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I was thinking of some clue, but the it is an every-day word so let first try...
1. The signs are here to confuse you, I should write 123456 too
2. It is always near...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:34am.
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My first thought was that the arrows should direct me somewhere nowhere.
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:09am.
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MASTER
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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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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It is symmetric, but no repeated signs!
1W
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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DIRECT
Nowhere in this case 
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Dec-15 7:09am.
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PISHED
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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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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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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Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Bingo!
You are up tomorrow (or is that Monday?)...
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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Tomorrow is friday, so thats perfectly fine 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Context: I was gobsmacked by the language in the recent announcement by MS of their terminating support for what (in my perceptions) are relatively recent .NET FrameWork versions, as reported here on Insider News: [^].Quote: You can run those applications on a later .NET Framework version without targeting a new version. .NET Framework 4.5.2 and higher versions have higher compatibility, provided by a newer feature called "quirking". Quirking is a pattern in which a .NET Framework version maintains the semantics of earlier versions, while including updated implementations. The .NET runtime knows which of these semantics or quirks to execute depending on the .NET Framework version that the application targets.
Okay, I won't worry then, knowing Microsoft has got us"quirked:" never mind the vast confusion for end-users as they find their apps don't work with some system upgrade, or update; never mind the migraines of countless front-line-support-peons deluged with angry e-mails; never mind the developers coming down with acid-reflux, program managers one step closer to suicide. It's all for the better !
I wonder why this obvious improvement for everyone reminds me of the explanation (in Voltaire's Candide) by Dr. Pangloss to Candide of the beneficial aspects of his contracting syphilis:Quote: "Not at all," replied this great man, "it was a thing unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if Columbus had not in an island of America caught this disease, which contaminates the source of life, frequently even hinders generation, and which is evidently opposed to the great end of nature, we should have neither chocolate nor cochineal."(4.16)
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have quirk for quotations from Candide - one of the books I did for French Lit. 'A' level.
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MS have always used the term "quirk" to describe the process of providing backwards compatibility. IE, for example, has a "quirks mode" where it can mimic the rendering engines of previous versions.
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They're not the only ones. Borland, of Turbo Pascal fame, used to have a "quirks" mode in their assembler to provide compatibility with MS Macro Assembler.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Microsoft always was a little quirky...
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BillWoodruff wrote: as they find their apps don't work with some system upgrade, or update
But they won't! That's the whole point. Quirking means you don't have to re-target an old build in order to get it to work on a new framework. I really can't see what's got you all fired up!
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Member 9082365 wrote: I really can't see what's got you all fired up!
Well, that's a good thing !
As to your faith that "quirking" means deliverance from the woes and tribulations that oft beset us as we eke out our daily cupcake doing dentistry on dinosaurs to get code to work; well, as much as I admire the fact you have that faith, too many years of experience force me to forego it.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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