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That's great. Could've used this in a project last year.

you can install Filezilla from Ninite. https://ninite.com/

Well - you are trusting that Ninite doesn't include any crapware / malware, but until now I didn't had any problems with it. Makes updating Java Runtime much nicer too.

I did the same with the C64. Another big advantage was: if it didn't work you just had to reset it and everything was fine (OS in ROM).

My brother let me tinker with his C64 (when I was about 10 years old) and that started my career in programming.

Wow Joseph Zbukvic is impressive.

Brings back my horror art lessons in school. We had a watercolour artist as an art teacher and we had to use those big hair brushes too. Too bad I sucked completely with this brush and hated going to art class.

But it's really impressive watching what this guys doing ! Thank you for the link.

I think git is pretty easy for easy workflows (add, commit, push). I just use subversion for old projects, where porting them to git would not make any sense.

I've heard the same thing about the Afx macros and the plan for another more ambitious framework.

In my opinion the biggest obstacles for MFC were: * a pretty bad C++ compiler (the first good MS C++ compiler was the one with Visual Studio 2003 as much as i remember) * that the core group were "old school" C guys that either couldn't design a better object oriented system or thought that it would be to hard for the "normal" developers

Regarding the "Windows culture":

WinProc programming was indeed pretty horrible. Didn't really program a lot in WinProc - but I've cut my teeth with MFC which was supposed to make it better.

They broke down the big switch in the program and created classes (the c in MFC) and macros.

The VCL of Borland was more abstracted, but we've used MFC.

I am pretty happy that I don't have to do this any more.

When I started with C# and Windows Forms it seemed like a revelation for me.

For me the worst thing was not to see where in the article I am and how long the article is. I am using the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the text.

But isn't this an "App" which shouldn't have been an App in the first place (I think they write something like this in the article).

That's really one of my pet peeves. I don't like installing apps just to read an article. A good mobile site is much preferable in my opinion. But I've started a little bit later than most to the smart phone game and I'm a little bit quirky - so that may be just me.

Well - that depends on the model. The cayenne is no sports car - thats for sure. But in Germany / Europe Porsches are used for racing. Here is an overview of the "official possibilities" http://www.porsche.com/porschesportscup-germany/en/series/

I like KeePass and use it daily.

Funny - I've used exactly the same thing NANT & msbuild. Couldn't get my solution to build just with NANT.

@Silverlight: are you much better off if you've wrote a Java Applet at the same time ? (I think this was the right thing to do in Java back then)

We were trying to use Java Webstart, but we gave up, because of the fact that some modern browsers just block the Java plugin.

I have to use a Java applet for some customer VPN's I am connecting to and the only browser this works for me is Internet Explorer to connect to those VPNs.

You can still write Winforms applications and this is some really old technique. Maybe you are still able to use MFC, but I haven't tested that in a LONG time.

I still think that he assessed this point favorably for himself. If you read the whole point he made he may be right. But for me all these asynchronous methods are used more and more, so I'd say multi-threaded programming is much bigger than it was 10 years ago.

If you look at some languages / frameworks I see now this: If you are programming now in C# you have keywords like "await" which make background processes much easiert.

When you are programming Android in AndroidStudio you are warned if you try to call a web service in a GUI thread.

15 years ago, when I've started programming commercially (MFC and C++) most of the books said something along "well this is multi-threaded programming, but 'There be dragons'.."

All that happened a long time ago, but in 2001 I went to a event in the next bigger town. There were lots of people strolling around, suddenly a girl greeted me a little bit too enthusiastic. I didn't know her at all, but greeted her and started small talk with her.

She was obviously bugged and asked me if I didn't know her ? I declined, but she didn't give up. She thought she knew me from a party from a town about 15km away and had an affair with him on this party. She was very angry, that I didn't recognise her and didn't remember any thing. She even knew which school this guy went to (different school) and some things about his friends.

She didn't trust me that I wasn't this guy and was pretty angry that I didn't recognize her.

Never met this guy. Don't know if he was really so similar to me, but it was a really strange experience.

had a good guidebook with me when I was in Rome. It said that the water is excellent and showed the trick with the hole - so I knew it and used it.

Mostly I filled a pretty small bottle with water and carried that around. Didn't had to carry much, because I could refill it on nearly every corner.

And (last time I've been) it was excellent water. Strange seeing other tourists paying for the expensive mineral water next to a running tap. (they probably didn't know that the water is fine or didn't care).

I think one of the guys in the article says that the sound was not too good. I think I've read the term "comically". Another problem was that it didn't work well if the singer was not singing close to the mic, so the ambient mic direct vocals on it too.

But I think it was a big improvement to what they had before.

For me one of the most impressive parts of this article where how they managed to eliminate feedback on the vocal microphones.

They did this by using two microphones, using one of the microphones for the singer, the other for the background noise. By inverting the phase on one of the microphones and then summing these two signals they filtered out the background noise. At least this was my understanding.

Sometimes it's really great how far we have come with technology and what tricks they've used in the past.

@good sound guy: you're absolutely right - but most of the good and / or big bands have their sound guy anyways.

Sure. But sometimes the equipment just sucks. Was at a outdoor festival last weekend. One of the bands had a sound guy and I wondered that the sound was so shitty. Couldn't hear anything of the bass player. Normally the sound should be pretty good when a band is having their own guy on the mixing desk.

Said this to a friend (who was standing some metres off) and he said everything sounded fine for him. Went 3 metres to the right and suddenly I've heard the bass player. Talked with the sound guy afterwards and he said that the PA simply sucked. Never heard this so extreme.

I would say it is a thing of many factors: the PA, the band (their equipment) and of course the sound engineer.

What was the rivalry like ? I've never been interested in tennis, so I don't know about that.

Pete Sampras, the clear cut and nice guy and Agassi the loudmouth badass player ?

Why did Pete Sampras' career end earlier than Agassi's ?

care to elaborate ?

You never had to copy data from a test database to the productive database or the other way around ?

I am using MySQL Workbench all the time for tasks like this.

Looks pretty nice. I am not too fond of web-based database management tools, but it looks good.

One thing I'd like to see in this software would be export to Excel directly (not CSV). I am no big fan of CSV (e.g. Excel can't handle UTF-8 text in CSV files) and think that exporting to xlsx is a tremendous time saver. Exporting to SQL dumps is another important feature - but I see that you have this in your tool.

Haven't really shaved in years (the last time - maybe 5 years ago ?). I am just shaving the edges of my full beard.

For me throwaway razors last years.

But thank you for the tip !

You could say the same thing with Gillette blades. Sure, one blade is a fraction of the cost of getting your beard shaved at a barber's shop.

But it is still much more expensive than the alternatives.

If you compare Nespresso pods to raw coffee you pay a lot of money for 500g of coffee.

For me the biggest reason not to change to PostgreSQL was the sad state of pgAdmin. In my opinion it doesn't hold a candle against the MySQL Workbench or the old MySQL tools.

Sure there are commercial options available, but it is really nice to have some good free or open source tools for a database.

Other than that PostgreSQL looks like a nice database, but I didn't find the "killer" argument to change to it. All the nice SQL syntax changes don't mean too much to me, because I am mostly using an ORM to access the database.

Another thing which isn't working as well on PostgreSQL is master - master clustering. All the solutions I found for PostgreSQL looked inferior to Galera (which has its own pitfalls). On the other hand I think it is far better to have one / two beefy servers than having a cluster of master databases.

Ok thank you for making this clear. Doing it with bug bounties makes sense to me.

That's how I am using rebase all the time. I'd say yes - that's the most common use for it and I think it works fine for this.

If there are volunteers doing this work (unpaid ?) - what are you using this money for ?

Just for infrastructure ? If not, how do you get paid ? And how many percent of the developers get paid ? Who makes the decision who gets paid and who doesn't get paid ?

I am just interested how something like this is done in an open source project. I've seen some other projects (not programming related) which got really complicated and ruined, because they got money and started "distributing" wealth which left some of the people disgruntled (basically most of the bands who got successful have stories like that).