But I *do* like the day AFTER VD
You like Venereal Disease?
Just who are you giving Valentines card to!
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..and you also get 90% off christmas trees.
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Got it installed yesterday. So far, it has been good. I clicked on icon and it opened pretty quickly! Faster than 2015 I observed.
I haven't done anything else on it yet.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Everything is better!
And then... you try to make an UWP or Xamarin app... and it's slow again! 
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Did not select both the options while install. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ha well, safe then!
Those are good options though! 
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I was thinking to start playing around wiwith xamarin in Vs 2017
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I've tried it (Xamarin in VS2017) - it isn't too bad imo. Most pseudo-native app development platforms are pretty slow compared to their native counterparts anyways.
There's often a significant productivity boost from a dev's perspective (you can get more done faster), but it comes at the cost of more obscure edge-case bugs, limited functionality, and/or runtime speed impacts in the shipped product.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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