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Member 7989122 wrote: e.g. BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
You missed a couple.
Your post is seriously funny, and makes your point very well.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Agree.
Just tell us what your mother would say.
Since no one else is asking.
(I googled it and the only find was CP Lounge Forum.)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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guess: I won't comment on the A (aim?) behind your actions
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rjmoses wrote: Today, I was reading read a Code Project article about the announcement of the new eBPF Foundation.
I was taught learned, in English 101, that the first time an abbreviation, such a eBPF like "eBPF," is used in an article, the author, as a courtesy to the reader, and for clarity, should spell it out.
Now, somewhere along the line, I missed I did not know what eBPF stood for, so I had to go searching: I had to look it up. It turned out I found that "eBPF" is an extension of "BPF."
So, my question becameThen, I wanted to know: "What the HELL is 'BPF'?" And this lead to more searches to discover that the author was talking about I found "BPF" stands for: "Berkeley Packet Filter."
So I am asking people to spell out what anI believe articles would be improved if the authors would spell out what an abbreviation stands for the first time it is used or, as my mother would say, IWCOTABYA.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Aaahh, the vagaries of the English language! Love it!
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"vagaries"
So it's the language's fault that you and other authors can't express yourself in reasonably grammatic sentences, and, phrasing that communicates effectively ?
I understand that ! If there weren't so many damn platforms, and cross-platform frameworks, I could be writing web SPA's that "would just work" everywhere.
For people who learned a second language ... they did not grow up speaking ... reasonably well, tolerance, in their use of the second language, is a good thing, particularly when the goal is communicating technical information, solutions, techniques.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: For people who learned a second language ... they did not grow up speaking ... reasonably well, tolerance, in their use of the second language, is a good thing, particularly when the goal is communicating technical information, solutions, techniques
I agree.
The OP's statement brings to mind the old British article of faith from the time of the Empire, namely that all foreigners are naturally inferior to the British (among other reasons) because they cannot speak grammatically correct King's/Queen's English.
This, for example, allowed a yobbo from the slums of Liverpool to feel superior to even the most cultured Indian.
Needless to say, they were wrong!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi Daniel,
I don't have enough "context" here for me to hypothesize there is anglo-chauvinism in the OP's post.
I agree with the OP that the quality of writing on many CP articles is often dreadful ... from an "absolute" standard, but, for me, useful technical content is more important than style.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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After the strange clue yesterday here's an easy one
Maybe adult nun has ups and downs (8)
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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If they don't get it - and I think they will - I'll take it later.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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ok ok...
UNDULATE - has ups and downs
anag of ADULT NUN
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Edit
just reread your answer and YANUT
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 17-Aug-21 4:42am.
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My autonomous fingers obviously prefer ATE to ANT.
Any my proof-reading glasses fell off, obviously.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You were unlucky and you probably gave it away - but it was always going to be solved.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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UNDULATE?
But I'm not sure how! It's almost an anagram of adult nun?
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Nope
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Maybe UNDULANT then - which is an anagram of ADULT NUN
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YAUT
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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A Fairly Generic Comparison to Make - The Daily WTF
Quote: my name is missing (unregistered)
Encapsulating stupid ideas in a single place is simply turning spaghetti code into ravioli.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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apart from method, field and property casing, which I will be the first to admit is purely cosmetic, yet still rubs me the wrong way when a property start with a lower case and a field start with an uppercase....
I still find, 18 years later (after starting working with C# professionally) that all those discussion about where to put bracket, whether or not to use LinQ or not, or whatever, to return at the end of the method or not, so called micro consistency, are all a monumental waste of time. Never ever ever ever had this any impact on how difficult or easy was a codebase to understand...
Nothing particular to moan on... except the codebase I am looking at is quite hard to understand... and no amount of "styling" that could fix it, and for some reason I got memory of endless pointless painful discussion about it... I think I have code styling PTSD
At best, at risk of being pedantic meself, I would say "proper MVVM" could improve it... i.e. data only model and binding only UI. But I find purist so annoying, and I can see that code has history....
That said "proper MVVM", or an approximation of it, is often an improvement toward reducing code complexity..
(though I only argue for an approximation of it, I am here to help my colleague and myself, not annoy everyone for little gain..)
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Personally, I use lowercase for local and private members and Pascal case for anything externally visible -- including parameter names. Just to piss people off.
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I handle discussion of the best way to format code using Ctrl-K, D, which in VS reformats the code to your liking.
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Winner!
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And then you have two developers with different settings at war with each other - and I have to code review the code going back and forth... and try to track actual changes... no thanks.
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