Invisig0th

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   by Invisig0th 8y ago

   I'd say it's more the general nature of Microsoft in this particular case. "There should be three different ways to do that" has been the case since Windows 3.1.
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   by Invisig0th 8y ago

   Actually, adding LINQ to C# did not introduce any new functionality at all. Everything you can do in LINQ you could already accomplish in C# without LINQ. Yes, I suppose someone could say that the older code was uglier, but it already had t
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   by Invisig0th 8y ago

   http://mysteriouswritings.com/top-ten-armchair-treasure-hunt...
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   by Invisig0th 9y ago

   Avoiding premature optimization is one of the most important best practices of modern software development.
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   by Invisig0th 9y ago

   Tetris
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   by Invisig0th 9y ago

   Regex validation cannot verify that an email address is functioning any more than it can verify that a phone number is functioning. But if an address or a number passes formatting checks, one can indeed consider that data "validated&qu
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   by Invisig0th 9y ago

   The article you link to addresses just the one use case where you are registering a new user. Email addresses in business applications are just as often NOT the address of your user. Sales contacts, managers, points of contact, customer s
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   by Invisig0th 9y ago

   At least in the US, that results in the dangerous people you mentioned being confined with lots of people with undiagnosed or untreated mental problems and lots of nonviolent (non-dangerous) offenders. On top of that, you have a significant