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Like no way, bra!
"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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It's true! I've looked at the figures.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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For your diligent work I raise A Cup to you. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"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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Me too. Make that a pair.
/ravi
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Hey! My eyes are up here.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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It's good that you got that off your chest.
"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 was expecting a more titillating set of replies - the CPian's milking this for all it's worth.
What's wrong with us? Arola bunch of wimps or what?
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Now you're just making mountains out of molehills.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Do breast implant surgeons charge a flat fee? |
If they do, that's a silly con.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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So yesterday I received a call that the Canadian Revenue Agency is going to arrest me if I don't pay 4800 dollars.
Something like this:
IRS Scam Call from India - YouTube
I was busy and I hung up, however today I called back and they still are trying to scam people:
If you want to troll scammers: here is the number:
613-288-9226
Canadian police is too busy sitting on their hands so they will be operating probably for a long time.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Are you sure that it wasn't officer Alice Cooper ?
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Actually the guy I talked to said his name is Eric Martin. What amazes me it is a regular phone number from Ottawa, open to every policeman to just call to verify they are scammers.
Yet still they operate without any authority taking any measures.. The only thing you can do is troll them like this epic call:
IRS Scammer gets real mad part 3 Scammer Has a Huge Meltdown!!! - YouTube
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Or this one [^]
This guy wrote an automated process to continue calling the scammers' numbers until they stopped scamming people. He would shut the system down for a while until the scammers got new numbers.
Really funny.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Examining the open source Atom editor.
It's an interesting idea that the entire thing is written in JavaScript, but it doesn't feel like they picked the correct tool to write it in. Just seems like an exercise to see if it is possible.
However, it is pretty cool that the thing is cross-platform -- obviously JS makes that very possible.
JS syntax is so stringy.
Here's some code (from https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/src/path-watcher.js[^] ) with interesting comment:
const treeViewPackage = await atom.packages.getLoadedPackage('tree-view')
if (!treeViewPackage) return
await treeViewPackage.activationPromise
const treeViewModule = treeViewPackage.mainModule
if (!treeViewModule) return
const treeView = treeViewModule.getTreeViewInstance()
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raddevus wrote: However, it is pretty cool that the thing is cross-platform -- obviously JS makes that very possible.
If you consider a webbrowser to be a platform, yes.
Since webbrowsers do not boot, it is not cross-OS. Your OS would need to come with a browser that supports said JavaScript, making it as cross-platform as GWBASIC.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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This editor is a standalone project that runs in Node.js (on V8 I believe) and doesn't require a browser.
There are native installs for macOS, Windows and Linux.
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..which isn't an operating system either. You're merely changing the name of the loader of the scripts.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The browser is bundled with these types of applications.
Not that that is necessarily a good thing. Complaints abound of bloat for all these Electron apps.
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Visual Studio Code uses the same underlying technology (electron).
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Scott Serl wrote: Visual Studio Code uses the same underlying technology (electron).
That's interesting. Thanks for mentioning.
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So I made a web based document uploading application. Prior to this the users had been using that atrocity, Confluence, for this purpose. At the end of this example, I note what it all comes down to.
They had three fields:
BROWSE (button: pick a file),
CAPTION a text field for a friendly name for the file for presentation to those who might read it.
DEPT the visibility: all viewers or limit to a single department.
Built in, behind the scenes, was a handler for checking for a duplicate file and forcing it to an update (serializing old information as an archive).
That was too hard. The had me use the file name and create a description from that (which is, in general, crap), and preset to their own department.
That was too hard. The had me add an update button to the view/display component so everything is pre-done except the selecting the file for upload, serializing, but replacing the old file with the new (and allowing editing of fields which are now pre-loaded with previous values).
I noted that one could now select a file for update, and change their mind, overlaying one reference with totally wrong data. Still. That's what they wanted. (The original would only replace if file-names matched).
OK - now there's nothing left to do but pick the file from your computer.
Everything else was optional and done for you.
In the AM, sure enough, the user elephanted it up with the only error route left, overlaying and wiping out an existing from an unrelated posting.
So, here's what I've discerned about our profession:
You need to code until you reach the lowest common denominator.
Then you need to keep going.
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