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Kent Sharkey wrote: SELECT features_worth_upgrading_for FROM sys_features(v.Next);
NULL
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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 My thoughts exactly (actually, I was going to add, "0 rows returned")
TTFN - Kent
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One of the big news stories to come out of Build 2015 was the Objective C tools that Microsoft is introducing to welcome iOS developers to Windows 10. This is amazing news, but there's a small elephant in the room, and that's Swift. Uhm... some kind of joke about how it's not coming very fast?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: was the Objective C tools that Microsoft is introducing to welcome iOS developers to Windows 10.
Wait wait wait wait wait....
Microsoft is introducing Objective C tools for W10??? Like, isn't that so, last decade???
Microsoft is going there, but one day at a time.
Like, as in "two steps backwards..."
Wow, I guess what really happened is that they sunk tons of money into bring Abortive C to Windows, only to have the rug pulled out from under them (was it only last year???) when Apple introduced Swift, and some marketing idiot decided, let's go ahead anyways with Abortive C as it'll still wow the community.
yaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
[edit] Like, dang, when did I start talking like, you know, a valley girl? [/edit]
Marc
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Microsoft is providing IT pros with more granular levels of control over how Windows 10 as a service will work. "Patches, I'm dependin' on you, boy"
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A while ago, I released a course on Pluralsight entitled, “Making the Business Case for Best Practices.” Does it compile and do what it's supposed to most of the time. Boom. Mission accomplished.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and do what it's supposed to most of the time
I think that's what they call a "lax practice", resulting from a programmer that lacks practice. 
Marc
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I define the "best practice" as: "other people paying me money to do what I enjoy."
cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it compile and do what it's supposed to most of the time
Unless you a referring to a quick-and-dirty program for personal use, I would say that good design, efficient use of resources, and maintainability are also Best Practices.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There are so many best practices these days I can't keep up!
To make things worse, every language and platform has its own best practices...
I stick to one practice, no matter what I do, KISS!
Keep it Simple and everything will go just fine
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Speaking in Massachusetts, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans lost to the machines 200 years ago and that putting computers in a classroom doesn't make kids smarter. "And down with all kings but King Ludd!"
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Funny how when a "leader" like the Woz speaks, people listen, but when a Waldorf school teacher tells that to his/her parents, the teacher is ridiculed.
Marc
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Old coot...
And he's prolly right
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Build 10074 features improvements to Cortana, the user interface, new Windows sounds, and much more. Oh, and the return of Aero Glass! Because that's what was stopping all those Windows 7 users from upgrading
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because that's what was stopping all those Windows 7 users from upgrading
For me, yes. Glass is really cool, and to go back to a Matel toy look of puke blue borders and caption bars along with bloodshot red close buttons was an eye sore (harhar) I never wanted to inflict upon myself. That and the damn tiles.
Happily, it looks like I can skip W8 entirely! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Marc
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Will someone tell me why we ever needed AeroGlass anyway?
So we can see through the window title bar? Big Whoop.
Why don't they just say uncle, and re-release windows 7 the way is was?
Seems a lot easier.....
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LOL I wonder why no one is asking to bring Luna back. 
Now that was even more awful, I'm still glad it was possible to turn it off. Aero on the other hand wasn't so bad, actually it was pretty cool at its time - but I'm talking about the Windows 7 version. The Vista implementation was really ugly in some aspects, I still wonder how it was possible to sign-off with this cyanide accent window borders.
Personally, I prefer the Windows 8 concept over the Windows 7 one because if I look at them side by side, Windows 7 looks cheesy to me while Windows 8 is more decent and unobtrusive, no more rounded window corners and transparency (except for the taskbar, but I wrote a little utility to get rid of it so that's not really an issue). The only real issue is that you cannot change the color of the window caption so using dark colors or black for the window frame makes them effectively unreadable.
I'm not a friend of the current Windows 10 style with static gray title bars, I really like the colorized ones. Even NT 3.1 would let you set the color . Looks like they're trying to bring the Visual Studio look to the operating system but in an amateurish way.
I guess it's hard to satisty everyone when it comes to design questions.
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Hey, I like Aero, and I don't mind wasting some cycles on prettifying the display. I can see why you might want to make this optional (a basic ARM processor in a tablet might be overwhelmed), but that's not the case for most desktop / laptop machines.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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IIRC turning it off gave a noticeable bump on laptop runtime due to reduced GPU load, which was why MS disabled it in Win8.
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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Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. Mozilla commits to making itself less relevant
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For the last six years you've heard us go on and on about this Roslyn thing and how it's the platform for the future and would change everything and that we were all-in on it and "it's going to be great just wait and see". Well, the wait is over. Go get your code generating
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Finally.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Live code analysers - I wonder if it will ever be possible to create an entire application by simply pressing CTRL+. over and over...
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As a C# guy, I'm a little offended this was announced by the VB team.
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In order to extend the benefits of Clang to C++ developers building apps for Windows, we have been working on an experimental implementation of Clang on Windows. "Clang, clang, clang went the trolley"
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