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by laumars 5y ago
I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this. But FYI, VB6 isn’t .NET. You might be thinking of VB.NET. And if you were, your arguments would be correct. VB.NET is an utterly pointless language. But VB6 is a different beast ent
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by laumars 5y ago
There’s more to writing software than just dragging a button onto a form ;) at some point you’re going to want to write your own classes, or manage the existing automatically generated ones. I’ve written sizeable software in both VB6 and C#
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by laumars 5y ago
Depends on the domain. C# is undoubtedly a lot more powerful and C# runs faster, but your average C# program requires writing a hell of a lot more boilerplate code than your average VB6 program. Visual Basic had its warts. C# is a better l
814.
by laumars 5y ago
Yes and only C# was created because of NIH syndrome: C# - Created by Microsoft after Sun sued them over Java. But C# (or rather .NET) did still solve several problems with Java’s JVM (eg it’s much easier for end users to work with, it supp
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re way off the mark! 1. Might happen occasionally but rarely would anyone adopt a vanity language 2. Nope 3. Lol this is just a rehash of 1. 4. Languages can’t be licensed, compilers can. And that’s why we often have multiple different
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re losing karma for this but you’re right. It’s a massive industry and there are specialties out there writing code in languages that would look unreadable to your average web developer yet the code is well written and perfectly readabl
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by laumars 5y ago
The fact that the OP had a different opinion to yourself about what he found readable is proof enough that it is subjective and it’s laughable how you’ve demonstrated hnlmorg’s point while attempting to debunk it (eg your attempt at providi
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by laumars 5y ago
If most people saw how their meat was processed then I think they’d be converted to lab grown meat (or turned vegan).
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by laumars 5y ago
Wikipedia already does hint at that information: > In 2002, Microsoft released Windows Media Center > Microsoft continued this style of design with the 2010 release of Windows Phone 7 (emphasis mine) But you have to bare in mind tha
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by laumars 5y ago
I was. But you had to do so many hacks because things like tables couldn’t be styled in CSS and tables were often the only way to style items on a page as div layers were still in their infancy.
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by laumars 5y ago
Noooo. I was a desktop software developer in the 90s and the conversation definitely started then. Remember we are talking about desktop software not web development (and by the late 90s bevels were seen as archaic as “under maintenance” GI
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by laumars 5y ago
From a modern perspective they might. But that is because these days everyone designs flat toolbars. However in the early days of OS design each button on the toolbar looked like a distinct button. Microsoft then flattened the buttons while
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by laumars 5y ago
That was several years later than what the GP was referring to. His point was accurate for IE3 and 4. While I would go on to loathe Internet Explorer, the early releases were actually pretty good. But this was Microsoft back when they had t
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by laumars 5y ago
To me that looks exactly how they had done a lot of the freezer stuff. Sure there was some CGI in there too. But most of it looked like classical camera effects (time lapsing, special lenses, etc) rather than computer generated assets.
825.
by laumars 5y ago
Indeed. As a fellow maintainer I will manually replicate the error the user reports, write an test to around the failing function, then fix said function. After that I’m usually satisfied the bug has been fixed. So I will link the git commi
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by laumars 5y ago
There’s a reason they didn’t believe you. I mean there’s obviously parts of that short that did make use of CGI but clearly it’s predominantly live action
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by laumars 5y ago
There would be Airbnb traffic would look different from a VPN. For an Airbnb you’d have the accounts change frequently but seldom multiple account from the same IP. Whereas a BPN would see the same accounts frequently but with many overlapp
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by laumars 5y ago
Except that’s exactly how it works. Even in the U.K. where it’s 18 to legally drink, many places have a policy that anyone who looks under 25 will be challenged for ID and only driving licence or passport are accepted. Some places even have
829.
by laumars 5y ago
> The Facebook web browser. Never say never. If we knew what we know today about privacy, we would have pointed out the idiocy of anyone choosing to use a web browser released by Google. Google were already making money off targeted ad
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by laumars 5y ago
That doesn’t really solve the problem. Those shell tokens are still getting parsed and interpreted as special tokens only you’re now doing it in your host application rather than the Borne shell. And as you’ve pointed out, reimplementing sh
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by laumars 5y ago
The need for APIs to not have non-obvious side effects is especially important for non-career developers as they’re less likely to be aware of said side effects. So your argument is actually a strong reason for exec() not to fork /bin&
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by laumars 5y ago
Mine more than doubles in height and does so using a 3 part telescopic legs. Given how small some telescopic ladders can compress to and how low my desk already goes with just 3 parts, I’m reasonably confident it’s not that difficult of an
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by laumars 5y ago
Adjustable tables would solve that problem. I have one and it’s brilliant, days when I’m feeling lazy I can sit at it but days when I need better focus I can press a button and it turns a motor on to raise the desk. It doesn’t go low enough
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by laumars 5y ago
I’d estimate that I need to read install instructions for maybe 1 in 20 pieces of software I install on desktop Linux (server is a little different because you’ll have config files that need to be coded in Ansible etc but we are talking des
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re getting downvoted but honestly I can’t understand why anyone would defend Finder. It’s appalling. Half of the power user functions one expects from a modern file browser are hidden behind non-discoverable hot keys and the other half
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by laumars 5y ago
I usually find the easiest way of installing software on macOS is homebrew. But as great as homebrew is, I’m still left irritated that one of the most profitable companies in the world could make their flagship operating system such a fucki
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by laumars 5y ago
Yeah that’s a fair point. The only reason I was careful was just in case those photos got leaked and taken out of context. Which is a bloody depressing thing to consider when innocently taking pictures of your own family :(
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s not just you. I have pictures of my kids playing in the bath. No genitals are in shot and it’s just kids innocently playing with bubbles. The photos aren’t even shared but they’d still get scanned by this tool. This kind of thing isn’t
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by laumars 5y ago
Back then there was also a much greater sense of community than there is in recent times. It wasn’t just a single parent raising the child but the whole community was an extended family. So the whole family dynamic was radically different.
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by laumars 5y ago
That hit me hard too. It’s the kind of action that stays a child for their whole life and casts a totally different light on this guy and his adventures.

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