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The real answer is that when programmers find out you're trying to use metrics, they will purposly poison the data so the results are effectively meaningless... or show that they take 0 minutes to perform every task so no improvement can be identified.
".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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This can easily turn into a political discussion.
".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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#realJSOP wrote: This can easily turn into a political discussion.
Nowadays everything can turn into a political discussion. Including that statement. 
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Project Reunion unifies access to existing Win32 (legacy Windows API) and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) APIs and makes them available decoupled from the OS The absolutely, positively, fer-surely last WIndows UI programming model (until the next one)
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In the meantime, stick to MFC. That is just not going away 
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I thought it was visual basic that wasn't going away...
".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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Both are forms of derpes, and that's with you for life.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A team of amateur codebreakers has reportedly cracked the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher, solving a mystery that’s had law enforcement stumped for more than 50 years. "Drink more ovaltine"?
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I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++. In case these types of debates are your thing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++
Oh boy...
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Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. That's perfect! Now can you make it do this new thing?
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even though no one ever sets out to build something complex.
Really? Tell that to Elon Musk. 
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Software is complex because of implemented features that more often than not conflict with each other. The very first time you have to include an "if" statement, the code becomes "complex".
Another factor of complexity is management and/or sales staff that think they know the best way to implement a user interface. Back in the early 90's, I worked on an app that had no fewer than six ways to to pretty much everything in the app. I rewrote the app, and reduced the complexity (and line count) by eliminating the redundant interfaces.
".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
modified 14-Dec-20 8:38am.
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Microsoft promised that Windows 10X would be simple, sleek and faster than the current generation of Windows. The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
Because they didn't learn from Win 10S?
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Quote: The plans, however, changed after the pandemic, and Microsoft's new priority is to get Windows 10X work on the single-screen devices.
I fail to see the correlation to the causation.
Unless, two people sitting next to each other on a "dual screen" device failed to meet social distancing criteria? 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
No, it's for 'times'. Windows Ten Times (Worse).
I'm dreading the day a family member buys a machine crippled by it, and I need to try dignosing the problem over the phone/email (I never did figure out that "Windows Five" was Win 10S mode until I saw the computer in person); or tell the buyer that they bought a piece of crap permanently crippled and unable to do what they want.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fluid Framework describes itself as a collection of client libraries for distributing and synchronizing shared state. Get all the power and capabilities of Sharepoint in your apps?
Yeah, that was sarcasm
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Cool. Making web sockets complex. Oh wait, there's a post further up on why software ends up complex.
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It's like playing in a multiverse "but the different boards are connected to each other” You can either know the positions of the pieces, or how they move, but not both?
The game may be over before you open the box?
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Uninterested in having to achieve in your night-vision goggles if you need to observe somebody’s warmth signature after darkish? Good news for mice in the dark
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good news for mice in the dark
I'm sure my cat will adapt.
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Does anyone have an article that wasn't either machine translated from a foreign language, or written by people who greatly overestimates their language skills?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks. That make so much more sense, and leaves me even more baffled by what the author of the originally linked article was trying to do. That 'article' was just the transcript with a gibberish filter applied. Probably the worst case:
Scientific American: [GH]: “This green light is absorbed by retinal cells.”
Which the brain then interprets as regular visible light.
Gibberish: [GH]: “This inexperienced gentle is absorbed by retinal cells.”
Which the mind then interprets as common seen gentle.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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