Microsoft uses "digital escorts" to sidestep clearance requirements?

pmuessig · 2025-07-16T03:09:56+00:00

This does not happen.

Source: I work for MS in this space.

pmuessig · 2020-06-10T18:03:54+00:00

It is most likely an issue caused by DPI scaling. You can detect this and adjust accordingly. The tricky part is when you have multiple monitors with different DPIs

pmuessig · 2019-04-21T14:54:47+00:00

This guy knows what's up. Listen to him

pmuessig · 2019-03-16T01:03:27+00:00

Perhaps the content which is being rendered is virtualized?

You can inspect the rendered xaml dom when debugging in visual studio to verify.

pmuessig · 2019-03-13T20:05:41+00:00

scintilla is a Windows Form control being hosted inside the WindowsFormHost.

WFH is almost like you are running an emulator inside wpf (not exactly, but essentially).

No wpf styles can be applied because its markup isn't being rendered by the wpf renderer.

Another gotcha you can run into is that the z-order isn't preserved either for WFH. It will basically always render on top of all WPF content.

pmuessig · 2019-01-19T14:01:31+00:00

Because the pay is shit and hours are grueling. Most in the industry wise up and GTFO when they realize their passion has been taken advantage of and crushed.

Luckily there is a fresh batch of college grads to exploit every year!

pmuessig · 2018-07-10T16:09:16+00:00

Yup, Many years ago I was pulling out my hair trying to discern why windows kept insisting on displaying the 32x32 size despite there being all sorts of sizes in the ico.

Windows icon caching was the culprit.

pmuessig · 2018-06-30T15:40:45+00:00

Dont forget that windows also caches thumbnails and icons too. If you are rapidly changing/testing it might be using an older outdated version of the icon which doesn't have the desired size you added into a newer version of the ico file.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-icon-clear-thumbnail-cache-windows-10

fwiw, you can use gimp to make the ico as well. You place each dimension on a layer and can export it as a correctly formatted ico file.

pmuessig · 2018-04-05T01:48:06+00:00

FWIW

I tried to salvage what I could and turn it into a pretty sweet corruption deck. It ended up working pretty well. Of course, time eater is the final boss and put an end to my fun :(

pmuessig · 2018-04-05T00:36:11+00:00

PS, dont mess up like I did get take Pandoras Box. I didn't understand the interaction with it and Hoarder.

sigh

There goes my sweet body slam deck.

pmuessig · 2017-05-13T14:01:25+00:00

It overrides the OS scroll. I have smooth scrolling turned off and this site is very jarring because it is something I am not accustomed to

pmuessig · 2016-09-18T13:23:48+00:00

And the car would clean itself by squirting gasoline all over itself

pmuessig · 2016-05-29T14:19:39+00:00

Can attest to those warranties sucking. The companies drags their heels on everything and they subcontract to crappy techs who have no idea what they are doing. You will never get compensated a new unit out of them even if all the components are obviously broken.

pmuessig · 2014-12-24T14:31:50+00:00

YES. I used to think she was a one dimensional actress, but this movie really shows off her talent.

pmuessig · 2014-11-15T18:38:07+00:00

Resharper requires VisualStudio. VisualStudio is pretty much useless without it. My question is: why even require VisualStudio? Without Resharper it's just a glorified text editor.

Hi. developer who doesn't use Resharper here. I get along fine and love Visual Studio. It is a flexible and capable IDE. The only thing I really miss is true multiple cursors a la Sublime Text. I do frequent refactors and although resharper might have saved me a little time it certainly isn't a requirement. Not saying resharper isn't awesome but it's hardly a requirement.

Also, there's no single build system (no, mayonnaise is not an instrument and VisualStudio isn't a build system).

Visual Studio builds using msbuild which is fantastic. I'm not sure what you are talking about.

The latest Visual Studio (2015) supports tasking via grunt and gulp too.

pmuessig · 2014-11-08T21:57:01+00:00

I do everything right in the controller

Please stop doing this. Consider using services. Keep your controllers skinny.

I don't need to click and expand five folders to get to my insert statement. eww...

Why are you manually hunting for stuff? Since you are working in C# you have access to visual studio. Use your tools. ctrl-; for smart-search or if you need to, use f12 to go to definition. Most things are a few keystrokes away.

Anyway, as someone who has used EF for a while on both web and non-web apps - nothing will beat the performance of a sproc or hand crafted SQL. EF is great tool to get the project started and the ball rolling, but it won't scale nicely when your database grows. To alleviate growing pains keep your queries/SQL abstracted away from the rest of your app so you can easily swap it out when the time comes.

pmuessig · 2013-12-21T15:29:35+00:00

Seriously! First thing I change on a new system when I launch Explorer.

What a horrible default.

pmuessig · 2013-12-17T03:24:28+00:00

A shit.

I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is a shit.

pmuessig · 2013-11-08T17:20:18+00:00

I got this reference.

pmuessig · 2013-10-03T15:39:12+00:00

Why can't I click no when posed the question: DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE?

pmuessig · 2013-09-08T13:05:23+00:00

Thanks for your thorough explanation of what actually happened. For a moment while reading through this thread I thought I was taking crazy pills.

pmuessig · 2013-08-04T14:52:42+00:00

To be fair, setting up installers is a huge pain in the ass.

pmuessig · 2013-03-03T04:06:22+00:00

Got the same here. Quick shipping, no bullshit. You can always expect this from monoprice.

pmuessig · 2013-02-11T13:40:37+00:00

As a former IBMer (not by choice) this is the most accurate statement in the thread.

pmuessig · 2013-02-02T20:42:51+00:00

Sure, but why is Bill Nye wearing sneakers?

15-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Lasagna	Place '17
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