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nah, I'm there brother . My former primary customer mystifies me in not letting developers use VMs. But the developers get paid even if their machine goes down. Consultants don't. Glancing at my stack of backup laptops....
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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charlieg wrote: Glancing at my stack of backup laptops....
LMAO
A coworker of mine is using a good set of VMs, but refuses to run VS itself in a VM. Too much of a difference in compilation time, he says (and he's using a much faster system than I have).
He's not wrong, but I don't tell VS to perform full rebuilds every 8 minutes. He's a little OCD in that way.
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.. walked into a blood donation clinic.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "What is your blood type?"
"I'm probably a type O" said the rabbit.
I'll take the coat on the way out
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A friend of mine is so Irish, his blood type is O apostrophe.
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If you woke up today, it's a good day. May it be filled with awesomeness and low carb cupcakes.
Jeremy Falcon
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I needed that. Not floating anxiety, floating agitation - may be related to the impending hurricane that is going to impact Atlanta.
I mean, how DARE the weather interrupt my schedule?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Hope your and your family get through the hurricane ok.
Jeremy Falcon
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It was going to a good day till you served low carb cupcakes
Hogan
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: low carb cupcakes
I read that as "alcohol-free beer".
Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
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dandy72 wrote: Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Well, I wanna lose my man boobs, but if you have none... then may you eat so may normal cupcakes you pass out.
Jeremy Falcon
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EF decides I have properties, for example a Widget class in an entry and if there's no FK it creates a WidgetId property. This despite were Posgress (all lower case) and we say Key instead of Id. I know of no way to modify or configure this feature and asked how to turn it off. I was asked for a code sample, I said no, this is a general EF feature and I want to turn it off. I got told they can't help without a specific code sample, and they turned my question off!!!!
To be clear this happens even with auto generated code and is ALWAYS WRONG. I am happy to have an issue I need to sort out to access one property, based on auto generated nonsense, but I don't want NO ACCESS to a table because it will always invent columns in the SQL that I never claimed to exist.
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In these parts, it's known as SNARK Overflow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have found a lot of inspiring tips and code pieces, but I agree that it is badly presented and sometimes a harsh tongue is there.
But see the Q&A section of CP - there are also big differences. I got sometimes bad critics for working solutions.
And someone asked about his library but explicitly did accepted no redesign of his crap.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: I agree that it is badly presented and sometimes a harsh tongue is there. As you mentioned (so I guess my post is pointless. )... I've seen harsh tongue on CP too.
The real problem is immature devs need to go outside more and interact with real humans. I bet you can guess which ones are prevalent on the maturity scale.
Jeremy Falcon
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I feel SO has it's place in the interwebs. Both CP and SO have been useful to me on more than one occasion. I choose to ignore the rare snarky remark on account of all kinds of people free to use both platforms. I cases I can't ignore I report. That's about it.
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Yup. SO is no more or less toxic than CP, Reddit, etc.
Jeremy Falcon
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It isn't more toxic that CP/Reddit?
I must just have a knack for having trolls' channel their core sphincters.
Or maybe pedantry type things just piss me off way more than they oughta.
I seriousness, I guess I haven't really been on SO in over a decade to know. Oh I'll steal their useful lines here and there, I'm just not joining the circus.
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I use it if results come up in Google searches. The couple of times I submitted questions were... unsuccessful .
Software Zen: delete this;
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To be fair… the same can happen on CP.
Reddit has been pretty good for me personally. Sometimes questions are a hit and miss there too. Some nerds love to pretend to know an answer they don’t. But that’s not site specific.
Talent is hard to find in any field.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: To be fair… the same can happen on CP. Could happen, however people are usually welcomed here.
Maybe we're not great experts, but, more often than not, try to help.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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That's my problem with SO. The times I've posted questions there they were marked as duplicates and closed or simply deleted. This was after I deliberately wrote them to describe how they weren't like the other instances of the question .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nope. I disagree. It has its uses.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Agreed. It has helped me on so many occasions!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I’ve gotten more answers from SO Googling than any other website, bar none. Don’t see the reason for all the hate… which isn’t really helpful and compromises 90% of I see in the lounge.
Jeremy Falcon
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