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You could be right, but that would imply a level of cunning that I'm unconvinced either publication capable of.
I think in IT, the aphorism "Those who can't, teach" can be adapted to "Those who can't, write about it".
(Excepting the excellent staff working on this web site of course, Kent does that earn me brownie points?)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Troy Hunt is the master at that game! If you've got a couple of hours to spare, some of his videos are hilarious. 
http://www.troyhunt.com/search/label/Scam[^]
"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 will have to look at that later, the first image that came up looked distinctly NSFW.
Maybe I'll pick up some tips 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah, the last scammer who called ended up trying to convince Troy to buy him a subscription to a porn site. 
"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've had dozens of these. There's plenty of blog postings about people who have been called and let the perps down the proverbial garden path.
The best I've managed was about 15 mins and then they hung up on me. Hey - everyone needs a hobby, right?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Reduces after-retirement support costs for large enterprises as much as 95%. XP: the gift that keeps giving
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Despite that, I think it already turned into a nightmare for them. Kudos for their long-time support on Windows, but I think XP is pushing it a bit too far. I mean, who would still expect support for Mac OS 10.1 today? XP already gained some kind of life-time support (not the lifetime of the product, of course, I'm talking about the user) in comparison.
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Kendo UI Core includes 24 of the UI widgets currently in Kendo UI Web (AutoComplete, DatePicker, Tooltip, etc.), all of the widgets and features formerly available under Kendo UI Mobile, and all of the core framework features of Kendo UI (DataSource, SPA, MVVM, etc). Kendo UI goes open source
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And those who say languages do not matter. "If someone claims to have the perfect programming language, he is either a fool or a salesman or both."
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Bertrand gets on his high horse again! He won't get people to use Eiffel by slagging off C languages. It will just make them defensive.
Eiffel is a well-designed language but it's not perfect. Nothing is. He also knows it's not perfect as it's always being extended, just like everything else.
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "If someone claims to have the perfect programming language, he is either a fool or a salesman or both."
Or worse, promoting Plain English. 
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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Not sure why, but I kind of miss him.
TTFN - Kent
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That was the guy who claimed to have a plain English programming language but would never show us any code right?
Kevin
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Yup
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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I'm sure I saw something like that in the responses to this weeks survey.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Wouldn't surprise me. It's not as meta as CListCtrl or Bacon but the survey'd be a perfect opportunity to snark it.
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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His goto example illustrates a rule that I have been steadfastly applying since my 20's, when an associate (who was doing a lot of Fortran programming) told be, always put begin/end (or whatever the equivalent is, in c-languages its {}) around your if statements, even if you're only executing one line of code. Saved my butt a few times.
However, it's also the fault of the compiler, in my opinion, for not emitting an "unreachable code" warning. Of course, the doofus programmer probably has warnings disabled.
Marc
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Could be that previous doofus's generated so much cruft that the warning list is uselessly bloated.
I've recently started updating an old C# project that was mostly written between 2004 and 07 in .net 1.1; and after getting most of the auto-generated classes ignored clearing out most of the low level noise items, I've got ~1000 items on my Resharper suggestion list. Most're probably still noise, because the code's been in production long enough that if they were real problems they'd've triggered bug reports by now, but they're things that require a modicum of thought/analysis on my part instead of being able to just click the fix-it button and move on. 
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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Dan Neely wrote: I've got ~1000 items on my Resharper suggestion list.
I never found Resharper's suggestion list (or, what was the other thing called that was commonly used?) to be useful at all. Someone once said it's worth taking the time to configure ReSharper, but I just tossed the whole thing -- seemed like too much bloat.
What's your experience? Useful?
Marc
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It's like turning your warning level up to 11. It does call out some risky stuff that should be fixed; but the noise level tends to be really high. (I've been told MS's fxCop has the same issues out of the box.) The biggest change I'd like to make would be to expand the groups it categorizes in from 2 to 3. Currently it splits things into warnings and suggestions. The latter is things like "you can turn this loop into a LINQ statement" or "you can replace this if/else with an ?? operator". The problem is that the warnings group includes both things that are dangerous like "exact equality check with floating point variables" and various coding style/standard items like "change property name from 'fooBar' to 'FooBar'". The two types of items are really different things, and need to be easier to tell apart.
I've only turned off a handful of rules related to things like var usage; because R#er's options are only really useful if you want to go all or nothing, which I don't. var index = 0; is stupidly obfuscatory. IDictionary<int,string> lookupTable = new Dictionary<int, string>(); can get tediously verbose and declaring them as var doesn't actually lose any information. Temporary structures created by linq queries can get outright horrifying if you need to explicitly type them; especially since the inability to step through a set of chained methods one at a time means that I often will split a complex structure into multiple lines with temp results just to be able to debug it even though I don't care what the intermediate results look like and can involve two or three levels of IWhatever<> before being condensed back to something sane looking at the end. If R#er ever gets smart enough to tell those 3 cases apart I'd probably set them as don't use var, don't comment either way, and use var; but currently shutup always is the only reasonable way to get rid of the noise.
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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Dan Neely wrote: It's like turning your warning level up to 11.
Interesting example. I appreciate you taking the time to write that up. I think, after reading that, I'll stay away from RS for the moment. Ah yes, fxCop -- never did take a liking to that either. I think you bring up a really good point -- something like RS should highly configurable, not just 2 categories, etc.
Marc
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You can turn individual items on/off or move them between groups and the inspection results list can be grouped by warning type to make finding all the high priority items easy. Even if you turn off the improvement suggestion feature off entirely instead of just turning off most/all of what it reports because you don't care, the enhanced refactoring tools are worth the price of entry IMO.
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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JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Why leave the JVM? It's warm and cosy.
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Matias Duarte, Head of Design at Android, has recently held an interview on software design during Accel Design Conference 2014 underlining the need for a shift in software design approach from separate apps made for different devices to one app for multiple screens. "Then you will see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
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The Internet of Things will add so much programmability to devices that keeping software current will become a never-ending task. Just put a brick on the F5 key
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