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Stack Exchange co-founder Jeff Atwood shared some of his programming wisdom with software developers in a recent Reddit AMA. "Aim to be the dumbest person in the room" Done!
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It really irks me when I click on a link here, the page starts loading, I can see the first few lines, but am completely unable to scroll down whilst watching the wheels go round and round on the browser tab. The one from here has been 'loading' for about two or three minutes now and will be closed in about 15 seconds. I'm sure it was a nice article though...
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Dunno, it pops up pretty fast for me. What browser are you using?
TTFN - Kent
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Spot on! I was using IE 11! Thanks!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Odd. It just loaded normally for me in IE10.
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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It's not just IE that's buggered...I'm beginning to think that I have more serious problems following a huge number of MS updates that were installed yesterday morning. 
IE is locking up for well over a minute at a time...I continue to see the 'website is not responding' message with the option to recover the webpage. If I wait patiently, the page will become responsive until a few clicks later when it happens again.  Luckily, there is Chrome.
Coincidentally, I am unable to use a double-click or jumplist to projects on mapped drives, receiving a message 'Path not found: I:/path_to_the/file_that_i_just_clicked_on' even though I've navigated to it in explorer! Strangely, from the ide I can open the project just fine.
Coincidentally, I am now unable to open a sql compact database on a mapped network drive. It worked until two days ago! (I know it wasn't supported, but it still worked.)
I have spent the entire day trying to figure this out to no avail. 
Things I've tried:
0: A full virus scan. Nothing.
1: Check network security settings. Nothing wrong there either.
2: Removing last windows updates one by one until I realized that there were around 50 updates applied in the last two days. I became impatient and went straight to system restore and simply set it back previous to the day in question. Surprisingly, it worked, but did nothing to fix my problems.
I've resolved to simply do without my precious jumplist and desktop shortcuts for projects. I'll just extend the number of previous projects to show to max and it should be fine...and I guess I'll finally make Chrome my default browser.
After five and a half years, it may be time to retire this workstation anyway. I was hoping to get a few more months out of it until Wen was available, but now I'm wondering why on earth I would want to part with Win7? It's been the best OS MS has put out IMHO...and it should be fine for another five years or so on updated hardware. Thoughts?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oh joy. One of my coworkers spend most of last night restoring her PC after doing updates; and I've got 5 that IT will make me install on my work PC by tomorrow night.
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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kmoorevs wrote:
It really irks me when I click on a link here |
This is why I wrote an RSS reader which I documented here in a codeproject article:
FreedReadR: RSS Reader Created With AngularJS (part 2 of 2)[^]
You can try it (for free of course) at:
http://newtonsaber.com/freedreadr[^]
Try any of the InfoWorld or ComputerWorld or CIO ones and you'll see the articles open in a floating div, then you click the load button it loads the article content via jquery but blocks all the advertisements.
Logging In
If you decide to log in and create an account, it simply lets you save your own list of RSS feeds and if you add RSS from the ITWORLD site such as:
http://www.itworld.com/category/business/index.rss[^]
then you'll see that one will load the articles without all the ads too.
Try it out I think you'll like it.
EDIT -- You can see some a snapshot of the RSS reader in the codeproject article.
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The iPhone 6 has been more successful than previous versions of the smartphone at drawing Android users away from Google’s mobile platform, and Apple wants to capitalize on that with a new app that makes it easier for them to make the switch. Does it come with a credit card to buy an iDevice?
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Windows 10 is a well-meaning effort by Microsoft to mollify Windows 8 haters and coax Windows 7 loyalists to upgrade — all while stubbornly sticking to its goal of a single OS for every possible platform. Welcome to today's episode of, "Armchair quarterback"
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Or as I like to call them; Software Soaps
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Welcome to today's episode of, "Armchair quarterback"
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It is fascinating that around 1 in every 20 open job postings in the U.S. job market relates to software development/engineering. "The more you understand, seems the more like you do. You never get away, everybody wants you"
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Harvard scientists have developed an electrical scaffold that can be injected directly into the brain with a syringe. "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself"
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Hard coding is often considered an anti-pattern. "It's hard times, for an honest man"
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He needs Configuration Leason 101[^].
MSDN Configuration files are XML files that can be changed as needed. Developers can use configuration files to change settings without recompiling applications. Administrators can use configuration files to set policies that affect how applications run on their computers.
Wonde Tadesse
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Manu Prakash and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. It operates at 3 MegaSquirts
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets
That's nothing. Mine runs on hopes, dreams, and caffeine.
Well...indirectly. 
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When they say water droplets, do they mean tears? Mine runs on tears sometimes...
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It provides a full set of floating point instructions, including the all-important SQRT.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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When upgrading to Windows 10, most of your installed programs should still work. The key word, however, is "most." Step 0: Do you have a computer?
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Step 1: Install Windows 10
Step 2: Call support
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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In the last two episodes I did reruns of earlier articles on the technical interview process. I thought I might go into a little more detail about how I structure interviews and what I’m looking to get out of them. "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of the United States?"
OK, that one probably isn't a valid question.
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Good article. One thing is clear, I wouldn't like to be interviewed by Eric. I would probably be starstruck in addition to being nervous. 
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