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How many people here have heard of Link Grammar[^] (before this post, of course).
I am working on a C# wrapper for it for a document editor program I am building with DevExpress controls, and it is taking quite a while, as the API is absolutely massive (and I am writing all the P/Invoke stuff by hand).
If anyone is interested, I can put it up on Github as its own repository.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yes I am interested. Please post it on Github.
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Never heard of... But you made me curious to check it with Hebrew...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: as the API is absolutely massive
Once you get familiar with DevExpress' way of doing things (particularly how certain properties are exposed deep inside a hierarchy) it gets easier. I've found that most of my common questions have already been answered on their online help system (though it can take a bit of google-fu to find the right answer) and their help is pretty responsive to new questions (though they tend to link you to some already answered but not quite the same question answer.)
At the end of the day, I tend to wrap their controls in my own classes that expose the behaviors that I want in a more sane way, which really helps get a new project up and going once I've got the common functionality under control (pun intended.)
As to Link Grammar - wow, a huge home page, but how the heck do you do something practical with it? I'd love to see an article on that!
Marc
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I'm talking about the Link Grammar API being super massive. I have about 300 lines of code written for the P/Invoke, and I am not even a third of the way down the first of three header files for that library.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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At my current position (which will last until end of May this year, but that's not the point) I'm not only responsible for the development and deployment of the election analytics and reporting software, but also for the user documentation (we're a small company). What I'm currently looking for is a piece of software which is Editor, Built-in help and Wiki in one single solution. What I want to do is:
- Write documentation parts, completely with screenshots (preferably I'm able to create them from within the editor). I also want to edit the screenshots directly from within the editor - Add highlighting, arrows and so on.
- Reference documentation parts from within the application (something like a built-in help).
- Group multiple documentation parts into a document which then can be handed out to our customers and users as PDF
- Versioning for anything I write in the editor.
I'd prefer to go with an open source solution which could be tweaked to fit our needs.
Why do I look out for that? Well, I'm tired of copy-pasting pictures into word documents.
Edit: For those interested, I'll start a new gig with an insurance ERP supplier by June. The company has major insurances in Switzerland as its customers, plus some in germany and the BeNeLux area. For the start I will stick with the life insurance team.
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congrats on the old -> new job Marco 
I agree that a Wiki is the correct 'track' - that means the documentation can 'grow' / 'live' rather than end up dead - hopefully find a BA or tech savvy business user and train them up on <whatever product="">
Chris Hulbert has some interesting stuff on his site - this may be of direct interest to you Simple C# Wiki engine | Splinter Software .. Im guessing you've done a Google and seen this GitHub - roadkillwiki/roadkill: A modern .NET Wiki - I havnt found a 'perfect' solution out there - I used to use 'Twiki', Ive used Confluence, Sharepoint as well, Sharepoint being the 'least nice' experience
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Off Topic
Are you still living up Woop Woop or are you back down Sydney way?
Done the last 16 weeks in the CBD and have probably 2 - 3 weeks left on the contract. It's be good to catch up for lunch.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: yeah - why not (woop woop is done and dusted) - Wednesdays and Fridays work for me, how about you ?
I'm in Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. Pick a day and I will try to stick to a time we pick. Some times hard to do depending on what the staff in Brisbane plan on the fly and then want me to cover for them.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Garth,
thanks for your thoughts. We're currently using Confluence for our internal documentation. As stated in my post, not finding a wiki software is crucial, but making it easy to write and update documentation "on the go". I'll have a look at Chris' approach, could prove interesting even though any web solution has the downside of installing a Web server locally - Our systems are mainly used to count election data from scanners, and are often cut off from the web.
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Message Closed
modified 18-Feb-17 9:08am.
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Well, until you mentioned Kyrie Irving, I didn't know he existed, so I think I'll continue in that belief.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My apologies. I tried to edit the message and accidentally deleted it. I'm having all kinds of issues this morning 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Dangit. And I just wanted to brag with my Protector status and how I was able to retrieve the Original Content.
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Well, I suppose I could accidentally delete my reply...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I suppose the ball he plays with is flat to. Maybe there'll be a new inflate-gate! 
Marc
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everybody knows the world isn't round, it's generally (but not perfectly) spherical.
Nor is it flat, - it's lumpy, pocked and puddled (otherwise there would be no such thing as hills or mountains (which would make riding my bike a lot easier), divers would be unemployed and spelunkers would be strange folk with a silly job title.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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To quote Wikipedia: Quote: Since the Earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator, geodesy represents the shape of the earth with an oblate spheroid. The oblate spheroid, or oblate ellipsoid, is an ellipsoid of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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...and then go read up on Big N - geoid-ellipsoid separation, aka one reason why your GPS altitude is crazy. 
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It is basically spheroidal. Fundamentals of Mapping[^] Quote: The closest basic mathematical figure that approximates the shape of the Earth is the Ellipsoid ⁄ Spheroid.
The earth spheroid is not perfect (of course). This is partly because the earth's composition is not uniform. If it were spherical or flat it would not be geometrically perfect either (if it were flat would there be gravity?). It is a geoid which is very closely approximated by a number of spheroids which are locality specific. Now which spheroid is it? That's where the error arises.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 18-Feb-17 23:26pm.
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My point is that the geoid, a gravitational concept (think "sea level") is a useful refinement on the ellipsoid, particularly when it comes to relating GPS (ellipsoidal) altitude to "reality". (Seeing an altitude reading of 25 metres on the beach is a bit disconcerting to some!) Many GPS devices/apps these days have big N tables built in to make the correction.
(Sorry, I'm a geodesy nerd.) There's a good discussion here[^], particularly chapters 8 and 9.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm looking to setup a multipurpose local git server, but I wanted to make sure I was heading down the right path. I have a mixed environment with Windows 10 VS2015 development as well as some Linux servers using VIM and Atom the text editor. Is there a git magic bullet that would work in a mixed environment like this?
Is it as simple as pointing everything to my Linux git server and making periodic commits using Windows and Linux command line?
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I would have thought you just set up a local git server on whatever hardware you have - Windows, Linux, and just use whatever client - command-line, SourceTree, VS Code etc that you have
The only caveat I'd add is, make sure you back up your git server periodically
Im pretty agnostic on o/s - whatever meets your requirements
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