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Indeed - you have to really work at it to be that stupid!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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kmoorevs wrote: As has been said before, you can write crappy software in any language...even in C#...just check out QA any day of the week! As also has been pointed out often enough, that's not a valid argument. How does it make BASIC any better?
The real question is how much a language has to offer to assist you in writing robust and efficient code. Most BASICS that ever existed lacked on both accounts when compared to contemporary alternatives and finally, after decades, they got it right. A little too late to get rid of the image that comes with what the 'B' in BASIC still stands for.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I don't hate VB.NET (I started out with it), but I can understand why others hate it. The main thing that I used in VB that C# doesn't have is XML literals, though I only used that for testing a data structure that was loaded from XML, or for hard coded defaults in a configuration file (which I would write out if it didn't exist).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Don't let these guys fool you. VB.NET wasn't designed for XML. Microsoft recommends using PowerShell to access your data and have VB.NET shell out to execute it. Once your data comes back then you can serialize it into any format you want in PowerShell and then have VB.NET read that file. Of course, you'll have to go through PowerShell to write out any data also.
Alternatively, you may wish to look into JScript. It's a pretty widespread emerging technology.
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I think that JScript is being superseded by Visual J++.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Good point.
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mmm. I thought the world moved on from extracting data from xml files to json...
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Is relocation to Seoul a good Korea move?
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Eido you make these puns better, or, Seoul help me, I'll scream!
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Yes, yes. Of course. You'd be that much closer to North Korea and able to work on some pretty advanced stuff...
BOOM[^]
SFW
Jeremy Falcon
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I believe samsung about that in his gangnam style ripoff
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That's a very Hanoi-ing response.
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Sorry for Beijing so late. I had to Kyoto the dentist.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Hi All,
I may have regaled you in the past with tales of woe in testing electronics and software. But today due to my own error I thought I had killed a Mega2560 Arduino board when interfacing to a set of optocouplers, the magic smoke escaped (cue swearing) due to a lack of coffee error 24 volts got shoved to a digital input , magic smoke escaped & a hole punched in the top of the Atmel...Leave for a long period of time, check when not having thirty plus things to do. The tough little son of none is working mostly, OK inputs 22 & 23 are not working, but hey...
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So they did implement the HCF instruction (Halt and Catch Fire)
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not HCF, more HRS (Holt, Relase Smoke)
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Cool.
I once took a chip and attached it to the 24VDC output of the transformer used to power my slot car racing set. The top blew off, exposing the IC. That was snazzy, seeing the inside of the chip.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I once took a chip and attached it to the 24VDC output of the transformer used to power my slot car racing set. The top blew off, exposing the IC. That was snazzy, seeing the inside of the chip.
somebody got bored cutting the legs off spiders and setting the cat on fire
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I remeber back in my school days using an OP-Amp (probably a 741) with some PLC (Prog Logic Controlers) and a few missteps later a loud crack and a perfect circle appear in the top of the chip...nothing on the insides, I'm guessing the wafer was on a circular base...never foound the top.
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In a college lab I managed to reverse Vcc and ground on a 1489 RS-232 driver chip. When things didn't work, I fingertip-tested each chip to see if they were warm. When I got to the driver, it had reached the melting point of the plastic. It took a year for me to get sensation back in the tip of my index finger.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I don't know why but your story reminded me of the time I was giving an instructional lab over the inner workings of the cabinet for a AN/SPS-67[^] navigation radar and I got my finger too close to the 530 VDC transmit trigger pin while it was active. I tell you, my head felt fuzzy all day and my arm hurt for a week after that .
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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