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We surrender - what was it?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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All things come to he who waits, Griff. Then again, the watched pot never boils.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I've never heard that one before! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Well, I did worry about it being a bit obscure (underused might be a better word as it's quite a good one), but I thought that I could balance that with an easyish clue. My thinking basically went along the lines of "OK, the theme is proverbs, what else is "book" going to be ... ?"
But yes, it's hard to get the difficulty right with the thematic ones but I'm sure we'll get better with practice.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Been developing my UWP on a desktop; no touch. But can move it between monitors and large TV screen no problem.
Got a lower range Surface Go yesterday (8GB 128SSD) to see how it would look; handle touch.
"Side-loaded" the app today and it's ... BEAUTIFUL!
Scales down while (seeming) to show more (?) Can still scale "up" again on the Surface if it's too small.
Solid device. Windows Home 1803 (out of S mode). Remote desktop. Sharing. etc.
The Master said, 'Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.'
― Confucian Analects
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Nice to hear man! 
Are you taking advantage of .NET Core 3 yet?  
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I'm currently creating .NET Standard 2.0 libraries because I know they work with my console, WPF and UWP apps; and the Windows store. I'm not sure yet how .NET Core 3.0 fits in because of the Store (certification) and the "sandbox" (?).
The Master said, 'Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.'
― Confucian Analects
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Please note, if you're developing an app for touch: If you're testing it with a mouse, you will go to hell when you die. In that circle of hell, with a radius to rival that of Saturn's rings, there are a few buttons scattered throughout. If you can push just one of the buttons, you can go to heaven.
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The problem is hell is very high resolution and each button is a single pixel approximately 1 µm square.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I developed it for the desktop; mouse and keyboard; with touch in mind; therefore, you can run the whole thing without a mouse and keyboard. The Surface is for testing the "hit areas" now and any differences.
I found a button size of 44h x 48w mostly ideal since it didn't clip any of the Segoe icons. About the same size as the Surface taskbar icons at the default 150% and "big enough" at 200%.
The Master said, 'Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.'
― Confucian Analects
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Ah, finally some positive vibes about Microsoft 
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RickZeeland wrote: Ah, finally some positive vibes about Microsoft
Except I thought UWP was dead. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Even more positive news then
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It's in the "controls" ... which are alive and well. It's all about how smooth a ride you want and where you're going (or not).
.NET Core 3: Use UWP Controls in WPF with XAML Islands – Thomas Claudius Huber
The Master said, 'Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it.'
― Confucian Analects
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Yeah I understood that reference! for the first 30 years of my life that was the only BOC song I knew. Then I discovered "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" and I digivolved to BOC fanboy.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If you find the time, it's worth going on a Haggis[^] Hunting Tour - they are definitely best seen in the wild, and (unless you are very squeamish) they taste better the fresher they are (the farmed ones you get in the US are generally weeks or months old and frozen before you eat them  ). Excellent with neeps'n'tatties, and a tot of the Good Stuff!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Which do you prefer? The clockwise ones or anti-clockwise?
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If you take a clockwise one and put it upside down, is it still clockwise?
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I'm fine with either, as long as I get the "downhill leg"!
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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Front or back? 
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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It's been quite a few years since I've been up there, Loch Lomond is worth a visit, with boat trips from Balloch.
But be aware of how big Scotland is... it can take a lot of driving to visit some of the more northern places like Inverness.
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