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It's another strange thing, but some of my favourite times have been at funerals, or more specifically wakes I suppose.
A group of people gathered together because of their love or affection for one person and sharing memories of good times.
Still best not to have to go to one, but the older you get the more there are.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: the older you get the more there are.
Ah, there's a built-in escape clause. 
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That's how you win at life, by going to more funerals than your mates.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Do you think it is odd to go to the funeral of someone you've never met?
No.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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chriselst wrote: Do you think it is odd to go to the funeral of someone you've never met?
Not at all.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I've had several online friends whose funerals I would've gone to if they were within driving distance instead of cross country flights.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Why are you talking to me?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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chriselst wrote: Do you think it is odd to go to the funeral of someone you've never met?
Not in the slightest. If you feel like you should be there, go; it's more comfort to the family to see one more person show up, even if they don't know who you are. They'd be more likely to complain if they do know you and don't like you, than if they don't know you at all.
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If you don't go, someday you will regret.
In code we trust !
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chriselst wrote: Do you think it is odd to go to the funeral of someone you've never met?
If people ask, just say you met online and started a relationship.
seriously,
If people ask, just say you knew him and have good memories of him.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: If people ask, just say you met online and started a relationship.
I actually know in person quite a few people who will be there. We mostly met online through a shared interest, some I have met a few times, some I see almost weekly, some I have never met at all.
He was supposed to be going somewhere with a friend of his, didn't show, they went round, got no answer, called his daughter who came and opened up, found him dead in his bed. He was 59.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Do you think it is odd to go to the funeral of someone you've never met?
IMHO, if their family does not incur much additional expense because of one additional person (you) attending the funeral, then it is OK to go.
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Brian Harry, CVP in charge of ALM and VSO at Microsoft, will be making some announcements today regarding Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server at Connect();, Microsoft's Visual Studio event, which is currently streaming live[^] from NYC.
Brian will join us later today at 5pm EST to discuss the announcements and to take part in a live Question/Answer period with CodeProject members happening in this article[^].
Post your questions or join us for a live chat later today if you can make it!
Kevin Priddle
Editor and Special Projects Manager - CodeProject
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The Roadmap for WPF[^]
Someone at Microsoft woke up and published a roadmap for WPF after all these years. 
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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That doesn't read like a "roadmap" to me, and what I found most interesting is the comment on the piece by former WPF manager, Scott Barnes.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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I guess, that is the really most interesting comment.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Looks like the road map theory is a dead end.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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They'll be digging the road up within a couple of days -- burst water main/broken cable/whatever -- and NIMBY locals are bound to complain and petition, so don't take it as gospel.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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10% of all newly created projects in Visual Studio 2013 over the past 60 days are WPF.
And I should be impressed by that number???
Marc
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Of course!
What's impressive is that 83% of those projects were opened by people who just want to see for themselves how bad it is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It depends if the other 90% were mostly Winforms (in which case someone in Redmond should be into his ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ), or if most of them were web/metro/wp8/c++/non-gui applications and most of the new .net desktop dev is in WPF.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What does worry me is the 3 bugs they called out as being slated for fixing:
Quote: WPF Touch Event Fires with Delay
WPF Ribbon Window: The border is too thin
Using BitmapFrame.Create with any TIFF file allocates 300MB of RESERVED MEMORY if Microsoft Camera Codec Pack is installed
One is jaw droppingly, how the elephant did they let such a usability fail out in the first place, bad. One is a trivial nitpick item. The third is another jaw dropper performance fail.
Two problems that never should've been allowed to reach production; and one that probably took 10 seconds + bureaucratic overhead to fix. Where are all of the the non-trivial to fix major developer pain point bugs that any major software platform should have in significant quantity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It appears that Philae has successfully landed! ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
[edit] I find it quite amusing how Cpt. Kirk is mentioned, and "The final frontier" and "where no one has gone before." It's really amazing how iconic Star Trek is.
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Marc
modified 12-Nov-14 11:38am.
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And....breathe....
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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