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Many of the concepts in my book and articles on this site are more or less in that category. Maybe they haven't been left behind so much as they aren't widely known. If you drew up a list of topics, I'd pitch in if I thought I could contribute something useful.
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Greg Utas wrote: Many of the concepts in my book and articles on this site are more or less in that category.
Grandiosity points awarded.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Every month that has passed since a new concept was introduced halves the number of point awarded to any reference to that concept. So a year-old concept is worth 1/2^12, or quarter of a per mille, of a concept developed this month.
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Digital concrete?
Sounds like something I'd add to my kilometre-high "to read" pile.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Would you think it interesting to start this a "book" as a CP article, that we could develop stepwise together?
Would I find interesting any further discussion of this rambling, content-free,
Member 7989122 wrote: on the pearls we left behind.
fantasia ?
No.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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OK, so I understand that you think there is nothing to learn from the past. Anything that has ever been rejected, for whatever reason, under whatever assumptions and circumstances, should forever be forgotten and ignored, and noone should ever suggest that it might have some merit under the new and changed circumstances. A rejection of an idea should always be final and absolute.
Fine. I'd like you think so - that is your right. So I am certainly NOT going to bother you with any stuff about ideas that you have been decleared, for yourself, as rejected and carrying no value. Obviously, I cannot prevent you from looking up, or by accident come across, any such idea that you consider rejected and without value, but I certainly feel no need to force it onto you. You go ahead hunting the freely roaming game, whether it be the web framework of the week, the next programming language to hit the Tiobe index as the fastest growing one, or whatever. Anything else is just soooo 2019, and not worth a dime!
modified 23-Mar-20 21:57pm.
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"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it." --apocryphally attributed to George Bernard Shaw
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Member 7989122 wrote: OK, so I understand that you think there is nothing to learn from the past. Anything that has ever been rejected, for whatever reason, under whatever assumptions and circumstances, should forever be forgotten and ignored, and noone should ever suggest that it might have some merit under the new and changed circumstances. A rejection of an idea should always be final and absolute.
wonderfully entertaining hyperbole, but, you left out the part where I strangle kittens 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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... "Aisle B, Back".
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There will be a free public seminar on the topic of "Avoiding crowds during the coronavirus pandemic." Everyone is encouraged to attend. 
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Yes, I thought it was a joke, too[^].
And this[^].
And at least a dozen others.
It's reminiscent of what happens if you tell your granny that the format command is used for cleaning discs.
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On win10, with visual studio in order to open forms in a designer on a project you downloaded you have to unblock the corresponding resource file usually using the shell and right clicking on the file and clicking "unblock"
For a project with a lot of resources this gets really tedious.
Does anyone have a trick little utility for this? Something other than maybe powershell (i prefer not to have to fire that up)
Real programmers use butterflies
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Unblock-File[^]
Pipe your folder to the command.
honey the codewitch wrote: Something other than maybe powershell (i prefer not to have to fire that up)
Oh, sorry, didn't see that.
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I don't know if this is applicable in this case, but typically if you extract the content of a zip file that itself got the "downloaded from the internet" attribute, all extracted files will get that attribute as well.
My solution when I get this is to remove that attribute from the .zip file first (right-click in Explorer, Properties, Unblock), then extract. The attribute won't be propagated.
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i didn't know that. thanks very much!
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For the details:
The indicator telling that this file was retrieved from the Internet is represented by an alternate data stream (ADS) in the file, named Zone.Identifier. Some software saves only the "ZoneId" in this stream, others save the orgin URL as well.
In a script, you can remove all ASDs from a file using the SysInternals "streams" utility. Or you can use a recent version of PowerShell, which allows you to remove a selected ADS without affecting others.
(I provided this hint, as a solution to issues reported by our customers, to one of our developers who has been set to putting together a tool file for our Windows customers. He sneered back (in an email, so this is a direct quote): "I am fortunately not a windows developer, I hope I will never have to claim that". Maybe he is the wrong man for the job...)
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Member 7989122 wrote: the SysInternals "streams" utility
Jeeze, how many times have I put off and put off looking for a method or tool for fixing some niggling problem, only to find that it's already sitting on my machine in either the SysInternals or the NirSoft directory?
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I was going to bring that into the conversation but couldn't quite bring myself to writing a few paragraphs about it.
Something else that should work: Copy the downloaded file(s) to a destination that only supports FAT32 (even if just temporarily), then bring it back. Unlike NTFS, FAT32 doesn't support alternate streams, so it effectively drops the attribute.
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How is that with *nix file systems - would they do?
The "beauty" of *nix file systems is that they provide no support whatsoever beyond being the name of a (dynamic length) sequence of octets, of no structure, no semantics. Hooking up several "octet[]" in some semantically meeaningful fashion seem sort of counter-logical to the very idea of *nix files being context free.
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Member 7989122 wrote: How is that with *nix file systems - would they do?
I would imagine that any file system that doesn't support alternate streams the way NTFS does, and make no attempt to replicate the functionality, would work just the same. I just used FAT32 as an example, since in the Windows world, it's probably the lowest common denominator.
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... Home working: It's not for everyone[^]
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The reason you don't see anybody in most the shots is the cockroaches done carried em off!
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