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If you're going to use <OldSolder> please remember to add the mandatory attribute <Flux>.
Will Rogers never met me.
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There's just no pleasing some people .
Hmm. I'm trying to imagine the soldering iron you'd use with 69 KVA lines, like in your old job .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Just place the ends together, wrap with duct tape, and energize; they weld themselves.
Will Rogers never met me.
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It wouldn't surprise me to find that to be the simple truth. I'm (I think properly) cautious when I deal with 120V/220V around the house. 69KV is frigging scary sh*t.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 7-Oct-16 6:19am.
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"Funnily, .NET is still COM"
No, no it is not.
The Windows Store app model is derived from COM, but .NET is something else altogether. That is why there are COM interop classes.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: No, no it is not.
The Windows Store app model is derived from COM, but .NET is something else altogether. That is why there are COM interop classes.
On Windows, the .NET CLR/GC/JIT is implemented via COM. Every time you run a .NET executable, the .NET CLR is injected as an in-proc COM server. Also, if your native apps ever need to host the CLR, you would use the COM based API.
Of course, it's an implementation detail, so an end-developer using C# or VB need not be aware of this
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Having a COM-based hosting is slightly different from ".NET is still COM".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I agree. I should have expressed that better. Mostly, I was implying that COM is certainly not dead.
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I'm doing modern windows development too. Just started with...
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
MSG msg;
BOOL bRet;
for(; ; )
{
bRet = GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0);
if (bRet > 0)
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
else if (bRet < 0)
{
}
else
{
break;
}
}
return msg.wParam;
}
It's a joke, people. A joke. But, also, that code still works.
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Classic stuff. Reminds me of interview questions 20 years ago!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Sheldon Cooper thought of it first!
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So Nish...when's your job going to get outsourced to a guy in India?
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So Nish...when's your job going to get outsourced to a guy in India?
When I deem that the time has come.
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That's him on the screen, isn't it?
I'm the guy sitting just outside the picture boundary, with a cold beer in my hand.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's him on the screen, isn't it?
For a few moments I was confused too - not just to others, brown people look the same to brown people as well. Then I noticed that he had glasses, so it couldn't be me. That was a huge relief, since I didn't want to be in new Delhi since I don't really speak Hindi all that well.
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Nish Nishant wrote: For a few moments I was confused too - not just to others, brown people look the same to brown people as well.
I wouldn't normally make this sort of off-color remark (see what I did there?), but since you brought it up:
Please tell your buddy to stop calling me about my infected Windows computer.
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Yeah sure, all 1 billion of them?
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That'd be great, if you don't mind. How does your address book scale like that?
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Multiple Redis caches
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Hilarious!!
1. One step further and the receptionist becomes a generated image and voice and then humans are not needed for reception.
2. One step after that and you are turned into a robot visitor and then humans are not needed at all.
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Of course in the not-too-distant future, having actual human staff will be a sign of utter swank.
Software Zen: delete this;
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sigh. I liked our receptionist. She should have seen the cut coming though. Even so, I swear to God, if I ever met someone like that as a "receptionist" I'd reach out and rotate the head some iterations of 180 degrees. I mean really, you walk into a business and you're greeted with that? Put some tits on it at least!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Is this really happening? Wow!
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IT'S THE ANGEL GABRIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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