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811.
by tabtab 7y ago
I didn't use very many global variables in my VB-classic. I'm not sure what you mean. And, what's a "global module"? Re: "Webforms is entirely dead in 2020. There's no support in .NET 5." Deprecate
812.
by tabtab 7y ago
So coding philosophy is tied to sex, politics, and religion? We're in trouble.
813.
by tabtab 7y ago
That doesn't change anything that I see. Indexes and counters are usually not used for "continuous" metrics such as liquid quantities. And again, the biz domain typically does not count fractional quantities, at least not in
814.
by tabtab 7y ago
We need something similar to the Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA). Our system rewards short-term thinking. However, the BBA should take into account stimuluses during slumps. It would probably have to kick in slowly to avoid hurting the repr
815.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: had you been using VB best practices. Everybody had a different opinion about what those were. Things that look obvious in hindsight weren't. Re: While with hindsight we mostly all agree "webforms" was a bad idea Do y
816.
by tabtab 7y ago
We probably use habitual trial and error to train our biological neural net to perform our arm and hand movements rather than mathematical formulas. You can watch a baby experiment trying to grab and move items for hours a day. (Poor cat.)
817.
by tabtab 7y ago
Let's break it down into sub-categories: 1. There is a time-based relationship between A and B: they tend to happen close together in time 2. There is a time-based relationship between A and B such that B often happens shortly after A.
818.
by tabtab 7y ago
An AI bot could test that theory by opening bunches of umbrellas. It's not too different from something a toddler might try. A parent would see that, chuckle, and explain that clouds cause rain, not umbrellas. It's a "fact&qu
819.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: Microsoft didn't see a disconnect between "VB Classic" and "VB.NET" like so many users did. It wasn't backward compatible in the least bit. You pretty much had to start over. The auto-converters were poor
820.
by tabtab 7y ago
"unshift" is not very intuitive in my opinion, but let's not get bogged down with API naming design.
821.
by tabtab 7y ago
That doesn't tell one directly if heat causes fire or the other way around. One just knows there is some relationship. Recognizing a relationship itself is often enough to trigger experimentation.
822.
by tabtab 7y ago
Stone age version of cat videos = real cats.
823.
by tabtab 7y ago
I haven't done enough "fluid" applications to give domain-related suggestions. That's not really an integer "count". I'm only saying it doesn't fit well in typical business applications as I see them.
824.
by tabtab 7y ago
Gee, I thought she was a Perl programmer ;-)
825.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: " someone wrote a program to swing the heads on one of those old giant hard drives back and forth. At the right frequency...cause the drive to walk away " On some TRS-80 models I discovered a certain POKE command would make t
826.
by tabtab 7y ago
I now suspect he made it up for devious reasons, but I had a professor who told about the time random characters and cursor movements kept appearing during data input from a lady at a remote office at his org. Phone support couldn't so
827.
by tabtab 7y ago
I'm not against tagging a vector between two or more nodes as "probably causal" (cause related) in some sense (or maybe a "weighted causal"). It just shouldn't be the ONLY tag. Re quote: "The key, he argu
828.
by tabtab 7y ago
Because monkeys don't quite understand office politics yet. Kissing up properly trumps logic in Human World.
829.
by tabtab 7y ago
Can my "monkey" be Warren Buffett? A good many stock-pickers are bad at their core job. They peddle in buzzwords and bullsh$t. But that doesn't mean all stock pickers stink.
830.
by tabtab 7y ago
I'm not sure that's necessary. Early humans didn't know why a lot of things happened, such as why rubbing sticks makes fire; they just learned to use them from trial and error. The physics of it were beyond them. I see it mo
831.
by tabtab 7y ago
That convention seems confusing to me, especially one new to the convention. If you need an explicit "insert at the start" operation, then do something like "x.insertAtStart(y)" instead of "x[0] = y".
832.
by tabtab 7y ago
I think you are mixing up indexing and default value setting. They are roughly related, but only roughly.
833.
by tabtab 7y ago
In the business domain one is often counting and tracking explicit things: widgets, contracts, customers, complaints, pizzas, etc. When counting, you almost always start with 1. "1" fits the domain more naturally, and if you devia
834.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: ...we called Bill "the bad idea fairy". He always brought a slightly-off-kilter view of technical problems, which triggered endless discussions of fascinating, if usually implausible, alternatives. I've been "accu
835.
by tabtab 7y ago
I do have to give MS credit for mostly supporting deprecated products. I do think they should have open-sourced VB-classic and FoxPro. They pissed off a lot of organizations by outright ending any future progress. There were some propriet
836.
by tabtab 7y ago
> Much of what you claim is just guessing. Same with you. It's not statistically safe to say that because some people do better with Lisp that everybody will given enough time. That doesn't tell us whether it's a persona
837.
by tabtab 7y ago
Yip, the buzzword-slingers know how to sell the Swiss Army Kitchen Sink by making them fear what-if scenarios: What if you need internationalization? What if you need mobile? What if you need web-scale? What if you need microservices to con
838.
by tabtab 7y ago
> That's an assumption of yours. So is the opposite viewpoint. Neither of us has a solid study that's directly relevant such that anecdotal info is all we have here either way. A good study would probably require millions of do
839.
by tabtab 7y ago
> Still many can read [novels] without much problem. Compared to what? I didn't say reading of Lisp comes to a stand-still, only that it's slower than block-type-indicator symbols. Maybe it is indeed possible to refactor writ
840.
by tabtab 7y ago
> Clojure teams at companies like Walmart and Apple processing massive amounts of data. Yes, I already agreed it does well in certain niches. Usually in query-esque niches. SQL is also functional-esque for similar reasons. You seem to be

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