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My perspective on this is a bit different.
yeah, MSFT does a great job of integrating and making their environment work well together, but at what costs to me over time.
I have been developing software for over 30 years.
C was one of many new found loves in the early days.
And MSFT would push new features in, but stop supporting the other stuff pretty quickly. We had a 32 bit rewrite of a library that we could NOT recompile in 16 bit mode because of MSFT not implementing the new features for 16 bit C compiler. We had to get TurboC to compile the 16 bit version from the 32 bit version MSFT let the guy write.
It was a pain. It was that, or support 2 drastically different code bases.
Then, we have the NIGHTMARE Visual Studio upgrade policies. Where they remove support for things, and your old code base wont build. I usually find VS developers with 2 and usually 3 different VS versions installed on their machines if they have to support legacy code.
Yes, for a turnkey development environment... Go MSFT. But for long-term support of code and environments, over 3-5 iterations of VS wow...
But what they did was hide the details, making it easier to get started. Good luck when you need to use PostgresSQL or Oracle, and you have to spend an hour or two finding the magic settings to making the connections between prod and dev work correctly. Even worse with a new release.
In the end, confusion simply means you are learning something... 
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Been doing development for over 35+ years and make a living based mostly on the innovations of two companies: Borland and Microsoft. And really based on a single person: Anders Hejlsberg. Sure I've done projects in other languages/platforms, but I always find home with Visual Studio. I really don't mind about the languages(Except I have a discriminate against Python for its indentation, reminded me of FORTRAN 77), it is the other IDEs that drive me nuts.
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On a new Macbook Pro, latest macOS, lotsa RAM.
Rebuilding the entire CodeProject solution:
Parallels: 1 min 7.26s
Bootcamp: 47.1s
So next time someone says "there's really no performance penalty when using Parallels", slap them.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Why do you use Mac when you anyways are using Windows on it? 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Because the hardware is so, so good.
Pickup any laptop (and I've tried them all) and the Apple laptops are consistently more solid and longer lasting. I used to get 6-12 months from a laptop, and after switching to Macbooks I'd get 2-3 years easy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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If you were using QEMU/KVM, it might actually be faster than on native Windows.
But CrApple doesn't do the good parts of the *nix world.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Sadly, I wouldn't notice a difference of 20.16 seconds in our build time. Using our fastest build server, it takes 28 minutes to build our current product.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I did a similar test a while ago, and while I didn't keep the figures, I remember the results were very similar.
I also evaluated VMWare and VirtualBox; VMWare was slightly slower than Parallels, and VirtualBox significantly slower.
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I used Macbook Pro (8gb ram, best CPU for the time) with Parallels and Visual Studio for about year, the build times didn't bother me but everything else was sluggish, scrolling was juttery and annoying, even tabbing to a new file felt like it took aeons compared to using VS native. After a while it was just too much friction and I switched to Bootcamp, the experience is so much better.
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AirSelfie[^]
Really? What a stupid idea!
Quote: $519,901
pledged of $47,864 goal
WHAT THE F***?!?!?
First found out about it here.[^]
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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Oh yea, that will go over well for selfies taken around the White House.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Maybe it'll redefine "duck-face": "Duck! It'll hit you in the face!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There is already a pocket drone with integrated camera available that is also advertised as selfie drone (no link to avoid spamming; just search for Zerotech Dobby).
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Never under estimate the power of narcissism.
Jeremy Falcon
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Just what I was thinking as well.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: $519,901 pledged of $47,864 goal
Kickstarter AKA free money.
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I have a better one.[^] It flies higher and faster than that toy, put it together myself and get to fly it as well.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Anyone know if it's possible for Jenkins to create ClickOnce packages? Anyone does this? Any resource you know of would be helpful.
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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what's Jenkins ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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A very popular and open source Continuous Integration Server[^].
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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You don't remember Daphne Blake's butler?
You need a few more scoobie snacks!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ruh Ro Raggy!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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As an alternative, you might want to look at Squirrel.Windows[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I haven't a clue what to do with it. I did a search, of course, and this outfit is famous for pursuing copyright infringement cases against people who use BitTorrent. I don't.
The odd part is that they claim to have found content owned by me on a commercial website, and want to prepare a case against the thief. I've never heard of that happening before; has anyone else received this odd notice? Should I risk opening the two PDF files they attached?
Weird...
Will Rogers never met me.
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