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Depends on your contract, company policy or culture.
But personally, I seldom answer mails when I'm off duty, if it's important they'll call you.
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THis was very common in the past when big factories would close for two weeks in August. Its still common enough today, many firms use this periods to do maintenance on the factory, so really, you have to accept it.
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virang_21 wrote: I am thinking I should reply
Indeed. This should have been set up as an automatic responder.
Given my cynical nature, while many have replied "do what's right", I make the following cynical observations:
- No one will ultimately care or notice. Certainly not management.
- If management does notice, they'll just laugh and feel good about getting some free work out of you.
- If management b*tches to you that you didn't reply to him, the response "but you forced us to take a leave day" will not be a justifiable argument back to them.
- Management remembers the negatives, not the positives.
Basically, you're being asked to do something "against the rule," and that doesn't feel right, at least not without some explicit exception to the rule with appropriate compensation that management did not define. This leaves you in a position of having to make an ethical decision in the face of management's unethical decision. Which is why these rules are so stupid to begin with.
At the end of the day, the only way to escape this insanity is to take the approach that, by answering your team member's email, you're doing something to make his life a wee bit better at work. It's important to remember that we're dealing with other human beings, often in the face of absurd management (and/or government) policies that so often forgets that.
So, my advice, answer his email, not because it's right but because it feeds the narcissist in each of us to feel good about something we did, and it's a middle-finger to management by breaking the rules. 
Marc
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Your first mistake was checking your work email on a day off. 
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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Your company wants you to take the day off and relax. If answering emails from work isn't consistent with that for you, and being on call that way isn't part of your job description, then don't reply. There's nothing wrong with you being unreachable via work email on your day off.. and it's only one day.
I think it's great that your employer is trying to help their workers see that they're addicted to work. It's not healthy. Anyone who can't let go of work for even one day, is probably addicted.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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You can see it live nowadays at Livemap24[^]
Quite some good programming happening there.
It doesn't work everywhere though. The network where you live needs to have a public API.
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Very nice, although I admit I had to Google 'Funicular' - kinda bummed out that it's not that funny
I checked my old hometown back in Denmark and noticed some of the busses were driving through buildings on the map and even driving on the railroad tracks, but that could be a matter of calibration when you zoom in.
I cannot seem to find any aircrafts.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I checked my old hometown back in Denmark and noticed some of the busses were driving through buildings on the map and even driving on the railroad tracks, but that could be a matter of calibration when you zoom in.
Happens in CH as well..
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It's actually rather a cute idea.
It's just a shame that it's absolutely useless -- I struggled to find a bus on the map, and finally found a 426 (I've no idea where it goes, but it was there), so I searched on 426, and was presented with a map of Taiwan.
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Very cool! 
/ravi
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When my girl friend (and now wife) we're punks without a car we used to light a cigarette to make the bus come. Worked more often than not. The smokes were more precious than gold for the poor and in love. That's a "back in our day" story for the grand kids I guess now.
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In the old days when you could smoke just about anywhere, I used precisely the same method to get my luggage off the carousel in an airport. Light up one of my Davidoff specials, and my suitcase would be the next one out.
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Really cool and even works around me - only that my phone can't display the site...
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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IT SHOWS TRAINS.
Going on weird lines throughout the entire city 
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Live in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Looks like Cobb Community Transit has the hooks for this while MARTA (the BIG mass transit in the Atlanta area) does not.
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I am currently working on a Prism solution that has 14 projects. The problem is that I had to include the DLL for each project when I deployed the executable. This was a pain, so I decided to look for a method to embed the DLLs into the executable. Some research pointed me to a NuGet package called Costura.Fody.
When it works, it works great. You just run the command "Install-Package Costura.Fody -Pre" on the NuGet command prompt and you're set. When you build the solution, all required DLLs are integrated into the main executable and you only have one file to deploy. It works well with Visual Studio 2012 but can be finicky on Visual Studio 2017.
If the install fails on VS2017, as can happen, you can kiss the solution goodbye. I was unable to roll back the install and recover the solution / project. I was forced to recover it from a full backup. Make sure you have a full backup before trying Fody!
I am curious to know whether any of you have used this package with Visual Studio 2017, and what your experiences were?
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modified 23-Apr-17 14:00pm.
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I thought the NSA had given up on Prism, and were using Samaritan, now.
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The Machine Lives!
Software Zen: delete this;
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No spoilers, please -- I'm only part-way through the fourth series.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: This was a pain, so I decided to look for a method to embed the DLLs into the executable. Some research pointed me to a NuGet package called Costura.Fody.
Interesting. I did something a year ago or so where I embedded various DLL's as a resource and used the assembly resolver to load the DLL. It worked great!
There's a good CP article here that looks very similar to what I did.
Marc
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Looks interesting, but there is one other advantage to Fody that I neglected to mention: After embedding the DLLs, it compresses the executable. This is a significant issue for me. My app has a 30Meg+ DataTable embedded as a serialized resource. Being serialized, it is basically a XML text file that compresses very well: to more than 90%.
Now that I am beginning to get the hang of it, I will be hard pressed to follow any other options. It makes the whole process just so easy! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've worked with Costura before. I want to like it, but ultimately I've stopped using it.
The issue that I had was in delivering minor version updates to a specific application, I wrestled with Costura quite a bit to update the dependencies on specific modules, and ultimately found a /bin directory to be more time-effective.
Detaching Costura from my projects proved to be an interesting endeavor. This is the main reason I stopped using it altogether: it proved difficult to remove the framework completely.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Quote: Detaching Costura from my projects proved to be an interesting endeavor
Yes! I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible. One has to create a new project, then copy the files from the old project to the new.
Quote: ultimately found a /bin directory to be more time-effective
I am not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate, please?
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