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I forgot my Apple Watch, and it’s fine – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. July 8, 2015. July 8, 2015. I forgot my Apple Watch, and it’s fine. This morning, I forgot to put on my Apple Watch. It’s the second day in a row that this happens. And I realized that it’s fine, I’m not missing out on anything. If I forget my phone, I’ll go back and get it, but for my watch it’s just not worth it. And figured that the watch would also serve as a replacement for that. About how it helps him avoiding distractions, but it didn’t have the same effect ...

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Being financially honest – Not Rocket Science

http://www.stum.de/2015/06/24/being-financially-honest

Random thoughts of neat disorder. June 24, 2015. June 24, 2015. A lot of us know that feeling: We work hard, we make a salary that should be plenty, but somehow the balance on our savings never get really high. Or you’re interested in buying a home and need to save up at least 3.5% for an FHA loan. Plus the money you need to move and install a secret door. Get a Financial Life. For the past few months, I’ve been using. You Need A Budget (YNAB). To get an overview about where my money goes. They have a.

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August 2014 – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. August 30, 2014. March 6, 2015. Windows Group Authentication and ASP.net MVC 4/5/Web API problems. I’m working in a Windows environment, where I want to authenticate users using a Windows Security Group. For example,. Is in the group. And I want to tell ASP.net to only allow users in. To access the site. This is usually simple, just add this in. Authorization allow roles="foo users" / deny users="*" / /authorization. Because by default,. The solution is to add an. When n...

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Self-driving cars, Uber, and the public transportation revolution – Not Rocket Science

http://www.stum.de/2015/06/25/self-driving-cars-uber-and-the-public-transportation-revolution

Random thoughts of neat disorder. June 25, 2015. June 24, 2015. Self-driving cars, Uber, and the public transportation revolution. We have electric cars that aren’t complete crap anymore. Hybrids like the Prius. Have been pretty normal for years now, and both BMWs i3. And eventually Tesla’s Model 3. Are fully electric cars set to break the price barrier, making them more than a gimmick for the hipster crowd. Why own your own car if you can just call one? This is where the fact that they are electric cars...

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Const Strings – a very convenient way to shoot yourself in the foot – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. January 14, 2009. Const Strings – a very convenient way to shoot yourself in the foot. If you want to have a static readonly string, you have two options:. Public static class MyStringTestClass { public static readonly string StaticReadonly = "Static ReadOnly String"; public const string ConstString = "Const String"; }. Public class MyStringTestConsumer { public void TestMethod() { string sro = MyStringTestClass.StaticReadonly; SomeOtherFunction(sro); string sc = MyS...

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Using Joe’s Own Editor for writing – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. June 6, 2015. June 6, 2015. Using Joe’s Own Editor for writing. George R.R. Martin went on record. Saying he still uses Wordstar 4.0. On an old DOS Machine to write his epic 1000 page A Song of Ice and Fire. Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about Wordstar. Helpfully subtitled “A Writer’s Word Processor”. In there he goes into some detail why it is so beloved among it’s users:. But touch-typists find that using the WordStar. To go to the end of the line, you press. After y...

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My 2014 in Video Games – Not Rocket Science

http://www.stum.de/2014/12/27/my-2014-in-video-games

Random thoughts of neat disorder. December 27, 2014. March 6, 2015. My 2014 in Video Games. 2014 was a somewhat crazy year overall – if someone would’ve told me that Seth Rogen and James Franco would be involved in one of the biggest network security scandals, I would ask them if they overdosed on Swift on Security. Anyway, let’s talk about video games, because that stuff is fun and 2014 has been a fun year for me. In March, Facebook bought Oculus VR. Sony’s announcement of Project Morpheus. And even tho...

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June 2015 – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. June 26, 2015. June 25, 2015. ConfigSource only works on sections, not sectionGroups. I have an app.config with some custom sectionGroups:. ConfigSections sectionGroup name="MyApp" section name="foo" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" / /sectionGroup /configSections myApp foo add key="MySetting" value="14" /add /foo /myApp. I wanted to externalize that:. This yields an error:.

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The new Macbook (2015) – Not Rocket Science

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Random thoughts of neat disorder. May 3, 2015. May 3, 2015. The new Macbook (2015). And thus also in my little messenger bag. And yet, it runs OS X, which means that I can run iDraw. Do net Core 5. Development (with Visual Studio Code. And a bunch of other development related things I simply cannot do with an iPad. It even runs Logic Pro X. And Final Cut Pro X. Although of course, performance is limited. When I need a mouse. I use bluetooth, if I need to transfer data I use AirDrop. And is the sane choic...

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faml – A Markup Language for browsers and node.js – Not Rocket Science

http://www.stum.de/2014/09/23/faml-a-markup-language-for-browsers-and-node-js

Random thoughts of neat disorder. September 23, 2014. March 6, 2015. Faml – A Markup Language for browsers and node.js. A common request on many websites is to offer some light formatting capability for a user: Bold, Italic, Links, maybe lists. It should not clutter the markup too much and allow little room for error. John Gruber’s Markdown. But I’ve just decided to create a little markup language of my own:. Faml – A Markup Language. But heavily changed and broken up differently. Allowing you to just.