Same here, o joy, it is back. In some way.

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil . . . said someone smarter than me (Donald Knuth).

Aha! I should, perhaps, read the documentation sometimes, what with it being the first sentence and that. The crazy lengths we are forced to go to stop mitigate people attacking our software... Regards, Rob Philpott.

Phew. For a moment I was worried that I got signed up to a really bad deal. At least it will cover your standing charge, with some left over. Just in case anyone else has read this far and is still interested, Richard and Rob's observation that the current deals are much worse than the ones offered in the past is spot on. Treading on the toes of giants . . .

Nelek wrote: cop-opt? Have no idea how that phrase came to be... but it means to avoid doing something. Taking the easy way. Not doing it, etc. Nelek wrote: Fvck... I just realized I have used "25 years ago", referring to me in adult age... damn it :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Welcome to the club brother. On the upside we get to start taking Bingo seriously soon. Jeremy Falcon

We have a production domain, a dmz domain and a dev domain. There are one way trusts so that dmz trusts prod and dev trusts prod, but not the other way. We just use prod ids on all domains. If a dmz or dev box is compromised, it is supposed to slow down sideways propagation into prod.

God what a dogs breakfast "I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

How about one of those fancy air mattresses from the SleepNumber Store? I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

"they're nullable already surely?" The point is by opting into nullables it makes them NON-nullable by default, rather than nullable by default. I've dived in with both non-nullable reference types and C# 9 records in a greenfield project. A few sprints in and I'm really pleased with how it's influenced / affected the codebase. Records are wonderful for letting details stand out in simple classes, and their immutability drives your design down a positive path. Similarly with the non-nullable reference types, it can be a little jarring at first, but it pretty much just means the compiler can infer more than it could before, and points you to more issues. Sometimes they're "non-issues", that wouldn't really have mattered, but there have definitely been a couple of points where it's caused me to think something deeper that may have been an issue. Null has its uses, and you're not stopped from using it. By introducing Nullable Reference Types into your codebase you're not avoiding the use of null, you're just making it absolutely clear when something can and when something can't be null. And in my opinion that's strong a positive.

An Assert should never modify data

No. It's a state in the Northeast. :laugh: Oh Well.....

It seems that the modern C# is becoming more cryptic. See the changes being proposed for C#-9

They should have also projected the Airwolf intro while playing its theme! That would have been super meta, even if it was low quality because of technological limitations! The forgotten roots of science | C++ Programming | DWinLib

Rob Philpott wrote: are you feeling these tax cuts? Rather certain the Koch brothers are. Bless their tiny hard little hearts.

I used to find that I could do anything I wanted to do in Python, and more easily - but recently I've been working in a locked down environment without python, but with Powershell, so I've forced myself to learn. I initially found it odd to work with - but it is making more sense over time. Syntactically there are still some things I find quirky compared to for example Unix shell scripting. I'm a whiz at batch files . . . but now I'm finding that I use batch less than Powershell. . . so it must be growing on me. . . . and it does seem to be the future for Microsoft.

No problems Rob. Am Happy to Help. You may be interested to know I wrote A Book on Bootstrap 3 (Shameless Plug I know...) It's in the Syncfusion Succinctly ebook series and free to download from their site (There's a quick link to it and others from my blog) If you hold on a week or so, I have a new post that I'm hoping to get finished for my blog that will be designed to get a newcommer up and running in as little time as possible with Aurelia and C# using dotnet core. Lastly, I'm in the final stages of finishing the followup to my Bootstrap 3 book, covering bootstrap 4, which I'm hoping to get done by end of December ready for SF to publish it in the new year. Of course like you, time pressures are always present, and whats outlined above is the "Nirvana plan" :-) Feel free to ping me on Twitter as @shawty_ds if you want to ask anything. Shawty

I've done that; I've also gotten a torn rotator cuff on one shoulder. This is about a decade ago. I fixed that one by sleeping on the other side, with subsequent torn rotator cuff on the other shoulder. I've since learned to sleep with pillow propped up and arms to the side (elbow in front of nose). I've worked on my shoulders, and they have improved somewhat but I have trouble throwing a ball straight. I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

Ayyy lmao

Push is evil and should be avoided. Ideally, the clients should connect to a database and execute a query, but that doesn't always work -- it could put too heavy a load on the server or the query could take too long to execute, etc. There was a system I wrote a few years back that had to feed about a half-dozen client systems with an extract of the state of the system. What I wound up doing was to have a Windows Service create and publish the extract as an XML file on the network -- e.g. Extract.0.xml , Extract.1.xml ... Extract.9.xml . I think a new extract was made about every fifteen seconds or so. The clients would connect to the database to get the name of the current file then read that file.

I never played many games on the PC (Scumm games and DooM notwithstanding), so I'm more used to using a joypad, and not having to sit up straight to use mouse & keyboard. That said, I only ever play silly little gamed on my phone, nowadays -- I'm even thinking of writing one myself, and calling it "Bloated Battery Killer!" I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!