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Member 7989122 wrote: this assembler code guy
I think shell and console apps are useful for automation, but for serious work a GUI is intuitive, shows you what's possible and enables you to work without reading a lot of documentation.
Anyone who says GUIs are useless haven't worked with good UIs or are just pretentious jerks 
And maybe some people still live in the past where GUIs weren't invented yet.
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Can it be harder than LaTeX (did I get the stylization right?)? I remember fighting with this thing for the sole reason of everybody else doing it and brackets, which permeate scientific writing like mold are a friggin' nightmare. The escaping rules for them are less consistent than escaping in C for no good reason.
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My wife wrote a big document with latex back then... I lost count how many times I had to jump in (without having learned latex) to get the format as she wanted and / or to fix things
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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Actually, I don't mind that kind of key sequences as an input method, sort of like an extension of control characters and function keys. In an HTML editor, I wouldn't mind if two blanks followed by return would replace it with <p>[newline]<p>.
But actually, I hate HTML / XML as an input format; it is like writing a user application in x64 assembler code (with no debugger available). If you need markup/markdown, you are writing a text document. Then you should use a document editor, not documentation assembly code - whether you call it markup, markdown, Postscript, HTML, TeX or LaTeX - they are all like different document CPU instruction sets. Not document development languages.
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Even MS seems to have lost sight of the benefits of a rapid application development (RAD) environment. In the 90s, MS created a great designer for forms in VB, and even transitioned the forms designer through conversion to assembler, then to C++.
But now, MS can't seem to hire people smart enough to make designers for XAML (Xamarin and WPF) and HTML (Blazor), and they are having trouble getting the long-existing WinForms designer to work with .NET Core.
How could developers of 25-30 years ago create such great WYSIWYG designers, but today's developers cannot?
Maybe MS and other companies that lean towards command line fuddy-duddery and hand-crafting UI are not hiring sufficiently mature and creative software engineers.
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I thought markdown so you don't need a fancy editor to make markdown
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Is an eating disorder when you have an order of dis, an' an order of dis, an' two of dis, an' ... ?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And finish your meal with an order for dissert.
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but it's disorder surely dissert wouldn't be last?
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I get stressed when I eat my dessert first - the meal order is backwards!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No! An eating dis-order is where you insult the waiter/waitress.
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It's when you eat everything - from Zucchini to Aspic.
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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I want an experienced doctor, not one that's in practice.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Reminds me of a scene in Porridge:
Doctor: "Are you a practising homosexual?"
Godber: "What does he mean, practising?"
Fletcher: "Just that you're not very good at it yet."
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"I practice law"
"Well for the money I'm paying you you better do more than practice!"
Real programmers use butterflies
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Not that I've ever had to interact with a lawyer, but if one told me he's practicing, I'd ask for someone who does it for real.
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Just wondering for example if I have a question on a C# stuff, Where Should I post this? In the Message board/Forum or Quick answers?
What's the difference between two?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Depends on the type of question. If it's a "this doesn't work / what's wrong" then it's QA for sure. If it's a narrative or liable to be a long discussion, then the forums are a better bet as conversations is what they are all about.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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super wrote: What's the difference between two?
cheers,
did you try Google first?
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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Seriously??
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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We also accept the Bing user: other search engines are available.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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super wrote: Seriously??
Oh yes, the Lounge is a very serious place.
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ruining my own joke here but, not sure if you thought my answer was serious or not ( i did not use the joke icon).
QA tends to get some interesting questions/people that could have found their answer easily with a simple Google search.
Forums (in theory, not sure about application) are supposed to be --> see Chris' comment below.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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The discussion boards are for discussions. Possibly rambling, possibly focused, but free-form without necessarily requiring a reply to be an answer. Great for exploring or discussing a topic.
Quick Answers is for direct, specific questions and direct answers. It's not a place to have long discussions. Questions need to be posed in a way that means they are understandable and have a chance at being answered, and answers should be focused and to the point.
Discussions for discussing. Quick Answers for answering quickly.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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