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Guilty as charged. If the baby is dirty beyond washed, might just as well rid the baby and keep the water clean.
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I don't use EF. What little time it takes me to code my own DO classes and build in anything like value transformation, try-catch, validation, etc. is minor compared to the problems it either avoids or reduces debug times down the road.
I am NOT saying it is wrong to use it, just that I have not seen an explanation that gives me reason to use EF.
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This it the @Michael-Martin special CCC.
Santa Clara initially decays hesitantly (7)
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TESTICLES? Nah, damnit, it doesn't fit... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: TESTICLES? Nah, damnit, it doesn't fit...
... but somehow I feel that you're in the right BALL-park!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Soooooo many jokes.
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I'm not giving the answer. You're never gonna make me take THAT in my mouth! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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And that's the first time you've said that. 
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(7) = s-c-r-o-t-u-m
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: This it the @Michael-Martin special CCC.
Santa Clara initially decays hesitantly (7)
Crap! That's twice in one day I have had a special CCC made for me and I wasn't available to see it.
@Tim-Deveaux made one for me yesterday afternoon just after I left to go to a customer site and didn't have the internet (I was there to restore their lost internet).
I then last night a couple of hours after I got home you post one, but I was so knackered I didn't even look at the computer till I got to work this morning.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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@Agent__007 Nobody got it yesterday, so you are up again today - and running very late! 
And we still don't know what the answer to yesterday's was ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Maybe that's the hint...
Is the answer "Silence"? Or "Nothing"? 
I usually don't participate, but I'm feeling confident 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Where's the CCC ?
It is obviously under cover. Deep cover.
Edited 7 times. Me dyzlexik again
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Anybody still uses/remembers winamp[^]?
Windows Media player beat it hands down late in 2000-ish years.
Later all the media players got shelved as I moved to streaming services.
Just for a nostalgic feel, I tried Winamp again. It still works! 
Whats the best Media player out there, these days?
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VLC's OK for video files, but it's not tooled up for audio (e.g. no always-visible equaliser).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Correct. It misses the "full-fledged" player feel.
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I used to use MPC, but found VLC a bit more up-to-date.
VLC for video files, streaming not so much: often live streaming (particularly radio) just stops and only way out is quit & start again.
(I often like top have some [quiet] live radio while coding,... clementine works really well).
best thing I remember from WinAmp was the tiny-window interface
- really useful back in the days when 1024 X 768 (on 15" monitors) was the hi-res of the day (and most users on 800 x 600)... small interfaces mattered so you had space to see your code.
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Lopatir wrote: best thing I remember from WinAmp was the tiny-window interface
Same here. Just stick it up over a blank bit of the title bar of what you're working in, and Bob's your uncle.
All the other music players integrated that pretty quickly.
My favourite skin for winamp, though, looked like a hi-fi deck, and has separate speakers that pulsed their cones along with the music. I used to arrange my windows so that the speakers were visible.
Total nerd, it's true.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I never made VLC handle encrypted BD-movies so I "have to" use MPC (which handles it well).
I rip all my DVDs to harddisk, and a small handful of rips won't work with MPC, but they work with VLC. There is another handful that works with MPC but not with VLC. So I must keep them both available.
My major objection to VLC is that if you want to do anything beyond pulling a disk / disk image over the VLC icon to play it, i.e. you take a glimpse on the menus and dialogs, you dive into an ocean of technobabble that is like Greek to anyone who has not worked with the implmenentation of digital video systems. I have been programming for 35 years, but nothing related to digital video, and two thirds of the options make very little sense to me. I wouldn't ever dare to suggest VLC to some non-technical user - he would probably understand less than ten pecent of the options!
MPC-HC has a touch of the same, but definitely not to the same degree. It is far more end user friendly. It is a pity that development has ceased (1.7.13, 19 months old, was announced as the last one that would be released).
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LOL equaliser!!!
In all my teen years, the only valid selling point of a boombox was how many sliders it had for the equaliser!
In the end, we all pull them up to max on all frequencies.
In the last 30 years, at least, I never felt the urge for it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Well, I'm afraid that I don't like levels that are good for huge speakers in rooms in my house being pounded into my ears through tiny speakers in headphones or earbuds, so an equaliser is an essential tool.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Winamp was great - I spent more time fiddling about with skins and visualisations than I ever did listening to music through it
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Bingo! You remember there was a time, the viz-plugins upgraded to 3D. Some of them were wonderful.
That was one of the grandest news, during the classic Windows Applications days. 
And I love the re-size & magnetic behavior of the player window frames, with Equalizer & Playlist.
That's a typical, slick Win32 Application.
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