There are actually way worse solutions than that one :) Programmers imagine the most ridiculous ways to enter a phone number into a form — Quartz[^]

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Kent Sharkey wrote:

But I'm sure *they* would never misuse that data, right?

I mean, in itself the feature is actually nice. Just recently bought a new phone, restored the previous phone's iCloud backup to it and instead of the call list being empty I can see all the calls made on the previous device. I would assume this is the intended scenario for the feature and not "theft". Maybe I'm just naive though. On the other hand I have just checked the backup settings and there is indeed no switch to indicate this is going to happen, which is somewhat worrisome.

They just stop giving a dam.

Fair enough, but just googling "john cleese revocation" shows a lot of results dating way back, showing that this is some rehashed stuff.

Johnny J. wrote:

From John Cleese[^] :laugh:

Not only is this not actually from John Cleese, but it's not even referring to Trump but George W. Bush. Yep, it is that old. Snopes[^]

There's a reason it's 8 3 4 and not 15, you can't just add the number of bronze medals to the number of gold medals etc. Gold comes first, then silver and finally bronze.

FYI Hungarian/Hungary should be 11th with 8 3 4.

Not sure I see the issue here. This is the easiest way to remove the last character from a string.

I'm with you, I'm just saying it will come up eventually when extending existing software. Or rather, you will have situations where you would have those, so you just have to refactor. Or do that horrible NuGet stuff...

I have the same experience as well, developers advocating multiple assemblies, mostly "just because". I haven't really heard a compelling argument. Separation of concern should be done at class level, and beyond that separate assemblies rarely (if ever) add anything to it. On the other hand I had to deal with multiple issues because of this. One client had a solution so split up, when built it would take up 1 GB of disk space because projects referenced other projects, and every time the dlls would get copied to the output directory, some dlls duplicated 20+ times. And if this does not sound bad enough, it wasn't some huge back-end transactional processing whatever system. It was a web site with around 25 pages (I wish I was exaggerating). Second issue I've noticed that it's a nightmare for dealing with circular references, because there will always be at least 1 instance of this happening, and the more dlls the more likely. One company solved this by making every dll a NuGet package as well. It was a PITA to build, as you had to build project A, publish it to the feed, update for project B and then build that. But hey, at least no one had to do care where to put what... Obviously not saying multiple assemblies are a bad thing per se, but in my experience they are used lot more then they should be.

Mike Mullikin wrote:

statistic about browser usage that (to me) looked very wrong

But that's the whole point, Chrome is still not used by the majority of people, so it makes sense for them to advertise it (contrary what OP suggested). The statistics you linked as a reply to a statement about Chrome not being dominant at all, without context, seemed to imply differently. I've just pointed out (replying to that post) that the previous statement was correct, still more people use IE than Chrome.

It's not about desktop, it's about measuring strategy. The article linked explains it. But let me demonstrate with a simple example: Alice opens codeproject.com in IE Bob opens codeproject.com in IE Charlie opens codeproject.com in Chrome, then opens 3 other websites with the same. Net Market Share will report 66% IE, because 66% of people use that browser. Most other sites will report 33%, because across all those websites 2 out of 6 requests came from Chrome. That's why you can end up with wildly differing numbers.

If you are talking about users (as is the case) and not website visits, Net Market Share is more accurate. Net Market Share vs. StatCounter: Whose online measurements can you trust ZDNet[^]

If you teach a parrot to only say 'parrot', you basically have a Pokémon.

To be fair English has some of those weird sentences as well Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo[^]. Also shame on them for leaving the phrase árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép out. :laugh:

codeprjt :)

Programming: The Movie

56 is the max number of coins I could find, took quite some time. Apparently there are 169 total though :omg: