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Roger Wright wrote: I remember when I was a kid, and a program was a piece of paper that told me who was playing what role in a stage play, and what each act of the play depicted.
Yeah, I was talking to my wife about "Choose Your Own Adventure[^]" novels which were like the first computer adventure games. 
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Should I sell my vacuum cleaner – it's only gathering dust?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's only gathering dust
Ah, that sucks.
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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Unsuccessfully, I tried switching cable providers because all that ever seems to be on TV is dust.
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You Dyson say things like that.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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You definitely should. Obviously "Vacuum Cleaner" is an oxymoron 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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An upright person, such as yourself, should not let themselves be hosed!
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Don't forget to also dispose of the old bag that came with it!
(Running, ducking, and rolling.  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If I am cleaning my vacuum, am I a vacuum cleaner?
Brent
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To go into public relations, issue odd initiative (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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If I thought I'd be be able to set/post tomorrow's I'd answer, captain.
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Enterprise ?
go into = Enter
pr
odd issue ise
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And I thought it'd be easy ... 
To go into ENTER
public relations, PR
issue odd ISE
initiative (10)
ENTERPRISE
You are up tomorrow! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I was fishing for
P.....RISE 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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And you were correct - I didn't look at it until gone 10 or 11 maybe
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A month or more ago my daughter entered for an on-line course in computer science, for which she had to do a first year course in elementary Java. She struggled with the Java, and I started tutoring her, learning elementary Java as I went along. I found it to be very similar to C++ which I regard as an old friend.
Her professor guided her (and so myself) to use the Eclipse IDE. I found Eclipse to be totally "adequate", but far from "outstanding".
Then I got sucked in by Java and I wanted to learn more, especially the GUI stuff. I worked my way through a book on Java Swing, only to learn I should rather focus on JavaFX, specifically the FXML variant. I stumbled across the book: "The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX" by Stephen Chin et al. I bought the Kindle version. One part of one chapter explained how to configure IntelliJ IDE for your first project. These few paragraphs alone made the 26 odd bucks I paid for the book worth while. The correct configuration of IntelliJ I found to be non-trivial for a beginner. I don't think I would ever have mastered the configuring of my first "Hello World!" app without this book.
IntelliJ is such a gem of an IDE - such a joy! The good points are too numerous to mention, but a few examples: In the FXML files it will highlight statements that merely replace defaults. If you have a statement like "Insets bottom=0.0", it will recommend deleting the statement as 0.0 is the field's default value. If you abbreviate "description" to "descr", it will state that "desc" is better grammatically. There are many, many other examples.
Did I mention that I love IntelliJ? 
I am not wrong. I am just different!
modified 20-Oct-20 6:53am.
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I used to use IntelliJ back in the day. I am sure it much nicer now. I really liked it.
I love Jetbrains. I think they make great products.
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We've just migrated our entire team from Eclipse to IntelliJ for our in-house web application development. Had to purchase premium licenses for the full Spring/Tomcat support, but well worth it.
One of the nicest features I've come across is database/persistence automation. If you setup database connections under the Databases panel, and then have some code which references those database tables (in our case entity classes annotated with @Entity and @Table), you can tell IntelliJ which database connections the code is relevant to, and it'll automatically validate that your entities are setup to point to valid tables, columns, and can even auto-generate entities for you. Just one of the small features in the IDE that makes it seem really intuitive.
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JetBrains makes excellent products IMO.
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Cp-Coder wrote: IntelliJ is such a gem of an IDE - such a joy!
Meh - I really tried to like it, but it's a slow, memory-hogging mishmash of poorly integrated features. Not as bad as Eclipse, but still bad. In the end, I ended up using VS Code for writing Java - not great either, but at least not as slow and disruptive.
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I know a lot of Java devs speak very highly of it but I tried it myself several years back when I was doing some Java dev work and found it to be a bit meh. It was also kinda slow.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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My only real gripe is that you can only have one repository open at a time. We have several parallel projects and in Eclipse I can search them all easily.
Same kinda issue with VSCode too, although I did find a way around it in that product.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I've not had the opportunity to use IntelliJ, but I have built a few smaller projects in both the CLion and PyCharm tools. I don't know how either compare to other IDEs, but my experience with each was favorable.
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