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Many summers ago, when Win32 was still young, I read a book on Win32 programming. Not the 'Petzold' yet, which I also had next in line. It was something like 'Windows programming in 21 days'. The author repeatedly made the same didactic mistake: He started every 'day' (= chapter) with 'And now we come to one of the most feared parts of windows programming...' or something similar.
At the end of each chapter I was still waiting for the scary part. Most mechanisms seem fundamental and not very complicated by themselves. If you could look at the Windows sourcecode, you would probably be astonished how direct and 'unfancy' it actually is. Nothing to fear if you ever spent some time with a professor that read about OS architecture or read one of his books.
The only 'scary' thing about it actually is the mysticism and supersticion that so many people connect with these things. As if you had to be some sort of evil wizard, trained in the black arts of assembly, C and C++, just to write a dumb driver.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm using AS v3.1.2. No issues with it crashing so far.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Yeah this was related to gradle updates and qemu updates that made old Android eumulator images obsolete which ended up crashing Android studio. I hadn't been working t with AS in months so a lot of updates and old project had numerous issues.
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Share the love, the glory: [^]
«... 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
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65677 notifications ...
Didn't think it'd fail, but I missed the Magic Number. Oh well, there's always 4,294,967,295
Might take a while, though.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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With your current rate it will take only an other 7 million(+) months - so better stay sharp not to miss it!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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To Do: (7 million(+) months) - 1 week) from 2028/06/24: change notification counter to 64 bit long.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Significance ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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The notifications counter in the top right: for me it's currently reading 65,681 messages to read.
I was kinda hoping it would roll over at 0xFFFF but Chriss is far too canny for that!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you're the reason the cache server went postal!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ah I see
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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We refer to it as "Law Of The Cat" and it excludes you from duties like coffee, cooking, washing up, fetching a cold drink, ...
Only requirement is "no holding it down", which implies no coercion, no glue, no gaffer tape, no nails, ... and the cat must be alive.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They used to be deities and still behave that way. When they command you to sit still, you better sit still.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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... at 02:30
Can you believe it? 02:30!
Luckily for him, I was still up playing my drums...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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/ravi
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You got me with that one!
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Funny, someone else on the forum had that happen to him only a few (it seems) weeks ago...
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So? It is summer, the sun is shining. My T-shirt reads "North Norway Summer: The best day of the year".
My family moved south of the Polar Circle a year before I was born (only by a few miles), but I spent a few summers in the north, visiting friends and relatives. More than once I have had neighbours (of my relatives/friends) knocking on the door at 2AM, 3AM and 4AM. They sit down to chat, or "We saw that you are still awake, would you like to come over for a drink?"
I love sitting out in the sun at 2AM with a iced beer, chatting with friends and their neighbours.
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According to History of Windows Store: Total number of apps, there are 800,000 windows store app now.
I am contemplating to do a UWP app in my own free time. I am good in C++. But standard C++ support is still in beta. And C# UWP does not have directx support. So I am kinda stuck with C++/CX.
Some of the old tutorials I read still mentioned Metro and Windows 8.
Any advice for me?
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Thanks mate! I'm going to spend Sunday, going through your UWP articles!
Thanks again!
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Thank you for checking out my articles. Hope they help to give a start in the right direction.
If you get a chance, let me know what you think. Thanks.
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Looks like he used C# though and you specifically want to use C++?
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