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Learning the syntax? No big problem.
Learning to master the ecosystem and developer defined conventions? Huge problem.
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UHBR80- and UHBR40-certified cables are already available. That takes all the fun out of guessing
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Microsoft is working on a new design for the app picker UI when you try to open a file in Windows 11. Don't worry - the app you need still won't be on the list
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Quote: The new design replaces the sharp corners and opaque white background with a new window that uses a translucent background, rounded corners, and follows the system’s light/dark theme setting.
Such an improvement to the functionality, ease of use, and configurability of the app picker. Of course nobody asks why we need an app picker. Maybe they should create some translucent walls, rounded desks, and add some lighting to the offices of the managers so that employees can actually see that the managers are working on useful things.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Maybe they should create some ...
I vote for white, padded walls with no desk... 
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Nothing alters the fact that Microsoft has changed how user data is associated with an application such that, even when created with app 'X', that data will open in Microsoft's app 'Y'. Almost any common data format (text, images, sound, video, HTML, XML, and PDF) now will open in a Microsoft app by preference.
Even when you check "always open in app 'X'" they ignore the setting. HTML, XML, and PDF documents are particularly bad. Edge is predatorial with these file types and will revert file associations from Chrome or Adobe Reader almost immediately after they've been changed  .
I ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing hate this, especially since Edge sucks at handling PDF.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You say this from experience? That's outrageous.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: You say this from experience?
Yes.
I've given up resetting file associations for HTML, XML, and PDF. Microsoft claims that they've created new mechanisms for file associations that applications aren't supporting, and they're reverting to Microsoft apps to 'protect your experience', but I don't buy it. I see this behavior less aggressively in some of the other common formats. As an example, I've tried associating the 'edit' verb for .bmp, .png, and .ico files with Paint.net, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work to the point that Microsoft omits Paint.net from the Open with... context menus for those file extensions.
At one time (Windows 2000, XP, and 7 to an extent) Windows was open to letting applications customize things through file associations, shell extensions, and even the Start menu. Now they're tying down file associations and deliberately sabotaging competing applications. Shell extensions are now relegated to a submenu in Windows 11, and the process for making them a 1st class citizen in Explorer isn't clearly documented at all. The Start menu has been progressively defeatured in Windows 10 and 11, to the point where it's difficult to make an application visible at all, much less 'pin' it so that it's usable.
It's enough to make we want to tear up my Microsoft FanBoy™ membership card.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wow! The more I hear about Weleven, the more outraged I become. I think I will stay on 10 until it goes out of support.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Functional programming has enjoyed a surge in recent years. You can see in the proliferation of books and conferences, in the rapid growth of languages like Scala and Clojure, and in the very public conversions Doesn't that depend on the question?
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They have a point but it's still funny that the bad functional example uses imperative-style code
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Like when predicate languages such as Prolog was the big thing: If you didn't understand some code, 99 of 100 Prolog experts would resort to explaining the Prolog interpreter's algorithmic, sequential processing of the statements.
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WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments. Write web, run everywhere
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There's something quite satisfying about the infinite monkey therorem, which goes like this: an infinite number of monkeys typing at an infinite number of typewriters would one day produce the entire works of Shakespeare, really showing that smug dead genius what's what. To eep, or not to eep
Well, computer-simulated monkeys
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To pee or not to pee.
FTFY!
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Maybe they could make a movie about this experiment and call it "Plan it with the Apes". I think most monkeys declined though because they had prior obligations writing super hero movies for Disney with that big green ape that smashes things, he's their favorite.
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Error handling is a tricky part of software programming. Why has no one thought of this before?!
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Cookie-cutter solutions don’t work for complex problems “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
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Strict adherence to "best practices" is never recommended. They're just guidelines and should be viewed as "when it's possible, you should try do it something like this, but you do you".
".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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Microsoft says Windows customers might find that some of their files are not deleted after resetting their Windows devices with the "Remove everything" option. It leaves behind streaks
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This is where whole disk encryption comes into play. If your disk is encrypted when you reset Windows with a "data wipe" the system actually looses the decryption key, effectively making your previous data inaccessible.
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Year 2038 problem? Wasn’t that supposed to be solved once and for all years ago? Not quite. We've got plenty of time to fix it, right?
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A single dot means we're nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. There. Is. One. Light!
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It will chew you up and spit you out, and you'll not even complain. Done.
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