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I think along the line of what Griff was getting at - except I would like the ability to control the colours on screen outside of the application.
So, say I have an editor that does not have the option to present a black background - I could still get the black background.
I don't know how the mechanics of this would be accomplished but it would allow me to control the colour themes rather than the applications limiting what I can have.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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using a package and writing some powershell to do some automagic things. Wasn't behaving how I thought it should. So I emailed support to ask. This is the response I got.
Another thing I'd like to mention, is that the following {switch} combination: "-O -P Skip" usually doesn't give the results users would expect.
Well no duh. So don't use them huh. <grin>
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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At least, they are honest
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Nish Nishant wrote: At leastAmazing, they are honest
FTFY
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At least you got a response.
I love my email service but I have never gotten a response from them.
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Send them an email...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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rnbergren wrote: Another thing I'd like to mention, is that the following {switch} combination: "-O -P Skip" usually doesn't give the results users would expect.
And another thing, all inquiries are answered with one automated response.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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What a way to die.
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It's a small universe, only so many things to look at...
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Is Bluegrass when you mow down a Smurf?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bluegrass is a Smurf playing a banjo.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well lookee here.
smurf playing a banjo[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Bluegrass is Smurf-weed.
I don't hoe how you pot up with this lawn of response.
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or weed that makes you sad
Format Success.
Welcome to your new signa&*(gD@@@ @@@@@@*@x@@
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No, it is when you get ripped off buying weed.
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1) Prefer one long article
2) The article broken apart into logical parts
3) Don't care as long as it has links to the other parts
4) Don't care, won't read anyways
Nothing to do with JSOP's post, it's something I've been mulling over as I have an article that in Word (and there's only 5 or so screenshots) is over 120 pages.
The topic is a C# implementation of Kademlia.
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Break the sucker up: or it'll get hammered by the TL;DR brigade.
It does need to be in relatively "bite sized" chunks - that's why books have chapters - and it's always nice to have the relevant logical parts together rather than having to hunt and hope you didn't miss anything important.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Break the sucker up
Well, that'll increase my article count.
It'll be interesting doing that, as currently I have in each section things like "discussion", "implementation", and "unit tests" for each functional component. That might make for a logical break. There's also a GUI demo, which makes sense to keep separate.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Has anyone ever had all the places in the "Article of the month" competition yet?
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Orig inalGriff said:
It does need to be in relatively "bite sized" chunks - that's why books have chapters - and it's always nice to have the relevant logical parts together
I concur with you, with a few caveats:
- All of the pieces are published within a short period of time.
- The author(s) has had other proofread the entire series, as a whole. The tone, tense, voice, word use, and style should be consistent for the entire series. This is especially important for authors who, like most engineers, did not pay attention during their English Comp. courses. (Many people I've worked with cannot write a decent, error-free one-page memo. English is their primary and, often, only language, yet I shudder to think of them writing a five-to-ten page paper!)
- They include a table of contents (and maybe an index)
- Figures, charts and other inclusions are labeled and numbered.
- The author takes care to define acronyms and unusual technical terms upon first use. We all know what delegates are, what MVVM and FPGA stand for, and how to implement a decision table via linkage editor, right?
- The author(s) cite their source material. If they say they adapted Erin Katzenjammer's technique, please tell us where we can find Katzenjammer's article on the subject. A good hot link is enough. (See The Katzenjammer Kids[^].)
Maybe, I am asking for too much.... We are talking about engineers and programmers, after all...
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Jalapeno Bob wrote: Many people I've worked with cannot write a decent, error-free memo.
I run my articles through MS Word now. That catches most of the outright incorrect spellings, but misses the words that are spelled correctly, yet are the wrong word, or incomplete give the sentence structure. It's not perfect, but it catches a lot of crap.
I edit the article in a HTML file in Visual Studio, and then copy/paste that into MS Word, fix the glaring problems, and then paste it back into the HTML file.
Jalapeno Bob wrote: All of the pieces are published within a short period of time.
I do all parts of a multi-part article at the same time. This keeps me from procrastinating on finishing subsequent parts.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I edit the article in a HTML file in Visual Studio
Heh, I still use FrontPage. It does spell-checking.
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There's two different moments where I'm reading articles; first, there's just staying up-to-date, reading about new and interesting things. For these I prefer not too long articles with some pictures as a short introduction into a framework or idea.
Other moments I'm implementing something and get stuck. In that case I don't care about the length, I care more about the code-examples and the headlines. Any (sub)title will indicate whether or not this is similar to what I'm trying. Depending on the situation and severity, the article moves to the second monitor, or is printed entirely.
120 pages is more in the realm of "book" than it is an "article". I seriously would not mind seeing a new category called "books", especially if I could PDF it onto the e-reader.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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