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Quote: I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la
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Stop quoting songs about horses or you may start a Wildfire!
This space for rent.
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Crazy horses, will they never halt? 
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I'll bet that photo was the finish.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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QED[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I'm thinking of getting a 3D printer, so - since I like ThisOldTony videos and he raves about it, and it's free for hobbyists (i.e. me) - I installed Autodesk Fusion 360 on the desktop and Surface.
This was a task all on it's own, but now it's done, I can access my designs (when I have learned enough to make any) for either computer and edit them. Nice.
So ... let's learn how to use this. Find the tutorial videos: difficulty level = 0. Excellent.
Watch videos. All the screen work (i.e. all of the video) is "fuzzy" because they are using a big screen and a relatively low res video. Going full screen makes it worse, as you'd expect. I think I'm going to get a headache working with these, but let's press on - I can pretty much work out what the writing says.
First problem: the videos don't match the latest software. That's kinda to be expected - making videos is expensive - and it just takes some fiddling to work out what they are trying to do. All the icons have been changed / amalgamated / moved just to make it harder.
Then as we get deeper, I need to open the tutorial sample files. Except they aren't where the video shows (if squinting at the screen to decipher the paths works). They aren't on my machine at all. OK, cue an hour of searching, scanning the help forums, and I'm clearly not the only one to find this awkward. But the company doesn't seem to understand the problem and keeps linking you back to the videos themselves. 
Finally work it out: you don't get the sample files by default, you have to download them. But not in a bunch so you can watch each video in sequence, oh no. The only way I find to get the sample data is to download each set just before you watch the video ... because the video page is the only place I can find any link to them. And (just to make life even harder) you can't watch Video 7 "Import and Export" until you have finished Video 6 "Fusion Team and Sharing" so you can't have a "mass download" session in advance. And that breaks your concentration.
Do me a favour, everybody: go to your company training site - if you have one - and go through the tutorials as if you were a new (and probably confused) user. Remember, this is the first in-depth contact he or she has with your company and products - so if you look like a bunch of chimps there, that impression will carry through to using your product...
Autodesk: you are starting to "Ook!" pretty loud, and not in a "Librarian" kinda way.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you want to print your own designs...of what?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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There's a couple of things it'd be nice to make, but it all depends on "can I get my head round CAD?"
And at the moment, that's a total unknown. No point in arranging a Christmas present from Herself if I'm never going to use it ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is there not some Q&A page somewhere where you can put some old guys to work? Where is the hard part?
(X,Y,Z) := vertex
two vertices := edge
three edges := trangle
one or more triangles := polygon
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Now draw it out, add a thread and a matching nut, wire tidy for the USB leads, ...
I'm not planning on making simple things (or I'd grab some wood and a router ... )
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No doubt something illegal to go with his new profession of burglar.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Burglar? Really? I heard of a programmer who ran off to become a bush pilot. That's something I would also do.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I didn't know bushes could fly.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That shows that you are not a bushman.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Everything shakes: Kill 'em all! (5)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is the correct answer; you are up tomorrow.
I think you can guess the theme I was going for ... 
I was going for an easy one, since it's a holiday in the US: the only day of the year they celebrate the people they spend the rest of the year belittling, abusing, and underpaying. Strange place.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well, there are a couple of potential themes, but I have an idea which one it was you were suggesting.
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Pick one and go for it!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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from the why isn't there a better way department:
var l = GetProperty("videos", (IList<object>)null);
return Tmdb.FromJsonArray(l, (d) => new TmdbVideo(d));
all that lambda is for is to call the appropriate constructor.
internal static T[] FromJsonArray<T>(IList<object> array,Func<IDictionary<string,object>,T> creator)
{
if (null == array)
return null;
var result = new T[array.Count];
for(var i = 0;i<result.Length;i++)
{
var d = array[i] as IDictionary<string,object>;
if (null != d)
result[i] = creator(d);
}
return result;
}
Why?
because I can't have a contract - either an interface, a base class, or a template constraint that specifies a certain constructor signature.
This should have been in with .NET 2.0, 3.5 at the latest. That it wasn't in with 4 just floors me, especially seeing as to what the serializer stuff in the dotnet framework has to go through for its constructor requirement.
Reflection? Really? It might even be faster than using a stupid lambda (but probably not)
*headdesk*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I agree.
The next big language will resolve all this.
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what gets me is all the "features" they've added to C# 8 that make it unreadable, but i think this feature is still missing (and would require runtime support)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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