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.NET coder? Have some free time? Ever wonder about helping out with open source? Want to get started on some low-hanging fruit? Now you can fix (their) bugs for (their) joy and profit!
Maybe give them a few new icons while you're at it?
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Well, now we can't justify complaining about something because now we can offer to fix it for them.
First thing on the list - fix VS2017 so that it understands linefeeds in intellisense comments. (It works in VS2019), and everything before VS2015).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Better yet, work on open-source projects that ms doesn't profit from.
The Linux desktop, for example, desperately needs input from windows programmers, if it's ever going to achieve any kind of user-friendliness.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Need a laptop with a lot of power? Intel has released the new 10th-gen Core H-series processors, capable of delivering up to a whopping 5.3 GHz. Some of the capabilities of a desktop CPU, in a slightly more portable (and probably much more expensive) fashion
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But... will it play Doom?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Unfortunately, because of soon-to-be-discovered security flaws, it will have to be governed down to using only one core at 1.1GHx.
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For those individuals that have yet to purchase a Pluralsight subscription, we are offering free access to our platform for the entire month of April. Stuff to watch in case you've already binged your way through Netflix
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I haven't check, so I am possibly totally wrong. But I have already seen it in other platforms:
Month free offer, but you have to fill everything as it was a real contract. And then you have to activelly retract / step back (however it is said in legal english) before the end of the month.
In other words, it is not a free month, it is a suscription with the first month as a present.
In my opinion... a damned no go from the marketing department and a very bad policy for the company.
M.D.V.
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I haven't checked yet, but they do say:Quote: Anyone that does not have a current subscription to Pluralsight can take advantage of this offer. No credit card is required to sign up and there will be no obligation beyond April.
So, fingers crossed. (Guess I really should confirm)
Edit: Confirmed - no credit card, no subscription required. Just an email address to sign up (And it took four hours for them to send out a confirmation. I guess they're bunged up.)
TTFN - Kent
modified 2-Apr-20 18:08pm.
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TikTok's more fun.
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Researcher set out to find 15 new Windows bugs last year. He found 25, and Microsoft already patched 11. One down, many (many, many) to go
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Did I say, "many"?
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I think someone opened a door that had to be kept closed... and the spirit of an Hydra got into the source code of Windows...
You fix a bug, another two will rise.
M.D.V.
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What gets me is that they only found 25 bugs.
There was an article linked to recently, describing how ms had to upgrading their bug database on more than one occasion, because the number of bugs kept running out of bounds.
Hundreds of thousands of bugs, and they only found 25?!?
Great researchers, or what?
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I suppose that's the same as with many other statistics.
One thing is what it is officially said and another things is what it actually is.
M.D.V. 
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Maybe it's the type of bug they were trying to find. Lots of the bugs in MS's bug database may not be the kind of bug these researchers care about. Like the icon is the wrong color.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The massive amount of automation and digital transformation taking place in the business world would be impossible if companies needed to code all of it “the old-fashioned way.” Low-code and no-code platforms are building new applications faster and allowing non-coders within a company to be involved. I don't care what they say I won't stay In a world without code
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If all you want to do is move data around, no-code can often handle it.
The problem is that most people need to do slightly more complicated things.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The problem is that most people need to do slightly more complicated things.
"Slightly"?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Meiosis. I can't help it; it's the way I was indoctrinated, as a child.
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Yep, that wonderful nightmare of drag-n-drop programming....
Websites are a perfect example of what can happen:
1. The developer community shunned FrontPage; letting anyone create data-driven website with zero knowledge.
2. Have you ever seen the HTML generated from an Office App (eg Word, Excel) when you choose "Save as webpage"?
Just reading through the Q&As we can see no-code programming; a lot of is Copy & Paste of things such as "i saw this example on youtube" or "I found this class how can I make it work".
Nevermind the ever present SQL Injection vulnerabilities that are being called out from this coding practice
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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It has a drag-drop interface. OK, so that system was built without code? What did monks just meditate it into existence?
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The temptation for businesses to use artificial intelligence and other technology to improve performance, drive down labor costs, and better the bottom line is understandable. But before pursuing automation that could put the jobs of human employees at risk, it is important that business owners take careful stock of their operations. In related news: JUST.LIKE.ANY.OTHER.TECHNOLOGY.
ugh. People!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In related news: JUST.LIKE.ANY.OTHER.TECHNOLOGY.
Yup.
My immediate thought was of the disappointment of hairdressers over their RoI from sheet-metal presses.
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You’re an amazing developer, and that’s your problem. I wouldn't know
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I wouldn't know
He wasn't talking about you?
Well, he certainly wasn't talking about me.
It might have been Marc or John, or maybe Griff. We'll let them fight it out.
How many tickets do you think you can sell? I'll get them printed up while you make sure we've got enough popcorn.
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