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Mmm...
But we got.. Unicorns!  🦄🦄🦄🦏
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You know it only works if the person who's reading your post is also running Win10, right?
/ravi
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Nah, I didn't, haha!
But hey, all good people do! 
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: You know it only works if the person who's reading your post is also running Win10, right?
That's not true.
There is work being done to standardize the emoji[^] within the Unicode standard[^].
All of those emoji are working just fine on my iPad (iOS v11.3.1) with only a slight difference in the iconography.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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You're right. But it doesn't (yet) work on my Win7 Chrome. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: But it doesn't (yet) work on my Win7
You only have 1.5 years left before your OS reaches EOL. Are you planning on going straight from 7 to 10? Or will you adopt 8.1 next?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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I think I'll move directly to Win10 (bypassing Win8/8.1), but I expect I'll continue to use Win7 for a while after EOL. It will be support for .NET (and its variants) and VS20xx that will dictate when I move.
/ravi
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Reading the below 'Interesting how innovation changes' thread made me think about how much faster computers are now, and how they compare to supercomputers of the past. So I had to google and found: current high-end pc vs 1980s super computer - PC/Mac/Linux Society - GameSpot.
If anyone knows of a chart showing supercomputer gigaflops vs average desktop gigaflops over the years, give a link! I am too young for punched cards, but my first TRS play toy had 16 KB of memory I believe, and a tape drive. In college we ran a finite element analysis program on fairly good commercial Dells that ran at around 350 MHz if I'm not mistaken, and took about 8 hrs to run a standard simulation! Times have changed!
Oops - I was wrong - I had TRS-80 MC-10 - Wikipedia with 4KB!
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There's this: [^], but that could get expensive.
I try and distract myself by watching talent shows from eastern European countries on utube, like: [^] ... hint: jump to 5:40.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
modified 18-May-18 17:25pm.
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Well, that escalated quickly ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him.
The first rule of Hair Styling is: you do not talk about Hair Styling.
"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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This is getting weirder and weirder...
Quote: Other barbers there said they didn't know the stylist's name or how to reach him.
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What ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) was that? Andy Kaufman reincarnated in Eastern Europe?
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You'd have thought that "Boaty McBoatface" would have shown people that asking the internet to vote on anything is probably a bad idea.
But no ... Estonian Town Gets Cannabis Leaf as Its Emblem[^] 
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How is that a bad idea? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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Not a bad idea. Perhaps Weed, CA should do the same? 
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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"Kanep means cannabis in Estonian, and the leaf, according to local legend, has been used as a symbol of the area for at least 150 years, referring to the hemp traditionally grown and made into cloth, oil and rope there."
So it is entirely logical and correct that it does so.
Boaty McBoatface was just typical English humour, unfortunately slapped down by the boat owners.
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Did you notice the voting pattern?
Quote: even though the number of online voters in favor of it — about 12,000 — was more than double the municipality’s population of 5,000.
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Well, I guess people from around the region voted.
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xkcd: MC Hammer Age[^]
If that makes you feel a little old ... don't google him. You'll want a Zimmer frame.
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Can't touch that 
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He's approaching the time of 'Golden Parachute' pants!
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I've got a new rig and am about to load it up with apps, and so I'd like to install anything FREE that is of value for Visual Studio. Of course, instead of making it easy, Microsoft makes it tricky, and I can remember once installing different versions of Visual Studio, and somehow the registry got all whacked out. 
It looks like all I need is to run "vs_Community" and "vs_BuildTools". I would like to have access to all the different languages, and it has been my experience that Micro$oft likes to wall these out with their free stuff, making it a pain to work with. Of course, maybe that was the old Micro$oft, as the new Micro$oft wishes to get Visual Studio installed in as many system as possible.
I also see that there are those old standbys, the .NET & C++ redistributables, that I also plan to install, although maybe I don't installing those aforementioned ones? 
modified 18-May-18 13:38pm.
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VS 2017 is free, and child's play to install. Don't forget to select all the extras that you want.
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Insisting on spelling it "Micro$oft" really makes you look like a relic from the past. Only people from Slashdot still do that because, well, haters gonna hate.
With that out of the way:
Just get VS Community. Everything its installer makes available for installation is free.
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