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Forward Unto Dawn… of the Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro

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Back at the start of May, I jumped on the chance to start using the Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro, which is my first experience with Xiaomi phones. In fact, other than a few of their respectable power banks, and a “not-completely-hacked-yet-to-do-what-I-want” Box 3rd Generation (which is due its own separate review/post; read the article if you are asking “what the heck is that?”); this is my first Xiaomi product.

Nevertheless, I will prattle for quite a bit before diving into the actual usage experience thereof, ranting for a bit and providing background as well. If you wish to skip this, just jump directly to the actual article.

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Going to the Dumb Side – Using the iPhone 6S

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I hear gasps from certain friends whom thought I was always “anti-Apple”…

Just to be clear: I am not “anti-Apple”, and neither am I an Android/Windows/Nokia “fanboi”… I am simply “anti-inefficiency”, “anti-idiot” and am totally against the “control-freak”, “I-know-better-than-you” typical Apple attitude/products… It took ages before Mac die-hard idiots/”fanboi”s learned to control more than one finger on a mouse… It took ages before iPhone die-hard idiots/fanbois found out that alternative input methods/keyboards existed… For what it is worth, iPhone die-hard idiots/”fanboi”s still haven’t discovered single-handed navigation (needing to rely on the “screen shrinking” double-tap) – that needing to reach diagonally across the screen at any size just to tap the “back” button is just retarded with all that unused real-estate around the oh-so-Apple-Pay-secure fingerprint scanner.

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ANTLR4 with C# in Visual Studio 2015…

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So, some three years after the site launch, we have used plenty of products, but with kids, family and work, little time to write about it…

Nevertheless, I had been experimenting with ANTLR4 for about over half a year now. I had initial issues setting it up due to the somewhat out-dated instructions available then. When I was “forced” to upgrade to Windows 10 and re-installed everything from scratch, I realised I had totally forgotten what the steps were to get ANTLR4 working with Visual Studio 2015…

Hence, in an effort to help others and as a reference to self, please find a step-by-step guide to using ANTLR4 (version 4.3.0 stable) with Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition) (although the instructions should work for other VS editions as well).

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