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Actually you'd enter the 'Twilight Zone'.
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The cellars? Much more gothic than the basements.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to? The Coffee machines, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It gets worse actually
Mezzanine is M.
Roof is R or RF.
Basement is B or BF when only one level is underground.
Platform is P, except when it is Parking.
Sometimes the car park floors are closer together and get separate numbers P1 onwards, which correspond to different floor numbers of the building.
And sometimes they are labelled in Japanese, making a ride on the elevator more adventurous.
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Too confusing, I'll be taking the stairs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Indivara wrote: Platform is P, except when it is Parking. Or Penthouse.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Agreed. I think some folk are confusing counting floors, with counting ceilings
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
What about "terrace" buildings that are built on the side of a hill, having more than one ground level floor?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: having more than one ground level floor? Go to the top of the building. Jump. Count ground floors on impact.
One impact, one ground floor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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a floor is a floor. A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle.
if you have 2 floors is your list, I mean building!
How many items in your Building?
2 floors.
And so the first floor in your building is the [0] item, no, i mean [0] floor.
As such it is Ground Floor.
And the 2nd item in your building is the 1st Floor.
See, simple.
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Indivara wrote: No it is the first floor! Elder one is a data scientist.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In past lives, one was a C programmer, the other was a Fortran programmer.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think I have spotted the problem here. The elder programs in Excel while the younger programs in C#
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The problem is that many people associate the word "first" with the number "one" and think that the two concepts are the same when they are not, they are distinct concepts.
In your children's case; I suspect that both are correct.
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He has clearly developed a healthy disdain for VB (but probably doesn't know it yet.)
Marc
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It gets weirder: Some countries have different way to count floors. In Russia, the ground floor is the first floor. So a building with 3 floors has floors 1 to 3. In Germany, the ground floor is called the ground floor and the second floor is called the first floor. So a three-floor building would have floors 0 (ground) to 2. At least, there's a word for "above-ground floor" which I use.
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Useful, as it answers the real question: how many flights of stairs I have to climb? 0, 1, 2.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It should be obvious - Array index (in most of the cases) starts normally from 0. That explain a lot!
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I don't think this is about floors, look at the title again.
And, yes of course, you can not learn coding unless you were born programmer.
Zero floor approach is a good sign, the younger kid is the one of us!
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In Italy gorund floor is 0, then there are first, second and so on.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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All y'all saying that ground floor = 0 are correct.
All y'all saying that ground floor = first are also correct.
It's just that in many countries, floors are identified by an index (0) whereas in the US (and a few other places I surmise) floors are identified with a label ("first").
Different UI concerns, that.
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Younger is using a zero index array and will struggle with the fence-post errors in later life.
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Don't you mean a Bjorn programmer?
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I wrote some software that is used once per month to import data from over 50 sources (excel files, databases, and web sites), save it in a database, and generate a series of 37 panels (for lack of a better term) that show various types of graphs and data grids, and then generate power point slides so management can be briefed by the various department heads.
They have another guy doing a Qlikview "application", and importing the same data (except the web site stuff because Qlikview can't do that), and generating similar panels.
We both have the same issues - the excel files are mostly created by humans, which means anything that changes in the formatting or layout of the file could cause major issues during the import process.
For the last four months, there has been a string of major changes that affect both the importing, layout, and content of the panels. This is where it gets good.
Because of the way I've written the code (WPF desktop app using MVVM), I can generate a new chart/grid, or an alternative version of an existing one, in less than 10 minutes. I can write a new importer in less than 15 minutes (in most cases).
My app can create powerpoint slides with editable sections (as appropriate). Qlikview cannot export to powerpoint. At all. So after the panels are generated as JPGs, the customer has to create the powerpoint slide himself, and then copy/paste the jpg onto the empty slide, and add the desired edit boxes. I ask you - what good is automation software when it doesn't freakin automate anything?
I can also use a stored procedure to tailor data retrieval for the viewmodel so no post-processing is required. On average, Qlikview requires at least three load operations to simply massage the data to a usable form.
My app can be refactored and generate results in a fraction of the time the Qlikview app can. A final advantage is that my annual salary costs significantly less than the annual support contract, developer licenses, user licenses, and server licenses for QLikview.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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