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Interesting fact of the day: Ted Dexter was the only Italian ever to represent England at cricket.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It was an awesome game.
I did assume that England had lost at the end of 50 overs but it turns out I was living on out-of-date (and probably better) rules so the extra over came as a huge surprise.
Hats off to the Kiwis - I really like their current side and I'd have been firmly rooting for them had they been playing anyone else.
To use the old cliche: regardless of the result, cricket was the winner.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yeah well said!.
You know I made this post[^] with a heaviness in the heart, an unsettling feeling. The hangover from the loss was still lasting.
Not just me, all the cricket fans here in India was feeling bad about the loss in semi-finals.
But the way Finals happened yesterday, washed off this heavy feeling.
It's not about England winning. But it's just about how cricket happened. It's unbelievable.
Some people even feel they are lucky to have witnessed this event. haha 
Truly dramatic.
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Well, yes, I had India as the favourites for the tournament. In all my cricketing life (we're talking Sunil Gavaskar onwards) I've never seen an Indian side that couldn't bat sublimely, but I've seen a fair few that couldn't bowl too well. With Bumrah and Shami in the mix, this is clearly a side that can.
Was it a tournament too far for Dhoni at 38? Much as you can only love the man, he's not the match-winner that he used to be and I find myself wondering if he was picked more out of sentimentality than necessity.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: all my cricketing life (we're talking Sunil Gavaskar onwards)
Meeting a non-Indian Cricketer in CP is like finding life on Mars. Quite happy you are there. lol
PeejayAdams wrote: Was it a tournament too far for Dhoni at 38? Much as you can only love the man, he's not the match-winner that he used to be and I find myself wondering if he was picked more out of sentimentality than necessity.
This is quite true. This reduced the stature of Dhoni a bit. I feel sad for him.
I have slightly a bit more regards for the likes of Steve Waugh.
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It's a hard one for the selectors, there are players that it's so hard to let go of - I suspect that the South Africans are going to go the same way with Dale Steyn over the next couple of years but at some point you have to stop relying on "Old Faithful" and look to the youngsters.
It's made even harder by guys like Graham Gooch who just got better and better with age (he was probably about the same age as Dhoni is now when he hit that triple century at Lords and went on for a few golden years after that).
Some players know when to go. Others, I suppose, just can't see a life outside of the game and want to stay forever so won't admit to any persistent niggles or deterioration in the eye-sight. And I very much get that. If you've got the best job in the world, why would you want to stop doing it?
And yes, what is it about coders and sport? I've never really understood how so few engage with it!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: It's a hard one for the selectors, there are players that it's so hard to let go of - I suspect that the South Africans are going to go the same way with Dale Steyn over the next couple of years but at some point you have to stop relying on "Old Faithful" and look to the youngsters.
It's made even harder by guys like Graham Gooch who just got better and better with age (he was probably about the same age as Dhoni is now when he hit that triple century at Lords and went on for a few golden years after that).
Some players know when to go. Others, I suppose, just can't see a life outside of the game and want to stay forever so won't admit to any persistent niggles or deterioration in the eye-sight. And I very much get that. If you've got the best job in the world, why would you want to stop doing it?
It's a delight to read 
PeejayAdams wrote: And yes, what is it about coders and sport? I've never really understood how so few engage with it!
Maybe it needs multi-core brain? 
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So I was editing an article for submission and I found out the Code Project has a convention I wasn't familiar with.
Ctrl-Z here is the "destroy hours of work" feature, not the "undo" feature.
What cards the site developers are. ha ha!
I'm laughing over here. In between sobs, I swear.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Since when is there a memento-pattern in every website? There's no "redo" option in your browser, is there?
When using an online-editor, its best to have an offline copy. Open notepad, ctrl-a, ctrl-c, alt-tab, ctrl-v.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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... not forgetting even in an offline editor occasionally saving the file
even with some sort of auto-save I'll regularly save any text editor work (word proc, excel, script, code ... too.) If it's a "larger" effort I'll even start manually versioning some of those saves.
I think it's muscle memory an old-fart habit from those of us that suffered editors that had combinations of no or limited undo, didn't auto save,... notwithstanding equipment that set it's own work/fall over schedules. 
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lopatir wrote: I think it's muscle memory an old-fart habit from those of us that suffered editors that had combinations of no or limited undo, didn't auto save
Or anyone who's been in this business longer than two hours, or who's ever used a web browser for anything.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The ultimate hack would be to change Ctrl+S to "Send me your credit-card details".
I'd be broke in an hour.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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yeah. trouble is i don't have any good HTML editors. and i'm not about to edit a bunch of source while i'm working in a wysiwyg environment otherwise. it's just a lot of churn so anyway, it is what it is.
I'm rewriting what I lost, and no that thing doesn't have a redo feature. I was smashing Ctrl+Y and Ctrl+Shift+Z to try to get it to go but no dice. I think it was a glitch tbh, because it cleared like 1/5 of the article.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: trouble is i don't have any good HTML editors
VS Code is a pretty good one.
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I haven't spent long enough with it. does it do wysiwyg? i mean, i don't mind tags but it gets tedious when writing an article. I just want to be able to flow. I thought VS code was mainly for source edits, not a "designer"
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It is a simple editor and should work with almost anything if an extension for it exists. I found one, UNOTES - Markdown Notes WYSIWYG[^]. You can check it out and see if it works for you.
You're right, VS code is not a designer but I doubt you'll get both features in a single tool.
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codewitch honey crisis wrote: Ctrl-Z here is the "destroy undo hours of work" feature, not the "undo" feature.
So what's the problem? 
You could mention this in bugs 'n sugs and maybe they'll have an auto save somewhere...
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Sander Rossel wrote: You could mention this in bugs 'n sugs and maybe they'll have an auto save somewhere...
or flesh it out into his next article?
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they have an auto-save. It saved immediately after destroying my work. *headdesk*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Hah! That's nothing - AmiPro (bless its little cotton socks) used to crash while autosaving.
(And it was still better than Word was, or now is. If it read and wrote DOC and DOCX files, I'd still be using it)
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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hahaha, that's straight up Bethesda softworks level fail right there.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The problem is doing web work , too many pieces out of your control
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I use Visual Studio to write article content, and then paste that into the CP editor. That way, I'm pretty much immune to the whims of the CP devs' ideas of how an editor should work. Of course, it might not even be their fault, and they are simply at the mercy of the base control they're using. Whatever the case, I find it more convenient to write the article offline so that I'm in the actual CP article editor for as short a time as I can manage.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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