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trithne
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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RE: The Backup Likes Thread - Because it's not the same, now with semi(?)-mandatory likes and questions?
You started another one? Did the first one fall over?
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RE: IBM's JSONx, or how to represent JSON in XML
That's it, I'm out. I can't do this anymore, going to raise turtles in the Amazon or something less stupid than software.
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Find and Replace, by way of Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V
So I'm using Microsoft OneNote for some collaboration at work, and decide that I need to do a find and replace across the steadily bloating document. Press Ctrl+H. Exactly nothing happens. Try Ctrl+F, and a pissant tiny text box appears in the top right. A bit of googling around reveals that Microsoft's new approach to Fnd and Replace is:
Finding and replacing text can be helpful when editing your notes. For example, if the name of a project changed, you can easily go in and replace all instances of the project name with the new one. In OneNote, you can use instant search to find specific text, and then replace it with different text using a keyboard shortcut.
- On a blank page, type the replacement text that you want to use. For example, if you’re trying to update a project name in your notes, type the new project name.
- Select the text you just typed, and then press Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.
- Press Ctrl+E to expand the search box in the top right corner of the OneNote window.
- In the search box, type the text you want to find.
- At the bottom of the results list, click Pin Search Results, or press Ctrl+O.
- In the Search Results pane on the right side of your window, click the first search result (blue link next to a white page icon) to jump to the page where OneNote highlighted the text it has found.
- On the page, double-click each highlighted occurrence of the text, and then press Ctrl+V to paste your replacement text over it.
- Repeat steps 6-7 for each additional page in the search results list.
Fuck this. I had something more to say on the topic, but it's gone now, replaced only with fury cooling into disappointment.
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RE: WTF happened to Windows 95?
Terry Myerson actually talked a bit about how/why they went with 10 at the start of the event.Basically, they wanted to include the "1" part to not only signify the unity (same core across all platforms), but also to tie in with other current products (OneNote, OneDrive, Xbox One), and because Windows 1 has already been a thing (the first version of Windows).
TDEMSYR
I was actually expecting it to be called "Windows One". It's not like the existence of a previously existing Windows 1.0 really prevents that, and no-one's reading "Windows 10" as "Windows One-Oh", so it doesn't tie anything together.
They should just go back to using years.
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RE: Congratulations on your glorious four hours of downtime
These guys use vim and emacs and stuff..
"Man I loved how computers worked in 1988! Let's have the 1988 experience ALL THE TIME!"
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RE: Unique datetime
Why don't you just overwrite the file?
Because generally I try to avoid giving the Client an excuse to shriek like a banshee at me.
"It's according to Spec" just gets "You should know better"
Knowing better gets complaints about not adhering to Spec. -
RE: Error'd: Fileformat.info disagrees with itself
Having decided I was due for a new avatar and this emoji presented the perfect solution, I particularly like how Discourse, when I tried drag the image onto the avatar selector, decided I wanted that image for my profile banner, and after fixing that and updating the image the long, button-pressing way, didn't actually show me my avatar had changed on the profile page to let me know that it had actually succeeded.
Paging @discoursebot
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RE: India needs you!
To whom do the outsourcers outsource?
Eventually all work on the planet will be done by one man.
Latest posts made by trithne
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RE: What's killing off "gameified" communities (yes I made a post of my tweets, suck it)
experts-exchange, you mean. They eventually realised.
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RE: Windows 10 Upgrade to be Free as in Beer (if you don't have an MS account, come in here and @blakeyrat will give you $50)
Some of us like stability.
That said I'm still going to give 10 a shot, but I don't see an issue with staying with the OS that meets your needs. I transitioned to Win7 because I liked the new features, not because it was new (XP's looming EOL was also a factor, but not one I was overly bothered by)
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RE: Visual Studio 2013 update WTFs
To use MonoGame effectively you need to install XNA anyway, because the MonoGame people still haven't gotten the Content Pipeline to work without it.
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RE: Just realized, web apps mean....
Pretty sure we went over Citrix here once before, but goddamn Citrix is a blight. I absolutely love the overhead it adds to every single thing and inability to interface with our local scanners.
'Computing Power is so cheap now! Every workstation can do whatever it needs quickly, and locally! How do we leverage this?'
'Centralise everything to run on a single overworked server somewhere on the other side of the country while all the local processing power sits idle, and then wonder why our single point of failure keeps failing' -
RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
Hush. I don't know where that L came from but it's here to stay now.
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RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
On the other hand, someone says 'Chocolately' in a technical context and I think of the Package Manager, so it's doing its job.
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RE: Don't try to move Steam on *NIX
And yet, I'd be willing to bet that anything you downloaded with the Steam Workshop will still be there.
Workshop files are kept somewhere stupid, and unsubscribing from something only tells Steam to stop keeping it up to date. There is no 'Delete this Item' option anywhere in Steam.
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RE: New Masters Program in Software Engineering
I would suggest learning hg instead of svn, though
What little tinkering I've done with VCS has been using BitBucket, and I don't recall offhand if I was using it in Git or Mercurial style. I think Mercurial, but I could be wrong, as it's all at home and I am not. It really just comes down to everything I've worked on has been a solo gig, and while VCS can be very good to have even solo (I kinda wish I'd been using it while doing some things that I've then had to roll back), I've never needed to. A poor excuse, but one nonetheless.
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RE: The thread of movie titles and absence of badges. In previous episodes, it was signs you're getting older, chiropractic vs. medicine, atheism vs. Mormonism and religion vs. science with no existentialism nor philosophy thrown in
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
I once had a debate with someone who used that line, except he thought it stopped at the word "things".