In addition to the copy | move | shortcut options, right-dragging also gives you a Cancel option - which has saved my bacon once or twice (tried to move a folder, but missed with the mouse & selected the Windows\system folder - not a good one to move ;P ) ...

We could take a note from heraldry and go with: \ = "bend" / = "bend sinister", or just "sinister" ...

ChrisElston wrote:

As the backslash leans backwards and the forward slash leans forwards my proposal would be to tell them to stop being a retard.

While I understand that English is the trade language of the day, the backslash only leans forward if it is facing the reader's right - if it is facing left, then the backslash leans forward (and obviously the forward slash leans backward.) It gets even worse if we include languages read top-to-bottom! To completely eliminate the possibility of confusion, some set of terms which is entirely absolute and non-relative must be constructed - which will, of course, entirely confuse everybody who already knows a slash from a backslash ...

Reiss wrote:

... user error ...

"Removed and replaced the dip behind the stick - system operates as expected."

deutschspracher wrote:

Much older, think "fly in the ointment" older. :)

Considering that a fly in the ointment makes the ointment stink, I'm certainly not going to apply it! ("Any error made in an application ...") :laugh:

rahultandon1000 wrote:

Code from one of my junior :-> ----
 
this is Page-A.aspx

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Redirect("Page-A.aspx");
}

for (int i = 0; i < 101; i++) Blackboard.WriteLine("I must not use unterminated recursion.");

Chris Maunder wrote:

So you now have to include allen keys with your software?

You misspelt it - it is an Alan (Turing) key ...

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

You never know. Tomorrow, you'll find out that you now need to call it from multiple places.

The biggest reason for separate methods, in my experience. I don't work for MS, but one thing they get right (imo) is to have multiple ways of doing almost anything. That is easiest to handle with a single well-named and well-designed method (or "umbrella" method) called by multiple event handlers. This way, I can be reasonably sure that every UI action that enters that code will behave the same way.

PSU Steve wrote:

I do work for the US government though... :)

... and - starting this week - get paid in currency that is worth slightly more than the currency of the Confederate States of America. :sigh:

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

One of my many mottos has always been, "Use the right hammer for the job."

From David Weber and John Ringo's "March to the Stars":

The "pick pocking wrench" was Poertena's tool of last resort - a meter-long Stillson adjustable. If a recalcitrant weapon failed to function, or, God forbid, a suit of armor locked up, it was exposed to the "pick pocking wrench". Usually, the piece of equipment shaped up immediately. If not, its exposure was increased until it shaped up or shipped out.

R. Erasmus wrote:

I guest that much.

Did you guest anonymously? - Oh, sorry - the bad-English-and-spelling thread was yesterday ... ;)

James R. Twine wrote:

Search for "Microsoft License Agreement: 2010 Office Fluent User Interface" for more info.

The "Office Phooey (FUI)"???

Henry Minute wrote:

Nonsense.
 
Coffee doesn't affect my typing at all.

"Nope, I have the caffeine patch. It's my invention. Each patch is the equivalent of 12 cups of coffee. You can stay up for days with no side effects. Ahhh! Sorry. " Lucille Krunkelhorn - "Meet the Robinsons"

Brian C. Hart, Ph.D. wrote:

There is no death! the stars go down
To rise upon some other shore,
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown,
They shine for ever more.

I thought more of this - The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men. T.S. Eliot - "The Hollow Men"

I wonder what will happen when //do some stuff here throws an exception??? ;-)

Timothy CIAN wrote:

String.IsNullOrEmpty returns "bool"... How are you assigning it to a string variable..? :confused:

I was wondering the same thing - the line shouldn't compile (and doesn't, when I test it)!

Just cobble together a small (non-working - as usual) sample app from bits of MSDN sample code - email it to him and ask for his help debugging it! That'l learn 'im! ;-)

SinghUlarity... wrote:

Don't worry, another 10 years and everybody would be speaking Chinese (Mandarin /Cantonese bleh)

真倒霉 (Jen dao mei!) Quote from Mal Reynolds in the Firefly episode "Bushwhacked"

digital man wrote:

(Cos I'm blatted if I can be asked to learn a forine langwidge).

Thus says the man with a Latin quip in his autosig ...

Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote:

It is american is it not?

As an American, I have to say - no. I haven't figured out what it is, since the words seem to be English(US), but the linguistic constructs appear to be a totally new invention ...