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Do you own a machete, or shall we all chip in and buy you one?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wouldn't go that far. I will just install vista on every computer I find.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Pre-existing install? They did say RC-Live was ok, but maybe other Xamarin installs causes issues.
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Honestly, I'd have to look. Was there any Xamarin stuff with VS2015?
If not, then this was a clean install of 2017. No RC or Preview or anything.
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It's not just you 
veni bibi saltavi
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You're not so special, from what I have been seeing, VS2017 hates everybody.
I must say though , it is quite an engineering feat to create a software package that can individualize the errors and poor implementation for each user who attempts to install and use VS2017. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Think of it as you being spared from Xamarin.
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Works on my machine.
Isn't technology grand. 
I'm loving that Xamarin for 2017 and Xamarin for 2015 don't share the folder they download an extra eleventy jillion GB of Android dependencies too so I have to have them bloating my HDD up twice.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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HUMAN VS MACHINE
First of all - all credits goes to Sir Roger Penrose...
He's looking for humans that can see the solution for this chess puzzle to learn more about their brains and about brains at all...
The point is that machines will give up this game, while humans can see a draw for white...
Do you able to force a draw?
I tried to put here an ASCII chess board, but CP screwed it... so here a link to an image...
chess-puzzle.png (1,095.6 KB)
HINT: Notice that even black has a huge advantage in pieces the only ones can move are those 3 bishops at the middle-left. So this is a game of white king against 3 black bishops on a smaller board (there are places king can't go)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 19-Mar-17 8:06am.
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I know the king can make infinite diagonal moves and never be in check.
Should all three bishops leave the current diagonal, then the pawn at B6 could potentially move to take a promotion and threaten black king with mate.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nice one... And definitely not the easiest!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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True. But he can even allow check. If the king later is checked (e.g. on g1) he can never be mated.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That's interesting... Let black check the king to break the self-defensive formation of the 3 bishops and force draw or even go for a mate... I have to check it later...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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"'Let' black check the king"?
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Yes. To break the defensive formation of the bishops...
Check this game[^] (the game actually happened and not fabricated)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm not sure what wrong with that... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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0) How can white stop it?
1) Why would black want to do so?
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0) All white have to do is stay on white. In that case black can not check it...
1) That's a real problem. Black (an engine based on mathematical calculations) always to the 'best' move that improves its chances to win. Check white is one of them, and black will do it even it is somehow unintelligent (it of course depends on the level of the engine).
There are two ways to gain draw in this situation and one to win it... The simple draw is by 50-moves-rule is always there, the other draw and the win is mostly depend on the intelligence level of the engine (the errors it makes)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So I have been assigned a new role - modernize some old Java EE applications. 
I need a new job now
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps?
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Slacker007 wrote: What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps?
Ofcourse that - CSS (read: cuss) changes. Replacing old JS with new ones. And update struts libraries due to this scary CVE[^]
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Modernization: Making not so technical people boast about version of software product they are using. There can still be COBOL under those fancy wrappers. But not many open those wrappers.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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