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Despite admonishing directives to refactor legacy code, letting old code be is sometimes the best course of action. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of bad architectural choices, or to raise TDD against a wall of old bugs and by rewriting, end them
Uffdah. I'm done now. That wore me out.
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"Uffda"?! Sharkey doesn't sound like a Norwegian name.
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When I arrived in the USA (as a Norwegian), I was surprised to meet this conception that we Norwegians was saying "Uff da!" more or less all the time, as a comment to anything that is not perfect. Of course I knew the expression, but it is very rarely heard in Norway, at least in modern times. In the Midwest of the USA, everyone of Norwegian descent or who knew any Norwegian-American, claimed that their grandmother and great grandmother always said "Uff da!" to everything. As I understand it, it was more used by females than males.
Maybe it was more common in Norwegian 150 years ago, when Scandinavians settled the Midwest. Dialect researchers often go to the USA to study old dialects that have survived in a much purer form than in Norway. The survival of "Uff da!" may be a related phenomenon.
The meaning of "Uff da" is something like "That's terrible" or "Too bad". To me, it seems as if modern Midwest use is significantly "softer", more like "Ooops!", but that is not the Norwegian use; "Uff!" indicates something that surely is bad. In Norwegian, you will often see it written as "Huff da" eller "Huff a meg" or just "Huff".
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Member 7989122 wrote: saying "Uff da!" more or less all the time, as a comment to anything that is not perfect
Member 7989122 wrote: it was more used by females than males.
I find that quite easy to relate to.
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Uff da! 
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I grew up next to Minnesota, and it's just a fabulous word to say (IMO).
TTFN - Kent
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The guy's title uses the word "refactor" twice, but all the article discusses is whether to keep legacy code or throw it away. The two aren't the same thing, unless you're ... inexperienced.
Refactoring means making incremental changes to a code base in order to improve some desirable attribute: maintainability, readability, scope, etc. You start with a working piece of code, and you end with a working piece of code that's better in some meaningful way. According to the author, you have two choices: keep the code as-is, or rewrite it from scratch.
Over time, refactoring could conceivably replace an entire body of code with a significantly different one. It's like the story of the lumberjack and his axe. He's using the axe one day, and the handle breaks. He replaces the handle. Over time and repeated resharpening, the head becomes too small to be used and he replaces the head. He still thinks of it as the same axe, even though its constituent parts are completely different from when he started. In essence he refactored the axe, replacing parts as needed.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You're right, but I didn't get the sense that he necessarily meant throwing out legacy code. But neither did he define refactoring.
Regardless, I didn't see the article as very insightful, because what it says is fairly obvious.
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For the past couple of weeks, Windows 10 users have been reporting that Windows Defender scans are skipping files due to a configured exclusion or network scanning setting. It's a darned good thing there's nothing out there that attacks Windows computers
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The question now is... what was the bug?
Skipping those files? Or letting the users to find it out? 
M.D.V. 
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Good Lord!
Are you saying that there's a problem with one of ms' built-in, not-part-of-the-OS-so-shouldn't-even-be-there programs?!?
Pfft!
Next, you'll be telling us the windows media player, paint, notepad, Internet browser, video editor, camera, mail, calendar, maps, photos, multi-desktop, voice recorder, and screenshot bloatware apps are cr@p, compared to third-party apps!
I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life since the last windows update!
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It's not a bug, it's a performance enhancement. They skip files so the scan doesn't take so long.
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#realJSOP wrote: They skip files so the scan doesn't take so long.
That IS the second fastest way to improve performance. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I often get asked about the feature comparison among .NET Framework/.NET Core/.NET Standard during roadmap discussions for application development. "Getcher program! Ya can't tell a knight from a day without a program!"
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Did you ever get that "WTF am I looking at, and what possible use is this to anyone?" feeling?
I'm sure that the table is useful for something (kindling, perhaps?), but it looks very much like an "I don't know nuffin' about computeratifying stuff, but I want to look like I'm doing something important" project.
Addendum: the small fact that the writer appears not to know that "namespaces" doesn't have any spaces in it, named or otherwise, does provide a clue as to his credentials for the tech. reporting job.
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The link of the tables contained a link to a portability tester at the bottom. That is / was / might be much more helpful (if it really works as described, of course)
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A colleague of mine has checked his bundle, as far as he said there were no errors and a result of 95% compatibility with some "tips" on how to change things.
If it is what you tested... I can't tell
How accurate our result was... I can't tell (yet)
M.D.V.
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It is the same one. There doesn't appear to be any way to check if an update is available and the output is still missing recommendations for facepalmingly comment scenarios. The 80% score I'm getting is obviously ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed, and the tool is useless for letting me estimate how much real work would be needed because I'd need to waste a lot of time starting a port just to figure out which items are BS noise and which are going to require effort to update.
https://i.imgur.com/c62jM65.png
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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You just confirmed my sense of "healthy skepticism" 
Thank you for the feedback
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yeah. I want to upgrade; but without some way to scope the effort in advance can't figure out where/how to fit it into the schedule; and really don't want to get a few weeks into a port before discovering a major blocker.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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We want to upgrade too, but we have the "advantage" of a huge re-structuration (many deep changes and a lot of new features) so we can almost say it will be a new developement.
M.D.V.
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The burgeoning low-code application development space should and can do DevOps too, says Microsoft, which has detailed new tooling for its Power Apps and Power Platform. Shouldn't that be NoDevOps?
Or I guess LowDevOps
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There's some more useful information here[^].
Much more useful, in fact.
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