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That's a great achievement indeed. Hopefully they will take care also of the remaining 98% stuff in order to get a proper console environment.
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In every version of Windows going back to XP (don't know about prior versions) you can move the mouse cursor over the DOS window with text in the clipboard, right-click and select Paste and it inserts the text at the current command line cursor position.
I do admit though that I too wondered why a simple ctrl-v didn't work.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
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"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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MikeTheFid wrote: you can move the mouse cursor over the DOS window
Yeah, which requires moving the mouse, right-clicking, and selecting paste, when a "don't take your hands off the keyboard, Ctrl+V" is so much easier. 
Marc
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Also ctrl-Enter is back for entering full screen (gone since XP).
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Thanks, that's useful to know as it will eliminate all those cd commands.  I did notice that it can be made full screen now which is nice.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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...well, it's actually two: Don't forget about the improved editor for environment variables (System properties > Advanced > Environment Variables) for things like PATH: It's no longer just an endless string and "oh, I forgot a semicolon there..." 
PS: I'm not sure if this was in the initial release (10240), but it sure is in 10586.
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CEFSharp[^]
The last time (a few years back) that I tried using it, Chromium and CEFSharp where horribly unstable, so I ditched my attempts and just used the .NET browser control.
Has it improved?
Marc
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I use Xilium.CefGlue[^].
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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I have used this with a few clients. Memory leaks like a waterfall through a sock.
This space for rent
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What are your opinions of taking online coding tests in relation to getting a new role?
Take them or not?
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Most of the people taking them seem to end up in QA anyway, so you've probably done several dozen already... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OG...You mean QA doesn't mean Question Authority...elephant!
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The real question is surely whether you care to work for the sort of employer who thinks online coding tests are of value.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Precisely this.
I refuse to take them on the grounds that they prove nothing. If they don't like it, I didn't want to work there anyway...
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Here's an example:
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Notice the misspellings and horrid grammar.
I love this question, which I got "wrong":
Ques 18 : Are private class-level variables can inherited?
(A) Yes, and we can access them
(B) No, and we can not access them
(C) Yes, but we can not access them
(D) All of the above are wrong
Answer : Yes, and we can access them
Ignoring the bad grammar, no, private class members cannot be accessed in subclasses. That is, after all, the definition of "private".
So, you decide whether online coding tests are BS or not. 
Marc
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Well, technically speaking their answer actually is correct.
But I doubt the test writer was thinking about Reflection when they wrote that question. 
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Vark111 wrote: But I doubt the test writer was thinking about Reflection when they wrote that question.
Exactly. According to my SO search, it's sort of a trick question, because the subclass does actually inherit the property. Not that it does it any good, haha.
Marc
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Do you want the role?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Not enough to make me take a ridiculous online coding test, apparently.
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When I first saw the test you linked to I thought "If they can't eve get the grammar right, how can they possibly expect the test results to be right?"
I'd pass and tell them exactly that = "Your test is screwey".
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Online Coding Tests - are as good as the schmucks that created them. It is as simple as that.
You are taking a gamble with that fact, when you take an online test.
I don't interview with companies that make me take online tests. I have left two interviews in the past because of this. It has not hurt my career in the slightest.
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I think it is very fair for an employer to ask you to take a code test to see what your style is, how you think, etc. We give one, but on paper. Your experience should be worth more than the test but it certainly does not hurt you to take one.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Code tests at the office, with other Developers is great. I think the OP was referring to "online" tests, which are crap, most of the time.
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