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Opening old Visual Studio project with 2019, throws tons of errors with provided libraries

You're probably better off installing the version of Visual Studio that the project was created in. MS still lets you download versions as old as VS 2010: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/ I'm somewhat rusty on C++ in Windows, but I don't think that MS makes any guarantees...
- Merad
- Post #7
- Oct 6, 2019
- Forum: Programming
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Question Dan'sGaming is Worth How Much?

I would say it's actual money that they've been paid. I sometimes watch another streamer, CohhCarnage, who's a bit more popular than Dan. Don't know about net worth, but the last I heard Cohh had upwards of 15k subscribers - that's upwards of $500 grand in yearly income just from subscribers...
- Merad
- Post #11
- Jan 21, 2019
- Forum: PC Games
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News Natural Language Programming -- English and/or Español

Most of the people who frequent this section of the forums (including myself) already participated in the large discussion several years ago that Gerry linked in his post. It doesn't seem like anything has changed, other than him adding support for Spanish. I started to reply to this topic...
- Merad
- Post #3
- Jan 20, 2019
- Forum: Programming
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Can you give Practical Advice on how to apply SOLID principals of OOP to N Tier Data Driven Web Apps

Don't build it in WebForms. It's a dead-end technology for a reason. The nature of WebForms (IME anyway) tends to lead to tightly coupled and messy code. The way it tries to coerce the web into behaving like a desktop application ultimately makes life more difficult for devs and again leads...
- Merad
- Post #6
- Oct 18, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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C#, Mysql Transaction, and unexpected shutdown/crash?

Poor phrasing. Obviously he had to have "foreign key" columns, but he wouldn't actually declare a foreign key constraint on them. In his mind enforcing referential integrity was a business rule that belonged in the application.
- Merad
- Post #16
- Sep 30, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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C#, Mysql Transaction, and unexpected shutdown/crash?

Have we worked together? I had a former co worker who liked to say the same thing, and took it so far that if left to his own devices he wouldn't even put foreign keys in his DBs. :eek:
- Merad
- Post #14
- Sep 29, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Need help with Unit Testing C# with Microsoft Fakes

You're approaching the problem from the wrong direction. You need to push the API call behind an interface or abstract class, which you then pass into the constructor and whose behavior you can easily mock. If you use the common C# REST libraries that I'm familiar with (Refit, RestEase), this...
- Merad
- Post #4
- Sep 1, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Numerous religious groups condemn the child detainment policy, including session's church

I grew up in the UMC and get kept up to date on it by my parents who are very active in their church. While the UMC as an organization is pretty moderate, even liberal on many issues, you will find many, many UMC congregations that are Southern Baptist in all but name. It's pretty likely that...
- Merad
- Post #10
- Jun 19, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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Battletech

RNGesus in this game is a harsh god, but it does seem like he’s equally cruel to all of his children. Not long after I got the Highlander its gauss rifle blew off two heads in one mission. The worst for me so far was having the head punched off of my PC’s Thunderbolt in the ammo crate mission...
- Merad
- Post #191
- Jun 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

I think there's a good chance they built & balanced the game around skirmishes, then tacked the campaign onto that. In a 4v4 match having a scout might be a viable choice, but it just doesn't work in campaign missions where you're routinely outnumbered 2 to 1 or worse. I just finished a 4...
- Merad
- Post #179
- May 27, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

I just got the Highlander today. It’s basically stock, I just dropped the LRM20 for a LRM15 so I could max out the support slots with small lasers, add armor, and a TTS to help with gauss rifle sniping. Wish the game didn’t bias so heavily towards close range brawls.
- Merad
- Post #175
- May 26, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

My heavies appeared really quickly. For the longest time my A-Team lance was a Shadow Hawk, Vindicator, Centurion, and Firestarter. I did run a Dragon for a few missions, then added a Thunderbolt, and then pretty quickly (in just a few missions, it felt like) my main lance went to Orion...
- Merad
- Post #172
- May 25, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

Opponents in most missions are semi-random (not sure about story missions) and a mission's true difficulty may be higher or lower than what you're told. There isn't a great job communicating it, but mission descriptions often contain some hints about having unreliable intel or enemy forces...
- Merad
- Post #136
- May 13, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

That mission is rough. I went in a with a heavy lance (Orion, Thunderbolt, Dragon, Shadow Hawk) and finished on the first try taking heavy damage. Lost the Thunderbolt, it was just starting to take internal damage when it got its head punched off by a Griffin that was otherwise crippled (ugh)...
- Merad
- Post #132
- May 13, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

As much as I love the game (already played 40+ hours I think) some things are seriously out of whack. I’ve been using a Centurion as my missile boat and finally got a Trebuchet. Well, crap. The Centurion in game is a better missile boat in EVERY way than the Treb. The only thing going for the...
- Merad
- Post #112
- May 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

Sounds like your builds are basically cheesing the stability mechanics. In the tabletop game "stability" is resolved every turn. Taking damage above a certain threshold triggers a piloting skill check, with more damage making the check more difficult but piloting a larger mech making it less...
- Merad
- Post #89
- May 2, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

I finished the game this weekend with about 100 hours played according to Steam. This is a very different game from your typical RPG, but at the core it's a very, very good game with some very, very rough edges. My overall rating is 8/10. It's worth trying if you can live with some bugs, and...
- Merad
- Post #91
- Apr 30, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

It’s not very clear or intuitive but the info is more or less there. Hovering over weapons in a battle will give non descriptive ranges like short, standard, long, IIRC. When you are setting facing during a move, the facing cone has different range arcs shaded in. Also while facing you can...
- Merad
- Post #61
- Apr 25, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Battletech

That's only for MP. You can do all the SP stuff without logging in.
- Merad
- Post #49
- Apr 24, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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C++ Random Number Question

Disagree. If you read the first article, it elaborates on how a partial initialization causes bias in the number generation, which has a lot of potential to cause problems or quirks in your application. I dare say that many (probably most) programmers don't really have the math & statistics...
- Merad
- Post #9
- Apr 20, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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C++ Random Number Question

Note that this is not the correct way to seed MT19937. While it "works", it shouldn't be used for any real world application. You're only seeding 4 bytes of entropy into an algorithm that has a state of 2.5 KB, making it relatively easy to brute force your seed value, and therefore expose your...
- Merad
- Post #7
- Apr 18, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Why Fortnite? Why is it the HOT game at the moment?

You aren’t familiar with the battle royale genre, I assume? Everyone starts with nothing but a pickaxe, weapons spawn randomly all over the map, and you get what you kind find. Yeah sometimes you’re unlucky and will die without finding a gun, but probably 95% of the time you pick one up within...
- Merad
- Post #31
- Apr 15, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Games with 'Origins' stories like DAO's

Don’t know if it counts for your purposes, but Lord of the Rings Online does something similar to DA:O but more in depth. It launched in 2007 with four different races. Each race has its own unique starting experience. There are four different race specific series of prologue quests before...
- Merad
- Post #4
- Apr 15, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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App Development Question

iOS’ restrictions feature lets you limit safari to only access whitelisted urls. Kiosk mode will prevent them fro switching out of safari. Don’t really see the need for anything else unless you have some user experience requirement that needs a native app.
- Merad
- Post #3
- Apr 15, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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What language should I learn/use with this project?

Language (probably) doesn't really matter for this. Whatever you know best and/or are more comfortable with. Unless the data is very small, I would lean towards putting it in a database of some kind for easy querying/analysis. SQLite may be a good candidate.
- Merad
- Post #9
- Mar 24, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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.NET and Visual Studio references issue...

KB is correct. If it's feasible, I highly recommend investing the time to create nuget packages for your dependencies and hosting them with an internal nuget server. Trying to manually maintain dependencies is an absolute nightmare.
- Merad
- Post #4
- Mar 24, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Hyperthreading and Firefox Qunatum

Dude(tte), no offense but your second sentence in this quote is basically complete nonsense, along with several other statements you've made in this thread. You're obviously very excited about computers and performance benchmarking and so on, but on a technical level you really don't know what...
- Merad
- Post #12
- Mar 24, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Battletech

Yeah, I put about 12 hours into it last summer. It's fun. I think they've done a reasonable job of keeping the feel of CBT (as in the board game) while streamlining gameplay and making it a bit more accessible. I'm looking forward to the finished game.
- Merad
- Post #26
- Mar 8, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Preventing 3rd party HTTP POSTing to a php site

The term you are looking for is CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery), and it works exactly as you described in your first post: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(CSRF) AFAIK CORS doesn't really protect against CSRF. My understanding is that CORS prevents reading...
- Merad
- Post #6
- Mar 8, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Is it ever a better idea to render html on the server than the client?

TBH for most sites it doesn't matter. You can write stupidly slow sites with client side rendering and screamingly fast sites that primarily use server side rendering. The idea of server side rendering being "niche" cracks me up a bit though. I'd be willing to bet money that the majority of...
- Merad
- Post #3
- Feb 16, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Part of the problem is that the game starts you off as a peasant who's literally only handled a sword a couple of times. You barely have any idea what you're doing especially against bandits or trained soldiers who have experience. I've watched several streamers get really frustrated when they...
- Merad
- Post #24
- Feb 14, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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C++ isprint and iscntrl??

ASCII is old. When it was designed, it was meant not just for computers, but also teletype machines, printers, etc. It includes many "control characters" that were originally meant as commands to a machine. Some of them hold on even today... in windows a newline is actually encoded as two...
- Merad
- Post #2
- Feb 14, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Making sure I understand why I had an error (C++)

Yes, I think you're correct. I'm also fairly sure the unary minus operator is intended to be const, so the signature should be: const Money Money::operator -() const; After all, there's no reason to mutate 'this' when you're returning a copy.
- Merad
- Post #2
- Feb 8, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Diagnosing Java memory leaks...

Datatables supports a relatively easy to implement server side processing feature. Sounds like it's time to switch over to using it so you aren't pushing 38 megs of data back to the client. :)
- Merad
- Post #8
- Jan 19, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Odd duplicate entries in MYSQL issue...

There are two types of databases in the world: those with properly set up constraints, and those containing bad data.
- Merad
- Post #12
- Jan 14, 2018
- Forum: Programming
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Python in *my* Excel sheets? It's more likely than you think

That argument was lost a looooong time ago. I'm not sure opinions really matter, because MS (and Google, and anyone else making "office" software) is making a lot of money by letting user make documents, spreadsheets, etc. with custom behavior that would otherwise probably require a developer...
- Merad
- Post #10
- Dec 17, 2017
- Forum: Programming
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MIPS Assembly stalls and forwarding when a register's value isn't modified in previous step

I never learned MIPS specifically, but the concepts for this stuff are all the same. If instruction A only reads the register, there's no data dependency between A and B. You could have a stall waiting for an instruction prior to A to write a value to t0, but there's no reason for B to stall...
- Merad
- Post #2
- Dec 6, 2017
- Forum: Programming
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I'm learning C

That's an interesting way to describe a language that's consistently among the most widely used and sought after in the world.
- Merad
- Post #7
- Nov 4, 2017
- Forum: Programming
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I seem to have some weird encoding issues on my network

It sounds like your server is windows and you're editing the files using linux/mac (or vice versa). Editors usually make assumptions about line endings based on their host OS. I really doubt the networked file system has anything to do with it. It's also possible, depending on the OS and...
- Merad
- Post #10
- Oct 15, 2017
- Forum: Programming
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How does YouTube track your viewing activity?

If you watch web traffic while a YT video is playing you will see it make GET requests at ~10s intervals to https://www.youtube.com/api/stats/watchtime, sending that method 36 different parameters via the query string. 4-5 of those fields have values that increase steadily as the video plays...
- Merad
- Post #6
- Oct 12, 2017
- Forum: Programming

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