if you are referring to Microsoft's MVC.Net I love it. It took a while for me to switch from webforms, the design pattern and extras (like routing, minifying, jquery, etc..) that get included in the starter template could be overwhelming but once I got the gist of it I never wanted to go back to webforms It plays very nice in my mind with Xamarin, as the structure and design of an app and a webapp seem very familiar and correlate to each other

I tried both a Threadripper and i9 kept the i9, my workflow seemed much faster on both (compared to the two year old i7 I was using), but there was a problem with the Threadripper that made it a no go. There is no hardware accelerated emulators for Android on Windows, my workflow lately is SQL server, ASP.NET MVC, Azure App Services and combination of Xamarin and native, and well, it would take 7-9 minutes to boot an Android emulator, and running code on it would usually timeout the rest services. It seems like Google and Intel have some kind of deal where the Android emulators on Windows only use some Intel processors, on Linux they support both AMD and Intel, but I develop on Windows.

when it happens to me, I change a character in the model for the razor file, usually in the first line of the file, hit enter and save the file, this triggers some background recompilation and checks and after a few moments the squiggles go away

I actually went for something like this, plus a combination of three HDDs as suggested above. Crashplan was $59 for a year and it is unlimited, they have a QNAP app, but I like to "see" my backups working so I just installed the Win client and it found all the shared folders on the QNAP and allowed to be added to the backup selection. Now, waiting for another 7 more days for the initial backup to finish, after that it will be only incremental or differential (not sure how Crashplan does it) Will be looking also into Amazon's unlimited storage and also thinking about building my own Azure storage powered windows client, but for now Crashplan seems like the best gang for the buck. Thanks all!

good point. Out of the 5 TB, about 3.8 TB are only photos. I scanned two generations (family was very prolific shooting film ) and have gone full digital since 2004. I go on trips just to take photos and so do other members of the family. Have them all neatly catalogued in Lightroom, with proper tags and keywords. Don't look at the photos every day, or every week, but just want to know that if the computer, the NAS and all the HDD were to go, in a disaster, I can still recover the stuff.

Hello, I have about 5 TB of photos and videos, plus some music and lots of code, programs, etc.. I have dropbox and onedrive, and use them to store my documents and share programming bits and pieces, but not much more, as my 5 TB of photos reside on a QNAP NAS. Until now I was using SOS Online Backup to make a full backup of my main PC and the QNAP NAS for disaster recovery, you know, the house is on fire, full melt-down, etc.. I have USB external HDD where I regularly backup stuff, but those external HDDs still reside at home. Now, SOS Online Backup decided not to offer unlimited backup anymore, and the 5 TB tier would be thousands of dollars, what service can you recommend? I used in the past CrashPlan, but I found it very buggy and had to map/remap the folders on the NAS all the time for CrashPlan to see them and then hope they get backed-up. Any suggestions? Thanks!

go ahead, post! I am currently doing a lot of iOS and Android development, always hitting the same backend, so lots of redundant code on the client, so I started to develop on Xamarin. Well, I love it, so I might post on that. While creating a new project, it also creates an UWP poject, and I always dismissed it with a meh! Big mistake, I am enjoying (and making money) creating the Win 10 companion apps to my iOS and Android apps, my clients love it!

freeconferencecall.com it works very well, and well, it's free

no need for common sense (most people lack it while surfing online) ,just don't use the computer as administrator and never give administrator rights to teenage daughter. If admin authentication pop-up appears when surfing websites or opening email, something is fishy.

Marc Clifton wrote:

Sure you can. Gravitational lensing, red/blue shifting, both are examples of relativity in action. Einstein's theory that gravity bends light was proven with terrestrial telescopes.

Exactly, but astrologers have failed to update their craft to include those observations, besides, they don't use the motions of the stars, only the "planets", relative to the background stars, so gravitational lensing induced changes on apparent position will not change the odds of a baby born in January to be a great ruler, or astrologer. ;P

Newtonian laws are more than a decent approximation, if you use telescopes on earth to do your astrology, you cannot see or account for the small discrepancies introduced by relativity. Besides, when astrologers begun their "art" there was no real understanding of the motions of the planets or the laws governing such motions. Astrology, puff! ;P X|

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