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Microsoft is finally letting developers build apps for the Xbox One. While the software maker has had a private SDK since the console's launch, that will start to go a lot more public today. Next stop: your own Halo franchise
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This showed up in my CP Daily News:
http://www.itworld.com/article/2891140/study-finds-that-refactoring-doesn-t-improve-code-quality.html[^]
So - we have a study in one country at one school by one "research" group on one application with only a small sample of testers.
And this gets published as though it were worth something?
Perhaps a New topic heading in the Daily News: "Stop Embarrassing Yourself"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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We probably could have at least one article a day that's mockable, yes. Especially editorial pieces, of course.
TTFN - Kent
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If you do not provide at least one mockable a day worthy of obloquy, then your tenure as Oxpecker [^] at CodeProject is ... I'm sorry to have to say this ... redundant.
Without a continuous parade of foolishness located elsewhere, how else can we fluff ourselves in the mirror of our own technical excellence, and logical perspicacity, and revel in schadenfreude ?
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"<</font>
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I thought "oxpecker" meant something totally different. 
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Well, I think it's one for the birds.
«To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"<</font>
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Kent Sharkey wrote: We probably could have at least one article a day that's mockable, yes.
"could"
"one"
Quote:
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Well the article violates the fundamental principles of Software Development. So the researchers selected a small-scale application (about 4,500 lines of C# code), unless it's a throw away type of software, it's a different matter.
In reality, the refactoring is something which happens in general and that's how we maintain software. How could one refactor the code without even having a knowledge on what they are doing. Are they kidding?
Ranjan.D
modified 4-Mar-15 15:26pm.
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I don't think it's Kent's intention to only post dead serious news here 
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Whaaaaaaaa?
I thought everything I posted was life-changing, critical information?
Now I have to re-examine my whole paradigm.
TTFN - Kent
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Sorry, Kent
Kent Sharkey wrote: Now I have to re-examine my whole paradigm.
Sure you don't want to refactor it?
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manchanx wrote: Sure you don't want to refactor it?
Ah, that trick doesn't work. (I read that somewhere.)
TTFN - Kent
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As that entry was only a few links down, you could have put this discussion onto the relevant story rather than kicking off a whole new thread.
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Yet another web site where leaving a comment would require authorising them to hoover my contacts.
I think I'll avoid that.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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But 88 percent report of hiring managers report that it's "very difficult" or "somewhat difficult" to find qualified candidates. The only problem: they want the 'free as in beer' employees
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That's "qualified" as in "a qualified statement".
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I would think I'd be getting tons of calls on this, I've been using Linux-salve for quite some time.
It's almost taken care of my Rash of Windows.
Come on! You people are stingy with your upvotes!!!!
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In this blog post I’ll walk you through some tips you can use to improve the performance of your debug sessions and include instructions for how you can provide feedback that will help us improve the areas that matter most to you. Debugging? Funny word. What does it mean?
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The only way to win is to not write bugs.
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Nothing about conditional breakpoint performance. 
The last time I had to debug something in a hot loop I found that inserting a few lines of code like:
int foo;
if ()
foo = 1;
Was more than an order of magnitude faster than setting a conditional breakpoint.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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Tech is key to our ability to image planets and learn about their atmospheres. How long before we get our first restraining order due to being peeping toms?
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"We're for an open Internet and that's not regulation of the Internet," FCC chairman says at Mobile World Congress. That would explain some of the flops happening lately by ISPs
Or whatever other sports analogy rocks your boat.
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Ugh — another week, another nasty widespread security bug to worry about. The twist this time: this one has apparently been around since the 90s. "Aaahh Freak out"
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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