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Wow, such businessman, much trade, so professional, very work 
[Insert doge meme]
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Apparently he also goes by "Stanley Bolds" and "Tony Russo".
/ravi
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It's Brooklyn. Northerners have no manners. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Let's hope his immediate future involves being traded for a pack of cigarettes.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I just failed one of those "I'm not a robot" captcha's 
I checked the "I'm not a robot" box, clicked the next button and was presented with an error that I had to complete the captcha.
I'll be doing some self reflection later tonight (wait, can I do that if I'm a robot?)... 
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Sander Rossel wrote: reflection
That depends. Is your firmware written in .NET? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Or Java?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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System.MethodNotFoundException - MethodNotFound: 'Sander.Brain.Reflection.WhoAmI()'
at Sander.Brain.Reflection.StartProcedure(Request)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Reflect(SelfData)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Conscience(SelfData)
at Sander.Brain.Basics.Process(Image)
at Sander.Eyes.Translate(Image)
at Sander.Eyes.See(Image);
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May you dream of electric sheep.
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what I always do, copy the XP calculator over. It is better than anything after.
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Been doing that for all windows since XP. Why did they fix something that was not broken is beyond me.
 for the tip !
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> Why did they fix something that was not broken
That is how careers are made in Microsoft....
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Quote: Why did they fix something that was not broken is beyond me
I suspect the old calculator did not meet Microsoft's guidelines for the appearance of productivity apps. It probably was "too colorful". You can see the end result if you compare the icons for the XP calculator and the Windows 10 calculator side-by-side. The Win 10 version looks so bleah! (Much like Microsoft's stock price performance). 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The solution is to do the math in your head.
Although my own solution is to just don't do math!
You'll never need a calculator again!
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Had a quick look. Nothing useful for me - not even the Windows 8 book!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The Petzold Xamarin book is really great. Actually amazing it is free since its probably the best of its kind.
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I just hate it when something is socalled "free", but they reserve the right to (1) monitor all your activities on the PC, (2) fill you mailbox with loads of "good", non-free "special offers", or whatever it is called, to take some of your money.
I know from Google that logging out is not a way to stop monitoring my activities: If I do not want them to keep track of e.g. which search terms I google, I have to delete all cookies (I do not track which website leaves which cookies; their name/URL is not necessarily clearly identifiable as planted by Google), then log out (to kill demon processes that might hold my identity), and after login, again delete cookies (it seems like some demons save cookies as the last thing they do before they die).
Sure, I can delete cookies, log in to website, dowload book, delete cookies, log out of Windows, log in, and delete cookies again. Maybe I will do that.
Maybe I am paranoid (I do delete all cookies at least once a week). But even if I am, they still might be out to get me.
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Member 7989122 wrote: to get me
'They' can get me all day long - I do nothing with legal problems, my email filtered, browser equipped with add-block and so...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I simply assume that anything I do online is monitored by someone, unless it is over an HTTPS connection, or via a VPN. I therefore follow the rule "If seeing this in your local paper would embarrass you - don't do it online."
I couldn't care less if Google, Amazon, or whoever send me ads based on my browsing, or some such; I simply ignore them. I couldn't care less if YouTube monitors my selection of videos in order to offer me similar selections. For that matter, anyone who wishes to read my emails (including any political discussions) would probably die of boredom.
The only cases where I absolutely insist on privacy are (a) financial transactions and (b) medical transactions.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The only cases where I absolutely insist on privacy are (a) financial transactions and (b) medical transactions.
On line medical transactions? You mean like downloading a liver transplant or getting a MRI in the comfort of your armchair (by way of X-ray enabled mouse)?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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No. I mean like getting the results of tests (x-ray, blood, etc.) online.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Even if you connect to a web site using HTTPS, some MITHM will know exactly which web site you connected to.
There is "monitoring" that is very difficult to avoid if you buy stuff from web shops, such as Amazon: They try to analyze your interests, attitudes and opinions, so they can give you offer that maximizes their profits. I frequently buy DVD movies from Amazon, and was surprised when they suddenly started suggesting to me a whole bunch of gay movies, some of them very obviously on the erotic site. Now I have nothing against gay people, and I happen to live in a culture that fully accepts homosexuality, but I have never been attracted to my own sex in that sense. So I was puzzled: Where did Amazon get the idea that I am gay?
It took a couple months before I found the explanation. I had bought a pile of DVDs, and didn't play them all the first week. One was laying around for quite a while before I watched it: An Italian "art" movie from the 1960s, black-and-white, a mythological story with gods and demigods. Anyone with some insight into classical mythology in art will know that you'll stand with one foot into the "clothing optional" landscape. In several scenes, of the demigods did not exactly wear a suit and tie . There were no trace of erotics in the movie at all, simply this fact that a demigod did not wear clothes. That was enough for Amazon to assume that I am gay.
I was more amused than bothered by this. But if I had been living in another culture, one condemning all sorts of non-standard preferences, it certainly could have caused med trouble. Say, friends or neighbours visiting me, and seeing my PC screen when I log in to Amazon, seeing me appear as a frequent buyer of gay movies. That could be rather bad for my reputation, to say the least.
Authorities have become very eager to use "big data" to decide who they are going to "keep an eye on". Like all big data processing, this is almost by definition an automated process - which may come to some surprisingly wrong conclusions. Several investigations have been based on which terms the suspect has specified to search engines on the net; they have identified "patterns" that never existed in that user's mind. After the bombing of the Norwegian Government headquarters and susequent shooting of 79 youth, done by a right-wing Norwegian terrorist in 2011, police dug up no less than ten thousand individual pieces of evidence that was handed over to the court. The guy was said not to be known to the police before his act of terror; the ten thousand pieces of evidence was dug up in hindsight. So they could do the same with every one of us, just to prove that we are enemies of the nation. Or enemies of Good Morals. Or...
This fellow was not a very active Internet user, and six years ago we were far less dependent on the Internet (and a major fraction of the evidence was from before Internet was commonly used at all). Today, with our heavy Internet dependency, they could probably dig up fifty thousand pieces of evidence, combining a search for 'diesel oil' in 2014 with a search for 'nitrate based fertilizer' in 2017, concluding that this person is planning to make a bomb of the same kind as the 2011 bomber.
I try to reduce the amount of electronic traces I leave behind me. I certainly cannot avoid it completely, but I see the disadvantages of both being suspeced of being a terrorist and (in some cultures) of being a gay.
Yes, I am paranoid...
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I've only read the first 3 chapters, but so far I really like this book:
Async in C# 5.0: Unleash the Power of Async[^]
I like the way the author eases into how Async really works. Shows an app that does everything on UI thread and then converts.
It's helping me with my UWA (Universal Windows App) work I'm doing. Helps make more sense of why everything ends up becoming an Async call.
I see there are some harsh criticisms about it on amazon, but like I said it has helped me a lot so far. It has solidified some things for me.
Other Resources?
Has anyone else read it? Anyone else have other good resources for learning Async?
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