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Soap Box 1.0 - Professional Profile[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm... tempting.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I thought that was on the "ToDo" (a.k.a. to be cleaned up) list
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you go there you'll see there's no messages, but the board still exists. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Interfaces are getting a significant overhaul in C# 8. I've been looking at some of the features, and I'm frankly stumped at some of the decisions that have been made. You had me at, "C# 8 are a bit of a mess"
I'm sure someone needs this, but I'm beginning to feel they're just shoveling features for shoveling's sake.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: shoveling features for shoveling's sake
aka "software development" 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Well, they'd already finished the major task of creating a new icon, and idle hands, as they say.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It does seem to muddy the water, but since in C# using abstract classes as interfaces would disallow multiple inheritance, it makes sense to add default implementation to interfaces. Once you have that though, it becomes necessary to have access modifiers to enable hiding. Not sure of the point of static data in an interface though except to enable some of the possible default implementations.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This is why I subscribe to Java Code Geeks (JCG). I haven't used Java for 6 years (and even that was a very old version), but JCG gives info on changes to Java which often get 'invented' for C# about 6 months to a year later. I have been reading articles about interfaces with default implementations in Java for some months now.
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It’s already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too. The manager - Stephen Hawking - was not available for comment
Yes, I know he's dead. It's an attempt at a voice joke.
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TNW said: the funds the CEO transferred to Hungary were eventually moved to Mexico
Oh Jeeze! They'll never get the money back, now that it's behind that impenetrable wall!
But how much more joyful will the world be when phone communications can no longer be trusted for business purposes, and people stop spending 93% of their time talking (too loudly) into the damned things.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: But how much more joyful will the world be when phone communications can no longer be trusted for business purposes, and people stop spending 93% of their time talking (too loudly) into the damned things "fix" the problem by talking EVEN LOUDER.
FTFY ... just like they solve the problem of foreigners not understanding their language by cranking their volume up.
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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My personal musings on the common thought that a senior/principal developer is only a stepping stone to a manager. Some would rather be useful (present company not included)
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Next up,
Water is wet.
Sky is blue.
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Except try to find a developer job when you are in the mid 40 or more. Try to justify to the hiring manager that you are worth 1.5-2 times the salary of the 20 y/o fresh college graduate. Try to convince him that you MFC/VB6 skills from mid 90-ies are still relevant.
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That's true, and I feel for your problems (and everyone else "a little older"). That's a big reason why I've stuck with my "main job elsewhere" for so long - fear I wouldn't be able to find anything else. Especially something that pays close.
In that case, it might be worth taking the manager job.
TTFN - Kent
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I'm 63. I can't help but feel like I'm on my last paying programmer job. On the other hand - damn - I forgot what I was gonna say... And now I have go to the bathroom...
".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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If one has a single year's experience - 20 times over, then one has no additional value over that 20-year-old. The point is that at 40, one should have 20 years' experience.
There are many faster, sharper, programmers than I among the 20-year-old set. The difference between me and them is that I have the patience to analyze a problem properly, and the experience to know when a design is likely to run into problems. This makes me more than worth my keep.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Hitting it with a hammer: $1. Knowing where to hit: $500"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Insert your face into TV shows or movies with just a single photograph Ah yes, I remember when I starred in The Titanic
I still think the door was big enough for two.
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Are you talking about the ship, or John's ex?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The Titanic could move on its own, without being tempted by food, so no, not my ex... this time.
".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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Microsoft updates its plans for Adobe Flash on the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. In lieu of flowers, send celebrations
It's almost like Flash support is part of some shared component...
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Quote: Colleen Williams, senior program manager for Microsoft Edge, said: We ain' a'gonna do nuthin'. If'n it don' done work in chrominum, it won' work in the browser we don' make neither.
She then added: Y'all.
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That, Sir, was a mortal insult to all illiterate-Americans! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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