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My coolest article this last week was probably my "Await on anything" article that allows you to extend things other than Task to accept the await keyword.
Yet people liked my Windows Message Queue for C# developers article even though it doesn't present any sort of technique you'd want to use in production (don't use these from C# please - it's just silly) - i even put a prominent disclaimer about that in the article, but at this rate it may be in the running for best article for this month. It certainly has a lot of votes and downloads. About what my MIDI library had.
I wish I knew what people liked so much about it so I could replicate whatever it is.
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Synchronicity. The right article at the right time.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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what i don't understand is how it's the right article for anyone. it's purely illustrative, and not even of a concept used in .NET except to make winforms work. oh well.
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"Message Queue" (or messaging) references come up more frequently than threading when it comes to corporate development.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Yeah but there's way better ways to do it in .NET
maybe people just wanted to see windows nekkid. *shrug*
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For me "Await on anything" opened my brain about the back ground. And this in a strait forward and easy way without hiding the important things with overy engineered stuff.
Only my view 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Are you talking about Stephen Toub's article or mine? (similar titles)
I felt mine was a bit more accessible. He assumed a lot of his audience - which is fine considering who reads him, but it could have been put more simply, and explained more.
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About your article
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
Chemists have exactly one rule: there are only exceptions
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Oh, thank you! 
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I believe I made the same comment a week or two ago with regards to 1-voters. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: I wish I knew what people liked so much about it so I could replicate whatever it is.
Pineapple pizza.
Expecting a photo in "where I am".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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5teveH wrote: the real Fleetwood Mac
As opposed to...?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think he means The Original Fleetwood Mac
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I would much rather focus on celebrating the pure genius of Peter Green, than getting into a debate about what is, (yes!), just my opinion about Fleetwood Mac after he, sadly, suffered a breakdown and left the band. So, to quote the great man himself:
Can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well - 1969 - YouTube[^]
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I was not challenging you to a debate, just asking you to clarify what you meant. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It can't do anything important to my system without my say so, including updates. It feels good to refuse an auth sometimes just to give the finger to for example, the ubuntu software updater that keeps smashing my grub configuration.
So it's not that there aren't problems with its updates. For all windows' problems with them they've never stopped me from being able to boot any and all of my operating systems. Ubuntu has done that to me regularly except I know how to patch their update to fix it after the fact - before it reboots into oblivion. So I like that there's opportunities like that too.
But i think for my next "primary OS" I'm either using Win7 or a hypervisor depending on how well MIDI pass through works on my virtual machines. I figure between experimenting and installing it should only take me two days. 
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Caveat: My experience with Linux is limited to Ubuntu a few years ago, using Qt to make an app that could be built for Windows or Linux.
The thing I dislike about Linux is that there are three ways to do anything, which people talk about endlessly in the fora, and you discover they don't apply to your distro/kernel/gender/ethnicity. When you ask questions the answers are anything but helpful, and very reminiscent of responses on StackOverflow.
Oh, and your problem? There's a fourth solution that people allude to, but say you wouldn't understand, and the fifth solution that you may discover that actually works.
Heaven help you if you let on you're primarily a Windows developer. Decades of experience, millions of lines of code in production, and a high-end salary for your region; none of that is significant. You're treated like a country oaf who can't be trusted not to piss against the side of a building.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I like StackOverflow. 
Other than that, I agree with you.
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Like many things in life, SO is an acquired taste. I find it occasionally useful in search results.
My few attempts at posting questions were wastes of time. I think the longest one lasted before it was blocked/turned off/marked irrelevant was about 12 hours. I especially liked the last time when I tried to revise the question to correct its problems, and my account was disabled for too much activity (I think they thought I was spamming my own post).
I'll admit I haven't tried in three or four years, especially since the "kinder, gentler" StackOverflow supposedly became a thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: there are three ways to do anything
Except doing anything in vim, there's one way, it's somehow different every time, but it always requires human sacrifice 
Just closing vim could be a class taught at universities.
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i loathe vim. Pico is okay, but frankly, i use GUI stuff mostly these days. It still helps to be comfortable with the console in linux though because maintaining it inevitably requires some work at that level.
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I am using a dual boot system with Windows/Linux since the early '90-ties.
The usual setup is that I make one "shared" nfs partition where my development stuff is on,
accessible from within Linux, and accessible from Windows.
Most of my software uses Qt
I do a lot of cross compiling for Window, Mingw64 is an excellent vehicle and is well supported on my Fedora part of the system.
On Windows I am also using Mingw, since using Qt with VS is a crime.
Wrt to VIM:
I'm not sure what the level of education is needed for handling Vim, I always thought
it was kindergarten level.
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