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This "open source everything" campain should really stop. Open sourcing the language will NOT fix anything and is likely to introduce even more problems 
Those people should really bite the bullet and learn VB.Net at the very least.
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It will run nicely on my steam powered abacus 
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Huh? This isn't talking about open sourcing software built with VB. It's about open sourcing VB the language and (presumably) the IDE.
Besides, Classic VB is trivially decompiled (done it several times myself). Open source or not, those critical systems you're talking about are already available to anyone with time on their hands.
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N_tro_P wrote: If you have the source code of the system.
You can decompile Classic VB apps with access to nothing more than the exe file.
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I'd love to have a look at the source code just out of curiosity, as it was the first language that I used outside of Uni.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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And now, apparently, merging duplicate UserVoice requests counts as "censorship".
Quote:
Microsoft Censors Campaign To Open Source VB6
Update: May 23
Microsoft has merged the request on User Voice with one of the earlier "open source VB" requests. This essentially censors the user's voice without to seeming to be censorship.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sean Ewington wrote: You were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they 'should.'
That's a mathematician's quote. 
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Even if you're a diehard open source user, you can still use some closed-source software. Read on to find out why it's the right time to go to the dark side. Hoo-boy.
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Microsoft starts praising open source, Linux starts praising closed source? What's happening around. :/
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Reality hit the fan?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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It would be utterly fantastic if every piece of software was open source. Imagine the possibilities. The sky would no longer be the limit.
I already have too many forks in the kitchen drawer. 
Marc
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Meh, lots of Linux devs use Jetbrains stuff, and they're not open source, so it's not like this is a new trend.
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Informatics researchers from the University of Zurich have developed a not at all sinister-sounding system capable of predicting the quality of code produced by developers based on their biometric data. Where is my minority report?
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I am very sorry, I will not be able to get you that job.
You are left handed and blue eyes. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I would catch the thing on fire confusing it so into an never ending wtf loop. 
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Sorry I am not programmed to respond in that area.
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Utterly bs...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Motherboard: The more difficult the task, the higher the cognitive load and chances for errors to be made
It's rather the tight schedule that causes to raise a stress level or to deliver defective software. 
Wonde Tadesse
modified 24-May-16 23:49pm.
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A few months back, Mozilla developer Eric Rahm tested multiple browser and OS configurations[^] to compare memory usage rates. The short version is that FF used about half the ram of Chrome on Windows and Linux; on OSX it still edged out Chrome, but both were crushed by Safari.
In the medium term some of the memory advantage FF has will go away when it adopts a limited version of multi-process (content will be separated from top level browser components; but to limit memory use they're not planning to go to separate context processes for each tab - at least initially). The current schedule has them planning to start enabling it for users without extensions or accessibility features enabled following the August release. A release date for the rest of us (with an extension whitelist) is still TBD; but at least a few releases farther down the pipeline.
EDIT: From the comments, the comparison is with multiprocess FF enabled; when the tests were done that resulted in a 10-20% memory usage increase.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have never worried about the memory and gone, "ooh that's just taking to much up, I must change browser".
I'm curious to know what is Chrome doing with all that extra memory, is it doing a bunch of fancy caching, pre-rendering, pre-loading, pre-compiling etc. etc. ?
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Chrome is probably scanning your system and sending everything to Google to improve your their browsing experience.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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It's probably the overhead from having a separate process for each tab. This is a feature in that it means one tab going rogue can't freeze up the whole browser, take it down by crashing, and the process isolation makes it harder to exploit browser bugs (to win prizes at pwn2own or a bonus at the nsa). The price is that it uses a lot more memory. If you poke around the rest of Rahm's site, cranking the number of content processes up in FF bumps the amount of memory it uses up a lot while the tabs are still open. (Once the tests get to the point of closing all the tabs and shotgunning most of the child processes the situation reverses; but keeping a ton of tabs open for the entire session is probably more common than opening them, closing them all, and then opening a new large set of tabs without restarting the browser entirely.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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