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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good to have you back and active - new job busy?
And curmudgeony as ever. 
But thanks for asking -- yes, new job is keeping me quite busy, plus still spending evenings and weekends on the old job, two other clients with a bug each to look at, and a contract I'm outsourcing because there's not enough time in the day. Oh, and did I mention finding time to practice the lyre, write the "Web Servers Succinctly" e-book, and do the reading for the psychology counseling certificate program I'm taking? Amazingly, I've had time post a short HOPE[^] video!
Marc
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You're an inspiration - my big accomplishment lately is getting out of bed.
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: move manufacturing back
And let the companies give up so much profit...It will never happen...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Remind me again of why we let China connect to the rest of the civilized world
Sometimes I read the Lounge and I'm thinking the same about us 
We have the old world, the new world, the third world, but I have yet to come across a civilized one
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Marc Clifton wrote: Remind me again of why we let China connect to the rest of the civilized world
To let them download some nice programs from GitHub? 
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C++ continues to be an important language for building Windows apps and in this blog post, we want to highlight some C++ specific functionality for Windows 10 app development. At least they haven't started using any new symbol characters
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I'll be more excited when they catch up with GCC and CLang in C++ 11/14 support.
It's getting to be a bit of a joke now, that even with Herb Sutter on the team they cannot manage to implement support for a standard that is now 4 years old.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yeah. It's becoming apparent that they really need to expand the size of the C++ compiler team. In the abstract "we're prioritizing useful parts of C++14 over parts of C++11 that no one actually uses" isn't unreasonable; but not even putting a date on finishing full implementation of the '11 spec is creating a major credibility problem. 
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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With WinJS 4.0, we add features to ensure this library continues to be a great framework not only for making Windows apps, but for the web as well. Writing Windows apps in JavaScript is like hammering in nails with a screwdriver
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Writing Windows apps in JavaScript is like hammering in nails with a screwdriver
...and missing, resulting in the screwdriver head wedging itself beneath the fingernail of your thumb.
Marc
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JavaScript has it place - for good and bad, but pushing it to everywhere just be the 'cool' man of the party...I sometime pity Microsoft for that behavior...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Side projects help you open new doors, explore new vistas, and keep you sharp in your career. In this article, David Gewirtz shows how side projects can pay out in completely unexpected and wonderful ways. "Keep on the sunny side of life"
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They pay in a great way, experience!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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One of the difficulties with side projects (and it is something that CP were perhaps looking at back when they were looking at ::Workspaces) is that they tend to be solo runs, whereas the most productive and impactful learning tends to come from collaborative small groups.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: whereas the most productive and impactful learning tends to come from collaborative small groups.
I haven't really experienced that -- that sounds great, but my experience is that small groups tend to devolve to the lowest common denominator. At least, doing projects solo, I don't get divide by 0 errors.
Marc
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Agreed that does happen - especially if the group is externally enforced/selected.
However I also find that a sounding board can help stop me going too far down a rabbit hole...I went way too far down one such when I was working on a data access library so am wary of this now.
Maybe I am the lowest common denominator - that would explain both our experiences
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Discussing the vital parts genius and failure play in creation. I think the important part is making the switch at some point
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Looks like he should have horns.
I'm not giving any appliance my wifi password.
Wait you don't suppose that's why Comcast wants to hot spot every neighborhood!? <doh>
modified 26-Mar-15 22:44pm.
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Quote: you must fail first
Bullshit. You shouldn't be afraid of faulure, but there is no requirement that you fail.
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We want to make the Internet a better place for everyone – by getting rid of obnoxious ads. "Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. "
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You can’t practice Test Driven Development on something that isn’t testable in the first place. Is that a test question?
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Don't get all testy about it.
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If a quiz is quizzical, then what is a test?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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eh? You can't do test driven development at all if the thing you are going to test already exists...if it doesn't exist then when you make it you can make it testable.
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If I can't be trusted to write code; why would you trust me to write tests? 
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