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I like computer games, primarily ones that have a good story to keep me interested and that have simple controls, but my problem is that I never have time to play them.
I have an 8TB drive (and back-ups) that's almost full of installers for games, and shelves full of game CDs/DVDs, that I will never play.
So I'm not so much a video-game player as a video-game buyer.
Shopaholism is a real thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is, in a way, how the old "Stoned" virus worked. You can have countless infected diskettes and yet not have the virus yourself - until you accidentally try to boot from one (left in Drive A:, remember?). Now, every floppy that goes into your system becomes a carrier. And it doesn't kill your system (the Michelangelo knockoff, unfortunately, did).
Or, put in more draconian terms - just for illustrative purposes:
Think of some undesirably genetic trait. It could be a dominant or recessive gene - so consider both scenarios.
Dominant Gene: Essentially if you kill every one who has this gene before they breed you can wipe out the trait. As a dominant gene, anyone with one or two copies shows the trait and all vectors of transmission can be observed.
Recessive Gene: Many carriers who, having only one copy, show no undesirable physical traits - only those with two copies are apparent. Genocide won't help as you don't know who to target.
Similarly, a parasite that (quickly) kills its host will not be nearly as successful as one that lives off it - and even less successful, still, than a symbiotic relationship.
Covid-19 carriers, it seems, are mostly asymptomatic, or nearly so. It's pretty obvious as to which category it falls into.
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5teveH wrote: It is genuinely scary how close this is to predicting our current situation That's because it was written by a real writer, not the hollywood variety.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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watched it a couple of weeks ago myself. It was like "What?"
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I am using the stay at home time to show my kids my box-from-when-I-was younger : my whole life until now holds in a 60x30x30cm box, in which I have put all my important stuff so far. It is nothing to say that this was a blast in the past.
In the box is the report of my master thesis in 2002, in the acknowledgment part of which I have 5 lines for thanking people who help me, and of these is dedicated to ... Code Project for the awesome help I got from everyone here.
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I also have a box full of useless st*ff.
It's called my house.
[edited for kid-sister safeness[^]]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 19-Apr-20 3:49am.
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And here we are - still making the same bad jokes so many years later.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Which is why I am still here.
But I do own y part of my thesis to Nish, Christian Graus, toxcct, Chris losinger, ... and of course to you for that awesome website.
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Is there any good links to learn the core JS fundamentals thoroughly ?
Most tutorials online assume everybody wants to learn JS to develop Web.
For example W3Schools:
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("demo1").innerHTML = "Hello Dolly!";
document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML = "How are you?";
}
oh, no "document." stuff That confuses the kids.
I just want JS that's used at the backend. i.e Node.
But when I search for Node.js based Tutorial they talk all about the libraries and APIs in Node. Like FileSystem, Network and other stuff directly.
Not much of JS fundamentals.
Is there a site where I can learn JS, the python or C way.
Just data structures and fundamentals.
This is for my cousin btw.
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Nand32 wrote: This is for my cousin btw.
Yeah, yeah - they all say that when they start to turn to the Dark Side ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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JS is more the Dumb Side of the Force. I am on the Dark Side and like it, but would not touch JS without gloves or perhaps better a complete protective suit.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Are you mad? Where the heck are you going to get enough PPE to protect you from JS?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I just have to ask my former employer. They had me running around in such a suit an entire summer long, measuring radiation, decontaminating trucks and other such nice activities.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Don't forget the welding mask - JS enters through the eyes, and contaminates the soul ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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So that's why some of the the raiders wear welding goggles, even at night! Damn! Now you have brought me to dig out that game again. Skyrimk with guns. With a new character. Little Mary Sue has just found that old power armor suit plus minigun and given the raisers what they deserve. Power armor protects you from everything: Fallout 4 Power Armor vs Raiders - YouTube[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah, yeah - they all say that when they start to turn to the Dark Side ..
You mean back to coding the dark screen CLI ?
Hehe, my cousin wanted to escape programming and wanted to pursue management degree. But because of the lockdown things changed and now he's desperate for any job. What we have mostly is technical jobs with low pay. So he's gonna learn the stuff.
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There was one on Microsoft Virtual Academy, taught by Bob Tabor, which taught Javascript using just the Visual Studio Code console, without the need to open a web-page. 30 or 31 videos in all. Not finding them online now. Have downloaded all those videos and they are on my hard disk (downloaded sometime in 2018).
Check if you can find these videos by Bob Tabor on Javascript.
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Got these videos - Beginner's guide to JavaScript Fundamentals By Bob Tabor - YouTube[^]
modified 18-Apr-20 7:14am.
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Great thank you.
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Nand32 wrote: This is for my cousin btw
I'm also not speaking for myself, but my uncle's butler thinks that JS just as bad a habit as good old BASIC or PHP were.
To answer your question: Just like BASIC or PHP, pure JS has only very underdeveloped I/O capabilities and needs its libraries and frameworks to actually do something without bloating up the code samples to enormous size. Especially those who the samples are written for might not see the forest for all the trees. Only to replace the forest with a nice big swamp of frameworks . I'm certainly no friend of JS, but I think you may be out of luck here.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I searched for a core JS tutorial for a while, I couldn't find so I asked him to start with Python for now. Though my preference would have been C to start with.
Python is more famed so he's starting with it and the idea is to compare each code exercise with JS equivalent.
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C always is a good choice. Unfortunately both my C compiler and the emulator can't keep up with the hardware I have been building, so I'm roughing it with assembly.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ahh, the elaborated language-embedded I/O functions of the Advanced Languages like C, C++ and Pascal in my childhood. Just put a red A letter to the second column of the second row from the top...
Also, for a true language integrated query go for Foxpro's scatter/gather commands instead...
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scatter/gather - I have not seen (used) that in a long time.
I recently referred to zap & pack with one of our DBA types - no, they did not know whence it came, are but children.
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