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A small, yet powerful framework, designed for building applications across all XAML platforms. Its strong support for MV* patterns will enable you to build your solution quickly, without the need to sacrifice code quality or testability. MVVM WPF, now PCL, FWIW. yw
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Great MVVM framework, finally 2.0 is out (I've only tried alpha 2)!
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Developers are tinkering with how the language deals with data structures, data types, and memory allocation. Performance of any sort would be welcome
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Have that fixed it so it isn't crap anymore? 
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For the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming. "Computer science... differs from physics in that it is not actually a science."
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"For the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming."
I have a strange sense of déja vu.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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For the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
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If he's trying to be funny, he failed. He sounds like a wannabe coder who cannot apprehend with logic and reason.
I completely disagree with the diatribe; the challenge and the intrigue of the coding bug bit me over twenty years ago. I'm not ever doing anything else.
I learn new things every day I code.
I understand more about design and modeling the more I do.
I push myself in ways I hadn't considered when meeting new challenges.
I work from home, have for half of my career.
I get paid well - really well - better than almost all of my higher educated friends.
Coding Rocks.
If you think it sucks, you should stop (and stop whining about it). It's a minefield of ifs, ands, and nots, and I am proudly going to code until they put me in the ground.
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dexterama wrote: He sounds like a wannabe coder who cannot apprehend with logic and reason.
I think that's it exactly. I included it because I think just about everyone here would (possibly violently) disagree with his core argument. And just about everything else about the article.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: For the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad
things?
No. Without stress, we would never grow. A baby stresses its muscles to be able to learn to rock, then crawl, walk, run and jump.
Mentally, stress does the same thing. It takes repetition to learn a new concept, for dendribes to grow in our brain enabling us to think new thoughts.
And insanity? What would the world be without van Gogh?
Methinks the author doesn't want to stress his brain; he is happy living in oblivion.
Tim
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I was away. That's my excuse.
Really.
TTFN - Kent
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If you think it's the job from hell then find another freaking career
It's not for everybody
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Complimentary Wi-Fi is so commonplace that a business advertising its “hotspot” in the window seems somewhat passé. But a new hotspot location should impress even the most jaded among us: For the first time, scientists have demonstrated it’s possible to beam a wireless Internet signal across the 238,900 miles separating Earth from the moon. Can I get a triple-shot latte and blueberry scone with that?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: have demonstrated it’s possible to beam a wireless Internet signal across the 238,900 miles separating Earth from the moon.
It may be possible, but with a round trip of 2.5 seconds, it's going to take a LOOONG time to load your favorite pages!
Marc
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Just like dialup...they always said 56K but I never got past 19K, myself 
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It might make Call of Duty a bit harder as well...
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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Marc Clifton wrote: It may be possible, but with a round trip of 2.5 seconds, it's going to take a LOOONG time to load your favorite pages!
Actually, no. Propogation delay mostly affects response time (which requires frequent round trip handshakes) but a page load is mostly throughput ... which means that a page load would be roughly 2.5 seconds plus whatever it takes for a page load in the next office [assuming similar bandwidth and that the page load requires a simple request].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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In the cloud, to the moon, and you'll be scratching Uranus soon.
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Chronic stress is the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period over which an individual perceives he or she has no control. I expect the world's Surgeons General to step up immediately, and I'm starting a charity to fight this horrid condition
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Chronic stress is the response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period over which an individual perceives he or she has no control.
You mean like anytime I read about the most recent inane action of some government (any government)? You mean like when I think about how much of my taxes go to waste?
Yeah. I do coding so I don't have to think about those things.
Marc
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Exactly; when coding I'm in my happy place and nothing can bother me. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Quote: an individual perceives he or she has no control.
You have control, so long as you have CTRL+C.
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Wants to 'get users current,' but of the top four browser makers, has the largest percentage on old editions. Imagine a world where all HTML works everywhere. ah. Oh, and I want a cookie, a pony, and world peace.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Imagine a world where all HTML works everywhere.
Um. Why would I want HTML to work everywhere. It's a horrid markup language.
Marc
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