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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hey! Not in polite company...
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dandy72 wrote: in polite company...
That's where you get the most BANG for the buck.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nice.
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Sorry, I forgot to laugh.
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Well today is also National Joke Day, so you've hit a 2-in-1 there!
Tomorrow is World UFO Day, so I wonder if Bob will dress up like an alien to celebrate it?
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musefan wrote: Tomorrow is World UFO Day, so I wonder if Bob will dress up like an alien to celebrate it?
How many of our lounge posters will take the day off to celebrate (their national holiday?)
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: How many of our lounge posters will take the day off to celebrate (their national holiday?)
Not sure, allow me to escalate your query back to mothership and I will get back to you.
*music starts playing*
please hold... your domination is important to us.
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Celt used around selection (8)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Another rather old word!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I thought CCC is English only - the youngsters does not know Latin...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A lot of English is derived from Latin.
And from French, German, Old Norse, Greek, Dutch, and a bunch of others that we have adopted over the years ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yes, but wonder if native English speakers do know this specific, without some classic background (I knew it because they forced me to learn Latin as kid  )...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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They tried to teach me it as well, but most of it just bounced off. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I would like to thank the other gentlemen for their useful hints.
We don't want another one of these tomorrow, so
DELECTUS
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Latin is the mother of lots of languages - and you solved it so you are up tomorrow - it was an easy clue though despite the Latin part
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Delectus est anagramma de 'celt used'.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Romanes eunt domus!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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My little MIDI library is small, and yet in many ways its more advanced than other offerings despite starting out simple.
It's fast. It's small. It's easy to code against (easier than a lot of stuff I've seen). It has a whole lot of features.
So what's the catch? I feel like I want to dive into other people's code to see what they have that I don't.
So far from the little I've seen the stuff just looks more complicated than it needs to be - with midi "pipelines" and things like that.
I don't see the point in features like that. I like K.I.S.S., but even without that I don't know what someone could accomplish that they couldn't with my lib about as easily.
So I'm proud of myself, but a little worried. I've wrapped all of the Windows MIDI API except for patch caching, and my file editing and querying API is pretty good, but it's all very simple, and small. It was almost too easy to code that actual protocol end of it.
I feel like I'm missing something big.
The only complicated part was interfacing with the MIDI hardware.
Real programmers use butterflies
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you SHOULD be proud of yourself - and it's ok to look at other people's libraries etc for 'inspiration', but at the end of the day, K.I.S.S., agile and delivery to a client matters, not 'gold-plating'. ok, I think this MIDI collection was just for you, but the principle still holds
(you can bet I'm going to be looking at your work more closely, on one of your interfacing issues you solved  - I'm an ole dog (also OCD*) but I can learn new tricks)
*OCD = Old, Cranky, Dangerous
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i imagine you're talking about my p/invoke witchcraft. it was a necessary evil. I don't really like to get more "clever" than I have to. My p/invokes are usually carefully crafted to avoid having to use GCHandle or Marshal but variable length structures are a killer because the .NET marshaller just doesn't know how to handle it no matter what attributes you mark a struct up with.
Consequently, I have a mess of code that basically streams out a series of structs (each variable length) to a given memory location. I hate it. It's at least mitigated somewhat by the fact that the variable length portion is at the end of the struct, so I use the .NET marshaller to marshal that first fixed length portion rather than doing it myself. That way I can just use GCHandle.AddrOfPinnedObject() and copy that to the desired end location, and then follow that by the variable length portion.
It's ugly, but I got it efficient and robust.
Real programmers use butterflies
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heh - own it/be proud of it - maybe you'll look at it some year(s) hence and be able to do 'better' - more elegant, 'clever' - and there's nothing wrong with being clever now and again - it's like when you solve a gnarly issue with a great LINQ/Lambda combination knowing the sweat it took to learn
and 'clever' - never forget that being cleverer than you look is better than looking cleverer than you are (ripped off from 'Q' on 'Die Another Day')
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