It's perfectly legal. There's nothing wrong with that. I do that all the time.

In a multithreaded application, binding will save you from many headaches. Must be used sensibly though.

They are fixing bugs, just not the bugs the users are affected by.

For every single windows version since W98 there was somebody complaining about updates. If MS listened to customers, we would still be using DOS.

This should be published to ever lasting memory. My congrats.

There you go. Something went terribly wrong in the history of computing.

And?

40GB of your 80GB XML file are tags. So much for the overhead. The suggestion is to worldwide drop all markup languages (XML, JSON and similar shiite)