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Marc Clifton wrote: It's a pathetic state of affairs when I constantly hear that "they didn't teach me that in college" from the person I'm mentoring. My father told me once... it is no shame to say "I don't know how to do it", but always contine the sentence with "if you teach me, then I'll do it"
Not knowing something is not bad, not willing to learn... that is worst.
I always say the same... college didn't teach me a lot of useful things. But I learnt how to learn by myself.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Though Facebook is rarely mentioned alongside Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in discussions about conversational AI, the company has published a hoard of papers that underscore a deep interest in dialog systems. "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
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Makes sense, there are plenty of mindless drones on Facebook!
About time they added some intelligence, even if it's just artificial
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I think a random text Generator will do the Job
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Is that kind-word-and-gun-quote from Babylon 5?
I remember Markus saying something similar, although he didn't have a gun. He beat the bad guys with a minbari prolongable stick. So he spoke of "some violence" instead.
Ciao,
luker
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I think I remember hearing it on there as well, but its attributed to Al Capone, who probably had a lot of experience testing the theory.
TTFN - Kent
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Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in an upcoming VS 2017 release. Because I know it's a question you're all pondering
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Good grief. Why? So that droves of the incompetent can start writing crap code on *nix? I never thought about it before, but I've never encountered any *nix devs that actually program in any flavor of BASIC. That seems reserved for Windows devs.
(Apologies to the rare VB'er that is not one of the incompetent.)
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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javascript+google/copy/paste is now the default way for crap code to get into production.
VB is not needed for that any more.
Also - nobody codes any more.
We just look up config settings to work around library version conflicts.
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Couldn't put it better. And NPM allows their logical diarrhoea to spread much further.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Ex-VB'er here.
I've seen crap in VB and even bigger crap in C#.
Actually, most of the devs I know write crap code in any language.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I've seen crap in VB and even bigger crap in C#.
In my experience, the language doesn't seem to matter a great deal in terms of the poor code quality you often encounter.
Kevin
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Sander Rossel wrote: Actually, most of the devs I know write crap code in any language.
Over the years, I've written code in about 100 computer languages. Some was good stuff, but yes, I've written crap in about 100 languages.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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if i have to write a script on Windows, i always use VBScript.
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VS magazine still exists too?
Jeremy Falcon
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I thought this was about VBA VB.NET is entirely pointless.
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I love VB!!! Having gotten my start in C and Assembler I found debugging VB a breeze. It seemed for a long while that if you could not do your job properly in the corporate world they would send you to some week long VB school. These places graduated some of the most dangerous people to ever wield a keyboard, and I loved them. I made some of the best money of my life cleaning up after these clowns. A company would spend millions creating the latest app to solve the problems of their world using these bozos and I would be called in later to straighten it out.
Programming is an art form that fights back.
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Google is turning Drive into a much more robust backup tool. Soon, instead of files having to live inside of the Drive folder, Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to. That can include your desktop, your entire documents folder, or other more specific locations. You will be able to get advertisements based on the contents of your hard drive, not just a few documents and emails!
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If free, I would never trust my backups on the cloud, nor by Google, nor that the service would last for more than a few years.
If costs $$$, I would never trust my backups on the cloud, nor by Google, nor that the service would last for more than a few years.
I guess I have trust issues.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I guess I have trust issues. I would rather call it common sense
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Nelek wrote: I would rather call it common sense
Right, and I use a POP3 email interface. The industry seems to be supporting and pushing towards IMAP, but POP3 puts all of my info on my own machine.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I find these cloud backups very convenient. However, I use them mostly as a convenience, e.g., for tech stuff that I can save and access for new contracts.
Recently, I've started backing up (not to Google) files that I first encrypt.
Kevin
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I wonder how many TBs they will allow for free. Although Comcast has a monthly transfer limit.
John
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That should be convenient. Users can now backup up the YouTube videos and Google Play movies they've downloaded from Google back to Google.
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Ok...just need to download my files...right...five "download" buttons, but which is the real one...
*click*
"Installing Norton...."
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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