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A Ford Falcon might have been even more so. 
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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[sarcasm]
I guess even for rocket scientists, even rocket science is hard.
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As my girlfriend would say must have been a guy driving, got lost...Rufused to stop for directions
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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By tracking and monitoring our behaviour and activities, smartphones build a digital profile of shockingly intimate information about our personal lives. Little Brother is watching
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Online scammers have made over $5,000 worth of Ethereum in one night alone, showing how gullible some cryptocurrency users can be. He didn't even sound like John Wayne
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Kent Sharkey wrote: gullible
Kent Sharkey wrote: cryptocurrency users
Repetitions are bad writing style.
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The goal of the Microsoft Writing Style Guide is to help editors, technical writers, developers, marketers, and anyone else in IT write better content. Now you can write high-quality documentation, just like Microsoft
*Sorry* can't stop laughing at that one.
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May I join the laughing choir ? MSDN docs for devs, and forums, are beyond dis-organized, incoherent, etc.
One reason for this, imho, is that those who manage/edit/write examples/content for devs are most likely not "best of breed." Another is the spate of amateur helpers (not MS employees) who knock themselves out (and concuss other users) for the glory of merit badges ... without, imho, the kind of self-review/moderation that you find here, and on StackOvwrFlow.
Of course, there are rare exceptions: when you see an article by a "guru" like Michaelis on the MSDN on-line magazine, you know you'll get quality.
Bill the Grinch
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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LOL, you've clearly never sought help for anything non-MS related, especially java based. Lucene, Solr, nHibernate...you name it, the documentation ranges from terrible to non-existent. Same goes for many js frameworks too, jQuery is probably the only exception and possibly one of the reasons it is so successful.
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Quite true indeed... when the documentation and the provided examples work in the first place! Faaaarking Freeradius and the year of my life lost upon it.
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MSDN has a lot of howto-articles and is a resource I frequently visit.
Would you prefer the documentation-style of Telerik? Google?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I'd love to belt whoever wrote this rot over the head with a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Funny thing is that that original Word for Windows manual is considered a tour de force in technical manuals in both design and writing. (By contrast, the early Microsoft C manuals were awful. Yet, the Turbo C manual was excellent. And so it goes.)
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Oh, and boo, hiss to Oxford style commas. 
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I disagree entirely. There should be no other style. Eschew obfuscation.
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I don't use it because they said to so I certainly won't stop using because they say to.
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Up-voted for its delightful bottom-note of yako-zen.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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They used to: Win32 API are documented like they descended from the heavens.
.NET and WPF documentation on the other hand... they give CP a very strong raison d'etre.
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den2k88 wrote: .NET and WPF documentation on the other hand... they give CP a very strong raison d'etre.
Up-voted. Now, that's what I like: the glass is half-full version
By the same logic, we can say (and, I do say) that the quirks and inconsistencies of the various WinForm Controls enabled a thriving after-market for 3rd. party developers to provide more cohesive, integrated, Controls.
I am not familiar with WPF docs' quality, but, I suspect that the more unified design of WPF (binding model, bubbling event model, vector uber alles, etc.) might result in a more cohesive over-all result.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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BillWoodruff wrote:
I am not familiar with WPF docs' quality, but, I suspect that the more unified design of WPF (binding model, bubbling event model, vector uber alles, etc.) might result in a more cohesive over-all result.
It should be... instead it's explained in separate bits and pieces hardly connecting with each other. The best tutorial for a WPF beginner is hosted here on CP, MS documentation is fragmented despite being much more verbose.
Dependency properties are great but what do they do? What use are them to me? Attached properties are wonderful but how do they impact my life as a programmer? Which are the contexts I might want to use object X? What are the objects that are meant to be used with X? All questions that go unanswered on .NET and WPF documentation which were always detailed in Win32 API.
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den2k88 wrote: Dependency properties are great but what do they do? What use are them to me? Attached properties are wonderful but how do they impact my life as a programmer? Which are the contexts I might want to use object X? What are the objects that are meant to be used with X? All questions that go unanswered on .NET and WPF documentation which were always detailed in Win32 API.
To me, the types of question you ask here, rhetorically, are exactly the type of question that good developer documentation should answer ! Of course, you still need the summary info.
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Google is looking into developing a game streaming service that would allow it to stream software to a compatible Chromecast device or yet-to-be-released home console Why? Search them
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Back in the 1800's a home console was someone who dropped by your house when you were feeling down to cheer you up. My how the times have changed. My mom always told me playing too many video games was bad for me and I had to go play outside, well all the kids back in the 1800's did was play outside and now they're all dead. Sorry Mom, evidence defuncts your theory.
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Why do all say playing game is bad. I don't think it is BAD.Thanks for the information.
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