The minor rants thread.
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I'm not even going to attempt to figure out what that supposedly means.
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You quoted the exact meaning.
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You quoted the exact meaning.
Yes, but one of those phrases was written in a way that could be understood by a person more towards the normal side of things.
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Okay, once again I'm a bit at a loss for what the person(s) behind this particular brainstorm were thinking.
Scene of the crime: XAML, in particular: ListBox / GridView / anything that allows the selection of multiple items.
So, you have a multiple choice kind of thing where you actually allow (gasp!) multiple choices for one property. Y'know, something like: "What are your favourite colours?" Without all this business of throwing people into a chasm, natch.
Then you go and store that answer somewhere. So you callSelectedItems
and all is fine because you get a niceList<T>
of the selected items.However, the human mind is capricious and fickle and wont to change its feelings towards abstract properties of the chromatic persuasion. Hence you go forth and give the user the ability to edit his choice.
And that's when you discover that some unknown genius has decided to make the property
SelectedItems
read-only.The whole thing doesn't apply to knights on a quest for the Holy Grail because this problem doesn't exist for single-mode selection and thus a singular favourite colour.
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Maybe something with the resulting events only allowing one changed element?
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Is the
List<T>
read-only or just the variable holding theList<T>
?I can see a point in not letting people swap out the internal data structure for selected items.
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Well, you can manipulate the SelectedItems property in codebehind - but that leads the whole MVVM and XAML binding shtick ad absurdum.
Thankfully, I'm not the only one who noticed this oversight and I've already found a (hopefully working) solution.
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GitHub decided that my commit that added to a preexisting line in each of 321 files and added a 349-line file added 300 lines and deleted 300 lines.
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Why have "button" earphones practically disappeared from stores?
The in-ear ones that DON'T have noise-isolation. Sometimes I want to be able to hear the outside too!
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http://i.imgur.com/yfGdQpE.jpg
Badger, stoat, what's the difference?
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I love how they censored the stock photo of a stoat.
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I love how they censored the stock photo of a stoat.
Thanks to Sturgeon's Law, I can't decide which parodic dimension to go with in my reply.
ETA: I probably meant Poe's Law. I can think of a bunch of reasons someone in England might have done that; they all boil down to the same "reasoning" that caused an American news anchor to refer to black people in Europe rioting as "African-American".
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No. When it's you typing, Sturgeon's Law applies, although the number has to be upped to 99.9%.
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No. When it's you typing, Sturgeon's Law applies, although the number has to be upped to 99.9%.
If you go back and look at your own post history, the percentage of them that actually use words that are synonyms for synonyms for crap are...well, I'll let this guy finish:
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Where to put this? I've bought stuff from them in the past, so it's technically not spam email. It doesn't quite fit Error'd, because it's intentionally (or just stupidly) abusing a hot buzzword, not the sort of error that usually goes there. I guess I'll just leave it here:
Apparently, according to
Tiger DirectWestern Digital's marketing drones, a localhard diskstorage server is "personal cloud storage"if the disk is big enough.Ok, it makes a little more sense after actually reading the email; my initial ridicule was based on just the subject line. Still, local storage is not a cloud, not even a personal one; it's the exact opposite of "the cloud."
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"It's like email, but with physical paper and trucks!"
"Oh, you mean like mail?"
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I do wish ppl would not keep changing their avatars. As soon as I get used to associating a picture with a user, it changes. So I get seriously confused as to who made the post etc. Yes, I know that their name is there, but I have enough to read as it is.
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Only a few frequently change their avatar, and they are easily recognised by their writnig sytle.
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If you say so; to each his own, I say. You should know, however, that Pippi is over 70 years old by now.
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Amusing anecdote, sir.
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So… it's the strongest little old lady in the world, now?
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Look, man, skewing memes is fun. I don't do it in a consistent way.
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So, I had a
ListView
in my view which, through the wonders ofMicrosoft.Xaml.Interactivity
did anInvokeCommand
on theItemClick
event. Worked just fine.Then I added a
GridView
. And sinceListView
andGridView
both have items and Intellisense offered me theItemClick
option when editing the XAML, I expected that I could also do a similarInvokeCommand
on theItemClick
event here as well.Nope. The event doesn't fire. For some reason, the
Tapped
event does, though. Of course, if I then want to get the actual data of the item behind the clicked element I cannot do this:Class1 item = (Class1)eventArgs.ClickedItem;
but have to do this:
Class2 item = ((FrameworkElement)eventArgs.OriginalSource).DataContext as Class2;
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and somehow, the monstrosity still works. i can't stop being amazed at the whole thing
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Customer wants me to use a VDI in their datacenter. I need to configure Outlook to use the email address they have set up for me. I messed something up in the configuration and clicked cancel during the setup.
It seems like it went ahead and set up a profile anyways. And tries to load it when I start Outlook. Obviously, it can't find the server. I get options to retry, work offline or cancel. Both work offline and cancel exit Outlook. Retry seems to do what it says, because I eventually get that again.
Thanks, Microsoft!
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Search for Mail in Control Panel and delete the profile and start again?
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Why would the system control panel contain settings for a non-system application?
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Search for Mail in Control Panel and delete the profile and start again?
Yes, this is what I ultimately did. Of course, trying edit or modify or whatever it was wouldn't let me change stuff. Eventually realized that "Repair" lets you actually change the stuff I needed to change.
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Why would the system control panel contain settings for a non-system application?
Go ask someone who might care.
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Go ask someone who might care.
I care. It's a totally non-obvious place to put that stuff. I expected it to be in the application itself, which makes sense. But then, when you can't make your program work if it can't contact the server, I guess we should make allowances for not knowing where application configuration goes.
Fuck. Those guys probably use $HOME, too.
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I care.
I was directing that at Ben's question. I certainly don't know why they put that there but they have for a very long time, but the answer is it's probably because it's Office, and also arrogance.
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I was directing that at Ben's question
Yes, and I was answering your question to Ben's question.
but the answer is it's probably because it's Office, and also arrogance.
I agree. But it's only due to bugs in Outlook that forced me to discover this in the first place.
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But it's only due to bugs in Outlook
That--or arcane[1] situations--are really the only reason to mess around in there at all.
[1] our Exchange server is hosted in a data center somewhere and for some reason we need to do some kind of custom configuration.
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Yes, I needed to set up some proxy stuff for similar reasons. But I got something wrong and it couldn't log into the account. I didn't see anything in that page that wasn't in Outlook's account setup wizard. I just couldn't get back to Outlook's normal configuration stuff without Outlook crashing.
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But I got something wrong and it couldn't log into the account.
Yes, I thought that's what you meant, which is why I made my original suggestion, and now we've come full circle.
The answer to Ben's question is "because Microsoft."
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My order is ready for pickup in-store!
For some reason, this one clothing store insists that I get it personally. My husband is not allowed to pick up my shopping while he's running errands, even if he brings a copy of the email confirmation and his photo ID.
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Why would the system control panel contain settings for a non-system application?
So all email applications know to look in the same place to find email account information? Why wouldn't you design it that way? What makes "here's how you connect to this user's email" an application-specific thing?
The only problem is a lot of email applications don't fucking use it when they should.
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Why should an operating system care what my email address is? Isn't this what people complained about with Chrome?
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Why should an operating system care what my email address is?
So you only have to configure it once, ever, regardless of how many email-consuming products you install.
Look, you're an open source-y Linux user, you hate users, I get it. But if you maybe got out of the "fuck you, users!" mindset for a few minutes and thought about it, you'd realize that Windows is doing the most reasonable thing here.
Why is that a problem? Do you think that every single web browser/HTTP-using app should separately require you to configure your web proxy? Because they used to, and it sucked ass.
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So you're saying that my operating system should handle all my accounts for me? Should it handle my Steam account? Should my operating system handle which account Google Chrome synchronizes to?
Should my OS handle my Discourse account?
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I replied to this, but of course Discourse failed to post it, and then when I hit "Post" again it said it couldn't post it because it was too similar to something I'd already posted which is now just fucking gone entirely apparently.
Fuck.
Anyway, to answer your post AGAIN!
So you're saying that my operating system should handle all my accounts for me?
No.
Should it handle my Steam account?
Probably not. Unless you mean something like an OS-built-in password manager, then I'd say "maybe".
Should my operating system handle which account Google Chrome synchronizes to?
I don't even know what this means exactly. OS accounts or Google accounts?
I used to use XMarks to sync bookmarks and login info between different browsers; it worked great.
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Why is my email account any of the OS's concern? How many people do you know that use multiple email clients on the same machine and use the same accounts on each? I'd guess that the number of people who do that is within the realm of statistical error.
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You must hate android.
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Phone operating systems make sense because they're tightly controlled anyway. Computer operating systems don't have exclusive app stores. At least I hope they won't.
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Welcome to this decade?
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I was not aware that Windows was not able to install programs from outside of the app store.
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I was not aware you were able to put things in the windows store without Microsoft's approval. You make up the weirdest points...