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I thought it was visual basic that wasn't going away...
".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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Both are forms of derpes, and that's with you for life.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A team of amateur codebreakers has reportedly cracked the Zodiac Killer’s most infamous cipher, solving a mystery that’s had law enforcement stumped for more than 50 years. "Drink more ovaltine"?
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I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++. In case these types of debates are your thing
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I recently allowed myself to be embroiled in an online discussion regarding Rust and C++
Oh boy...
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Complexity in software, whether it’s a programming languages, an API, or a user interface, is generally regarded as a vice. And yet complexity is exceptionally common, even though no one ever sets out to build something complex. That's perfect! Now can you make it do this new thing?
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even though no one ever sets out to build something complex.
Really? Tell that to Elon Musk. 
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Software is complex because of implemented features that more often than not conflict with each other. The very first time you have to include an "if" statement, the code becomes "complex".
Another factor of complexity is management and/or sales staff that think they know the best way to implement a user interface. Back in the early 90's, I worked on an app that had no fewer than six ways to to pretty much everything in the app. I rewrote the app, and reduced the complexity (and line count) by eliminating the redundant interfaces.
".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
modified 14-Dec-20 8:38am.
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Microsoft promised that Windows 10X would be simple, sleek and faster than the current generation of Windows. The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
Because they didn't learn from Win 10S?
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Quote: The plans, however, changed after the pandemic, and Microsoft's new priority is to get Windows 10X work on the single-screen devices.
I fail to see the correlation to the causation.
Unless, two people sitting next to each other on a "dual screen" device failed to meet social distancing criteria? 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The 'X' is for 'soon to be eXtinct'
No, it's for 'times'. Windows Ten Times (Worse).
I'm dreading the day a family member buys a machine crippled by it, and I need to try dignosing the problem over the phone/email (I never did figure out that "Windows Five" was Win 10S mode until I saw the computer in person); or tell the buyer that they bought a piece of crap permanently crippled and unable to do what they want.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fluid Framework describes itself as a collection of client libraries for distributing and synchronizing shared state. Get all the power and capabilities of Sharepoint in your apps?
Yeah, that was sarcasm
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Cool. Making web sockets complex. Oh wait, there's a post further up on why software ends up complex.
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It's like playing in a multiverse "but the different boards are connected to each other” You can either know the positions of the pieces, or how they move, but not both?
The game may be over before you open the box?
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Uninterested in having to achieve in your night-vision goggles if you need to observe somebody’s warmth signature after darkish? Good news for mice in the dark
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Good news for mice in the dark
I'm sure my cat will adapt. 
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Does anyone have an article that wasn't either machine translated from a foreign language, or written by people who greatly overestimates their language skills?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks. That make so much more sense, and leaves me even more baffled by what the author of the originally linked article was trying to do. That 'article' was just the transcript with a gibberish filter applied. Probably the worst case:
Scientific American: [GH]: “This green light is absorbed by retinal cells.”
Which the brain then interprets as regular visible light.
Gibberish: [GH]: “This inexperienced gentle is absorbed by retinal cells.”
Which the mind then interprets as common seen gentle.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft says that at its peak, Adrozek had controlled more than 30,000 devices a day. To be safe, only browse to Code Project (I hope)
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Learning programming is hard, but learning a language that was introduced 20 years ago and continues to radically grow and change year after year is monumentally harder. Time for TrainingWheelsAttribute?
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C# surely is pretty welcoming.
It's VB-with-braces, afterall.
Seriously, as long as one can get over the braces (and the visual appearance of the whole braces thing definitely does put people off) then it's a very easy language to learn.
Complexity has increased in C# in recent years but of course one does not need to use all the super-cool new features. Basic (hah, pun not intended) C# can be very, very easy to learn. And I think you can get rather further in C# before complexity becomes confusing than in, say, Rust.
Here's a thought: Has anyone done a C# spin that allows Python-style significant indentation? That would be interesting.
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markrlondon wrote: It's VB-with-braces, afterall
God and the Devil just agreed to create a 10th level of hell just for making that statement.
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markrlondon wrote: It's VB-with-braces, afterall.
You forgot the semi-colons 
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Quote: The “Not All Code Paths Return a Value” compiler error in C# is one that almost all of our students run into as they start making their first methods and playing with conditional logic.
I think that points to more of a flaw in the teacher and teaching approach than it does to the complexity of a language.
Between the lines what I read is: "let's dumb down the compiler messages to meet our crappy teaching methods."
modified 14-Dec-20 7:56am.
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