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I still use a Nokia 950XL, but then all I need from apps is a web browser and office suite...
As long as Nadella runs MS it won't happen, so forget about it.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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The "browser" was good... the first year. Then it started failing miserably to render any complex webpage. And there are no other proper browsers for that platform.
Add to that the complete lack of apps and it's basically a disconnected phone.
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
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That's not my experience; the edge browser is just fine for mobile browsing.
Plus maps work and have never directed me into the middle of a lake. And if nothing else: it's a functional phone.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Probably you have W10? I had W8 (not 8.1).
You spoke about a lake... fun fact: according to the phone I was drowning in the Thames, but luckily someone was saving me and pulling me landside. I was right in the middle of Greenwich park...
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
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Yeah, I've been running W10 since it became available on mobile.
I was specifically talking about an old Apple Maps issue with the lake 
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I'm still using a Nokia Lumia 735, my second WP. The sales guy tried his best to persuade me to get something else a couple of years ago. It was the last one they had and the price was 1/5 what they wanted for others. The only problem I've had was that my bank app for mobile deposits was dropped...now I use an older android tablet for that.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Are adopted children actually recycled?
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 this how they make baby oil?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I used to be a babysitter, but there wasn't much call for squashed babies.
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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Brought this[^] to mind!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Foster kids are like library books, you eventually have to return them.
Serious note, we do fostering and the need is great. If you have the space and the heart please consider looking into it. You can start by providing respite care. That's people who will provide a place for a child already in care whose foster parents need to travel out of state. Foster care rules usually do not allow the child to leave the state and they definitely cannot leave the country.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: we do fostering and the need is great.
I do also. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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OriginalGriff wrote: recycled
I though that was what you did if the clothes in the dryer are still a little damp.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I just noticed in VS 2017 that if you hover over a closing brace "}" a tooltip will show you the matching starting brace (at least the one the compiler is matching it to.)
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That's quite handy - I'm almost tempted to switch from 2013, but 2017 does seem to be rather buggy, from what I've seen here.
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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OriginalGriff wrote: does seem to be rather buggy, from what I've seen here.
Luckily for me, I haven't had any problems with VS 2017.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I felt the same way.
I didn't want change from 2013 to 2015 but then my work forced me to and it didn't actually hurt very much and I didn't notice any bugs except once it crashed for no apparent reason. Only happened once that I remember.
I then didn't want change from 2015 to 2017 but then I got a new, better job and they were already on 2017 so I got used to it - and it didn't actually hurt very much. 
There is the very occasional bug where TFS got out of sync with reality (just needs a restart of VS to fix it) but I haven't got it for several weeks now so maybe a recent fix fixed it. no other bugs have been apparent and I finally changed from 2013 to 2017 at home as well - with no pain at all.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have run across two bugs with it and both have been fixed. The last one was in 15.8.2 and fixed in the latest update. It wouldn't load the resource file plug-in so I couldn't edit resources visually. The other bug would crash the compiler if a given class' parent did not exist. That was fixed around the 15.6 time frame.
I should point out that I do only native c++ development with it.
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Intellisense is getting so good at anticipating what I need that I feel so ... predictable! So while my productivity has increased, my ego is taking a dive.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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You should write a Visual Studio Add-in that types random letters followed by . (dot) then Intellisense can kick in and do the rest and all you'll have to do each morning is start the Add-in.
Also, if you'll write that, I'll buy* it from you.
*"Buy" means I will download the code from your Github and build it. 
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Why would I write an add-in that automatically types random letters after spending decades perfecting that coding style? I feel no compulsion to make myself more redundant than I already am.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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Now it makes perfect sense! Thanks for the chuckle.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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You don't yestersay! What's next? Titanic vs. iceberg? I wonder how that would end...
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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oops just seeing it's not there natively. (Not sure why)
but done through interop
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
struct ByteArray {
[FieldOffset(0)]
public byte Byte1;
[FieldOffset(1)]
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
modified 10-Sep-18 6:16am.
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