I tried now more than a handful of times dark mode (specifically in VS). In general I don't last more than a day, last time I used it for a week, maybe a bit more. One day I decided I couldn't take it anymore. I don't know why. I am now using a beige background, actually now is like a muted mustard color. Why I try dark mode (theme in VS) once in a while? Because I felt it has a lot of detail in differentiating various bits of code and I find that useful, sometimes. And other days I am ashamed as it looks like a circus. Until the day they'll ban it because of privilege reasons, I'll use the white background.

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The wives and the nonchalant ways they are eroding our soul, our sanity ...

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"We" are not doing it. There are people wired differently and for them that dialog box makes perfect sense as they see only one way of interpreting it. An example of such people, I looked up yesterday "the opposite of inside out" on Google. English is not my first language and I got small kids that drive me insane by leaving behind, on the floor, almost every piece of clothing when they take'em off. You guessed right, they are inside out. How to properly tell them to fix that. Turn them ....? How? Lots of answers were: Outside in, Right-side out? Outside in?!!! Yes, "outside in". You see, there are people that negate "Inside out" as "Outside In" when in fact they express the same situation. Link1 Link2 Link3 "Outside in" is even voted the best answer in one of them. So, there are people like that and some of them are software developers. Oh in the end I will use "Inside in" or the longer "take'em off and put them back properly", do you have an alternative? I'm all ears.

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Not necessarily. He may be thinking of messages in english that are so very badly written that they are impossible to read - understand. At least in my area, when you worked enough in multinational software development teams and read some of the code comments you would really appreciate having them banned.

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Man you are a bitter person. :D

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If you meant hexadecimal why didn't you prefix it with 0x like you did in the last one. Anyway, you should stop trying to "fix it". It was disappointing initially but now is becoming sad.

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17 minutes and 18 seconds. By the way stop trolling.

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He was merely saying that you should sell the shares if you have any. Their financial situation especially the disgusting cash reserves that the company amassed is a totally different story. They are some investigations ongoing in EU seeking to get back 10-20 bil. from aPple alone. Not a lot but its justice. I don't understand why the Americans are not doing it.

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Exactly what I said. You found this dead horse and decided that you cannot pass by without kicking it.

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I hear you. Why not a Windows Phone if you want something reliable. Especially if you get a Nokia you get the best camera on a phone. There are pretty much 4-5 fundamental things I need in a "phone" these days.

• being a reliable phone and SMS messenger
• reliable light browsing and emailing
• a very good camera
• GPS
• lasting battery

Other applications, be honest, how much are you using them and if you do use them, can you live without them? Of course you could. For frak sake many of us grew up in a time when you didn't even have a cell. Generally, you had to be somewhere with a land line, like home to call or get a call on a phone. So, I can assure you, if you can survive just fine without a mobile phone, now that you have one anyway you will surely survive without the apps. Oh, where was I ... yeah. I want the same thing, now that we are stuck with these "smart" phones yes I want them to just work and not have to reflash, install new firmware, jailbreak them and so on .... After my first experience with an LG Android a couple of years ago (phone that luckily was run over by another car) I bought a Nokia Lumia 710, very simple phone. I was amazed how good I felt about myself after a week, how simple my phone related experience had become. You know, like Japanese cars which for years need just gas and engine oil change. So, buy an iPhone if you want reliable but if you want the whole package buy a Lumia 'cause today never comes back and if you want to capture this moment in a quality picture, you need a good camera. I own a Lumia 920 now and it is the "shit". Did I mention they cost less?

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You know that a Windows service can be allowed to interact with the desktop in which case you can use and you need UI controls. I don't know what the intention is from those few line of codes but this is far from a War Crime, so I think you're exaggerating. Yes, I know that :

Quote:

In most cases, it is recommended that you not change the Allow service to interact with desktop setting. If you allow the service to interact with the desktop, any information that the service displays on the desktop will also be displayed on an interactive user's desktop. A malicious user could then take control of the service or attack it from the interactive desktop.

I have seen worse.

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That's how it happens 99.99% of the time.

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I think they invented the "beating a dead horse" expression for this kind of post. I think it is clear that the advantages of Intellisense far outweigh any little problem that somebody may have in his(her) particular environment.

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You watched "Drive Angry" one too many times.

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It doesn't matter because for most of us is a natural evolution. You start with an organized form of education until a point is reached where you learned how you can organize yourself and by that time you're anyway not satisfied anymore with being pointed in a general direction and you want to study alone on subjects you pick by yourself. That's the system but what matters the most is all in your genes. You're born with certain inclinations: let's say technical ones. Then you'll be either advantageously ar adversely affected in building upon your inclinations by your parents, teachers: in day care, preschool, school, high school, university, randomly by other people's advice, posts, blog entries. They can support or put you down, they can enlighten or leave you in the dark, they can expose you to good patterns of thinking, analyzing ... or they can teach you zilch. What's left, 10-15 years later, it's you. If you're still hungry for learning you'll do it by yourself cause you're fed up with other people putting ideas in your head (though you'll still be yearning for a personal guru you can reach any time, and find that answer right away - otherwise it can mean hours and hours of research on the net). So it's not easy to learn by yourself because there's no curriculum like in schools to organize youre educational path. Plus you may have a job and you have to organize that around the job time (let's not even mention having kids). So, depending on what money you got you'll attend some classes/courses because once you commit and pay you kind of have to follow through(maybe the company pays which is even better). I found and I am more and more inclined to start learning a new techonology by watching videos on the subject, like http://channel9.msdn.com/ [^] has for .Net developers. They are a good introduction and you then can build upon much easier 'cause you have a foundation. I could say more but I think you got a gist of where I am coming from. Cheers.

giuchici (two pigeons): - We shat on your car. Problem?

Like many others have said, recursion is not happening that often in most of programmers' lifes. However if you are designing a compiler, think of all the method calls: methods that call methods that call other methods and they have to return. Or functional programming languages rely heavily on recursion, using it where a procedural language would use iteration. You don't have to be a fancy compiler designer. I had to implement an electronic data interchange EDI for X12-211 Motor Carrier Bill of Lading. Good luck doing it without recursion. The point is that there are problems for which the recursive solution is 1000 time less consuming to implement than a traditional iterative way or any other way. Those are the moments you learn it for. And because it is not easy there's more satisfaction to be had when all the pieces come together and it works recursively. Cheers.

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When 19 people (at least until now) vote you 1 it's time to accept you are either mistaken or plain different. What you are doing is to blame a language for problems that are caused maybe by a compiler, the way you wrote the code, 3rd party library, ... . I bet you don't hate C++ but the whole set of tools that you are using to write code in C++. Then to talk back to people when you don't seem to know about release and debug versions it doesn't look well. I hate a tiny bit C++ but I hate it for what really belongs to it: the "*", the "&" and the "->". It is brutal to understand C++ code sometimes. That's why C# came as a blessing for me. Stop being frustrated and revisit your code, you'll make it better and learn in the process. Cheers.

giuchici

And it takes a while until the "college" inside of you lets it go and accept the truth. One of the best visual metaphors for the sad reality of our day to day predicament. ======================================================= If "hard coding" would only mean that someone is coding hard.

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It's not the same. Anyway it is still reassuring that I am not the only one that gets paid for coding :D. Not everybody can work for free and live off of achievements recognition.

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Look from its own perspective every individual thinks is right. You may well be right. I find hard to believe that a blitz adoption of Windows 8 will bring your company in that situation but you probably know better. I understand there are reasons to be concerned and I trully am, despite the appearance of taking it lightly in my previous post. I hate to be at the mercy of a company that doesn't seem to stay on the correct path for too long and once in a while likes to screw its devotee programmers. The problem is that it's Friday and I worked in Silverlight as a junior for a company that kicked me out before I started dreaming asynchronously. So, I have a love-hate relation with Silverlight. Nevertheless to kill WPF in favour of JavTML5 it is plain wrong from my perspective. I don't know how can they bring a scripting language like javascript with all its minuses to the standards of C# and VB.NET. To recap in short: I am concerned and I share your concern as well but what can we do? Tell me. It reminds me how Blu-Ray won against a superior HD-DVD just because it had among other things a much cooler name ...

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