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"Google is now a more trusted source of news than the websites it aggregates" [^]:
"Online search engines have overtaken traditional media as the most trusted source for general news and information, according to a global survey of 27,000 people by Edelman, a public relations firm. The data will be presented to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
The trust gap between traditional media and search engines is even more pronounced among millennials." I guess this explains why my cursor is lit up with a blue-fluorescence reminiscent of Cherenkov Radiation.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I remember some #cough cough# years ago when I was studying Politics at A-Level discussing olde worlde news sources. A rather well informed professor gave us articles from different papers on the same event and we had to compare them. One thing that came out of this was that [0] the more news sources you used, the more honest the aggregated information was and [b] Margaret Thatcher was a bithc.
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Funny thing is that most of the times, news journals are posted by their authors after Google-ing about the Hot topics of that day.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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Google themselves aren't the source of the news, though, so it's a good thing. Any bias in the results you get is likely to be the bias you wanted.
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I wish google would implement a bullshit meter on it's posts.
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My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I don't think there'd be room for numbers that big.
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In the States we have "The Daily Show" for when we want the news.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Is when this comet is estimated to return. How would life on Earth be at that time?
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Life will carry on. Whether or not humans are still in 'control' is another matter!
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Avijnata wrote: How would life on Earth be at that time?
Well, at least Obama won't be the president. Silver linings, people.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - 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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Here is my list:
1. XML (Both human and computer have difficulties reading this crap. It's slow as dismembered turtle. Also the tools and accompanying technologies related to XML are crap too. Only Java use to have some dissent XML libraries, but Java is dead for good, so no much use of these.)
2. Web Services (Spawn of the devil. Working with this gives you a depression. .Net tools are not so bad. SOAP is a good protocol. But the entre thing is hit and miss situation. Definitely the result not worth the effort, except for some specific cases.)
3. COM (I have more than a decade long, love-hate relationship with COM. Very useful in some cases, but PITA most of the time. Really steep learning curve.)
4. MFC (Haven't evolved a bit(pun not intended) for the last 15 years.)
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.NET
It is sluggish, heavy and the framework is poorly documented. The learning curve is way steeper than the COM one, considering that many framework classes are encapsulated COM this shouldn't surprise anyone.
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Poorly documented? 3GB of help files are POOR? Dude, you're just troll.
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They may be even 30 GB of help files, the way it is documented is poor. Yes, there are all the signatures of the functions and the members of the classes, wow, much useful - except that there is no info on what each class does, except for some of them.
Should I use System.Windows.Controls.Image or System.Drawing.Image or System.Windows.Imaging.BitmapImage? How can I convert between one of the above to another of them? Why can't I show a BitmapImage in a control and I hav to copy-wrap-mangle with them? Not documented. It says: here the members, here the methods signatures, go flock yourself. And I do: I use native and Win32 APIs, which are faster, well documented and thoroughly known.
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I agree that MSDN is not the best _teaching_ resource, but at least it has everything what .NET has! Above that there is a lot of sites (like StackOverflow) where you can get answer on almost everything - including your Bitmaps. So it's just lie ".NET is poorly documented" - it has A LOT of docs, just google what you need. For 10 years on .NET I had may be 2-3 questions which had no answer, all other problems was resolved quickly.
Today .NET is the best platform I know - far better than Java, Swift or whatever. And it's related tools too - VS stay one step above all those Eclipse/ItelliJ/SharpDevelop/NetBeans craftworks.
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Thornik wrote: just google what you need.
I don't have access to any site except MSDN. It took me 3 years to have access to CodeProject and StackOverflow. So I couldn't ask anything - but MSDN should provide ALL the documentation. If you describe me a tool in any aspect but you don't tell me what I'm supposed to do with it then it is useless, I will never use that tool anyway.
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Find another job, you are working in a cave
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Easier said than done, at least here I'm hired without term, instead of working 2-3 months for a bread crumb. And the job is really interesting, way more than the average .NET project 
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Deyan Georgiev wrote: but Java is dead for good
I don't know what planet you are coding on, but I assure you, Java is not dead.
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unfortunately 
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Java is a good language. I don't knock it.
As with any language or technology, there are those who know how, and those that don't know how.
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Java is a good language, that's true. But the language and it's structure is just the tip of the iceberg. The accompanying libraries and technologies are more important. And I've never been very happy with the Java related technologies.
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I make my living with C#, and I complain about it everyday. It is anything but perfect, but it is better than stone tablets and post-it notes. 
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I'm interested in knowing what exactly you complain about on a daily basis.
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