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This may be old news, but I've only just been on Google Maps for the first time in ages and I see they're channeling the spirit of Clippy.
Attempt to go to StreetView and up pops Pegman "Hello, I'm Pegman, it looks like you're trying to stalk someone, would you like me to help".
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The performance of it sucks quite bad on not as new hardware too 
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We have a sizable suite of legacy applications using MFC. Several of the apps use a property sheet that has been modified to support resizing via a Windows CBT hook. I've just discovered that recent versions of McAfee's applications incorrectly handle Windows CBT hooks, which prevent the property sheet from creating its window.
Stupid bastards  .
My apologies to McAfee folks for the temper tantrum in this post  . It looks like Rajesh works for McAfee, and will look into the problem.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 3-Mar-14 13:01pm.
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A lot of antivirus software frowns upon hooks of any kind. Keyboard hooks, even when implemented in legitimate software normally sets them off as well... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Keyboard hooks, even when implemented in legitimate software normally sets them off as well...
7 or 8 years ago when I had to write an application that used one I was rather surprised when my employers AV *didn't* call it out. Especially since what my app did was to store the input in a buffer prior to streaming it out out over an RS232 port (to an embedded system that didn't have standard keyboard/mouse interfaces).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A lot of antivirus software seems to be worse than the viruses they're supposedly protecting you from 
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Gary, I'm not sure I understand that scenario correctly, but there may be a bug.
I'd like to take this up into our bug database and triage it for a fix if you're fine to give some technical details. Can you kindly send me an email if that's OK?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
My 6-speed manual mustang is for sale : ) would you like it? Because, real men also hate the environment and drive Gas Guzzling V8's.
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I'd love to have something like that. But with the current petrol price, that would be the last thing I need.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Just. Ruby on Rails, you make my brain go fu-diddy-do. I'm sure it's 'easy' and 'simple', but why does it take six weeks and double digit gin consumption to learn?
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Surely everything takes double-digit gin consumption to learn for you? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Because you've installed Rigs of Rods instead of Rails.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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You should stop reading those rubbish tutorials you got and buy a decent book, like, for instance: "Ruby on Rails for gin-diluted brains".
Veni, vidi, vici.
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The tea in my mouth almost hit the monitor 
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Didn't your mum told you not eat and drink over the computer?!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Fuelled. It is gin-fuelled. 
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Read it? He wrote it - that's half the problem.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It a ratio thing, your [alcohol intake/learning rate] ratio is inverted.
Nagy Vilmos wrote: double digit gin
I've never heard of that brand of gin before, is it good?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: but why does it take six weeks and double digit gin consumption to learn?
Well, speaking for the six weeks, imagine you were new to:
C#
.NET framework
Entity Framework
and then, if you had never done any web development, imagine you were also new to:
ASP.NET
JavaScript / CoffeeScript
CSS, SASS
jQuery
JSON
Routes (Rails)
etc.etc.etc.
and then, if you'd not done a lot of database stuff before:
Database Theory / Normalization
Tables
Foreign Keys
Primary Keys
Database migrations (a cool Rails feature)
And then, if you were a real newbie:
Model-View-Controller architecture
And then, learning RoR specific stuff:
gems
bundles
testing (cucumber, rspec, capybara, etc)
yml files
how routes really work
the nuances of their EF equivalent
the grossness (and resulting practices) of duck-typed languages
everybody's custom DSL to do even the most trivial things
gems, gems, gems, which gem should I use?
etc...
So, where in this map do you fit? It took me a year to get moderately comfortable with RoR (and that coming from knowing everything on the above list except for web development and of course RoR itself), and I still have hardly scraped the surface on the JavaScript side of things and the browser DOM.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: C#,
.NET framework
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gems, gems, gems, which gem should I use?
etc..
So, and once this is done, what are you needing the five other weeks for ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Well I reckon I can already hack some code
Seriously, my excursions into web are limited, but the rest I am more than happy with my expertise. I am really just trying to get going with RoR and that is my bugbear. Once I can get going, I can start hacking my way around to find the comfortable ways to do things. It'll give me an idea of what to search for rather than random word lists until I get there [why do the lists always include the word boobs?]. It is just bloody well getting going.
- create models, views and controller
- link the components together
No clever javascript or such like. Just simple plain vanilla HTML. 'Kin simple I thinks. Danged hard I finds.
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Marc Clifton wrote: the grossness (and resulting practices) of duck-typed languages
Yeah, automagic typing is wonderful until it blows up in your face. My most recent extended session of time wastage was from trying to pass a boolean back to the server and having it fail to work because ruby wasn't smart enough to realize that it needed to cast the string it parsed out of the url to a boolean and was evaluating as if "true" == true or if "false" == true and always picking the same branch of the if statement. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It doesn't have a special place for Arizona.
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There IS a special place called Arizona? Never heard of...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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