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obermd wrote: Sounds like a scam to me. Nope, it's legitimate. MS has been offering premiums to use Bing as a search engine -- earn points and redeem for various things. I get a $5 Amazon gift card every 3 weeks or so.
MS has been advertising the cashback deal for a while, but I haven't looked at it.
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It must have come as a shock to the good burghers of Amsterdam to discover that not every tourist came to their fair city to see the artwork in the museums...
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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Quote: Natashah Hitti | 5 December 2018 21 comments
You only just discovered this?
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*singing* (99 bottles of beer on the wall)
99% on the progress bar
99 heckin percent
Gets me down, gives me a frown
99% on the progress bar
99% on the progress bar
99 heckin percent
Minutes go by, makes me wanna die
99% on the progress bar
99% on the progress bar
99 heckin percent
Is it really stuck, that's just my luck
99% on the progress bar
Real programmers use butterflies
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Even when it gets to 100%, it still sits there for 10 minutes...
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And then updates to 10%...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Obligatory XKCD[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't even know a Hun.
*hides*
Real programmers use butterflies
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I got better
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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if i gave a fig could you become a newton ? [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Fie upon thee! I would not give even a fig of Spain for a fig of Newton!
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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I don't even own a Hawk.
"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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Yet, in the future, I may Tur. After which, I will be Turd.
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Don't ask meow.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm not sure who needs a USD126 WiFi-enabled ear wax removal kit, but someone thinks someone needs one:
This WiFi-equipped smart ear wax remover could literally save your hearing[^]
Quote: The Spade is stored inside the 3-in-1 charger, dock and storage unit, which can help keep the 350mAh battery in there working for up to 60 days on a single charge. Phew! I'd be worried it would run out before then.
TTFN - Kent
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Hurry it's on sale just $80.99, Just use the code CLEAN13.
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Now I'm thinking all the possibilities after hacking the WiFi...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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<sarcasm>
What a wonderful idea! You could also use the same basic tech for DIY root canal, colonoscopies, ...
The possibilities are endless!
</sarcasm>
This (literally!) belongs in the Insider News!
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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Whew. For a moment I thought they'd beaten me to market with my WiFi-equipped Smart Self-Open Heart Surgery kit.
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BinarySerializer is a very useful tool, with much less "ceremony" (annotations) required than DataContract. It does have its own brutal ways: it will serialize private Fields.
The fact my WinForm app created an instance of another project (generic 'ctor) separate from the Form, and then called its internally defined Serialize/Deserialize methods ... that in turn used BinarySerializer ...
Well I didn't expect it to break trying to serialize with an error saying the Form must be marked as Serializable: after all, a WinForm is a Control, and you can't serialize Controls.
I went back over every part of the code: external Class project has parameterless 'ctor: check.
There were some properties of Type Action in the external project that had code injected into them at run-time in the Form Load event: I recalled that BinarySerializer ignored Properties being said somewhen by Marc Gravell.
After much gnashing of teeth, I finally let go of fantasizing that some new Framework version had screwed things up, and, went in and added [NonSerializable] attributes on the Action Property definitions.
Whoops: that's illegal: with BinarySerializer, that Attribute works only on Fields. Changed Actions to Fields, and voila, things save and restore as expected.
And now, I'm going to go outside and cry, because I have proven to myself, again, that my tendency toward certainty is my relentless enemy, and I burn with shame.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I've never really liked the way the serializers work, but I understand why they work that way. I just wish there was a less ... kludgy way to do it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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There are some very interesting serializer projects on CP including Mehdi Gholam's epic (10 years of development !) FastJSON [^], and SuperLloyds Galador serializer [^] .
@superlloyd where's your CP article on Galador ?
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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