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I think that's just his exaggerated writing style.

It's a feature for developers: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144096(VS.85).asp...

Maybe you'll enjoy this: https://www.stilldrinking.org/5-reasons-waiting-tables-is-a-...

If I remember correctly, you can put [void] in front of a statement to prevent it from being included in the return.

I didn't think that you personally were accusing people. I hope I didn't give that impression. I probably could have written "we" instead of "you." Someone trying to explain how Is…

So you conclude that Islam encourages terrorism because, when you accuse someone of being a terrorist, they don't respond openly and enthusiastically? You've decided that a religio…

Suppose that I live in an apartment with a wood stove, second-hand smoke from a room mate, and radon. If I get lung cancer, which one is to blame? How do you know?

We use an iPad based SASS POS, and editing the menu is a pain. Every time I start to edit something, I have to wait 60 seconds while it pulls in the list of every item on the menu.…

> When it comes to reintroducing wolves, everyone agrees the risk to humans is low. The contention is between wildlife activists and ranchers. Wolves tend to feed on livestock. You…

I wish I knew what this bear was thinking: http://www.mtexpress.com/news/environment/bear-grabs-sleepin... "A Boise hunter sustained minor wounds when a black bear grabbed him by t…

A person who pulls a gun on an officer has already decided not to obey the laws. How would adding more laws make officers safer from such a person?

The salary isn't the point: > I immediately exclude discussion of company, title, and salary, because these are the things people think they want but can't really affect my decisio…

Say I build a house in a town near a forest in Idaho. Now, there are 20,000,000 acres of national forest in Idaho of which 200,000 are currently burning. So only 1% of the forest i…

You can remember it as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7: First month, second day, 3pm and four minutes and five seconds in the year '06, offset -7.

FWIW, you can install MSBuild without Visual Studio. It's part of the Windows SDK. If your target system is not supported, you have to run it on a supported system and choose the "…

Sure, but what if my only Windows system won't boot? I am sure that I can access the registry from a Linux system somehow , but it's not as easy as invoking less or vim. That is es…

> You have to assume that code cleans itself up as the stack unwinds. Exceptions or not, if you have an unknown error condition, how can you assume anything? I apologize for the de…

I agree that you have to weigh the advantages, but we are talking about a special type of database. Most configuration data is read-only during normal operation. It's not as if any…

Here is a reason: You can view the configuration files and logs of a damaged system by mounting its disk in another system and using any old text editor. There is no need to instal…

That's my point: in this situation, you can't display an error and keep going. How do you know that you are not in this situation when you catch an unknown exception?

You can only recover from such errors locally. The local context is not available in a global exception handler.

> Corruption is outside the state of this discussion. Why? If corruption leads to an exception, it seems relevant. Corruption could be the application's own fault, it could be fail…

> No, you shouldn't. What are you going to do any differently with that than you would FileIsLockedException or NetworkIsDownException or HarddriveIsCorruptException? You wouldn't …

It's not just about the grass. When trees die, they become hazards and must be removed. That's expensive. Without trees, there are fewer birds. There is no shade. The sound of leav…

Since the site is Enterprise Craftsmanship, I read it from that angle. In my experience, deployments must be requested several days in advance and require approvals from managers, …