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You're doing it (very) wrong. You take all the components you can find, glue them into a project (literally - Ctrl-V) then you implement and bill the customer. Next, you use the cash for a long vacation.
Next, the customer requires a minor modification. You're away, so they have to find a "proper" developer instead. They load it up, find it crashes the browser if left open but untouched for more than 90 seconds (yes, there's a memory leaking loop that runs at page load - but hey, anyone stays on a page more than 90 seconds must have died, right?). The new dev then has to rip everything out and start again. Since the customer only requested a minor mod the new dev will get paid an hour's time - regardless of the fact they've worked all week.
Bitter, me? nah...
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That sounds remarkably like the instructions given by a sculptor to a newbie for carving a statue of an elephant:
Start with a block of marble, then chip away at the parts that don't look like an elephant.
Will Rogers never met me.
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here[^]
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Hey, far out, man! 
/ravi
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"... at the Space Bar"
Bom tish!
You can't let a feed line like that go unfinished, even if it is a Dad Joke.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've heard it has no atmosphere!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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With the disclaimer that given the scant available documentation, I'm Doing It Wrong(TM)
So I made this nifty little MRU list and made it so MRU files are shown on the taskbar menu when you right click on the app's taskbar entry. This is not as easy as one would think.
At any rate, there's supposed to be an win32 method you can call called "SHAddToRecentDocs" that's supposed to let explorer/winshell know when you've opened a file or saved a file in your app and it should go in the MRU.
Despite my calling this, my taskbar MRU list managed by windows is not the same as the MRU list in my app (which is more complete)
this confounds me.
The Microsoft function does not work as advertised. Who coulda known?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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hah it's all good, microsoft is "tuning" the recommended files for you.
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i'll give them something to tune.
*shakes fist uselessly at screen*
i should probably hex a Program Manager to make an example of someone, but which building to start in?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: *shakes fist uselessly at screen*
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sure, laugh at my helplessness in the face of misfortune
few organizations can make me feel like a turtle on its back like Microsoft can.
Bless their hearts.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Try moving outside the Apple ecosystem with an IPad ... they turn the sun up your bleaching undershell as well...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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i've hated apple ever since 1986. I learned to program on the ill fated Apple ][gs
It stunted my ability as a developer early on. Luckily i moved away from apple soon enough that i caught up.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: which building to start in?
buildingList = getBuildingList(MICROSOFT)
for (building : buildingList)
{
pmList = building.getProgramManagers()
for (pm : pmList)
{
pm->hex()
}
}
Just do them all. :evil grin:
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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honey the codewitch wrote: i should probably hex a Program Manager to make an example of someone, but which building to start in?
At Microsoft? Building 7, of course...
(curious to see how many will realize what I'm talking about...)
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LOL I do.
I used to work in 8
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Because quick access is filtered.
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it doesn't seem to do this with my Visual studio 2017. In fact, the only things its picking up are coming from shell opens, not from the app opening its own files.
I could hack it by making it run itself again with the new file using ShellExecuteEx but no. Just no.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It seems to depend on the program using the list. In Explorer you can add or remove folders from the list yourself. I can imagine VS to be quite selective aswell.
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I wish there was more documentation on it. This shouldn't be difficult. It's just hard to find anything. What I have found is scattered and sort of incomplete.
Given all that, my code works pretty well, but i want it to work *better*. i'm sure you know the feeling. =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: but i want it to work *better*. i'm sure you know the feeling.
Oh yes!
The classic dilemma of perfection vs actually getting paid.
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well i have the luxury of not being paid for this.
it means i set my own goals at least. and i get to code what i want to code.
and y'all get to benefit because my favorite thing to code is stuff for other coders to use.
like code generators and parser generators, and cool dev widgets and things like that
My father was a toolmaker, which is sort of the non-digital corollary to what i like to do.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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So, let me rephrase.
The classic dilemma of perfection vs actually getting something done. 
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I force myself to make each day i work on it finish with some sort of tangible improvement, and now that it's useable it must remain useable.
So that keeps me moving in the right direction. I'm not at the point where i need to be concerned that i'm gold plating yet.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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