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re: When studying performance, you need to watch out not only for performance...
How are past performance metrics tracked to be compared to? Using a baseline, using previous results or something else?
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re: It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway:...
[Your typical end-user does not need a compiler.]And my point is an environment that is hostile to compilers is hostile to programmers, which results in most of the useful stuff not backed by corporate...
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Sharing data between apps is so 90's. Even compilers are run in the cloud these days. File system access is GONE.
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re: The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Do you guys not normally have Christmas crackers?
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@ Xerox6502IT IS NOT A NOT AND IT IS NOT A BITWISE AND. IT IS A LOGICAL AND WHICH IS A BITWISE OR ...OR IS IT NOT?
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re: The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog
@Neil: That was my thought too... And by the standards of some "luxury" Christmas crackers, $30 for a dozen is nowhere near the top end. <a href="www.harrods.com/.../000000000002794100 have a set...
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
"Else, the window goes on the primary monitor" why not use the same monitor as the current window or the monitor the mouse is on? I guess both designs have their pros and cons.
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
The minimum version the algorithm could work for is the first version that supports multiple monitors.
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re: Puzzling triple rainbow clearly identifies location of pot of gold
Ah yes, Seattle might be rainy, but only in the UK do we have dedicated live coverage of the weatherwww.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-20493019
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
I assume this means that SQL Server Management Studio does not create its Filter Settings dialog with an owner as it is consistently positioned on my primary monitor. Which in turn results in me being...
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
@WndSks I'd assume that this is something they changed in a newer version of Windows then the mystery version mentioned here.
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
Speaking of poor multi-monitor support, why can't we have the Start Screen stay up on one monitor while we work with apps on another? Instead the screen disappears whether you like it or no. What gives?
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
Err, I was speaking of Windows 8, of course.
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re: Puzzling triple rainbow clearly identifies location of pot of gold
The coolest rainbow I ever saw was in the water coming out of a snow gun at a ski resort. I was sitting up on a chairlift and saw the entire circle of the rainbow. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get...
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
[The next default location on a monitor is offset from the previous default location, diagonally down and to the right.]I wrote code once that depended on that once. The effect of it failing (which it...
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
Ignore the Mac/Windows flamebait comment on the picture, but opening a TON of windows creates some pretty patterns sometimes:dl.dropbox.com/.../lotsofwindows.png
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re: How does the window manager decide where to place a newly-created window?
@Kevin - Sadly, that's not a lot of windows. That's one window being drawn repeatedly on another window who is actively ignoring requests to redraw itself.[It's probably ignoring paint requests because...
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@Mike Caron - I thought this was what happened when the background window was non-responsive, and a process kept crashing. A new crash dialog would kill the old dialog, and create a new one. The new...
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re: Puzzling triple rainbow clearly identifies location of pot of gold
The Raymond effect apparently has killed the linked blog :-)
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re: Puzzling triple rainbow clearly identifies location of pot of gold
Yeaaaah, kinda. We're up! We're just slow. The webserver is fine! We're sitting at a comfy 3% of CPU and aren't even hitting swap. Comcast, tho'... not as much. XD
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