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After a four-year hiatus I have decided I want to play music again and I have joined a band. This is probably very bad timing since most of the places we will likely play have been ordered to shut down. I guess we will have plenty of time to rehearse.
Anyway, tonight is the first rehearsal following the (successful) audition. A little while ago the guitar player sent me an e-mail about learning another song that wasn't on the list. It's by The Police and it's called, "Don't Stand So Close To Me." For these days, I can't think of a more topical song than that.
-edit- it has morphed into an extended medley and maybe a whole set. We'll also play "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by the Georgia Satellites.
Can you think of any other songs on the topic?
"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?"
modified 20-Mar-20 0:05am.
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I remember this one, I had the 45 rpm record.
Congrats ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) What instrument do you play?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I play the bass primarily, and guitar and keys also. We switch around a bit. It's a lot of fun.
"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?"
modified 20-Mar-20 1:46am.
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Ditto.
And, coincidentally, I just ordered new strings (Rotosound flat wound), some blank nuts, and a maintenance kit for guitars. The bass (Musima Action 2001) has been sitting there since the DDR dissolved.
And I tore apart my amp trying to track down the intermittent no-sound problem. I *think* it's one of the pots.
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phil.o wrote: What instrument do you play?
I used to play the chainsaw in a band.
It opened a lot of doors for me.
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I used to play the triangle in a death-core band; but I quit, that was exhausting.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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The State Of Things - Reverend And The Makers
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"I can feel it coming in the air tonight" (Phil Collins?)
"Hold my hand and I'll kiss you. Tomorrow I'll miss you" (Beatles)
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I Am a Rock - YouTube[^] - Simon and Garfunkle
Quote: Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch no one and no one touches me
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Appropriate. Hopefully it is not prophetic.
"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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I posted a request earlier today regarding whether I should use Github or Dropbox for my current project and got some good feedback. I think I should use Github. Can I find a basic article on how to use Github from Visual Studio without Azure or some other stuff I don't use ? NO. I need a simple howto ( assuming nothing ) of how to create a HW project and push / fork / branch / share / pull and a myriad of other terms to GH from VS. Please help 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I found GitHub's online documentation to be fairly good. I have absolutely no patience for learning these kinds of systems, because I'd rather write code. But it didn't take long to get used to GitHub. Just jump in and you'll probably be OK. Sorry, but that's the best advice I can offer.
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I prefer to use git command line, but here's the VS extension.
The best resource for git info in general is Git-SCM.
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The command line?! You're a much better man than me. I use the VS extension and would only research the command line if I was trying to do something that didn't appear to be supported within the extension or when using GitHub in the browser.
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I agree
Real programmers use butterflies
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It's pretty easy to be honest and there are a lot of things you can do that aren't supported in any Git software I've used (GitHub Desktop or VS) like rebase and stash.
Most of what is commonly done can be done using add, commit, merge, branch, status, push, and pull. Not even any complicated options or multiple parameters. To each their own though 
EDIT: Viewing branch histories is usually easier in graphical interfaces to be fair, but you can view that on GitHub or use git log --oneline --all --graph --decorate from the command line. I have an alias for it so I don't have to remember all that. Not as pretty as GitHub though.
modified 19-Mar-20 23:28pm.
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Atlasian Sourcetree does both. Stashing is dead simple, the rebasing UI is confusing enough that I need to read the docs every 3-6 months when I need to do it. Which is a shame since in GUI app you should be able to indicate what you want to go where by dragging the first commit you want to move to its destination. For simple cases I just cherry pick in a manual point and click loop.
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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Cool, I've never used that application before 
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I'll describe the steps (somewhere in here you will get prompted for your github account credentials)
1. Open your solution
2. Right click on the solution in solution explorer, click Add To Source Control
3. Open the team explorer, click on the little home button, then click Sync
4. It will switch to options to publish, either to github, or azure. Click the first GitHub publish button
That should sync it for you. Any time you need to update, go to team explorer|home and then hit sync (you won't be prompted for repository information after the first time)
Finally, remember to commit periodically when you change stuff. It's best to do related changes together and then commit so your commit messages stay targeted to what you did. Make sure to sync to the server otherwise your copy remains local even though you committed
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: Make sure to sync to the server otherwise your copy remains local even though you committed
This is easily forgotten and is a PITA when you do.
- Push completed code to a branch on the server.
- On the server, merge that branch into the master branch.
- Delete the merged branch from the server and from your local copy.
- On your local copy, create a new branch from the master branch and push it to the server.
- Discover that your branch was created from the previous master, not the current one, because you forgot to synch with the new version of the master after step 3.
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In general more than one branch complicates things. I understand it for large projects with teams and such but for my own stuff I simply don't branch. I just use master. *boo hiss*! (it's just easy and I'm lazy)
Real programmers use butterflies
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