Haha! Poor silverlight... :sigh:

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Wow. That is slow, even for microsoft? You get the impression that someone was bored at work and just started scrolling through the suggestion pile and coincidentally happened on yours... "Why didn't we think of that? Open web pages in a standards compliant browser? Hmmmm...." lol That being said, don't tell anyone, but Visual Studio is still one of my favourite IDEs... Shhh... It's our little secret... ;)

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Great option for familiarity. A windows-like UI but all the android apps you know and love. Probably more friendly to the average user than Linux.

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See, that depends on your point of view. I like that all of the code on my machine is always up-to-date, I don't have to wait for a software vendor to release an update every couple of months to get all the latest features, things are just constantly evolving.

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Have you seen Haiku? It's getting quite usable these days! :)

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Hershey is as bad as Dairy Milk, just in a different way. Mainland Europe seems to have a much better handle on chocolate. I'm not a fan of dark chocolate, but dairy milk is just too sweet. It needs to be chocolatey, creamy and just a bit sweet. Not sure about cultural leadership, America is such a different place to Europe. There are definitely american influences in europe, but not everything gains traction this side of the pond. Everything is so much bigger there, you have more room. Bigger houses, bigger cars etc. I remember one of the American open-top bus companies trying to start in Bath. They ignored all the local operators and tried to use the same huge open top buses they were using in the US and London. The first one got stuck within a week! My point is this, some things that work perfectly fine in America won't work here, or at least won't quite fit. Europe, having gotten much "smaller" the last couple of decades, is definitely developing a shared culture, but even there environment, cultural heritage and other influences dictate that there must be differences between each. We'll continue to pick and choose what we like, but I don't think Europe's culture will ever be "lead" by any influence outside of Europe. Wow. No idea where that came from. Must be time for a cup of tea! :java: (closest picture I could find, sorry)

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And I bet it's only used by tourists. Well, that and curious youngsters who will sneak in without their parents/grandparents seeing to try this american abomination.

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I don't understand a word of that, but in a good way (I think), so have an upvote.

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Good points well made, definitely not appropriate questions to ask a developer! Developers don't work like the other meat sacks. Our brains have been repeatedly smashed by trying to solve the riddles of obscure programming languages and code written by others...

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Surely it should've asked two questions, have you lied to your employer for your own benefit; have you lied to your employer for their benefit? The answer's still yes to both, but at least it differentiates between the intents. lol. Who seriously could get through one of those tests successfully, except for a sociopath?

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Apple worked (and succeeded) because they concentrated effort on a few select devices and built software (from the OS up) for these select devices. They never worried about backwards compatibility, because they knew that their customers would follow them wherever they went. This allowed them to concentrate on building very useable devices. Sadly, in the post Steve Jobs world, we see them spreading themselves thinner and thinner, becoming more of a fashion brand than a technology brand. As long as people are using their products, and pouring money into the closed garden, Apple will survive; but if they don't do something drastic and surprising I can see them being considerably less significant in 10-15 years.

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And with the odd changes to the Stack Overflow licensing model, we might see more people popping over to CP to try alternatives (although to be fair I don't know what the CP licensing model is) which means we'll have a lot more newbs to feast upon upset and confused users.

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Sadly Openreach "engineers" appear to be a bit of a russian roulette. You can get the engineer who truly understands the network he is working on and the things that might connect to it; then you get the others... I once had a very interesting conversation with an openreach engineer about VoIP technology. I've also heard of one that visited a work colleague and made several unnecessary holes in the wall. You win some you lose some.

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Yeah, I was expecting the paper to be the "address" of where the money is located, passing the money by reference rather than by value...

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Is being tech support cause for celebration? BT actually doing something probably is, though, so we should mark this date in our calendar. We shall remember this day as the day BT bothered.

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What a month. :sigh:

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Haha! It could be quite entertaining to translate some of the bizarre stuff that comes out of marketing into something that developers could actually relate to. I can;t remember who said it, but someone once told me (or it might have been a talk somewhere, so it wasn't to me personally) that computers don't work like the human brain and programmers must adapt their thinking to become more like that of a computer in order to understand and solve programming problems, although we can never quite achieve that aim; in the end it means we neither think like the majority population, nor like the computers to which we are enslaved. Ends up just totally mangling the ol'noggin. :doh:

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No way, I'm not moving away from here, too nice ;-)

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Just nod and grunt, then you'll come across as the strong silent type...

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I resent that, the guy down the road had a fire the other week. It was quite impressive, it shall be remembered in song for many generations... (I live in Cornwall, btw, in case that wasn't obvious?)

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