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so when setting up a new dev environment on a fresh PC, it's a half day endeavor at least.
I used to imbibe alcohol.
and I used to run the installs like a ref at a rugby match.
I'd get a good buzz going for installing windows and by the time devstudio was installed I'd be drunk.
and call at least 6 fouls during the process.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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That's easier to do these days; in the early PC days you could quickly get too drunk to change floppies properly ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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haha true true.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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this may break existing depth first tree traversal algorithms.
you've been warned.
Now all I need to do is find my fairy dust.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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When you edit a file, it doesn't look to see if the project has new code, and subsequently, doesn't prompt you to get latest for the project. This leads to inevitable "conflict/merge" process which is very problematic in its own right.
But that's okay, we have new icons and the ability to more easily theme VS2019, and that's vastly more important to devs.
(It only sucks during the week because that's when I have to use it.)
".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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Iconic 
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I cannot tell you how many times I have ran into this same issue. And it has been an issue as long as I can remember. Back to 2008 at least. PRobably before that.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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i hate circular references, especially indirect circular references.
i had a circular reference issue in my predict sets computation which made it unable to compute left recursive grammars - they had to be prepped first to eliminate the recursion.
This was preventing me from doing LR parsing which not only allows left recursion, but is optimized for it and encourages it. However, it needs the same predict set computation that LL grammars do.
Since I couldn't handle left recursion in my implementation of the predict sets computation, I could not realistically do LR parsing.
Now I can. That's a whole new suite of modules for PCK. Heck yeah!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You do realize that you are making the chances of completing the article set more and more remote with each passing edit to the code?
Sounds like you are having fun though!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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well, I've got one section done
Pck/FA: A regular expression and finite state engine in C#[^]
So I am making headway there too, but I take your point.
Still, my primary goal with PCK is to be something like Standard Oil of the parser generator world. It consumes everything, even grammars meant for other parser generators.
And exports to other parser generators like YACC (and soon ANTLR)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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xkcd: Unpopular Opinions[^]
Try it: I can't find anything I liked that got less than 55% (The Dressmaker (2016) - Rotten Tomatoes[^] - and even then it was 66% for the audience!)
I figured that "Last cab to Darwin" - a good "thinky" movie - would do it, but ... 89%! Deserved, but annoying score.
He's right - hating something popular is a heck of a lot easier than liking something hated by the masses.
Got any suggestion, people?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Go to the soapbox - you probably will find one or two 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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What 47%!? I loved that movie (best X-Men movie by far  )
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Nothing can beat First class
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Howard the Duck (1986) - Rotten Tomatoes[^]
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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"in your adult life, post-2000"...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ah, missed that part 
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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What if your adult life started much earlier than that?
"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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In that case the challenge may not be that hard...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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me too. I liked that movie. Of course, I saw it as a child.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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We rented Howard the Duck back when Blockbuster was still a thing.
We quite liked it. It was stupid, sure, but it was low key, gentle and funny. 
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The cutoff date is probably so movies before Rotten Tomatoes started don't unduly skew the results.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I need to see that one again.
I did re-watch "Brazil" again recently.
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