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I've been hesitant to buy Apple. I was an unfortunate owner of the ill fated Apple ][gs which I learned to code on back in 1986.
They abandoned that $2000 (in 1986 money!) machine less than a year after they released it. Hardly anyone wrote software for it after that.
Basically I've been boycotting them since. I haven't bought a single apple product except one ipod nano thing that I only bought because someone i love dearly basically begged me for it.
So for me to reconsider going back to Apple is ... it's existential stuff. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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The grass is always greener on the other side, isn't it?
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I've finished really disliking Windows as a development platform.
Ya got nothin but agreement n sympathy from me.
For me, Qt held all the answers.
Nearly all my hobby things run on linuxes now. And it was easy.
For job coding, you'll still need all the junk of course.
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Honestly, I'm glad I've had no need for Qt. I don't want to learn another GUI system. 
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but is there another gui system on linux?
isn't it just gtk or qt? pretty sure qt > gtk
and while qt mayyy be < c#'s gui... it's def > win32 api 
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Visual C++ implements a fussier read of the standard language than does gcc or clang.
VC++ excepts a slightly different language for templates than does gcc. I can't say which is right. I've never had any trouble writing my own template stuff, but it may barf on gcc template code. VC++ does (or did?) require more frequent use of the typename keyword than gcc.
In VC++, constexpr expressions have to be assigned to constexpr variables to get compile-time evaluation. The standard contains ambiguity on this point. Clang is more likely to evaluate functions at compile time than VC++ is.
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Thank you for that. It explains a lot.
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Hey Griff it happened just like you said in your response in The Weird and The Wonderful[^] in 2019.
I had just responded to kmoorevs post about double click behaviour with users.
I had discovered in the logs that 3 users out of 250 would occasionally encounter errors.
Turned out that they were Olympian super fast double clickers.
I couldn't click as fast as them in order to replicate the issue until I practised and practised.
The other day I had another issue and found that it wasn't just 2 users out of 250, but most of them including me, but only at one site.
It was caused by switch bounce in the mouse. It was a new one as well.
Anyhow now it all works with a bouncy mouse as well as a good one now.
(It was really my fault though. My bad. It should of handled it.)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have a great gaming mouse but if I click "dropping" my finger on the button it will generate two clicks very very near to each other.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I am hoping that, that button is the fire button.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: The other day I had another issue and found that it wasn't just 2 users out of 250, but most of them including me, but only at one site.
It was caused by switch bounce in the mouse. It was a new one as well.
It's hard to believe that most users have defective switches  but at least you've resolved it.
grralph1 wrote: (It was really my fault though. My bad. It should of handled it.)
It's hard to think of everything the first time!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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It was one machine that all of the operators share. So just one mouse with issues.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Investigate: Count one hundred recycled vowels - lose nothing relating to money (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Pecuniary ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow!
Care to explain for the others?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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To be honest I got pry for investigate and ic for one hundred and thought pecuniary was worth a shot - my speed solving methodology was developed from ~25 years of commuting into the city of London determined to try and finish the Telegraph cryptic before I arrived at Waterloo ( 35 minute journey )
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Investigate: PRY
Count N
one hundred C
recycled (anag)
vowels - lose nothing AEIoU (remove the O)
relating to money
PECUNIARY
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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An aged one wonders:
I have never (ever) come close to solving even one of these. Does that mean that any program/script I have ever written is sadly lacking? Real programmers can solve all of them?
I should retire, I wish I had commented my code.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Probably not - but many developers like puzzles, and even grew up with physical crosswords.
These take practice, a reasonable vocabulary, and a twisted mind. It's probably the first and last you are missing!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hmmm. Would a twisted mind be better than no mind at all?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I was going to build something out of legos and a little ESP32-CAM that could recognize my cats and chase them around, but my cam arrived and the little thing is broken - everything looks red/pink and hopelessly grainy. Something's not right. It can't do cat scanning without a good camera. meh. That's what I get for not ordering the modules in multiples at a time.
I do intend to build this, so long as I can use my hubby's legos - i may have to splice into his kit. should be a fun project, but i can't start it now until I get good hardware.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Catscan can be a difficult thing... 
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You beat me to it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The operator: "IhopeSheDoesNotWakeUpIhopeSheDoesNotWakeUpIhopeSheDoesNotWakeUp...."
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