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Anyone else seeing this...
- Open solution under git
- Down in the lower rigt corner, select Master
- Down in the lower rigt corner, select a different branch
- From the Git menu, select Manage Branches
- Right click Master. On mine I see "Merge 'master' into 'master'"
If, in the lower right corner of VS, I choose a different branch, then close & reopen Manage Branches, everything looks fine.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Ok thanks.
They just changed the Git UI in VS not too long ago. I just can't understand why MS keep changing things around!! If it's not broken, DON'T FIX IT!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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the new Git view doesn't seem to make things any easier. The thing that bugs me the most is the lack of the back button. You click a commit (at the top of the panel) to view the changes, click the next commit, then realise you want to go back to the previous you just viewed and...too bad.
Why take that away?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I wholeheartedly agree! Also, if moving things around requires dropping useful features (e.g. initiating a PR directly from VS after pushing), maybe don't do it. Maybe wait until you've figured out how to provide feature parity. Just sayin'
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Is a Metronome more sophisticated than a Rural Gnome?
"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
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Those type of comments really tick me off! A measure of thought coda realized that kind of bass staff is problematic
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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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Depends which algo-rhythm is used.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Do you think mathematicians who do not believe in contraception use the algo-rhythm method?
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I think they do, but I have no proof.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Noooow we're off on a tangent.
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If this were a contract, I'd choose to sine over cosine.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I use a fair amount of social engineering in my user interfaces. Pretty much it's a way to have the users behave in an expected way when presented with previously experienced situations. Actually, after some experience, we all do.
It has just occurred to me that we, too, have been socially engineered as well by the users. They have taught us what we must do to get their (even if subconscious) cooperation. Rephrased, it is a feed-back loop where we are (to avoid problems) responding to their (historical) cues to create our cues for them.
Not necessarily profound - and perhaps even humbling.
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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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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: we, too, have been socially engineered as well by the users
Standardization of UI layouts in a product or suite is essential. I'm in the process now of changing the layout in an older (grid heavy) desktop app due to the increase in screen sizes over the last 20 years...controls the users interact with the most have been moved to the top.
The overall goal is to keep the support line quiet. If an end user doesn't understand how to use a screen then I haven't done my job correctly.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I'm in basic agreement - I just think about that term "programming defensively" and realize it is I who have been trained as much as the users.
I've got things running that have had features added, but all in all, successfully for more than a decade. Still, every now and then a "new hire" comes along with a new trick to screw things up. I used to think it was some form of cleverness but now I realize it's random, like virus mutation. Every now and then one of them can slip through the defenses (the others drawing no attention).
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It's called iterative development.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I think it falls in more close with terms like "symbiotic", or perhaps "parasitic" !
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Actually, I learn their jobs and adopt their mental model. No parasites. I see where this was a revelation.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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ComCtls in Win3 were great; everyone application had the same buttons and the same textboxes. A UI was predictable, and users would recognize them and could operate those often without any special training. It was uniform, had accesability options for the visually impaired, it was tested to the point of insanity. It. just. worked.
And then MS went WPF and UI's became unpredictable, with the need to hover in a magic spot to even see your buttons.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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I skipped Win3 and went from DOS 6.1 (eventually) to WinNT.
You can blame a lot on the platform sources, like MS - but the real blame always falls on developers who think they can be stylish and cute. Beside, they know how it works (more or less) as they made it. Surely the user can see it, too!
I've generally worked on avoiding things I hate in other people's software. Eventually that builds a consensus of what to avoid. One item, fitting into your comments, is that even when I add new features they're fully backward compatible in terms of how they work. They may do more but they don't change how they do it (at least to the user). If a change is really needed, a safe process is to add a new item and slowly replace the old one as the new one becomes established. Presuming the new one is better (or why bother?), acceptance is automatic at that point.
Probably all stuff you consciously or unconsciously practice.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I skipped Win3 and went from DOS 6.1 (eventually) to WinNT. Also used the ComCtrls.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I've generally worked on avoiding things I hate in other people's software Yeah, hard to avoid VB6 here. Learned a lot from those brownfields.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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WPF alone is not the root of all evil, see the grid size changing woes above.
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Back when I was a teenager "social engineering" meant getting too-credulous users to give up their passwords.
Times, they change.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The epidemic of credulism (I now own that word!) has infected a huge fraction of society not only in the US but world-wide.
Just consider the uptick in conspiracy theories that wouldn't be believed by a moron (at one time) that are now adopted en masse. Believing (almost "believing in") serial liars. The success of so many scams on-line even when exposed publicly, and of course, that Bob only has six fingers and he wasn't just posing for CP.
I mean, really, those lizard people amongst us have already chipped most of us.
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