yes, I know what these algorithms do and mainly focus on the result to use... diligent hands rule....

I've just reported that article as spam - multiple links to a training site, not one that I've come across before

My thoughts exactly. Seems more trouble than it's worth. Mircea

I'm feeling like a basketball player. Just like a slam dunk.

Gerry Schmitz wrote: All your data is ours. And you think that is a joke! Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

No sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing... anyway, congrats... YAUT! :-D Telegraph marker posts ... nothing to do with IT Phasmid email discussion group ... also nothing to do with IT Beekeeping and honey site ... still nothing to do with IT

My nephew finished the game but found that he couldn't save his progress once he completed it. He's playing it on an XBox Series X. He said he googled the issue and stated that others are experiencing the save game issue as well. He's a huge Harry Potter fan (understatement of the decade) and he is pissed due to that bug and he's been talking my ear off about it. Kelly Herald Software Developer

Yep. Particularly seeing I gave OP a pointer to the solution, as anyone could have read... Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

Thank you sir!

My reply - I spent my professional, (good) money making career making EXISTING stuff - both hardware and software work (to customer expectation) . Your "opinion" is very common nowadays - "get an new one" and it does not fit to my style - and budget. I have a hardware which should work , the problem is with software. Thanks very much for your contribution to solve the problem. Cheers

If it makes sense as a “bundle” of statics, then make the constructor private. If it is more class-like, then a singleton would make it easier to substitute a different implementation later. I agree with you that it should be last resort and usually a code smell.

Sorry for the confusion. I'm not suggesting we kick people who are admitting they are using it. Those people can communicated with. If communication fails, and they're an endless terror, then we kick. Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

I will try by my self, if I have problems, then I will come back to you, just give me some time, yesterday I didn't have time to write the article :)

trønderen wrote: If they develop new programming languages expressed in Chinese script, the source code will make no sense to 99,9% of all Western software developers Several assumptions in that. First of course is that the theft is of the source code in the first place. Could just be the idea. Or the process. Or hardware. Or binaries. Second programming languages follow a set pattern. So if you had the source code, and the compiler, it is not that hard for a knowledgeable group to create a translator which would take the source code, translate the ideographs into an english version and just produce the source code in an english format. No need at all to work in the original language. Third ideographs in general in the most complete way possible do not provide for a good way to program. The formalism is nice but the day to day activity of producing code is better managed by a far more simpler set of characters. This is equivalent to how cell phones and texting work in japan. trønderen wrote: Chinese consumer authorities demand that anything sold in China shall have both user and maintenance documentation in Chinese, and be maintainable in China, i.e. software produced in a language and with tools compatible with Chinese standards? France and the province of Quebec in Canada. A company cannot fire an employee if they cannot use any tool because it is not in French. And selling anything to the government means it must always be in French. I have no idea how they deal with programming languages themselves though. trønderen wrote: If China in five to ten years, say, builds the world's strongest software industry, Heard of Alibada? Very, very successful software platform. So successful that the owner started branching out and financing other ventures. Even internationally. Then 20 years later the Chinese government decided they didn't like it. So now the Founder has disappeared. Attempts to force success just do not work. Attempting that just leads to toadies that make promises, hide failures and attempt to sabotage anything else that might succeed. There are plenty of other examples which demonstrate that.

William Blake is sure a gloomy guy. I guess this is just one quote. I found an old one that was much brighter one. "He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise." William Blake "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger