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Because of this: char *c, *p, a, *b, d; or a better way to write that: char *c = nullptr, *p = nullptr, a = 5, *b = nullptr, d = 10; (it took out my tabs...)

This happened with my Win10 phone while I was waiting for my daughter to call. She had a very late night school trip for a competition. Needless to say I was not happy with the timing. Obviously updates need some polish, like aggressive confirmation windows with long timers.

The two big reasons I will not use Edge: 1) Security settings are non-existent. In IE I add offensive advertisement sources (like *.googlesyndication.com) to Restricted Sites, it's a built in ad blocker. 2) Every version of IE has used the "star" symbol as the favorites button, even edge mobile does this. Click the "star" in Edge to see your favorites and a "Bookmarks" window pops up... WTF is a "Bookmark"?!?! It's like the developers have never used the browser that they are trying to replace (IE)... :doh:

Honestly, IE is good enough. Trying to get a page to render the same on all browsers is coding hell. Chrome/Firefox is all about tracking and advertising these days with their "free" browsers. You pay for Windows, which is how the IE team gets paid. I, for one, will happily pay for an advertisement free experience wherever I can get it.

I unhide extensions on every computer I touch, I don't care if it's mine or not. This "feature" was a boon the virus industry. ClickMe.exe... It's right up there with book burning. Keeping people stupid is not a good strategy.

My biggest problem is using a MS account for my computer login; Not going to happen ever. Transmitting the login password across the internet is a Darwinian security flaw. The Man-in-the-Middle sees everything plain text (private key required). Running under a local account breaks everything I was excited about: Cortana, the App Store, Groove, Xbox. They get Kudos for IE11 still being there, demanding IE to be part of the OS was one of Microsoft's greatest mistakes in the browser war. Edge is not ready (meant?) for the desktop. It's strictly a touch based browser for people with really fat fingers (check out that right click menu). Edge security settings are non-existent compared to IE11. I now know why Win10 was free. The only perk I get coming from Win7 is being able to compile Windows Phone apps, but after looking at C++/CX I don't see that happening either. I'm not willing to put a lot of effort into supporting a sandboxed architecture (COM sucks). The rollback to Win7 countdown has started.

I recommend putting the word "junk" in your email address. My last email account, about 15 years ago, was full of spam. When I got a new ISP I created a junk email address, samjunk@... and it's been 15 years or so now and I almost never get any spam. I do get a lot of email from businesses I've given it to, but no spam. I think the spammers filter out "junk" addresses.

Reuters site is hacked too... It must have been an advertisement rotator, but as the page was loading I got redirected to a "You need to update Flash Player" page hosted on FavDownloads dot something. Plus the comical "Are you sure you and to leave this page" message pop-up when I used the back button. These guys are sooo lame...

"Google's decision to not support synching on Windows Phone has made it pretty useless for me..." Why in the world would you even want to sync with an advertising company???

I copy hypertrm.exe and hypertrm.dll from an old XP box to a directory on the new box...

I believe everything I read in my CP news letters without question :-D :rolleyes: :doh: :-D

Unfortunately that's what a lot of managers say (about using line counters to measure a developers worth)

This was in todays Code Project Daily news, the title in fact ;)

Sounds like the developer minions are being measured by a line counter. Ugh... Tell a marginal coder he (or she) is being measured by "bugs per line of code" and see what you get. 50,000,000 lines of code (and a lot of cleanup to do) :wtf:

I've actually been burned twice in the same year by GUID collisions within unrelated software products from other companies. They are a very poor architecture choice.

Yes, but don't forget customers will install your software in environments completely different than your development machine. Like when the database is under the dreaded control of the IT department. In a recent example, a simple table refresh triggered by a timer across a slow WAN through a VPN to a database in another city caused noticeable customer discomfort. Something to think about when you architect your code.

TSQL is only for INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements, anything else should be avoided. They only exception that should be considered is network load and the fact that you have to share that bandwidth with everyone else. $.02

If you wanted to teach a monkey how to code you wouldn't use C/C++. You'd use VB or C# ;P

The key to any job is having the right tool. If we start removing tools because people abuse them we would have to take computers away from people entirely. Just saying ;P