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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Sure, but if the designer/implementer doesn't ask for input (when it will actually help) it's hardly any use (after the fact).
And even when they ask, there is no certainty that they will use / make something out the given feedback
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Dean Roddey wrote: But presumably it wasn't sufficiently positive, and it just got whacked.
Did they actually delete it or just down-vote it? I'd like to read it if you leave us a link to it.
It sounds as if you were giving a balanced evaluation.
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Dean Roddey wrote: I just made a post [...] on reddit [...] but [...] wasn't sufficiently positive and it [...] got whacked.
Reddit in a nutshell for any section with a decent number of members. If you present any thoughts or ideas counter to the locally 'accepted truth' you get run out on a rail.
Some sections are worse than others but, like Facebook and Twitter, it is a place best avoided.
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Dean Roddey wrote: I just made a post in the reddit rust section,
That's what you get from straying from the one true path that is unmanaged c++.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ah, you have seen the light.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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saw the light before I was essentially forced to move to .Net. I spent almost 20 years doing C++ - until the C++ job market dried up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Therein lies the rub. Even though Rust has probably a better chance than average of becoming something other than a niche language, it's still very much one now and putting in the time to learn it is definitely something of a risk. Part of my argument is make it more attractive to the rest of the existing C#/C++/Python/etc... world by supporting real inheritance. Even if you don't believe, as I do, that inheritance is a powerful tool, add it for those folks who know it and know how to use it effectively.
There's a big chicken and egg thing with a new language. Until there are jobs for it, people won't dig into it for the most part, but until there's a reasonably deep talent pool, companies won't want to commit to using it. I don't think I've seen a single job posting that included Rust, though I'm sure some are out there, at Mozilla if nothing else.
For me, I'm a Windows/C++ guy. That turned out to be possibly the worst combination. Windows is fine, but not C++ on Windows so much. C++ would be somewhat better on Linux. C# I've done a good bit of work with already, but that's sort of doubling down on Windows.
I've been playing around with Rust on Linux, sort of killing two brain cells at once. But, in terms of really committing to Rust enough to really learn it and start to do serious work in it, I dunno if that's warranted. Both for reasons of lack of maturity of the language and tools and ecosystem, and because of the decisions made in its creation. It has some really interesting ideas, but it has some glaring holes.
Explorans limites defectum
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Given that most dev work is leaning hard in the direction of the web, historically desktop languages are not long for the world. C# doesn't necessarily glue you to Windows any more than C++ glues you to Linux.
I haven't looked at rust at all, given my proximity to retirement. New languages will probably be more widely (or wildly) embraced as us oldsters move out of the work force.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But, the other side of that coin, though I hate it terribly, is that everything is pushing us towards rented software and undoing the PC revolution. That means that the back end of the web becomes heavier and heavier. Folk like Amazon are hiring a lot for large scale back end development to support this trend. It takes a lot of software to track everything we do and package it up for sale.
Explorans limites defectum
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If you do long running debugging session with Visual Studio, your output window is likely flooded with message like
The thread 0x1b70 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x19ec has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x34cc has exited with code 0 (0x0).
How do I get rid of those? Anyone knows?
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Right click in the Output window and, at least in VS2019, you can turn off "Thread exit messages".
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You legend! 
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RTEM! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Only in my own mind. 
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I have an extra Facebook account (yes, I know it's "illegal"  ) that I had set up for the sole purpose of posting articles from the Wall Street Journal so that I could get around its seemingly impenetrable paywall - a ploy that doesn't even seem to work anymore! I should say that I been using my regular account in Firefox, and this extra account in Chrome, so it hasn't been an issue going back & forth.
Anyway, because Firefox has automatically updated to a new version (66.0.3), all the add-ons for that are now broken , and thus Firefox is currently a dodgy browser to use (I've figured out how to add the add-ons back in some type of temporary debug status, but of course, some of them are causing strange behavior ). So I used Chrome to access Facebook, and thus that extra account was in the cookie to have me logged in, and I noticed a huge number of notifications from 2 accounts that are not my Friends or anything else like that that I can detect. I tried searching for how to accomplish this, but alas, I have failed  - and thus I have come here to the ask the masters on how to do this. 
EDIT: It seems that these notifications are termed as "Pages you may like", so maybe Facebook itself is pumping these notifications?
modified 5-May-19 21:01pm.
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: > Settings > Privacy and security > Site settings > Notifications
Block / allow what you will! 
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OK, I did "Settings" - "Notifications", and turned off "Activity that involves you" and set "Tags" to "Friends" (that had been "Everyone"). Let's see if this stops the spam.
Now how do I delete the notifications that have already arrived? "mad:
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swampwiz wrote: I have an extra Facebook account (yes, I know it's "illegal" ) that I had set up for the sole purpose of posting articles from the Wall Street Journal so that I could get around its seemingly impenetrable paywall
So, let's see if I've got this straight:
0. You breached the terms and comnditions of one site so that...
1. ... You could steal from another site
2. The first site informs you whenever it receives a message for you
3. This is the first site's correct function, rather than for use in committing fraud
4. You want our help to make the first site stop doing its duty, and simply continue to help you steal from the second site.
Sorry, but I don't use fb, so I don't have a clue.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Check Firefox for updates I was able to re-download and enable add-ons last night. Strangely though, my father wasn't able to do the same.
For reference, I had uninstalled hoping I could reinstall to fix before I knew the actual problem.
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swampwiz wrote: I have come here to the ask the masters on how to do this
Ok. Here goes:
Get rid of Facebook. It'll simplify your life. You don't need it. Repeat that last sentence until you realize it's absolutely true.
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Getting old is making me mad. I can’t remember how to write 1,1000,51,6 and 500 in Roman numerals.
IM LIVID
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Just remember: getting old may be a pain, but ... it's better than the alternative! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: When in Rome, don't get mad
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