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Happy birthday Marc
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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For what?
Go thank your mother, she did the work.
Srsly. Go to her, say "thank you" It elephanting hurts, I been told. Imagine pressing an orange through your nose.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And to the rest of us![^]
Ravings en masse^ |
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yes, and to the rest of us. And Bill Clinton, his birthday is today too!
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Happy Birthday, Marc of the Cliftons!
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Thank you! Enjoying a beautiful sunny day at home!
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I would rate the curved OLED displays on phones as #1 useless innovation.
Just because they could bend a display, it doesn't mean they have to dump it on a product.
How bad this is. It's so annoying and uncomfortable.
In fact, it is said - the curved design makes it weaker structurally.
Anybody has a phone with curved display (on the two sides ) and finding great use-cases for the same?
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Have heard somewhere that 95 percent of patents filed are useless innovations.
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And some of them slipping into actual production is even worse.
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My father frequently told me I was a useless innovation
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: innovation
could be an accident?
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You can use it as a hot pan mat.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Nand32 wrote: In fact, it is said - the curved design makes it weaker structurally. Doesn't matter; before that, no one could have curved glass. It is novelty and as such, people will pay more for the technical inferiour version.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: people will pay more for the technical inferiour version.
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Nand32 wrote: Just because they could bend a display, it doesn't mean they have to dump it on a product.
These curved phone displays you've just described, the foldable phones Samsung had to recall, curved TVs - they all share one common thing: It's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
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dandy72 wrote: It's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
100%
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I'm thinking about making my app be able to update itself directly from a github repo/branch
good idea, bad idea? what do you think?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Not a good idea for a dev tool, IMHO. My freeware (consumer-oriented) apps give the end-user the ability to update their app in-place, with a single button click (if they so choose).
/ravi
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that's what I'm talking about though. in place self-updates using github releases. i'm not making a dev tool out of it. More like a sample app with a drop in source file that handles it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well-written code doesn't require updates.
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"software rusts"
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Only if it's of poor quality and workmanship. Just yesterday I used the first program I ever bought, and that was 41 years ago. As good as ever and it's still useful.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's not necessarily true.
Features may be added later that weren't feasible to release in prior versions due to budget and time and quality. Operating systems change, and apps are updated to take advantage of newer OS features (like shell JumpLists in win7+)
There are plenty of reasons to update an app that don't have to do with quality.
Frankly, you making such a statement just leaves me puzzled. I want to think you're joking.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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