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It's Thanksgiving in Canada and it seems the tradition is to give thanks for those things your thankful for. I'm an import, so I'm still new at this, but I thought it appropriate to make a space to say thanks for the things your friends, relatives and significant-others may not understand. I'll begin:
I'm thankful for:
- Syntax highlighting and live syntax error reporting
- 27" screens, noise-cancelling headphones and Spotify
- Multi-threaded debugging and Edit-and-continue
- Automatic buffer overflow protection. In fact all the security you get with .NET and other managed environments
- Anonymous types. They don't make a fuss, they don't ask for much, they just go in, do the job, and disappear. God Bless their little cotton socks.
- Virtual Machines. What can't they do...
- Source code control.
- Redis
- Cloud services. All of them.
- All the things I can wear on my person that now have more computing power than my previous laptop.
- The continued enthusiasm and cynicism of the developer community: Making things better while keeping reality in check.
- jQuery
- Ergonomic chairs
- 802.11ac
- Dark Horse Espresso
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've found myself quite thankful for Resharper over the last few weeks!
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All those with the skill and thoughtfulness to share their experiences and expertise, here on CodeProject and elsewhere, in blogs, articles, videos and books for free. Their generosity has helped me learn many new technologies, programming tricks, and best practices when I needed it, how I need it.
Thank you all!
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PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I feel like I've been burned by the last few wi-fi upgrades, so I'm holding off on the ac upgrade. Am I missing out?
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I've seen a dramatic jump in speeds - to the point where I can cut the cable.
(though if a few others start jumping on the router then...where's my cable gone...?)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've seen a dramatic jump in speeds - to the point where I can cut the cable.
Sweet.
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As a Briton, I'm extremely thankful that Canada isn't the USA.
Best to all my (both real and non-familial) cousins over there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm thankful that at the age of 95, my dad is healthy, happy and able to live independently and enjoy life every day.
/ravi
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So I created a new email address. I've been using the email name I created when I was 16 for ten years now.
Not only do people have problems with the spelling it's also not a very professional sounding email.
So I decided to create a new email address. Both old and new are gmail. So I want to copy my emails and contacts from my old account to my new account and be done with it.
Err! Unfortunately Google's support for these basic features is very sad!
I can copy all my email, but my labels aren't saved. So I just get an inbox with 1000's of emails while my old account had everything neatly organized. I fixed that by using a third party tool, Got Your Back.
Of course I can also copy all my contacts, but Google simply refuses to copy pictures with it! I've Googled around and it's a popular request to save contact pictures. Unfortunately Google hasn't implemented it. I'm still looking for a tool that can copy my contacts AND preserve their pictures...
I also use YouTube via Google. No way in hell I can keep my likes, favourites and subscriptions on my new account. Why the hell should that be a problem!?
Google, in case you're reading, you disappoint me.
Unfortunately there's no real alternative (maybe Outlook, but that just doesn't do it for me), so I'll just keep on using Google services...
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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You get what you pay for 
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I guess 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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And you really don't see the advantages of any of that?
When you move house, do you literally pick it up and move it somewhere else?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not the house (GMail account), but everything that's inside it (emails, contacts), yes literally.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Whats the CodeProject logo about?
Thanksgiving - Canada
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quoting Wikipedia:
Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l'Action de grâce in Canadian French) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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Oh, so as a Google Doodle, this website also celebrates the good days!
Nice one CodeProject, and kudos for your answer.
Thanks,
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Here is something CM once said: "I was abducted by aliens and they told C++ is the way to go. These Earthly creatures went to C# and others. I am and will be accompanied by Bob, as I call him, the alien and we need to stay together. One day I thought of making my own website and cute little Bob wanted a piece of it. The logo is his share. In short, Earthly beings are smart."
There is a lot to this plot. But I need permission from hamster Lord.
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Atleast hamsters has some rights here.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I have a little Stihl with a 12 inch bar but from time to time a big job presents itself like cutting down to ground level a tree stump that's about 4 feet tall and 3 feet round. This stump is a conglomeration of multiple trunks that grew together.
I am a part time weekend "gardener" and from time I have these tasks. I went to price a Stihl with a 36inch bar and couldn't believe the price.
What size saw, bar and make do you use and for what types of tasks.
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Best bet would be to rent one.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Thanks for reply,
The problem is, it's $80 bucks to rent one with a 20inch bar (can't rent one much bigger) and it is usually in questionable operational state when I rent it, and I have needed one several times.
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Only options are rent, borrow, buy or steal.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Only options are rent, borrow, buy or steal
Create your own is another option.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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The only reason I left that out are there are not to many people that know how to make on. I thought about it though! I worked with an Electrical Eng. a long time ago that took me to his Dad's basement workshop where he made combustion engines from scratch, I was amazed.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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