I'm sorry, I cant read this because I made the mistake of opening CodeProject, which doesn't have a dark mode, at night and now I'm blind.

If someone is getting a Computer Science degree to be a computer scientist, then yes they should learn all the math as actual CS is heavily math based, with computer science essentially being a specialized area of mathematics. However, if someone is getting a CS degree to become a professional software developer, then for most CS jobs you wont need the math, as many of the replies have pointed out. The biggest issue I see is that somewhere along the way it was decided that to get a job as a developer, a degree in CS (or related field) became required, which is absurd. What is actually needed is more of a "trade school" for software developers that is accepted by the business community. Coding Boot Camps dont cut it as they are just too short, it should be a couple of years of study at least, but focused on software development, not computer science. Which wont happen - the corporate world has turned university studies into de facto trade schools and they're happy with it being that way. So, people who have no need for 3 years of higher math will continue to have to suffer through it, and we will continue to "weed out" people who would otherwise be fine developers for 80% of the programming jobs out there unnecessarily. Of course, there are many programming jobs that DO need that level of math, and those are the jobs that should be listing a CS degree as a requirement. Most jobs should not have that requirement though.

Audiences seem to like it. (I've not seen it myself)

RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) has long been an 'inside joke' term in the space industry. SpaceX didn't create the term, and is very far from the first to have it apply to their operations.

Somewhat surprised to not see this mentioned here or in the Lounge. Dr. Frederick P. Brooks died on 17 November. The obit/article doesn't mention it, but for those that don't place the name right off, he was the author of the Mythical Man Month, as well as quite a few other accomplishments. RIP

Not sure where you get your news from, but here's one place discussing some of what CodeWitch is talking about.

Despite what some luddites may say about newer versions, VS2022 has been very responsive for me since I first installed it last November - I've liked this version a lot. MS has been doing some really good things with VS lately. A couple of versions ago (VS2017 I think) I noticed VS getting very laggy for me all the time. At the time I used Resharper. I disabled that and everything was nice and responsive again. So I wrote a small extension that did a couple of things I mostly was using Resharper for, and uninstalled Resharper and haven't looked back. My colleagues have done the same - enough of the really useful Resharper functionality has been added to vanilla VS to make living without Resharper doable. My first suggestion is that if you have Resharper, disable that and see if your issues go away. Resharper has gotten quite bloated over the years. If there's some Resharper functionalities that you really need, but only from time to time, one of my colleagues uses my extension and then just keeps Resharper disabled, enabling it only when he needs to use those functionalities, then disables it again. If you're not using Resharper, then try disabling all extensions, see if the issue goes away, then if so, re-enable extensions one at a time until you get the lag. If it's not extensions, one of my colleagues had issues with VS lag due to the company-installed anti-virus doing constant checks against some VS-used files that get changed frequently by it, which would lock the files when doing the checks, causing the lag. Might be worth checking that out and getting some folders excluded from the antivirus check if so.

I just reviewed the forum rules stickied at the top, and I dont see any rules listed there that his post violates. In fact, this discussion topic seems to fall pretty squarely within the intended purpose of this forum: >1. The lounge is for the CodeProject community **to discuss things of interest to the community**, and as a place for the whole community to participate. It is, first and foremost, a respectful meeting and discussion area for those wishing to **discuss the life of a Software developer**. Getting sick with the ongoing pandemic seems to be of interest to the community and part of the life of a software dev. What forum rule do you think was violated here?

We migrated to it a week after release (always wait for at least the X.0.1 release!). We've not had any issues at all with it - it's been remarkably smooth. It'll take up more memory because they (finally) converted it to 64 bit, but there's a number of gains that were realized because of that conversion. We have a variety of applications as well, and solutions with over a hundred projects of varying types, though we've done pretty good at getting everything to be "standardized" on targeting either .Net 4.8 or .Net 6 (we did quick upgrades after release for all our .Net core based applications). I personally like it quite a bit. They cleaned up the dark mode as well so there's no longer random bright glaring controls or panels running around.

Typo aside, I came across [this page](https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html) describing Webb's progress towards its destination which is pretty cool. It's on the nasa.gov domain, so should be safe.

Linky no worky. This one worked though: [Dixin's Blog - C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression, argument check and more](https://weblogs.asp.net/dixin/csharp-10-new-feature-callerargumentexpression-argument-check-and-more)

Fascinating stories - thanks for sharing them! > originally written almost 30 years ago in C++, then rewritten in C#, without performance degredation mind you. I'd be interested in hearing an expansion on this. C++ folks tend to be rather religious that there's just _no way_ that C# could be as performant as C++ for anything other than contrived scenarios, and a real world example with an explanation would be an interesting tidbit to add to that ageless argument. (Possibly in the Lounge, or an article, if not appropriate here). I say this with love as I used to be one of those C++ folks. :)

Seems odd to write (yet another) article about a year-old language feature, and not even mention the enhancements to the feature coming out in 2 weeks with .Net 6. Is the author just trying to get "street cred" by writing simple articles about older features, not really adding anything new to the hundred articles written about this feature already? Honestly baffled at this one.

How can you tell when a non-technical person is tasked with writing an article? When you see them claim that switching to 64 bit from 32 bit improves performance by 2x... > 2003 > Notable computer: Apple Power Mac G5 > Price tag: $1,999 > Inflation adjusted price: $2,968 > At the time of its release, the Power Mac G5 was the most powerful Macintosh computer. It was the first personal computer to utilize 64-bit processing, allowing users to run tasks twice as fast as was possible with 32-bit architecture, the standard at the time.

This comic seems appropriate.

In contrast to @Chris_Maunder, I actually like my Surface Book very much. I agree that the cost is high, but 1) it's comparable to Macs at that performance point and 2) the company I work for paid for it. :) The hinge seems to bug some people, but doesn't bother me at all. The extra thickness hasn't been a problem for me when I travel or walk around the building to go to meetings in various conference rooms. It's plenty thin and light for my needs. The battery lasts most of the day while I'm doing lots of meetings and dev work. YMMV. I absolutely adore having both the large trackpad with multi-finger functions with the touchscreen. Some people seem to think that a touchscreen on a laptop isn't "ergonomic" or something, but I find it to be very conducive to quick and easy screen use and navigation. Most of my colleagues who use various PC laptops or Macs bring with them a small mouse (mostly wireless) which takes up one of their USB ports, and is just something else they have to bring around with them. I don't bring a mouse at all, which makes my Surface Book seem more portable to me - I don't need various dongles or extras just to do basic things with my laptop. The screen is gorgeous, and the keyboard is the best laptop keyboard I've used. The fact that it separates into a tablet isn't something I use very often, but when I DO need to use it, I'm glad that I have the option to do so. It's great for taking notes or drawing diagrams/schematics during brainstorming or training sessions, and being easily able to save it or display the screen to others through a projector/tv. It's got good enough power to run 2 or 3 instances of VS2015 while having Outlook and several other applications running - so it's fine for dev work. I hook it up to the dock and have 2 large screens with my ergonomic keyboard and mouse for doing normal work at my desk, and just leave Outlook up on the laptop screen off to the side, and it swaps in and out of this mode very nicely for me. All around, it's the best work laptop experience I've had.

Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu.

Duplicate subject and link - scroll down this page just a little bit to this post from just 10 hours ago.

I got this Humanscale Freedom Headrest chair a few years ago. Pricey, and when you first sit in it you'll be like "nice, but why so expensive?". The value becomes clear after you've been sitting in it for 8+ hours a day, every day. It helps so much, and it's so nice to sit in. Here's the configuration page for the chair: Humanscale[^] Go with the gel armrests and seat - it's extra but VERY worth it.

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Both of the people who still have their Lumias will be delighted

Hey, that's me!