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From what I've heard - the rtf parser / engine is a major cluster of if statements in order to be backward compatible with the various versions throughout the years. Thank God for duct tape.
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I have no idea how this is related, but I have been using RTF files lately (don't ask why) and I noticed they are significantly larger than .doc or .docx files.
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Yeah, it is a pretty inefficient format. It also hasn't been updated in many, many years (and as others pointed out is full of cruft).
TTFN - Kent
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Probably related to compression in Word - not sure. I don't think RTF has built in compression.
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Emoji — the tiny art that can be stuck in texts, emails, and elsewhere to emote thoughts, feelings, and replace entire words — doesn't have a whole lot of diversity when it comes to the humans who are depicted.  isn't multicultural?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: isn't multicultural?
It's neutral. Meant to depict an emotion, and not to convey your color.
Apple needs something to have a headline, and racism is always a good one. But logically, it's a step backwards, exactly as expected from said company.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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How about giving us an emoji to show the middle-finger salute?
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Surely all you have to do is change the text colour.
Window-dressing on diversity - about the level I'd expect from that company.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Looking ahead, the Linux Foundation sees 80 percent of all commercial software development being based on open source. "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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By the time we had finished, 22 of my developers described building a Foobulator with one who claimed he developed a predictive Foobulator with full transactional semantics and a priority queue back in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. People invented a new way to do it
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I see the opposite. All too often, for some Website, a control doesn't quite do what is required, but rather than build a specialized derivative of the control, the boss says "look online for a ready-built control that does exactly what we want, it'll be quicker than writing custom code". Then, after more time than the custom code would have taken, a suitable control is found, but yet another whole library has to be licensed to get that one control. That requires all sorts of red tape to get the purchase order etc... And a week later the whole thing starts again. It's ridiculous.
Of course, Microsoft is partly to blame (  ), so many .net classes can't be derived from properly due to non-virtual members and lack of multiple inheritance.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Too true, I've seen this happen in numerous stuff. You tend to find a lib which "almost" does what you're after. Then (even after all the red-tape) you then end up having to modify it so it suits your needs - only now you're stuck into design principles made by someone else, which in turn makes you compromise on other designs in your program.
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Yep, it does seem as if the "re-use" is not so much a situation of re-using your own code. Rather re-using the libraries or buying new libraries.
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Quote: Reminiscing years after WW2- when he could finally talk about his work - Capt Roberts said he had taken delight in reading Hitler's messages, sometimes even before the intended recipient.
BBC Report[^]
Old code breakers never die - they just drop below the entropy threshold.
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For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a ring system surrounding an asteroid. The finding is a complete surprise to planetary scientists, who are yet unsure exactly how such rings could have formed. Kid sister safe, kid sister safe. No, sorry, I've got nothing left.
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Don't tell, you'd passed the three pint humour peak at this stage 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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How will Microsoft fix the current incarnation, and will it learn its lessons as it creates Windows 9 ahead of a reported April 2015 release?
Die, live tiles! Die!
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Quote: When most people think of Microsoft, the first thing that comes to mind is Windows.
What does that say about Microsoft? haha
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That they are insanely rich?
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Pretty much.
I think the more important question is, if Microsoft is no longer to be defined by Windows going forward, what drives it? Azure? Xbox? It's sure as hell not Windows Phone or Bing.
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Visual Basic for Applications...no wonder their marketshare is plunging...
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Oculus founder and active redditor Palmer Luckey took to the r/oculus subreddit to answer frustrated devotees' questions and assuage any fears that the Oculus will become little more more than a $350 Facebook machine.
"ALL IS WELL...ALL IS WELL"
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