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Today at the Windows Developer Day online event, Microsoft Developer VP Kevin Gallo announced that all developer documentation is now available at docs.microsoft.com. I guess this means we stop complaining about MSDN?
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I'm in shock. docs.microsoft.com actually came up on my browser.
Marc
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So it takes about 20 clicks to get through the "Aren't We Great!" fluff to something useful, and when you get there, the page refreshes every two seconds (literally).
I should have known better than to even bother.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. Just like Git, but not
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A suspected arsonist is behind bars after police used data gleaned from the man's pacemaker with a warrant He was there, so he is a suspect.
Case closed 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"The focus of this preview release was adding new test cases to our project and cleaning up the source code. You can get the precompiled binaries on GitHub here and on Maven Central."[blogs.msdn.microsoft.com^] 
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It really does amaze me that I work with people who seem so unhappy with their work place and yet, aren’t making any effort to find another place to work. It's all in my head?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's all in my head?
Yes, including Maunder. Your hallucination has gotten out of hand.
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Whenever you start getting down on your job and work-place -- think of Elbonia...
![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Hey, if there's any solipsism going on, it must be in my head, not Kent's, because I'm just too perfect to be imagined by anyone else!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's all in my head?
It is?
Oh, good.
I was worried it might be in mine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"It really does amaze me that I work with people who seem so unhappy with their work place and yet, aren’t making any effort to find another place to work."
In my case, my job involves various technical reasons I am unhappy, but gives me the flexibility I need as a single dad. The risk of losing that is too high.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Exactly, Rob. It's hardly a question of psychology, it's one of options and necessities.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see the positive response to this one. Thanks.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: In my case, my job involves various technical reasons I am unhappy, but gives me the flexibility I need as a single dad. The risk of losing that is too high.
Wow, this could be my post. Spot on and true.
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Glad its not just me who puts family first.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My job sucks but either I keep on living to my parents' expense or I move to my life with my soon-to-be wife. I chose the latter, I will pull and bear. Family comes first in my opinion.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Keep going - work to live, not live to work.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All your ways of reacting to events in your life are learned responses. Most of those responses you learned before you were 5.
Commuting to this contract job that I have, sitting in a cube of lavender-ish (that's the best name I can come up with for the color) fuzzy walls and gray metal shelving, with no windows (the closest window is a hundred feet away), close enough to the overhead vent that a lot of the time I have to wear a hat so I'm not frozen (though ironically it's 30F degrees outside, why in the world is the AC on???), having essentially zero human interaction except for the Monday meeting (ironic, that I actually look forward to a meeting) and basically listening to audio books so that when my brain disengages from the stultifying work I don't immediately go into the "geez, I could do this work so much more comfortably and efficiently from home" thinking), I notice (yes, back to the "commuting" intro) the yellow school buses and I think, wow, our young children are being groomed for this kind of mass behavior -- being acclimated starting at the age of 5 to long commutes, uncomfortable and unpleasant environments, doing things that are stultifying (most education the way it's taught is) and quickly learning about the hierarchical top-down management model that ultimately is the foundation of all religion, intended to dis-empower the vast majority of the human race.
I'll get back to work now. 
Marc
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Nah, by the time they grow up, they'll have jetpacks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem is the interview process. Nobody likes it - on both sides of the table.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have invented a type of paper that can be printed on using just light, erased by heating, and reused up to 80 times. Won't someone think of the recycling bins?
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All paper can be erased by heat - at 451 Fahrenheit I believe?
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Neat, but pointless. By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased and otherwise rendered non-reusable, aside from shopping lists, playing hangman or writing ransom notes.
To reduce paper use, the best solution is to stop printing stuff.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased
Put the sheets of paper through a trouser press. The paper will be smoothed and erased simultaneously. 
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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