The basic IDE runs nicely, I build stuff all the time under Win7-32-bit. However an ADDIN I wrote for vc6 won't run in Win7, even Win7-32bit, it can't find its dll's somehow. However NEITHER in WinXP-64-bit nor Win7-64-bit, have I been able to get my vc6 builds to LINK. Now this is somewhat likely to be merely the way the libraries get set up under x64, but anyway I never managed to figure it out.
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Not being very much interested in web-stuff, yet I am proud of my new home-page, NOT ONE line of javascript - did you know that CSS can be used to achieve much of the "hover" functionality, which was all I ever wanted to customize, basically.
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If you search YouTube on (( MICHIO KAKU MELTDOWN )) and then sort-by-date, you find his assessment "Three Raging Meltdowns in Progress" by this distinguished Physicist, at the tail end of this 27-March Video.
He makes the point that this is not being taken NEARLY seriously enough, since in dealing with Plutonium you're talking about creating a dead-zone for a Really Long Time. I mean, compared to say the BP incident, the "Summer of Oil", remember the magnitude of the response to that, by comparison the Japanese are not even asking for outside help on this, as pointed out earlier in this video.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
what do you stick on the post-it note when you need to
The 3M post-it "super sticky label pad" is all-super-sticky *EXCEPT* for about 1/4" of non-sticky - there is a dashed-bar to indicate the edge with the non-sticky, since of course that's the edge you use to peel-off such a label. I have found these will reliably stick to the post-it-note, although indeed sticking merely a post-it-note onto a post-it-note does not seem to stick very well, the "super sticky label pad" is a big escalation in stickiness.
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I only briefly tried it once, opening a logfile.txt of about 10mb - vs2010 was unusably-slow, as presumably this was internally converted to a WPF document. (1) is there some "mode" I can set somewhere in vs2010, that will allow opening large text files reasonably quickly ? (2) What's your favorite editor for large text files ? Visual Studio 6 is good enough for me, although it won't load anything beyond roughly 220mb. vs2008 runs out of memory sooner than that, perhaps roughly at 180mb although since like I say I usually use vc6 so I'm not as familiar, but still the text file opens nearly instantly, NOT being converted to WPF of course.
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Electron Shepherd wrote:
raise more problems than it solves
Transitive-closure, corner-cases, indeed this is a great principle.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
sidebar news column and a main news page.
This brings OSnews.com to mind. For perhaps months after they switched to this format I never even GLANCED at the news, but then one day the very topmost item was actually interesting, so I started glancing at it sometimes.
Opinion-wise, since the sidebars are so routinely just advertising to be ignored, that's probably what taught me to ignore sidebars, so I think it's not a good concept. But for OSnews there is that natural distinction between the blog-like-stuff on the left and the simple-news-items on the right, that I concede for OSnews this idea somewhat works.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
do you actually develop applications that have a ribbon bar, or do you use the old fashioned menu and toolbars?
I see this as a good question, but gave up on reading the replies after 20 or so content-free-spam-replies.
What CodeProject needs is a preattentively-scannable boolean tag-column, so that I can skip this trash.
Suggestion - the letter I for Informative, perhaps in a classic blue circle or some other graphic.
TRUE this IS the LOUNGE, but to my way of thinking that's a place for grand-scale questions exactly like this, which while not specific coding questions, still deserve serious thinking. Re-scan a few of the replies with the tag "Informative" in mind, so many of them are blatantly non-informative.
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Alan Balkany wrote:
If a goto helps you achieve more clarity, it's more correct than dogmatically following heuristics as if they were commandments
That is well spoken. When it happens that more than one branch of a switch Naturally-Shares-Stuff-At-The-Bottom, it has always seemed Clearer to me, to goto L_shared_stuff_for_these_branches. NAMED LABELS are so wonderfully clear, compared to a nameless-break, where you MUST visually scan the close-braces to make your best guess as to where it goes. On 22-nov at 08:52 OriginalGriff remarked that he also was not a believer in the "single exit" - Actually I HAVE come to be a TRUE BELIEVER in the SINGLE-EXIT, unless you can think of some easy way to make the OTHER exits easily SPOTTED. With multiple exits, you need to scan the ENTIRE routine to make SURE you have spotted all the exits. This is in stark contrast to the goto L_shared_stuff_for_these_branches, which actually REDUCES the visual scanning, you can just select the label and do control-F3 to see where it ends up. On 24-nov at 4:00 Rob Grainger remarked on "Labelled break" in the D-Language, which avoids the goto but still does not greatly reduce your visual scanning. To summarize, debate-wise you need to stick the Camel's nose into the tent by finding some classic idiom which is manifestly MORE clear with the goto. None of my code is "classic", so there's work to do there. Having proven that there is at least one case where goto is obviously beneficial, then your "dogma" label really sticks. Because something CAN BE harmful, to ban it, thus eliminating its beneficial uses - why we have reinvented the "Nanny State" !!!
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The Google query (( laptop cooking reuters )) finds an article with cautionary numbers - something like a delta-T of 1 degree Celsius, which is typically reached in less than 30 minutes, and yer in trouble. Spreading-the-legs is the workaround - "pads" turn out not to help. The Reuters story is dated 5 November, just a day after your post, Synchronicity ?
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The CBS video "Science of Sleep" is still free.
It is abundantly now known that sleep really IS an integral part of thinking/learning.
Are you being paid by-the-problem-solved or by-the-hour. Qualifier - being currently unemployed I must concede, "being a smart ass" is still risky biz !
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leonej_dt wrote:
e believing I was inherently superior because I could do math and science
Yes, me too. But what might count even more is the "Visio-spatial tasks", like say picking up a pail of water with a "Cat 432 Backhoe-Loader". If you go to youtube and search for (( BBC Secret of the Sexes (part 2) )), you get the thumbnail of the woman in the cab with the yellow-hard-hat. This is a FASCINATING video, probably motivating you to go back and get the context from part 1, parts 3 and 4 are also great.
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learn languages with ease
You're one-up on me there, but again if you goto youtube and search for (( tammet icelandic language )), the fourth hit mentions that Daniel Tammet learned icelandic in a week, to a sufficient conversational standard to pass muster on a TV Talk Show ! I forget exactly which of the videos shows snippets from his week-of-learning, and then the final TV appearance, but this is amazing. It motivated me to read his book "Embracing the Wide Sky" which contains great insight into how being multilingual really DOES have "spin-off" benefits in other areas, especially of course if you got thay way as a toddler.
Probably you should not dare to reply, these are the top tidbits on my personal armchair quest to get a meta-model of my own mind, but most likely we could continue WAY off-topic on this.
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How embarrassing, I did not immediately notice the issue with "redefining ==" - you are rewarded with a free book tip, Jeff Johnson's latest "Designing with the Mind in Mind", might be alternately titled "Don't even TRY to make me think". This is a brief very-well-edited book, if you haven't got a lot of time the book-price for this slim volume is OK because you learn a lot in few pages, there's no "padding".
Also on the same topic, somewhere in Gary Kasparov's "How Life Imitates Chess", he describes how he carefully designed his first try at a chess website, because after all who could be expected to think more than world-class-chess-player-wannabe's. But the usability cameras captured these folks just instinctively clicking without a conscious thought, the way we all do, sigh.
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BrowniePoints wrote:
So what you're saying is that you should be able to magically understand exactly how to use a huge framework
Well MAYBE that's what HE is saying. Having never touched WPF even with a 10-foot-pole, I get off the bus at "Huge Framework". Obviously my BS in Physics biased me, I'm always looking for a unified theory with Fewer Axioms that Explain More. CORNER CASES are a huge problem - considering any Instruction Set as an example, you can mix the instructions any way you want and they always work( except for "modern" issues e.g. as discussed by Joe Duffy in "Concurrent Programming on Windows" ) So to me what he seems to be saying is he tried a not-too-strange "corner case", and the primitives did not combine as one would expect. On the other hand I seem to be able to combine MoveTo and LineTo any way I want and they always work as expected...
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LunaticFringe wrote:
re recoil - the 7mm Mag I fired was a monster, no doubt about it.
Provoking the question, what kind of recoil pad was it wearing ? In pre-Internet-times I bought a Pachmayr pad which helped a lot. For shotguns with no issue of scope-eye-relief I see that there are actual shock-absorbers available. Just the other day my barber was remarking on how the Garand M-1 had such light recoil due to its semi-auto-mechanism buffering the shock. A simple bolt-action-rifle needs a pad, since if you unconsciously flinch then the intrinsic accuracy/range of your firearm makes no difference.
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Richard A. Dalton wrote:
I see big differences when I need to react to features requests
I didn't go back and reread Joel's article, but indeed if your app NEEDS to support further changes that can easily justify refactoring - bad code is so brittle.
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developer that was figuring out ASP.Net as they went.
But, even Microsoft is figuring-out-stuff-as-it-goes. I don't know much about Asp.net personally, but synchronicity-wise I was just skimming slashdot and found a seemingly worrisome article -- Google query (( slashdot cookies ASP )) finds the article IT: New Crypto Attack Affects Millions of ASP.NET Apps[^]
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Delphi4ever wrote:
We will clean this mess up eventually
Although you used the phrase "clean..up", the Google query (( Joel rewrite )) is actually ALL you need to bring up "Things You Should Never Do, Part I by Joel Spolsky". I find this query amazing - it makes me suspicious, that Google has tracked my searches, knows I am interested in programming stuff, and e.g. if some random person enters the Google query (( Joel rewrite )) then it might fetch a differently tailored hit list ? Anyway the article speaks for itself and being now an oldster I find myself agreeing, although I cringe at my history of youthful aspirations to "clean up" stuff.
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TNCaver wrote:
carpal tunnel symptoms
"Synchronicity" is one of my favorite words, I even own a copy of Dean Radin's "The Conscious Universe". Just about 30 minutes ago I saw a video at CNN.com which you can find as roughly the second hit with the Google query (( Jeanne Moos Dog Chew )), Moos is the reporter. In the story the dog chews off the owner's toe but it saves his life because at the hospital they find his blood sugar was over 500. So reading your comment I recalled that carpal tunnel has a positive correlation with high blood sugar also, you probably knew that but like I say the time-coincidence motivated me to type this in.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
if I could just learn to type with my left hand
A year or so I bought a Matias full-size keyboard with the one-hand-technology. This was quite nice up to about 5 characters, faster with one hand than to lift the right hand from the mouse. I am not so nice to keyboards, every now and then I trip over the cord and they crash to the floor. One day the Matias simply stopped working. SO if you buy one treat it nicely. A casual search seems to indicate that the $100 model is not to be found anymore, they want $600, sigh. Exactly like Andy Grove said about patents - "Sit on your ass and give everyone the finger". The Matias idea is not that earthshaking, he could probably license it for $10 or so and make a nice pile, it's worth that much. But nooo....
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"South Africa" calls up two references for me.
Though I've never been there, I immediately think of the flamethrower-under-the-door-sills attachment to deal with carjacking, what a great idea. Secondly, "The Emotional Revolution" by Norman E. Rosenthal kicks off with an incident in which the author successfully defended against a mugging in South Africa, since the attacker was armed "merely" with a screwdriver(the incident was many years ago). Rosenthal credits his emotional system with giving him the strength to drive home after being stabbed with the screwdriver. This book is I worth the $3.86 they want for a used copy on Amazon, although I have no idea how much your shipping would be. Anyway it's an honor to get a comment from someone with such a high reputation, thanks.
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