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Yeah, they're not all they're cracked up to be.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I bought shoes from a drug dealer. I don't know what he laced them with but I've been tripping all day.
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If you buy them, make sure they are NOT krokodil shoes.
Don't google krokodil if you're on your lunch break, you have been warned.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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 (I know someone who used that crap. They are now six feet under).
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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SpiderOak is a cloud backup "solution", but it's not. It use to work sorta, but it's to the point now that it's non-functional almost completely.
- It will "upload" forever with out uploading anything.
- It will download but only partially.
- It's "restore" when it works but not to the target directory you specify but to the root with a directory named (1), or perhaps (2).
Arg!!! trying to recover my stuff to rehost on another provider, and I can't. Email "support" only, but they don't respond.
Giving "JustCloud" a whirl.
Note to self! Only pay by the month, and always do cloud restores from time to time to see if vendor isn't about to Peter Princible then go chapter 11.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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If the data is business-critical (means, no data, no business), then it might not be wise to use something that can simply blow away 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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As thought I.
Rage against the narrative.
"To Build a Fire" - A dystopian novel about project management, and I am the dog.
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It seems like everyone is sticking to Windows 7.
???
WHY???
I'm now on Windows 10, it works, it's stable, all the PC's at my company, including 20 devs, all use 10 now... NO ONE that I know really wants Win 7..
I don't get it... What's so fascinating about it???
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Some Luddites are happy with the way v7 does it and get stressed out when something they spent an inordinate amount of time getting used to is moved/changed/removed.
That's my guess anyway. 
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Man, Visual Studio 6.0 is awesome!! Have you checked out Visual Source Safe? It's all I'll ever need.
Jeremy Falcon
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Do you remember how VS2010 was despised and how VS2008 was considered to be just fine?
Do you remember how VS2012/13 was despised and how V2010 was considered to be just fine?
And now you can see the same thing happening with V2015.
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Obligatory...
xkCD[^]
...reference.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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No. I got stressed out with all the garbage they wanted to shove down my throat on the way to Win 8 and all the code that I was supposed to throw away. Since then I do my best not to depend on Mickeysoft and their next great ideas as much.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Mladen Janković wrote: It seems like everyone is sticking to Windows 7.
People are afraid of change. It makes them think and people don't like to think more than they have to.
As for me, I don't have it installed yet, but when the time comes I'll embrace it (or move to a Mac or whatever). No need to let Win7 become the next WinXP. Who wants to get stale and crusty?
Jeremy Falcon
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Believe me, if there is one thing the guys at Mickeysoft's marketing fear, then it's people who start thinking too much about their products.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Who wants to get stale and crusty?
Well none of us. Unfortunately, for some of it is more a question of "how the hell did I get stale and crusty?".
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Totally agree. I did that myself actually. Better late than never when getting out of it though.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: People are afraid of change. It makes them think and people don't like to think more than they have to.
Not necessarily. I like change, but it has to be a change for the better. I moved to Mac after using Windows 8, so clearly not trying to avoid "thinking more than I have to".
Personally, I've got Windows 10 on my own development machine (used solely for .NET development). It seems okay (only had it a day or two and haven't used it that much), but there's no stand out "Whoa! How did I survive without this?" feature that sets it apart from Windows 7 or 8. In contrast, every release of OSX always seems to have something new that improves the user experience.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Then you're not what the type of person I'm referring to. I'm referring to the people that learn something once and then stop. The guys that are still acting like they live in the 60s using COBOL.
Not liking Win10 doesn't mean you don't think. Sticking with WinXP or Win7 until you die means that.
Jeremy Falcon
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I've only updated because I'm a .NET developer (by day ) and want to keep up with the latest developments. I haven't upgraded to VS2015 yet, but will be shortly (that does have some compelling new features).
For most user, that's not really a reason to go for it. Like I said, there's no (at least as far as I can see at the moment) compelling feature that makes it worth upgrading for most people.
Added to which, quite a few people (myself included) have run into driver issues during the upgrade.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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In my case, it's because "Get Windows 10" says "We're validating Windows 10 for your PC."
In other words: "you gotta wait your turn, sucker!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, you can opt to go to microsoft.com, download a USB image, and install/upgrade from there.
Just sayin'
(I prefer that approach personally)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Because my 8.1 laptop, which is the only one I'm upgrading right away (I rely too much on my Win7 desktop to be an OS alpha tester - I'll give it a month or two), hasn't given me the option yet 
(And I'm too lazy to download it manually)
That said... Looking forward to Win10... Sounds like this is the next in the Win311/Win98/WinXP/Win7 series, not the 95/Me/Vista/Win8 series.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Sounds like this is the next in the Win311/Win98/WinXP/Win7 series, not the 95/Me/Vista/Win8 series.
It's Microsoft's version of Tick-Tock model[^].
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