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Yeah, I'm gone. None of this ****'s funny. I'm really disappointed at some of the ones who are jumping in and trivializing the suffering of many people.
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Yeah this is basically why I don't post a lot anymore. Not what he said, that he said it.
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This is part of why Shaggy Hiker said to use an API if it was available.
In modern web apps, there's often a lot of magic that the JS wants to do to the page. But it needs the browser to be done...
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The last few posts, expressed in comic form:
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Eh. I don't think you should ever use DoEvents(), but I say this from the platform of VB .NET where there are at least 3 usable patterns for writing asynchronous code. If it's hard to coordinate...
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Well, if it's always one of each, here's what I would do.
Start by generating a string with 1 random uppercase letter. Add 1 random lowercase letter. Add 1 random number. Add 1 random special...
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Eh, let's talk about this.
What you want is "a persistence format". The only time you care if it's JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, etc. is if you have a customer with a specific need. If it's for yourself,...
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For me it was probably chapters in elementary school books about LOGO. Later I encountered chapters about TI-BASIC but we didn't have calculators. It was a few years later when I HAD the calculator...
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"Complexity" is a tough topic and learning to manage it is what separates experts from novices.
Every time you separate functionality into multiple files, you increase complexity. This is as far...
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The best way to prevent it is to properly test your code so it doesn't throw unhandled exceptions.
That window shows up only on machines that have VS installed and is your chance to debug the...
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Are you sure you're taking a VB .NET course? We don't have "copy constructors" as a formal concept in VB .NET.
But there's sort of an answer, and informally you can make something that looks like...
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Yeah I misunderstood, and JMC is sending you in the right direction. Let's use analogy.
Imagine an office with one worker. There is a sign on the wall that tells the worker a phone number to call...
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I bet if I knew what hRequest did, I'd have a better idea. Odds are something is going wrong with it, and you have no infrastructure to tell you that.
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I think dilettante's touched on a vision that's mostly where I see Windows going.
For the consumer, there will be a strange and scary day where the only choice is more or less the WinRT that was...
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Yes. I know people that do it.
My dad, for one. He's basically an executive for a refining company. They got him a Surface Pro and he was really skeptical. But a few months later I asked him...
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OK, first, realtalk: #121 is the post from dilletante I think I've agreed with most in the history of the forums and I think it's important to highlight when I agree with people with which I usually...
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It... kind of is a dark secret kept by Apple unless you are talking about beer or rooted iPhones. That's why, after more than 10 years of iOS, XCode remains the only tool people use to write iPhone...
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My dude, one of my first relatively complex programming projects was a TI-BASIC clone of a game I'd played on another friend's calculator. We didn't have link cables, I wanted the game, so I made it...
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It's probably technically possible on Android.
It's against the rules on iOS: nothing is allowed to compile or execute code. Yes, Apple has released Swift Playgrounds on iPad. They're Apple, they...
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Yes, this is a problem, and it's part of why it's a crime the .NET community didn't move to WPF and, particularly, the MVVM pattern it suggests.
There is one "UI thread" in the application and it...
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I think it's worth pointing out that what MS probably failed to realize and, worse, failed to articulate, is that ribbons only do a good thing in certain cases and not every application should use...
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Oh, I know you can do it, but it's not the default behavior. The rule of thumb for "less experienced users" is they never change the defaults. I can imagine a lot of the initial backlash towards the...
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One thing the Ribbon gets right, is very cool, and mysteriously didn't carry over to the Ribbon on their Mac apps: If you hold CTRL, every ribbon control displays a tooltip showing you which key is...
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I just watched the entire video and it didn't even mention VB6.
The only way it came close is pointing out that, to a web developer, topics like "deployment" and "updates" are difficult to learn...
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Yeah, don't get me wrong. For a lot of this stuff there's no "right" answer and the art is figuring out which users that will complain are the users you don't mind complaining ;) Like, just on that...
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To piggyback off user "VB6 Programming"'s post, let me explain what people can mean by "JS" today.
On the web, it's kind of what it's always been. JS is a scripting language that helps make web...
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Oooh. I missed the initial szlamany post but all of those are very interesting!
I also agree with FunkyDexter re: Matlab. It's more like Perl in that it's designed for you to write easily without...
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Here's an interesting hybrid:
Do (1) and disable buttons that don't make sense in the current context for things that are easy to check. Give them an explanatory tooltip that says something like,...
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I would agree yes, I didn't like the cliff analogy as i posted it and saying "through the dark" is a bit more apt. We don't know where VB6 support is headed, but we know that place is not good.
I...
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Considering JavaScript: the Good Parts is currently 10 years old and predates ES6 or TypeScript, the two environments most JS professionals agree upon these days, it's a bit of a straw man to use it...
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Keys are just numbers. The properties are the same. Any key can be used for signing. That is, if you use the public key to sign/encrypt, it is the private key that can decrypt/verify.
The term...
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Personally, I'd use a ListView for columnar data.
Then each "row" is a ListViewItem with sub-items for each column, so you don't really have to split or do other funky things to get one column's...
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I give this speech a lot, everyone has to learn it.
The "for whatever reason" you get an error about 'no instance of list' is because you aren't creating an instance of a list. The best way to...
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That's not The Invisible Hand or a free market. The government only gets to choose from a list of blessed vendors, and their selection process has nothing to do with capitalism: they are law-bound to...
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I feel like it's true if you make a small change: Windows is charging off a cliff and has been accelerating for years.
The first misstep was spending so long developing Vista. It was worth it, but...
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The = operator is binary. You can't pass anything but two arguments to it, because the compiler expects it to be binary. You can't legally call it, because the compiler uses it when you use syntax...
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There are some major problems that plague our industry and lead to an inundation of terrible software.
One root: the person who suddenly realizes they need to hire a developer has no clue how to...
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Based on the code you've posted I can tell you: you have a problem. If you want more information, you have to show me more.
My psychic guess is you're trying to do something that won't work. It...
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Be sure to read through this thread before betting too firmly:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?861149-Windows-department-disappears-from-Microsoft
Pay close attention to what the people...
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Yeah, I had this typed out and decided I didn't want to be negative, but it bears saying:
Working with Excel is just about one of the MOST complicated things you can do. As a newbie, I expect...
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