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I’ve been getting a bit cross about backward compatibility recently. This post contains two examples of backward incompatibilities in .NET 4.6, and one example of broken code which isn’t being fixed due for backward compatibility reasons. "Time may change me, but I can't trace time"
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Coming later this year, the new API promises efficiency and performance. When in doubt, start another graphics API
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The Pi day of the century is coming up: 3.14.15 9:26:53 (March 14th, 2015 at 9:26:53) Once-In-A-Century Thrill For Math Geeks! [^]
Thought you'd all like to know.
/disclaimer/
I am not associated in any way with the company. Just saw the post somewhere else on the internet.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Well whoopdie-frickin-doo.
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For those of us that work with OSISoft's PI system... it is.
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Oh, no... back to therapy... 
Here's a comment I wrote nearly twenty years ago:
// The version of PI we are currently running does not include pisn_sendexcepstruc which we want to use
// so it is commented out and pisn_sendexceptions is used instead.
// When pisn_sendexcepstruc becomes available, this should be changed
// pisn_sendexcepstruc(line_array [line].tag [index].pt ,
// line_array [line].tag [index].type ,
// &(line_array [line].tag [index].except) ,
// &(line_array [line].tag [index].count));
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Oooo... API calls... been using the SDK for so long now, I forgot out all of that joy.
Mind you, my experience goes back to Toolkit calls when it was on VAX/VMS.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: VAX/VMS
Yes. This was that. The fall of 1995. The guy who hired me called it "an Alpha-based VAX", which makes no sense at all, like saying "Pentium-based 486".
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: VAX/VMS
Yes. This was that. The fall of 1995. The guy who hired me called it "an Alpha-based VAX", which makes no sense at all, like saying "Pentium-based 486".
VAX/VMS was originally a 32bit system. In the early '90s it was ported to the Alpha chip (64bit)
Perhaps you were being informed you would be working on the 64bit (Alpha-based) version?
There are strangers on the Plain, Croaker
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That would just be an Alpha (as I'm sure it was), with which I was already familiar. It's also possible the system had originally been a VAX and then refurbished to be an Alpha. :shrug:
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Any talk of VAX/VMS in these fora, and I feel obliged to draw everyone's attention to my license plate[^].
/ravi
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Well, la dee frickin da
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Most interesting fact about pi: you only need the first 6 digits to send a spacecraft into orbit of another star, yet some people memorize 100 digits of the number and it makes them feel smart.
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Not in this part of the world. dd/mm/yyyy here.*
For us, there is a somewhat coarse way: 22/7. (355/113 is better, but no day like that). Nothing like 3.141592653 seems possible here 
* India
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then 31.4.15 9:26:53
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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+5
Sure. Yes.
Slipped my mind (I was looking for 3.xx and not 31.xx; too much thinking 'inside the box')
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Have you had a look in a calendar before you wrote that. 
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LOL. Of course.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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And here I thought april only has 30 days. 
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See here[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Yeah. I noticed that when I continued reading in this thread 
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Here in the UK we have to wait for 31/4/15 9:26:53.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You must have a different calendar than what we do in the US. For us, April has only 30 days.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Well done, you caught my intentional mistake  :: cough ::
Guess I'll have to wait until the 3rd of January, 4159.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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