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Can someone explain what critical problem they are trying to solve by adding this complication?
Although: if (variable is not null) is great in that I can now also confuse my C# with SQL while also being mind bent as I switch between Typescript and C#
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Can someone explain what critical problem they are trying to solve by adding this complication?
That simplicity is bad.
Honestly, if you have to "switch" on the type, it seems to me to be indicative of bad design, though there are definitely times when I've needed to -- weird deserializers that instantiate different types comes to mind.
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Microsoft announced quite some time ago that its classic Paint app would be released on the Windows 10 Microsoft Store, and this is finally happening. That sound you hear are the PhotoShop developers quivering in terror
Or laughter, I can't really tell these things.
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The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned Just in case you know someone who might be interested / need to check
Because of course... yours is not going to be there. 
M.D.V. 
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 But they probably have my phone number even though I never created an account. 
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For sure...
They might not know that that profile is concretely "you" but they probably knew a lot about the person using your devices
Not a secret that they create profiles for "John/Jane Does" that are not signed in
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You may find that mine is 602-123-4567 .
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Don't have FB, don't give away the number.
So, no, it not gonna be in there. If you're not paranoid, you not equipped for the new normal.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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Only because I am paranoid, it doesn't mean that I am not being followed 
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Nelek wrote: Have I Been Pwned
That sites states that several (exactly 10) of my accounts have been stolen by hackers... 9 of the listed are sites that I do not even recognize... The 10th is Adobe...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Either stolen or sold to some dubious agent...
That's the best thing on having an account for each place. You can know who screwed it up.
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Nelek wrote: Because of course... yours is not going to be there. 
Well, I've never given them by phone number. I wasn't that mad.
But I checked anyway because... well, it's data-slurping FB. Happily they don't have my number.
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If you use Whatsapp theoretically they could have got it.
I checked too, just in case...
From 6 numbers of people I care, only 1 was listed
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In 2014, no less an authority than NASA proclaimed in peer-reviewed papers that it was getting mysterious thrust from the EmDrive, a strange, brassy trumpet of a thing that its creators claimed could produce thrust with no propellant. Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Who had 'pixie dust' in the poll?
Yes; but it I'd rather have been wrong, as this is quite a setback.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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Yet another test passed for General Relativity!
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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Researchers from UCLA have used a 3D printer to create an artificial neural network able to analyze large volumes of data and identify objects at the speed of light. Looks like a Star Trek prop
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Turns out, the new office could have a lot of empty desks if employers force employees back to work after the great work from home experiment of 2020 winds down. In completely unrelated news: businesses report 33% more job openings
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"WFH" was unknown to me; but an office is a building specialized around your work, and built only to facilitate in that work.
If you think your home is better, you're a home-cook.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. It works fine until the CPU gets all wrinkled
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Tech companies don’t just want to identify you using facial recognition — they also want to read your emotions with the help of AI. This is my unimpressed face
And yes, unimpressive
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Most camera's are easy to fool, a certain neckalce blurs your face. So why worry about the face recognition?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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The new ‘Okta Starter Developer Edition,’ as it’s called, allows developers to scale up to 15,000 monthly active users — up from only 1,000 on its existing free plan. In case you really want to know who are you
Who who, who who?
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A threat group called “Golden Chickens” is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers with the intent to infect respondents with malware. In other words: LinkedIn
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SA wrote: with the intent to infect respondents with malware
Illegal in the Netherlands, and prolly some other parts of Europe.
"BGS9, we are the cure."
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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