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"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Cherenkov blue, the most beautiful thing you'll see for the rest of your life.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Yeah, it happens now and then. But last time, it went a little wild, and I had to have the doctor tell me that what I experienced was stress symptoms. I was so focused, that I wasn't able to realize why i couldn't sleep, and why my heart was beating so bloody loud. Since then, I try to keep my coding within business hours.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

22 years now :omg:

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Totally agree. But we are currently porting our, huge, business system to a web application, and one of the primary jobs involve interacting with documents and opening them in an editor. Without MSOffice online, we wouldn't be able to do that. On the other hand, if MSOffice wasn't online, I could have shut down that design fart real quick.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Well, in my opinion: I'm now getting spammed with various ads that are ridiculous far from anything that could ever have my interest. Also, my feed is suddenly filled with horrible posts from horrible people, and Elons are often among those. We are not talking differences in politics that could sway the opinion in either way, but plain and simple racism and fascism. There was even a period where my feed would contain porn ads, and weird suggestions from lonely eastern european "women". I assure you, if Twitter had been like that when I finally tried it, I wouldn't have signed up. If this goes on, I guess Twitter ends like Facebook. A mostly useless platform for ads and hateful comments. At least Facebook is a platform where I can share stuff with my family, and arrange plans with friends. Twitter will be so much easier to dump.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Agreed!, I was a bit perplexed about why Griff would so viciously bodyslam my question. Boring yes, but I do believe it is well within the guidelines :-) It took me a little while to realize there must have been another question.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

I've tried to Google if UK is coming into the brave new future of mandatory e-invoicing of public entities. It seems like something got started in 2019(!), but even Google can't find anything solid on the issue. Lots of companies are offering to handle EDI, but they are suspiciously vague on formats and procedures. What I really hope for, is that UK sensibly adopted UBL, and even better, joined the PEPPOL community. Am I doomed?

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Well, I have actually been there a few times. And recently. It goes like: "Hey, I got this non-specific task for users who somewhat know what to do. They got a pool of data to play with, and when they figure out what they want to do, they can bloody well do it themselves." And one month later, I got a scripting engine that needs to take care of all the foolish stuff the users can dream up. My last iteration of this type, ended up with a solution where the users could write extensions in C# :-D

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

I think you will like this: Quantum computing for everyone | Michael Nielsen[^]

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

I heard it was an exploit in native code. A perfect example on why you should avoid native libraries.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Artist or Creator :) I'm really bad at math, and while I sure would like to get better, it seems like I got a phobia. But I got Google and the customers for any formulae they need in the system. I believe that the most important part of my job, is to be able to envision the solution, and write readable and re-usable code, that I can recognize the purpose of, when I inevitably needs to revisit it 10 years in the future :-D (Not kidding, it happens too often these days).

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Local authorities here estimates the protection period a bit longer, up to a year.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

David A. Gray wrote:

Forogar wrote:

I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

So would I. Even if you got it, it's written in the undocumented assembler for an undocumented hyper-hyperthreaded processor that's also undocumented, and it's devoid of comments. Oh, yea, it's also massively multithreaded. :)

Ahem: Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer[^]

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Some days after the install, when I clicked the icon on the desktop, it removed all knowledge of having installed Chrome. I have been a bit nervous since that, and done a lot of back-ups. But I haven't actually experienced anything like it since then.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Thanks for clearing that up. Didn't make JS look any better to me though :) Weird architecture that, just because there is a structure doesn't mean that it's actually helpfull. I'm sure there is a special part of Hell reserved for script designers putting subtle twists to a product. I will certainly go for your first suggestion, the second wouldn't conform to the Revealing Module Pattern (or should that have been in all caps?).

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Heh, thanks. Allthough it's an interesting project, I just don't think I will learn to love JS.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

So, I have to help rewriting our customer website, which involves getting my hands dirty on JavaScript. No script bashing here, the right tool for the right job and all. Deciding to involve the Revealing Module Pattern for my multi viewmodel per page scripting, I tried writing something like this:

$(document).ready
(
function()
{
tmg.model1 = (function()
{
// Private
var name = ko.observable("Model 1");

        // Public
        return
        {
            name: name
        };

    })();

    $("\[tmg\_ns='vm1'\]").each(
        function()
        {
            var domNode = $(this)\[0\];
            ko.applyBindings(tmg.model1, domNode);
        }
    );
}

);

It didn't work... Debugging revealed that the name property was undefined. After several hours and a lot of :java:, I found the 'error'; When returning a JavaScript object, the curly brace must be on the same line as the return statement!!! Yes, 3 exclamation marks, see what you made me do JS?, and oh, I want my hours back.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

We care a lot. It'll cost us a small fortune to rewrite our customer self service app.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

Ha! I found the problem. DAX uses a caching mechanism to avoid too many roundtrips to the SQL Server. If you're using the primary key in a query, then DAX will search an in-memory cache to retrieve a single record. Apparently, DAX gets confused when I use the primary key field busRelAccount on the left hand side of the comparison. Using bus.disableCache(true) fixes this problem. I hope they get rid of this bug soon, I really don't like to think of all the places I could have trusted this to just work.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr