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So, why? Well, I bought a new phone from (whisper it) Amazon back in December. It's a Nokia G20, and it's great. But, after I'd had it for a few days it wouldn't power up one morning so I sent it back for repair.
(Time passes, no sign of it being returned to me, working or otherwise.)
So, tl;dr; Amazon gave me another one.
(Time passes, and meanwhile I learn that all G20's sometimes do this and will only come back on if you hold down the power button for like 3 days. Conclusion: old phone was working fine all along. Hey-ho.)
And then, nearly FIVE MONTHS after I sent it back, guess what? Yep, here it is, back from the great beyond. Bizarre.
So now I have two (even down to them having identical cases - more fool me), and of course I'm always picking up the wrong one. First world problem. But we plan to give one to my mother-in-law so that she can watch the tennis, so it's an ill wind etc. Result.
And thanks to all for putting up with bipolar me. I'll try to keep a lid on things when times are bad.
Paul Sanders.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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So.. I take it the G@0 is a good phone hey? mmm.... I was thinking I might buy a new one before end of next year... 
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Not sure if that's a serious question, but yes, if it's man enough for what you want to use it for it's excellent. Specs are modest but it does everything I want, the battery lasts for 2-3 days, and it has what, for me, is a must-have, to whit a micro SD card slot. If you direct all your photos and vids there, 64 GB of internal storage goes a long way. 'Amazon Basics' cards seem to work well. Avoid the cheapies.
Android 11, two years of updates (IIRC), £130 odd all-in, what's not to like? I have no affiliations to disclose.
Question: how do you get that clickety thing in your post?
Paul Sanders.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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nice. price seems alright as well!
probably will wait next year and his successor... but we'll keep an eye out for Nokia now! 
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Yes, it's a bargain.
Paul Sanders.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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So I have this problem with an Azure Function.
It's triggered by a Service Bus queue.
The normal flow would be:
1. Message gets posted on the queue.
2. Function picks up the message and start processing.
3a. If message is released before Function exits, Function auto-renews lock.
3b. Repeat a until Function exits.
4. Function exits and marks the message as completed.
5. Message is removed from the queue.
What happens:
1. Message gets posted on the queue.
2. Function picks up the message and start processing.
3. Function does not auto-renew lock and message gets processed again.
4. Function exits, but does not remove message from queue.
5. Message is ultimately moved to dead-letter queue.
Apparently, the problem is that when a Function's CPU's usage goes above 90%, it starts acting weird (which is mentioned nowhere) 
The CPU, over which I have zero control, is the problem.
It doesn't throw an error, it just runs correctly and acts weird in the background.
Now Microsoft wants me to update to a plan that's $150 a month (from a few bucks now) for a process that runs less than five minutes a day 
Just limit CPU usage and double the time my Function runs
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Can you limit it yourself? Make your code less demanding at a time? Maybe spin off a task on a low priority thread, or sleep it periodically or something?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I'm not sure how to make my code less demanding.
It's just a foreach with some 4000 records, that I put in an Excel file (ultimately a huge XML string).
I'm using Spreadsheetlight for this.
I'm not multi-threading or anything, for as far as I know (I don't even think Spreadsheetlight is thread-safe).
I could use a Thread.Sleep, I guess, but it also need to finish in 10 minutes max because of the Azure Functions limitations.
The task as a whole only takes about three minutes right now (and runs to completion, which is why it's even weirder it still fails).
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Try putting some thread.sleep nonsense in your loop?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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YES!!! THIS FIXED THE ISSUE!!!
I already did some googling, you were just a few minutes late.
This is the first time in my career I found a valid use case for Thread.Sleep (although, valid? ).
I didn't even know it could do this.
You learn something new every day I guess
Just a few milliseconds did the trick for my test to work.
I can monitor CPU usage and it seems to stay at around 20%.
Now let's see if it survives a production environment...
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Good luck!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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This has bad karma all over it. Then again, I live in the embedded world.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Oh boy, that gives me confidence in Azure. Maybe it's a Microsoft feature that they have a well known history for....?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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That's a bit like saying "my computer froze this one time and now I don't have confidence in computers anymore."
Although this does limit my confidence in Azure Functions a bit 
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Not really  . Just Azure. Remember the days when Windows isn't done until <name of="" spreadsheet="" software="" competing="" against="" excel"="" won't="" run?
<div="" class="signature">Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I've been thrown into the deep end to learn Google's People API. It seems that 99% of the documentation is Google's, which isn't as complete as I figured it would be.
Are the any other resources that I can look into? I need entry level docs.
Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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try one simple demo to pull just one person to play around ...
diligent hands rule....
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I'm working on an app that uses it and it's giving us trouble with oAuth & scopes, so I'm looking for a resources outside of what Google prodvides.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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better ask at stack overfloe what u really face as issue
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Yes I have.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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My experience from trying to get an app into the store a few years ago has convinced me that the same so terrible the incompetence has to be deliberate group of ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s guilty of what passes for customer service from google are also responsible for making sure that not only are all of their developer docs badly written on upload, but that less than 20% of the out of date documents are updated each time the development team gets bored and deploys breaking changes for the lulz.
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
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When you say the Google documentation isn't complete I assume you have looked at the developer site as follows:-
Reference
https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest?hl=en
The Top Menu also has links to Guides, Samples and Support (seems reasonable comprehensive)
I was logged in with my Google developer account I don't know if that's a requirement for access, but if you can't access just register and create a developer account.
It always looks impossible till it's done - Nelson Mandela
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