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// This is an implementation of "IStashy" that saves/loads your objects as Json, in files, in a subfolder named after the type of the Object.

public class FileStashy : IStashy<string>
{
	private readonly IHostingEnvironment _hostingEnvironment;

	public FileStashy(IHostingEnvironment hostingEnvironment)
	{
		_hostingEnvironment = hostingEnvironment;
	}

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# Get a list of meetings occurring today.
function get-meetings() {
	$olFolderCalendar = 9
	$ol = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
	$ns = $ol.GetNamespace('MAPI')
	$Start = (Get-Date).ToShortDateString()
	$End = (Get-Date).ToShortDateString()
	$Filter = "[MessageClass]='IPM.Appointment' AND [Start] > '$Start' AND [End] < '$End'"
	$appointments = $ns.GetDefaultFolder($olFolderCalendar).Items
	$appointments.IncludeRecurrences = $true

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Xah Lee said: https://twitter.com/xah_lee/status/1154957785441816576

i really want a language where you can copy paste any function definition in any project and use in another project. doesn't seem to exist. For this to work, the function param must encode any dependency, of global var and libs.

It took me a while to get my head around this idea, but here's some thoughts so far.

(I'll use C# as my example syntax here)

Imagine a function that is already self-contained....

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//using Microsoft.Win32
public bool WindowsIsUsingDarkTheme()
{
	var keyName = @"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize";
	var valueName = "AppsUseLightTheme";
	var value = Registry.GetValue(keyName, valueName, null);
	if (value == null)
	{
		return false;
	}

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(my possibly incorrect line of thinking in relation to this tweet... https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/1135831731347398657 )

First thing I think is:

we're not trying to work out the probability of being caught exactly once, or exactly twice etc. So we use an old statistics trick and turn it around, asking:

What is one minus the probability that he will be caught exactly 0 times?

To set about answering this, we start by saying, how often does he drink?

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// In this week's episode of "YOUR DOING IT WRONG"

void Main()
{

    // The ** OLD ** keyword-heavy way to write a for loop.... nobody does this any more...
    for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(i);
    }

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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace PaulBettsWIN32
{
    static class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)

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void Main()
{
   //testGenerating();
   var grid = goodGrid();
   //grid.Write().Dump();
   grid.MakeGame();
   //grid.Write().Dump();
   var foundOne = false;
   var game = grid.Write();
   while(!foundOne) 

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class c{static void Main(){var s="class c{{static void Main(){{var s={0}{1}{0};System.Console.Write(s,(char)34,s);}}}}";System.Console.Write(s,(char)34,s);}}

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void Main()
{
  // LinqPad script that downloads all PDFs/etc from Bret Victors worry dream refs page.
	var targetPath = @"PATH_TO_WHERE_YOU_KEEP_YOUR_EBOOK\eBooks";
  
  //These filenames were extracted from http://worrydream.com/refs/ -- using NimbleText. 
  //(TODO: Use regex or html agility pack to find them programmatically)
	var refs = new string[] {
		"Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEngineering.pdf",
		"Licklider-IntergalacticNetwork.pdf",