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It's easy to make it unambiguous by simply using a 4 digit year, a 2 digit day, and a 3 letter month. In this way it is impossible to mix up one of the date values. For example: 04apr2021 is how a company I worked for used dates, you could also use: apr04,2021 or 2021apr04 or 2021/04apr or whatever you prefer.
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Would an amalgamation of Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Cracker Barrel Country Stores call themselves Poly-Warner-Cracker?
Would Apple, Amazon, and Twitter market the iAmatwit?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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CraPo-War
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Bravo, Maestro (+)
If MS gets involved in the cannabis business will they manufacture a Bing-Bong ?
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As in IoT-wired? That sounds like yet another useless IoT-connected device.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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and if Google and Campbell's merged, we'd get
Alphabet Soup
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If pepsi and coca cola merged, they would be pepsi cola.
 Wait a second...
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their case against Oracle. The Supreme Court has decided in their favor in the battle of copyrighting APIs : Supreme Court hands Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against Oracle - CNN[^].
This could open up a lot of doors. One I hope opens is AMD's support for CUDA on their GPUs. That could be huge!
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Thank goodness!
Now look out for the change in the law to make the judgment irrelevant...
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That would not be a surprise but they passed again on the question of the copyright itself so who knows when that law will be changed? It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should.
Oh absolutely, that is what I am suggesting will happen, albeit not immediately.
Also, such a change in the law need not alter the principle of copyright in general; it would only need to alter the legal scope of certain types of algorithm. That's much easier to wriggle through with big money backing than a wholesale alteration of copyright.
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Place you least want to be?[^]
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Everything gets covered in green this time of year, unless we get some well timed rains.
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or this[^] which is more photogenic!
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When I was younger I had no pollen allergies but, as I went into my 40s, I began to develop some dust/pollen allergy. The allergy turns up at unexpected times.
Once I was walking to a shop and there was a gust of wind that swirled up some dry leaves. About 30 mins later my nose began to run, I developed a cough, weepy eyes, all of which lasted about an hour and then stopped.
I was (rather unhappily) reminded of the movie 'The Happening' (The Happening (2008) - IMDb[^])!
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Weather Underground doesn't work in my browser because I refuse to allow third party cookies.
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I also refuse to allow 3rd party cookies - FireFox browser.
What does make a difference: videos don't work in WaterFox (a fork of FireFox) but do work in FireFox. I never use Chrome or Edge.
Maybe another setting?
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And I purposely let it expire.
I've been subscribed to CODE Magaine for years, and IMHO, I've seen a decline in uselful content.
As I write this I'm holding my last issue from MAR/APR 21. Whenever I get one I immediatly open it and go to the Table of Contents to see what's in it, and I have been more and more dissappointed over time.
- I'm a long time WinForms/WPF developer. I don't care what anyone says - Windows development isn't going away. There are until millions of apps running on Windows that will never be a web app. I'm working on a WPF LOB app right now that may, at some point, have portions of it on a tablet, but the heart of it is and will be WPF. I have and will continue to make mile living doing Windows desktop devlopment. CODE magazine seems to have abandoned Windows development.
- Unproven concepts. It seems like CODE is really just a platform for telling its readers what new wiz/bang feature they can try, rather than showing solutions to real world problems.
- The same old "Guru" authors. Same author means same old tired content. No fresh ideas.
- No reader feedback. There used to be an area where readers could write in and ask questions and/or discuss previous issues.
IMHO - If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump
it.
Your thoughts?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile.
it's not rocket science as to why CODE magazine and others like it are declining in useful content for windows development.
That is my knee jerk reaction to your post. I could be very wrong here.
Kevin Marois wrote: If a resource doesn't provide content that helps you get the job done, or you don't learn anything usefull from it, it's time to dump
it.
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Slacker007 wrote: Windows development isn't going away, but it is on a decline IMHO because most app dev is web/mobile.
I guess that depeneds on what you mean by 'decline'. As I mentioned, there is no shortage of Windows development work that I can see. Most of it seems to be at the corporate level, where companies have IT departments running internal apps. But shiny, flashy new web apps are a dime a dozen, so it's probably a trade of. Both have their uses.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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The lack of "windows" on web / mobile is a function of the (lame) browser and small (mobile) screens and / or lack of multi-tasking.
The MR / VR headsets (also "mobile") have operating systems that feature "windows" ... because they can. The browser is just another app (window) in this case.
Virtual space / holographics means windows are practical (again).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Kevin Marois wrote: No reader feedback.
At a guess ... no readers.
Printed magazines - particularly computer ones - have been dying for decades. Remember "Computer World[^]"?
Every week a printed lump arrived and was perused while compiling / assembling. Went fully digital kinda late (2014) and was pretty dead from the 90's onward.
Even the printed computer games mags appear to have died - I used to get PC Zone every month - but I haven' seen one even on a shelf in the supermarket for years!
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