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I have taken some richly colored photos, myself. One, of a (no actual sun, though) sunset (with certain props so it just wasn't yet another sunset) has the sky look like impressionist painting (a side effect the focal point being about 20cm away instead of the sky. Some others, now and then.
But nothing like the eyesores that I see posted every which way. The beauty comes from the subtlety. Nature's particularly good at that.
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As it says, mate!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I think you should post one.
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What, and rain on his parade? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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If parades weren't meant to be rained on, then they wouldn't have them outside. I say bring on the downpour!
And if he shows up with one, we can just pretend your one didn't happen 
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No time for that. At this time he usually is busy to find that guy who has been posting here under his name yesterday.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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None - it was a parcel from Amazon.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Many apologies all. Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune etc.
If it's any consolation, the clue I had lined up was so poor that I've already forgotten it!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It happens ... so where is today's?
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Ah, sorry, I assumed it was yours after getting musefan's yesterday - will think of one quickly.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Provide egghead with witticism (5)
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What to do when leaving the company? Toss a few noisemakers as you exit: Speaking Truth to Power: Reflections on My Career at Microsoft[^]
I have to say that I knew a few people like he mentions. And I’m sure any of them are still there, probably with ‘ Senior’ or ‘principal’ in front of their title.
As many would guess, I also agree with a lot of his points on the Windows team 
TTFN - Kent
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"Quote: At its core, Microsoft is a company that makes its money the old fashioned way: by creating products of value that people willingly part with their money to use. They stand as a bulwark against the data mongering and user exploitation that Google and Facebook see as the future of humanity.
Never really thought much about it, but very true.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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nice whitewash apparently you never used windows 10.....
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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Who hasn't...
I not say Microsoft is perfect, but at least they're not as morally bankrupt as companies likes of Farcebook, google, VW etc
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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Really?! Or maybe just late for the party?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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RossMW wrote: Who hasn't...
One more of the 'don't we all' things where I must say that 'we' don't all do it.
RossMW wrote: at least they're not as morally bankrupt as companies likes of Farcebook, google, VW
They do their best, but have not figured out a way to catch up without looking like total dicks.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Reading this, I wondered what the author was smoking:Quote: This brings us to the present epoch under Satya Nadella who, against the odds, has revived the company’s mojo and returned it to prominence. He has accomplished this by abandoning the strategies of both his forebears. Microsoft is no longer a technology-forward or a sales-forward company.
Reading this, I know what the author is smoking:Quote: He warns Microsoft away from its “fixed mindset” and has hired a revolving door of consultants and evangelists (including a three-year stint as cultural attaché by yours truly) to help transition the company into a “growth mindset.”
While the author hears echoes of "ka-ching, ka ching," I hear the ghosts of Nokia, SilverLight, Modern UI, Clippy, WPF, the mutilated Skype, Vista, and other titanic debacles, laughing; why are they laughing ? Because they find the screams of developers throw under the bus hilarious 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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So, since code analysis is included in Visual Studio these days, I figured I'd give it a try. It kicks out endless errors and warngings, every single one of which so far is either wrong or I would have to write far worse code just to make it understandable to the analysis tool in order to make it shut up.
The biggest single one so far is that it doesn't recognize that I'm doing a null check or some other check and calling a method that will throw the right exception or that I'm using an assert. I'm not template crazy like most folks these days, but my collections and various other things are templated. I try to keep as much code out of line as possible, and things like throwing exceptions are one of those. But that means it complains about every single place where that happens because it doesn't understand I'm dealing with the problem already.
Given that this already causes many hundreds of issues in headers that will be seen basically everywhere directly or indirectly, and I'm not about to hack my code up with hundreds of suppressions before I even really get started, that pretty much makes it useless for me.
When you write code to work around lackings in the code analyzer, and make your code more complex and less readable just to make it shut up, that's really letting the tail wag the dog. As I understand it, this is hardly specific to the VS analyzer either.
Explorans limites defectum
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I was also disappointed with it. It did find a few things, but I had to disable various errors and warnings just to find them amongst all its drool. It was a while ago that I used it, but I seem to recall that it was obsessed with using smart pointers and tagging functions noexcept. I think it's a plug-in that Microsoft took from a third party. In any case, I'd already written one[^], though it only understands the subset of C++ that I use.
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And, even worse, if you are writing a large, multi-platform system, where different compilers/tools are going to be used, and they will all have their own error/warning codes, it will just be a mess. Creating a macro to hide the suppression mechanism won't help with the error codes.
I guess you could say that only one platform will get code analysis but that doesn't seen practical.
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Dean Roddey wrote: multi-platform system, where different compilers/tools are going to be used
That's exactly the situation I'm in (building for Linux with gcc, Windows with MSVC 2017 - and thanks to WSL, I can do them both from the same session - yay for progress!). I'm using clang-tidy for static analysis and finding it pretty painless. I have it set to run every time I build for Linux build, with only warnings I'm interested in and it's OK. Combined with gcc sanitisers (turned on for debug builds and unit tests), I feel happier that my code's safer than it might otherwise be.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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