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I think that a lot of CodeProject members would benefit greatly if you'd document the development process and tradeoffs in an article for this site! Nice work, by the way... Share it with the group, if you will...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I went to the tech rewards site to check if there were any new challenges available.
This is the messgae displayed on the site - "Important Update: Microsoft TechRewards will close on January 6, 2017. Please redeem your Points by 11:59 PM PST on January 6, 2017."
The full notice is available here[^].
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How many t-shirts did you earn, Abhinav-ji ?
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Namaste BillWood-ji.
None - no t-shirts but I intend to convert my points into vouchers before the site shuts down.
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Not dead, but 'Challenges have been completed'! All of them!
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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Problem With The System[^]
The numbers never lie ... the top 10% will become the bottom 10% very quickly!
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But it requires that every new worker, are better. I got some different experience.
In my company we had also hired some young coders which arent "such a brilliant choice" and one (of younger and more brilliant ) employee has left for some better job. I am NOT lucky about it, because I will stay in charge of developing software and maybe maintaining their crap. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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This Story[^]
One of my mom's friends is the victim in that incident, and now she discovered that that company hasn't been paying taxes for ELEVEN YEARS! They apparently applied for absolution in 2005, and then kept operating. Now the IRS and FBI are involved, as well as British authorities, as a UK company called Trotters told them how to do that.
This went from bad to absolutely insane.
I heard that when the detectives on the case saw the information, they had to subsequently pick their jaws up off the floor.
Wow.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: a UK company called Trotters
This time next year, Rodney, ...[^] 
"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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Are you sure you posted the right link?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The other info I posted hasn't hit the news yet. My mom still talks to her friends in Iowa, that is how we found out (from the friend who was victimized by these fiends).
Kinda crazy.
And tax evasion is a pretty major charge.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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NoTo[^] is a google font set, which contains
Every.
Single.
Symbol.
And.
Character.
In.
The
Unicode.
Specification.
That means the "tofu" character ⯐ would never appear again, and what you write in your code will display the same in any other computer with the font set loaded. And ... it's Open Source, and Google say they are committed to keeping it up to date with spec changes.
Think about that for a moment.
Downloading now...all 473Mb of 'em... 
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This is awesome! I hope in real life the "tofu" will look like a "bacon"
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: I hope in real life the "tofu" will look like a "bacon"
But it still won't taste like bacon. 
Marc
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and it never will...ever.
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To save everyone else the trouble I downloaded "NOTO MONO" and tested it as a font in Visual Studio.
It's OK, but Consolas gives crossed zeros and is just as, if not more clear - if you don't use embedded characters not in it's set.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hi Forogar, Thanks for the quick review: no crossed zeroes are a deal-breaker for me in terms of use in Visual Studio Forogar wrote: if you don't use embedded characters not in it's set
Could you clarify what you refer to here ?
thanks, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The big advantage of NOTO is that it theoretically has a definition for every single character in the Unicode character set.
Consolas does not have this, only the most common characters plus a goodly selection of weird ones I hardly ever or would never see myself using.
To date, I have never used a character outside of this "limited" set and so have never had any TOFU issues in my code editor display. I used the word "Embedded" to hint at text within a string literal that might get embedded, included, wrapped or placed within your source code - as apart from text loaded from external sources such as databases or configuration data, etc.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's quite fascinating looking at all the different styles of text. Some are quite beautiful (actually most other than English and countries where English derived from.) 
Marc
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Thanks for posting this. The females in my family are all graphic artists and they are always interested in new fonts, especially if they are free 
I had a look at the fonts. They are fairly simple in style. That means they are more universally applicable than more fancy or complicated fonts.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm not going to be Evil and ignore it's existence 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Out of curiosity, I downloaded the NoTo Color Emoji font: win 10 won't recognize that as a valid fond and display it, or install it. No evidence of a corrupted zip file, either. I will re-download it again in a few days and see ...
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Confirmed: The color Emoji fonts is not valid on Win 10. The regular Emoji font does install, though, but Word refuses to accept it. The font in Word keeps switching to Courier! 
[edit] I tried Noto Sans Batak. It installs on Win 10, works in Excel, will not work in Word or Adobe's Photoshop CS2. I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about these fonts  By the way: I use MS Office 2010.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 7-Oct-16 20:39pm.
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Hi Cornelius, thanks for the heads-up on the Color Emoji set in Win 10.
I interpret your additional reports on those fonts in various apps as indicative of the fact we are a long way, yet, from consistency in handling Unicode.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I got teh same problem when I installed - I suspect that Google will fix it pretty quickly... 
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