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Why? There is a Java forum here on CodeProject, and QA can handle questions on most subjects.
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Cp-Coder wrote: So stone me - I'm a heretic Did you by any chance happen to say "Jehova" in front of a large group of Jewish women wearing fake beards?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Let he or she who hasn't sinned cast the first stone.
Hang on. I have never asked a question on SO.
Sorting through my favourite stones now....
However I have found relevant and sometimes vital information after doing a google search which returned stuff from SO.
So the stones that I have chosen for you are just tiny little ones. Little pebbles really.
Sorry but I still have to do it because I love a good stoning.
Glad that you found a solution.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: Let he or she who hasn't sinned can't aim cast the first stone.
FTFY
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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haha
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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OUCH!
I am not wrong. I am just different!
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If I google for help, SO is generally my last resort - and I'll admit it's to not boost it's rankings vs. CP .
However, when stuck, I've found the answer often (mostly) worthless and a inbuilt level of rudeness seems to be part of the culture (akin to: this was asked 15 years ago - question closed).
However #2: maybe it's for the best - would we want Q&A input to go up ten-fold or more?
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Just don't try to answer any questions on SO. As a "new" member you'll be flamed by the moderators.
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I'm taking a few days out of the city (allowed, by myself and with my masks) to Lac Megantic (google map link) to do some cycling.
Tomorrow, i will try to climb the Mont-Megantic and Wednesday, I will ride around the lake.
Anyhoo ...
Traveling in 2020 means bringing along gadgets, too many gadgets.
1 cycling computer, 1 phone, 1 watch, 1 laptop, 1 external drive (*) , 1 real camera, 1 gopro (I'm trying that), 1 kindle, 1 card reader that support multiple card formats, way too many cables and adaptors to convert too many usb variants.
I'm lucky I don't have electronic shifting on my bike, I would need to bring a charger for that as well.
(*) I was stupid and did not select a 256 gb drive for my laptop; so I need to bring along an external drive.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Hmm. The last time I toured I had the cycling computer mounted on the bike and my phone, which served as my camera as well. The only other piece of electronic gear was a 3-in-1 AC adapter so that when I used an electrical outlet it was easy to share. In place of the Kindle I brought a pile of dead tree media, also known as books. The tour folks hauled our camping gear from one host town to the next, so having a few books along was easy. No need for the GoPro, since I'm an old fart and ride slowly.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Maximilien wrote: I don't have electronic shifting on my bike
oh, so you're a luddite as well (wrt bikes) seriously, I have a Di2, it doesn't need charging very often, and I'm doing 100km a week at the moment
I think you forgot a 'drone' to attach the go-pro to, to get aerial pics
Have fun, sounds nice, pls try not to fall OFF anything - mountain, bike, ..
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Why not install Kindle on your laptop or phone, or both?
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Maximilien wrote: 1 cycling computer, 1 phone, 1 watch, 1 laptop, 1 external drive (*) , 1 real camera, 1 gopro (I'm trying that), 1 kindle, 1 card reader
Don't forget to take your bike.
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I was at B&N recently (I wore a mask) and I was looking at the O'Reilly book, C# 8.0 In A Nutshell[^] Flipped it over and noticed it lists at $79.95. Wow!!!
Not sure how B&N stays in business and why they don't simply match the Amazon price ($50.99) (at least).
Anyways, APress books has an electronic bookshelf which is on sale Apress[^] and you get all of their content via downloadable books for 1 year for $79 (normally $99)*.
I hemmed and hawed about it but finally pulled the trigger and I've been reading, Pro ASP.NET Core 3 (Develop Cloud-Ready Web Applications Using MVC 3, Blazor, and Razor Pages)[^].
The author, Adam Freeman, is fantastic. This is one of those rare tech books quite like The Petzold Programming Windows 3.1.
Quote from the book:
Putting Patterns in Their Place
Design patterns provoke strong reactions, as the emails I receive from readers will testify. A substantial proportion of the messages I receive are complaints that I have not applied a pattern correctly.
Patterns are just other people’s solutions to the problems they encountered in other projects. If you find yourself facing the same problem, understanding how it has been
solved before can be helpful. But that doesn’t mean you have to follow the pattern exactly, or at all, as long as you understand the consequences. If a pattern is intended to make projects manageable, for example, and you choose to deviate from that pattern, then you must accept that your project may be more difficult to manage. But a pattern followed slavishly can be worse than no pattern at all, and no pattern is suited to every project.
My advice is to use patterns freely, adapt them as necessary, and ignore zealots who confuse patterns with commandments.
Also, his Chapter 5 : Essential C# Features is a great read that clears up many of the confusing items like
Quote:
** Managing null values - Use the null conditional and null coalescing operators
** Extending the functionality of a class without modifying it --> Define an extension method
** Expressing functions and methods concisely / Use lambda expressions
** Modifying an interface without requiring changes in its implementation classes --> Define a default implementation
** Performing work asynchronously --> Use tasks or the async/await keywords
** Producing a sequence of values over time --> Use an asynchronous enumerable
*I'm not affiliated with APress or get anything from this. I just read a lot and books are way too expensive.
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I agree with him: patterns are generally a mistake. They are a "hammer" for most of the people who use it: every problem "looks like a nail", or can be twisted and bent to resemble a nail enough to apply the pattern.
They can be useful - but more often they are misapplied and that makes them worse than useless as far as I'm concerned.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just like the earth follows a certain pattern around the sun
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I agree. A lot of patterns are just band-wagon jumping. However, the CTO I currently work for has a great grasp of the entire GoF Patterns book and yet balances that with real usage.
The one thing I think is interesting related to patterns is the communication advantage you get.
When discussing design of parts and the you say, "Yeah, I'll apply an Adapter here etc."
Makes discussions quite a bit faster.
I think Freeman nails it though about the zealots out there though.
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But doesn't a factory of factories always solve all your design problems???? /s
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No, containers and microservices are the silver bullet that solve all problems
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Why not both?
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Only if you move it all to the cloud at the same time.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My problem with most of the pattern enthusiasm is that folks gets so wrapped up in implementing the abstraction that they forget to do the actual job.
Instead of turtles, it's templates all the way down.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Design patterns seem to be misunderstood as prescriptive, when they are actually intended to be descriptive. My understanding of them is that they (mostly) provide a shared vernacular around some common solutions to common programming problems. Essentially they're just a shorthand way of communicating broad aspects of software design.
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A great summary of the problem of patterns and real purpose of them.
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