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by memsom 5y ago
I just tried the number game on my wife and she got, 3, 7 and 16. I would call that a success. Especially as I had to repeat the last one which gave her more thinking time.
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by memsom 5y ago
I’m looking at a Xamarin Forms app I develop commercially as I type this. It targets Android, but could have supported iOS and Windows from the same code base. Most of our non UI code is shared with WPF and Web apps. All of the UI uses Xama
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by memsom 5y ago
If you know WPF or UWP the differences in Xaml between Xamarin Forms and those frameworks is something you could learn very rapidly. If you use Xamarin Android you get native access also and, for example, can import Java jar files in to you
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by memsom 5y ago
Me too. It is an amazing tool.
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by memsom 5y ago
Yes. They often have sales, and I picked up Pro for about the price of Standard a few years back. If you see a sale, get Pro. If you are not worried about the pro feature set, get standard. The other thing is that the trial used to be very
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by memsom 5y ago
I’ve been using BC since the early 2000’s, so probably more than 15 years. I know it backwards and forwards. If you set it up right, it is pretty powerful. It allows a lot of the stuff that other tools fail on to be overcome. Manual alignme
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by memsom 5y ago
The consonant sound is just i really. You think it is different because you tend to run the sounds together, but it is really just a clipped i.
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by memsom 5y ago
the Y in "Ye Olde" is actually thorn. If you look at thorn, you can see how it happened - the loop was unlooped. Also - English was never consistent. The thorn/eth split was completely random and was down more to style than c
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by memsom 5y ago
Yes! This was my first though - I didn't realise they had gone under. I think I bought at least one app via them.
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by memsom 5y ago
Xaml != WPF. In Xamarin Forms land that property is a bool. We have `bool IsVisible`. The problem is the design, and that will change over time as the various flavours of Xaml are supposedly on a path to converge.
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by memsom 5y ago
That reminded me of this: https://github.com/unbibium/atari64 He ported the C64 KERNAL and BASIC to Atari
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by memsom 5y ago
I once returned a printer because the Mac driver and support software expected and enforced case insensitive access and basically couldn't install properly on my case-sensitive HFS+ volume. It half installed and blatantly just didn&#x2
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by memsom 5y ago
That's a bit misleading. It's a rebranded Xamarin Studio, which was based on MonoDevelop. But the a lot of the underlying engine and code renderers are based on Visual Studio now (as of 2019). The longer it is since it was called
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by memsom 5y ago
Visual Studio Mac is now quite a lot different from MonoDevelop. I've used both (though the latter was a long time ago outside of Unity) and VS Mac is quite a lot more "there" and is definitely a more full implementation. It
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by memsom 5y ago
No. I'm closer to 50 than I am 45 and I still a) have a well paid job and b) get a lot of job offers via recruiters. I don't doubt I could get re-employed easily, should I choose to.
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by memsom 5y ago
Ooh that is cool. If you look at the etymology, it seems like the word meant both black and blue at some point and became fixed to one of the colours in each Baltic language, just not the same colour. So, despise it seeming odd, there is
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by memsom 5y ago
This happens a lot in English. English has a lot of meaning drift, even in native words from Anglo Saxon. For example, deer used to mean any animal, but you have hound (any dog), meat (any food), fowl (any bird), and many, many more. You ev
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by memsom 5y ago
It is prescription only in the UK. I believe you also end up with pretty low dosages too... I think 0.3 mg sounds familiar.
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by memsom 5y ago
I have both a Nokia Lumia 735 and a Microsoft Lumia 535. Both still function as phones. Both have Windows 10 Mobile on them too. I liked the OS, and I spent nearly 8 months on them (again, after a hiatus of years) at the end of 2018/st
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by memsom 5y ago
The problem with Duolingo is that not everyone sees the same, even under iOS. When Hearts came in, it was immediate on my Wife's account. But I didn't see them for 6+ months. We both regularly update apps too. It is a very strange
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by memsom 5y ago
Pimsleur is great. A lot of their courses are on Audible too, so with a subscription you can buy them slowly over a number of months. That is what I started to do.
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by memsom 5y ago
This is the difference between Duolingo created content and community created content. The Duolingo courses have a lot more to them in app form. It seems like it is a lazy implementation in the app to me. I have a over 1000 day streak and
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by memsom 5y ago
Are you sure that is it? Meat[1] used to mean food in general. In Swedish, the cognate would be “mat”, and that still means meat, much like hund (hound) means dog, and djyr (deer) means animal. I rather thought that meat in mincemeat was fr
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by memsom 5y ago
Yes. There are ports of Qt 5 for example, so you can avoid the BeAPI layer and write code that is portable. You shouldn't, but you can. The Qt/QML code is standard and all the threading and BLooper/BLocker dance is not a &quo
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by memsom 5y ago
BeIA was still only x86/IA32. BeIA was very clever. It used a compressed file system and an ELF compression scheme, so in 8MB/16MB you could fit the entire OS install and still have space free... but it was not ever really embedde
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by memsom 5y ago
I did this a number of times. I started working on a VB.Net source base around 2007 and started to introduce C# as soon as I could, then next job in 2013 was also a WinForms app that embedded some WPF and used mainly VB.Net and some C#. I h
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by memsom 5y ago
As a developer who is also a Xamarin Forms user I can say - I get really nice performance out of Xamarin Forms these days. I'm not interested in React Native because it doesn't give me anything I can't do pretty quickly. This
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by memsom 5y ago
When you can walk in to a store and be presented with laptops with "Core i5" that are 1 or more generations apart, and where a newer processor isn't always better than an older generation (different architecture, cores caches
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by memsom 5y ago
It was a reef knot in the Scouts in the UK also. And a granny knot was a reef know where the sequence was repeated (RoL/RoL or LoR/LoR rather than LoR/RoL IIRC.)
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by memsom 6y ago
When I discovered D (pre 1.0) the compiler front end was open source, but the back end source was closed. I was surprised years later when I found it now more open. There was a compiler called DLI that even used the front end code and wrote

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