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Mike Hankey wrote: My goal was 50-100 pages/day
I'm impressed and inspired. 50-100 pages a day is a great goal.
Also, I'm impressed that you know that you must set a goal otherwise we all just slip into not doing the task.
I'm also inspired to try to read 50 pages of my tech book (Programming ASP.NET Core, Programming ASP.NET Core [^] ) per day. It's shorter so it'll take far less time.
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Since I retired, several years ago now I set 3 goals that I want to accomplish every day. Not just programming, I'm avid outdoorsman but it's too hot in the summer here in Florida to hike. A lot of people that slow down after retirement and sit in front of the idiot box die within a year, those that stay active last a little longer. So far I'm still looking at the green side!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Very smart! And very encouraging to keep in mind. 
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The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life: Plus The Secrets of Enigma
edited by Jack Copeland
You can find a downloadable pdf on several academic sites.
Paperback: 622 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1 edition (November 18, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198250800
ISBN-13: 978-0198250807
is also good
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Interesting, I will take a look. Thanks!
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Guess it is a good time, and maybe should have left earlier. Windows and Microsoft appear to be in a sharp decline...Balmer destroyed the company, or at lead it to continue being a leader in the computer industry.
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Steven Sinofsky is the real person that started the Microsoft decline, but Balmer was the guy that put him in charge and took too long before firing him.
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Thanks for the input  . I still remember Balmer bragging that Windows 8 could run HTML 5 natively. Tell be again why I need an OS and not just a browser. That is Chrome.
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re Sinofsky and Ballmer: I would rather fault the asylum administration for hiring insane psychiatrists, and for confusing clients with inmates 
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I learned to program Windows with his Programming Windows 3.0 book. Unfortunately, I wasn't so impressed with many of his later books. (To the point where I recommended against his early .NET books. Perhaps they improved after .NET 2.0.)
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I also was disappointed with his .NET books, Joe
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I agree with this too.
He often got into the weeds with all that graphics programming stuff in the .NET books.
They weren't like Programming Windows 3.0 where he just set out the details of Windows programming and explained everything so clearly. I really enjoyed his early stuff and his book, Code: The Hidden Language of Computers.
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OH NO....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Somewhere around here is the Petzold C for Windows book. Back in the 3.0 / 3.1 days.
Thanks a ton Chuck.
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Yep, that's what made me choose between Mac and Windows in 1994! I literally had 2 sets of manuals in front of me: The Apple Developer's Toolkit and Programming Windows with Visual C++, and decided to go with Windows after reading portions of both. Never looked back, although I'd be willing to embrace iOS after I master Android.
/ravi
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Wow! In some weird way, this sounds like the end of an era, to me. Wish him the best. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Looking forward to his future books. Read so many of his books over the years - from MSDOS to C# and Xamarin. Books always well-written.
You will be missed.
Tom Gueth
Knowledge Resource
Binary Star Technology, Inc
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Never heard of 'em...
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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Have you ever found a bug in your code and wanted to pause code execution to inspect the problem? If you are a developer, there’s a strong chance you have experienced or will experience this issue many, many times. While the short and sweet answer to this problem is to use a breakpoint, the longer answer is that Visual Studio actually provides multiple kinds of breakpoints and methods that let you pause your code depending on the context! "Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop"
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The gist of the article - "You already can, just learn to use the farking tools that Microsoft gives you."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's a FAQ article. If you something well there generally will be little or nothing new to you in one. OTOH the intern/new graduate your boss just hired whose prior experience is limited to text editor platforms and maybe the in browser debugger won't know all the details of how to use VS. Sending a link to an article like that for the kid to read and answer his own questions will save his time figuring it out on his own, and your time in having to give a detailed explanation instead of just copy/pasting a URL.
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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I find that for new programmers, a brisk slap in the back of the head fixes most small issues.
For experienced programmers, the self-inflicted forehead slap is the preferred method of realignment.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Isn't that a common problem with Microsoft software though? The features are there, just hidden somewhere in the ribbon/menus/settings screen.
TTFN - Kent
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imho, it's astonishing how few devs know the advanced breakpoint functionality and other VS resources like compiler preprocessor directives, etc.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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From my "How to be a Programmer" article:
"8) If you're writing code using Visual Studio, learn how to use the built-in debugger. In fact, don't settle for being a "decent" debugger. Strive to be a GREAT debugger, because that's probably where you'll spend 75% of your coding time - tracking down and fixing issues cause by not only yourself, but by others as well."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 14-Sep-18 18:27pm.
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