> Raymond's posts are always fun to read, but it sometimes he focuses more on the "proper" methods, and does not even acknowledge that there are hacky workarounds.
Nor should he, IMO. Hacky workarounds are almost always a terrible idea that will bite you in the ass someday.
Had a WPF touch interface application that would latch on when a person; presses, holds, and slides their finger off the screen. Highly unacceptable when it controls a machine that could remove a limb.
Only fix was to write a custom touch screen event handler that overrides the built in one by Microsoft.
I would love to have a _proper method_ and pull out my _hacky_ method that prevents the removal of a person's limb.
Companies like Kroger are so big they dictate the purchase prices from farms. The farmers were better off in the past with multiple competitors creating a bidding war. Same with consumers, products had to be priced right to win their business.
A company I work for had to give free engineering labor in millions of dollars to get access to one of the largest retailers in the USA. Too big not-to-do-business-with harms everyone except the retailer.