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re: Optimizing the Chili's dining experience
That Chili's in Bellevue was actually the first Chili's I ever saw. Apparently it has since closed (according to the Yelp link). I can't really say I'm sad to see it go, however, as I'd call it a...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Damien somewhere around the second rejection I'd ask why, instead of continuing to provide solutions they're going to reject.
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
"that is likely overkill for a five-line program."Raymond, your sample looks like it was written by underpants gnomes.
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
Obviously the correct solution is to distribute tinted spectacles along with your software.(I wonder if Microsoft could distribute kernel-tinted spectacles to developers? That might help cut down on...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
["We have a corporate policy that users cannot change widget colors, so the IWidget::SetColor method returns E_ACCESSDENIED. We're looking for a way around that policy." Okay, well, now that's...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
"The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions." --E. W. Dijkstra
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
Off-topic, but I like your batch style of putting the redirection before the command. I knew it was possible but never ever considered actually writing code that way. I might adopt this.[It's essential...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
LMAO @ the batch file.Theres a batch file solution to every problem XD
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
That reminds of batch files I used to write a loooonnnnggg time ago that scripted the old DOS debug.com utility to enter some bytes and run it. I also seem to remember this was a safe way for virus...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
You can always just poke the screen with your finger. That'll change the color of the widget without calling any APIs at all.
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Matt: You make the assumption that the display device is an lcd panel. That's a bad assumption if your widget needs to be blue for all users. (In fact the touchscreen on my phone doesn't change with...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Brian_EE: You're not pressing hard enough ;)
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
For some particularly unfathomable reason my take away from all of that is: PowerShell would have been far simpler.c:\powershell.exe Namespace::IWidget.SetColor($color)My appologies for the pedantry.
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
How about: "For various reasons we're considering technology Y for an upcoming project, and I'm trying to get a handle on which kind of problems that choice may lead to. One problem is changing widget...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
'"We are programming in a language that does not support COM objects. We can only p/invoke to C-style APIs." Well, you can work around that problem by writing a helper DLL that exposes a C-style API,...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Andrew: I'm well aware of that.An amusing case was calling some COM entity from NSIS installer. NSIS can't do COM lookup, and DLL plugins for it have to be specially compiled as the C libraries aren't...
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re: The annual sporting event involving a football that dare not speak its...
"Did you happen to catch the professional football contest on television last night? The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. And in the end, the Giants triumphed by kicking an oblong...
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Joshua: I don't see the problem, why can't you just statically link the CRT? It's routinely done for small utilities and other situations when you don't want to have the CRT package as a dependency.
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re: The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
@Matteo: Because the static CRT isn't redistributable (as in the .LIB file, not the resulting binary).
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re: Once you know something can be done, doing it is much easier
Is that how placebo works? Homeopathy? lol....
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