It's 2024 and Visual Basic isn't even deeply integrated into it's development environment.
Posts made by slapout1
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RE: Visual Basic for Quantum Computers
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RE: StackGoFYourQuestion
Questions which are not duplicates marked (even closed) as duplicates.
Questions which get closed by people who would not know the answer any way because they find the question insufficiently clear. They are demanding information that a person who knew the answer would already understand. I have no problem with people asking for information to help them understand. I do have a problem with people closing a question because they do not get the information they demanded when they are clearly not qualified to answer the question.
Exactly. I've seen questions closed that I (or anyone familiar with the technology) knows the answer too. But they were closed because the closer didn't understand it.
And too many times my search will find a question marked as a duplicate. So I will go to the other question. And it's also marked as the duplicate of another question.
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RE: Boomzilla has too many posts and reputation
Could he trade in his points for one of these? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1663289-REG/lg_lsab_u325c_325_8k_ultra.html/865
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RE: Cross-platform development
@MrL said in Cross-platform development:
@Atazhaia said in Cross-platform development:
Does anyone have any experience with MAUI and can tell if that's good, bad or to use.
If you don't think that XAML and MVVM are horrible ideas, even worse in practice, then it's fine.
When I played with it, none of tutorials from Xamarin's site worked, XAML editor crashed every 2 hours, VS crashed once a day at least. Finding relevant info or answers to problems is never ending forum hunting, with lots of incorrect information for deprecated versions.
XAML and MVVM are horrible ideas, btw.
Just make a website wrapped in a browser control and save yourself some sanity.
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RE: Cross-platform development
The problem with going cross-platform between desktop and mobile is not the language or the toolkit, but rather that the way you interact with applications is different between the two environments. Mice and keyboards simply aren't the same as touch screens, and there's nothing you can do about that (unless it is light interaction such as typing forum comments in a webpage, where you can get away with it).
Please tell Microsoft this circa 2012
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RE: Searching for some kind of Firebase-alike
@Rhywden https://zumero.com/
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RE: Ubuntu and settings and WiFi
That's nothing. Back in the dial-up days, I installed Ubuntu on a computer using a CD. Then I tried to get online. But the driver/program I needed to get online via dial-up wasn't included on the CD. To get it, you had to go online.
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RE: VS Code Autoerase
@HardwareGeek said in VS Code Autoerase:
@boomzilla said in VS Code Autoerase:
VS code has issues
editing angular html files.
Sounds like a bad idea.
The angular or the html?
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RE: Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot
I didn't read the article, but IMHO, the reason functional programming hasn't become more popular is because it doesn't fit the way most people think about problems.
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RE: Programming Memes Thread
Remember that episode of Star Trek where Kirk was telling the henchmen how to play a card game? That's how user's describe requirements.
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RE: The Official Short Movie Review Topic
Men in Black
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@Dragoon I forgot about that. Didn't forget about this: https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2019/12/5/20976051/2009-alabama-florida-sec-championship-saban-mark-ingram-tim-tebow
Note: I like Tim Tebow. But when I think of him vs Bama, this is what I remember.
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RE: Legacy of Anders Hejlsberg! The EmptyChar!
@Nagesh said in Legacy of Anders Hejlsberg! The EmptyChar!:
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO TRY THIS ON YOUR FAVORITE C# COMPILER.
But not your favorite C# composer
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RE: How often do YOU copy from StackOverflow? Let's find out
Someone on Etsy is probably already 3d Printing these and selling them
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RE: Strange behaviour from new hard drive
@Choonster Is the archive one large file or multiple files?
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RE: The official 2020 death pool
@hungrier I think Hillary Clinton made a mistake.
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RE: A picture book written in C code
@Byte9 Constructive Criticism: The video needs to be re-recorded with a better microphone.
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RE: Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications
Did they just assume my preferred pronoun?
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StackOverflow Alternative
Now that StackOverflow is self-destructing, it seems to me that it would be a good time for someone to create a competitor. I don't have the time or the patience to do that. But I am curious, if you could design a competing site, what would it look like? What would you do different?
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RE: Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications
I don't understand how their "identity" if someone uses the wrong pronoun.
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Coder's Stone Update
I just pushed out an update to my iPad app -- Coder's Stone. It now includes code samples in COBOL!!
Coder’s Stone is a programming language quick-reference.
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RE: I'm done with MS and their .NET Core Bullshit
@wtfaspnecore Yeah I know. Try finding information about the non-hosted version of TFS.
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RE: Suggest appropriate goals for a super-basic Python class (HS level)
- Show them how to setup the dev environment
- Teach them how to output something ("Hi, world")
- Teach them about variables.
- Show them how to prompt for input.
- Show them loops.
They should now be able to do simple programs like ask for your name and print "Hi, Name"
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RE: Samsung, bunch of *****
This wasn't really a cashback form. This was a form seeking web developers. They'll probably be making you an offer...
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RE: The .NET Framework is done
.NET's open source now, isn't it? Quick, someone fork it!
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RE: Design challenge: super quick admin panel
I'd use Winforms :-) but that's because it's what I'm used to. I'd make each window separately and then when the program runs load each one into a tab. Then junior devs can add windows without touching other things. Also, you could limit the tabs someone can see based on their security.
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RE: The Official Self Driving Car WTFs Thread
@boomzilla Maybe they were built for Nascar ("They're makin' a left turn!")
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RE: The Official Self Driving Car WTFs Thread
@boomzilla I guess the cars are pro-Trump
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RE: Excel is fundamentally broken.
- Learn C#
- Use the Office .NET APIs (yes I know that's not the name) to create the XLSX file
- Decide you can write a better spreadsheet than Excel
- Write a better spreadsheet
- Profit!
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RE: Guy publishes a PWA in 3 app stores, documents findings
@the_quiet_one said in Guy publishes a PWA in 3 app stores, documents findings:
Been there done that. Developing for iOS made me vow never to put myself through that ever again. Android and Windows are relatively painless, but Apple seems to make everything as suicide-inducing as possible. Besides the D&B shit (which I was nodding in sympathy the whole time he was ranting about it):
- Objective-C Apple loves to flaunt its "newness" and all, but everything is held together with the duct-tape and spit that is Objective-C. It is, by far, the stupidest most banal language I've ever seen. I'd almost unsarcastically prefer to develop in Brainfuck instead.
- Develop in a new Mac because FUCK YOU GIVE US MONEY He mentioned this in the article, but I need to elaborate on this further: Apple is the worst when it comes to obsoletion by design. And this is especially true for app development. Got a 2 year old Mac? Fuck you, you need to buy a new one if you want to publish a new app that works on the iPhone X.*
- Kafka-esque Approval Process It's possible they improved on this since I last tried it out, since he seems to be satisfied with their process. Or perhaps the apps he published were so simple he didn't have to worry about stupid shit getting in the way. Apple would often find the stupidest reasons to reject our submission. I forget the details, but one of them was something along the lines of "Your scrolling UI doesn't match our momentum scrolling ideals, so we can't accept this." This was, maybe, 6 years ago, so maybe they've loosened up a bit.
- 30% in-purchase app tax I imagine over half of Apple's profits are off of microtransactions for Fruit Ninja or whatever the hell the kids play nowadays.
- Provisional Profile and Certificate Nonsense Applying these are about as convoluted as trying to gain top secret clearance. There are a shit ton of things you have to put together to make everything work. Now, I get the concept that you should prevent unauthorized publishing of apps that were hijacked or stolen by other people. But, they could have done this a LOT more easily.
- Macincloud is friggen awesome if you want to just play around with iOS development, though. They also have hooks in with Visual Studio if you're developing something from Xamarin or something else on the Windows side.
And don't forgot all the different sized icons and all the different information you need just to create the app store description.
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RE: Guy publishes a PWA in 3 app stores, documents findings
I had an app on the Google Play store. Back then (~2012) it was a one time fee of $25.
I have an app on the Apple store. It cost $100 a year to be on their store. Also, you can sign up as an individual instead of a company. An individual doesn't have to have D&B info.
I looked at Microsoft a few times. They keep changing the price to be on their store.
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RE: re: Welcome to the April Update! (where everyone else is a WTF just like me)
@el_heffe I'd run ProcessMonitor and see what paths your encoding program is trying to access
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RE: BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?"
@cartman82 said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@blakeyrat said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
@cartman82 Fine; then follow BBC Entertainment or BBC Sport or BBC Stupid Facebook Memes or whatever. It's not like there's only one fucking channel on the TV.
If I'm following World News, I expect to see world news. Crazy me.If I go and follow BBC Stupid Facebook Memes instead, that doesn't help the people employed at BBC World News get more clicks, does it?
It's the same reason why Discovery, National Geographic and Nature channels are now all "Cheap Americana reality show" channels.
Don't forget TLC and History Channel.
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RE: Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2018 edition
I remember ten years ago or so, I bought a book on Linux -- Linux in 24 Hours or something like that. It went something like this:
In say, chapter 2 it would say something like "edit this text file to setup your internet"
In chapter 3, "edit this text file to setup your graphics card", etc.Problem was, it didn't tell you how to edit a text file until chapter 10!
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RE: What's the best way to create an ico file for an application?
I like a program called IcoFx that I got from Portable Apps (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/icofx_portable)
It's an older version (1.6.4) but it's freeware. The newest version seems to be commercial software -
RE: What should I do with a 7.5" e-ink display?
I would put it outside my office and have it display the quote of the day
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RE: Open source-y people will love this-- talking about legal bullshit instead of coding
@blakeyrat Would it be feasible (I'm guessing not) to have the user install your program and then go and install the GPLv3 application themselves? Audacity does something like this -- you have to download the mp3 encoder separately.
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RE: Looking for a designer
I've heard good things about 99 Designs https://99designs.com/ but I've never used them myself and not sure how expensive they are