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My God, it's full of stars...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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50 years, and that one never gets old. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yes, I should watch it again at some point.
I have been watching some Kubrick films recently - Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide shut, despite him making the actors' lives hell the result is amazing.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Don't fly too close to the sun - it hung my computer for a good 10 seconds!
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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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At least it didn't fry it.
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All rubbish. Where are the elephants and the turtle?
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.. so I think I should take this opportunity to say it....
F*** Math! 
I am trying to write some shape operations.
By shape I mean polygon whose side are bezier curve (instead of simple straight lines).
And by operations I means like finding the outline of a random shape, or removing one shape from an other.
This is damn hard! 
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Something like this? Redirect Notice[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It seems pertinent..
But after reading it twice.. not sure it helps me much... 
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Super Lloyd wrote: This is damn hard!
You bet it is - a fun personal project I have been working on is taking a hand drawing of rectangles and circles and converting it to a shape map, identifying circles and rectangles. This was after a colleague mentioned that it would be great if we could take hand-drawn diagrams and convert them to the diagrams our software generates.
There a a few articles online regarding blob detection that help, but like you say - it's hard.
I am no artist and my hand-drawn circles are painful to see but I have managed to distinguish between circles and rectangles and interestingly enough I did not use the commonly suggested method for determining whether a shape is a circle.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yay!
Well done!
And thanks for encouragements... 
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Your signature can be dismissed without evidence.
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You can leave Australia now! If you can't spell and pronounce Maths you can move in with Maunder.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Merry Christmas 2018![^] - now there is a role I recognise! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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xkcd: Christmas Plans
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Soooo, I don't know if any of you remember, but I showed up a couple of weeks back and started a discussion here in which I blasted Microsoft and talked about my refusal to use their products whenever possible. Many of you pointed out how I was missing out by ignoring Visual Studio, which you lauded as a superb IDE.
Since then I've found that you are all absolutely right. I was initially hesitant to just give in and switch my IDE because people told me I was wrong. Made me seem kinda wishy-washy. What broke the camel's back for me and made me switch from SharpDevelop to VS was SharpDevelop's inability to find one single file.
I was attempting to follow the directions found here but ran into trouble as MSBuild kept returning an error of "Cannot find AxImp.exe". AxImp was precisely where it needed to be for the system to find it, there didn't seem to be anything in the PATH variable to cause the problem and, seeing as I've never worked with this type of thing before, I had no idea what this meant or how to fix it. Some suggested editing the registry, some suggested installing the Windows SDK.
What I did instead was install Visual Studio. Building under VS returned no AxImp errors, either because it actually knows how to find the necessary file or because the installation itself installed whatever I needed to get things going.
So now I had VS and I couldn't very well go back. I mean, I didn't know if the AxImp error would still pop up if I tried to go back to SD, and I didn't feel it was worth the trouble. I had an IDE that was giving me none of the problems that SD did.
No offense if anyone here volunteers their time writing SharpDevelop source code, but it really was slowing me down. Here's a question: If you're writing a program visually, drawing buttons and drop down menus and whatnot, what do you expect a visual IDE to do well? I would expect it to do exactly what common sense says: handle the code in the Designer.cs files and keep track of changes.
I lost count of the number of times that SD actually wrote those changes incorrectly. There is an ironic multi-line comment in each and every one of those cs files that says:
private void InitializeComponent()
I say it is ironic because SD actually corrupted the code at this very place many times. That "private void InitializeComponent()" line would simply disappear, written over by something else (or sometimes nothing) and then the editor would complain that it couldn't load designer support because there was an error in the underlying code. That isn't my fault, is it? So I'd have to stop everything that I was doing and try and figure out what changes were made incorrectly and what the changes were SUPPOSED to be. This process could take from a couple of minutes to upwards of a half an hour, depending on the severity.
VS doesn't do that. It hasn't done that to me. Not once. And I expected it to be bulky and slow. It is a massive program, far larger than SD, and SD was unbearably slow. To my amazement, it actually turned out to be faster! I can now edit at speeds I'd only wished for but a month ago. It has amazing features that I don't have to jump through hoops to access. SD could do a lot of the extra things that VS does natively, but it was sometimes a chore making it happen.
What I've found, overall, is that I made an irrational judgment. I've never moved past the Microsoft of the 90s, when their Windows OS was an unstable train wreck and their unethical business practices landed them in an anti-trust lawsuit. For the longest time, I've refused to acknowledge that they have gotten better. That their operating system has vastly improved. That their products are often quite good. One could argue that the Xbox One was another of those train wrecks, but that's a discussion best left on video game forums.
And then there was the Zune...
Visual Studio is a sleek, polished and impressive IDE, and the one that I should have been using all along. Is it perfect? No, but where will you find flawless software? If you find an absolutely perfect piece of software with no design flaws that shines as a paragon of programming excellence, you're running TempleOS.
Thank you all for your very blunt but extraordinarily helpful advice. I was wrong, and I can admit that. All I can do is try to be better in the future.
-Turtle
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SharpDevelop has basically been abandoned, unfortunately. The team stopped working on it around the time Visual Studio Community Edition was released. It still has some good code (the AddIn system is excellent), and I'm using it for some personal projects that may or may not get released. One thing I like about SD is the fact that it has a WiX Dialog Designer built in.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The latest anything .NET by Microsoft is not only good, it is excellent!
Continuously outdoing itself for 18 years has led to amazing results!  
To be fair I think one must thank the competition for putting Microsoft under pressure to excel. But excel it has!
I hope it will continue to do so!
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Kudos for your honesty. 
I've been using Visual Studio for 25 years (it was Visual C++ 6.0 back then) and have never looked back. MS' tooling is the primary reason I stuck with them (and since moved to C# in 2003). So much so, that I use Xamarin/C# to build native Android apps, instead of Eclipse or Android Studio and Java.
/ravi
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I applaud your willingness to take another look at a product that you believed to be inferior. I, too, detest Microsoft - they were the first to sell defective products and charge for fixes, the first to eliminate product manuals, and the first to abandon any semblance of customer support. Since then, many other producers and programmers have adopted their user-hostile business model to everyone's loss. But the Visual Studio IDE has been from the beginning, and remains, one of the best tools available for the job. Since they introduced the Community Edition, and stopped charging an obscene price for the most rudimentary version, there has been no equivalent product for small developers, and I honor them for that.
Thanks for giving them a second look; I don't think you'll be disappointed. I don't do much programming anymore, but when I do, VS is the first IDE I open.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Congrats for being open minded … I use C#/VS for about 18 years now in various projects/teams, underway had an opportunity at least 2x times to work with Java/Eclipse/Tomcat stack, and so far my preference goes to C#/VS environment. I guess it depends a lot on the project what to choose. Anyway being open minded and curious helps to make informed choices  (if they are possible of course),
BR
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Visual Studio is an amazing tool, as you are realizing. But if you still want to bitch at MS, feel free to bash the ribbon to high heck! Working with Word, and continually finding the icons disappearing and not where you expect them is frustrating, to say the least. (Just because you don't have the window wide enough.) 
And for extra emphasis:
I could go repeat the emojis many more times, but you've probably gotten the idea. The old menu system was far superior.
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I remember when I forced some Java guys to use it for C++ (and I really had to force them!)
They were absolutely blown away by Intellisense, compared to the cheap knock-off in Eclipse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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