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Super Lloyd wrote: Any PDF reader recommendation
SumatraPDF. Looks old, performs really well. Fast to start, does all I need from a PDF (and CBZ and MOBI and EPUB and ...) reader.
Super Lloyd wrote: However, if you write ugly bad desktop code, with humongous calculation in your UI thread, your app can easily freeze. For example I wouldn't trust one of the developer here where I am to work with me on any app... this guy... makes me sad..
Concurrency's still not easy enough for a lot of desktop developers, even with things like tasks in C#, futures in C++ etc. I think the Qt integration of concurrency & GUI programming is the easiest one I've used, with their QFutureWatcher class, which fires off a GUI event when a concurrent task (packaged in a QFuture) completes.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I find async so easy and convenient! 
But yea, I have met many developer who, for some reason, are very slow on the uptake.. almost like they don't want to do it, and don't understand the benefits and don't understand where it is actually useful... 
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+1 for Sumatra. I've hated Adobe Reader with a passion from the get-go, put up with FoxIt until it became bloatware (why does a PDF reader need a plugin for Facebook, and why do I have to re-disable it every time I download an update?), and couldn't be happier with Sumatra. It does exactly what a PDF reader should do, and doesn't even pretend to try to do anything more than that.
It's rather ugly, but then you'd supposed to focus on the PDF content, so who cares about the menus around it.
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And the source is available on Github if it does turn into an a-laden behemoth...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I did not realize that. Nice.
But, I'm not into compiling other people's code. As long as the version I have runs on the OS I happen to have...that's what I'll keep running.
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I thought this post was about desktop vs. web apps.
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The biggest difference in writing web apps vs. desktop apps is dealing with state. Leave that desktop app open overnight...it'll be ready in the morning. Now try that with a web app.
I've been doing both for 20 years. The first 10 was mostly desktop development, nowadays it's mostly web.
As for PDF readers, I still prefer Adobe Reader.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: As the IRS hurried to process direct payments to Americans reeling from the coronavirus outbreak, the Government Accountability Office said the tax agency didn’t use Social Security death records to filter out payments to the deceased.
somebody forgot the:
join SSN on SSN.ID = Person.SSN_ID and SSN.Deceased = false
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Somebody forgot the importance of skin in the game.
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One guy who has been living in Norway for the last 17 years. He is a US citizen because his mother is, but he is born and grew up in Norway. He went to a US college 1999-2003, but hasn't been back to USA since. He received a "personally signed" check. Another guy became a Norwegian citizen four years ago; he received USD 2400 in financial support.
Both these guys say that they consider it to be part of the reelection campain.
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Member 7989122 wrote: part of the reelection campain
Yup.
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"Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods." --H.L.Mencken
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I hope he's been filing US tax returns every year. If not, he could be in for a nasty surprise one of these days.
/ravi
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That was discussed in the newspaper article I read: Both these guys had to submit tax return forms, even though they do not pay a single cent in taxes to the USA. They found it quite crazy.
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Member 7989122 wrote: Both these guys had to submit tax return forms, even though they do not pay a single cent in taxes to the USA. They found it quite crazy.
Only two countries on the planet tax you on your world income even if you're a non-resident: the US and Eritrea (an African dictatorship). 
/ravi
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For now. My guess is that it will become far more widespread. Can't let the milk cows leave the dairy farm!
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"only two countries tax you based on world income"
Colombia does that too, and I'm not sure but I believe Spain do It too
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Lots of countries tax you on your world income. But only if you're a resident.
/ravi
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"Not my department".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Well, they are still eligible to vote, afterall...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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"Death and Taxes"
Sigh...
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As long as they are still allowed to vote, it's OK. 
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Yup, most of the dead ones will be voting for sure 
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Yep - if the person died after filing their 2018 return they got a check. I sent my father-in-law's check back.
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So that's what it takes! No wonder I didn't receive a check.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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