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raddevus wrote: Because you've probably never heard of TrueType fonts
Wait, are TrueType fonts no longer a thing?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Memories of learning programming with GWBASIC on DOS 4.0. It was already OLD when I started (it was the year 1998) but I could use a dismissed Compaq 486 laptop as my test bench and I already knew how to set up a machine with any DOS and Windows system (learnt way back in 1995, I was 7) so I wasn't new to the command line and I couldn't mess the home computer.
In 2002 my dad got me VisualStudio 6 and a very good VB6 book, which actually got me into "serious" programming. Boy did I suck. My only software wrote as a self-taught programmer did work but was everything a program shouldn't be. Fortune wanted the language we developed in high school from the 3rd year was exactly VB6 and the teacher was awesome in teaching the basics (from flow chart to pseudocode, troubleshooting technicques and formal verification). I also later learnt she also taught my first Computer Science college professor, who was awesome as well.
Sorry for rambling, it was just a trip down memory lane.
GCS/GE d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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den2k88 wrote: Boy did I suck. My only software wrote as a self-taught programmer did work but was everything a program shouldn't be.
Some would argue this is exactly where VB leads beginners.
I personally probably haven't done enough VB to make that judgement call myself, but it is the comment that keeps coming back - that it teaches bad habits that are then hard to break out of.
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Oh no it wasn't anything inherent to VB, writing 1000 lines undocumented functions can be done (and I saw it multiple times by so-called professionals) in any language.
I worked a lot on VB6 in my first company and honestly I liked it. It lacked some features and had a few quirks but for its role it's really comfortable. It gives a lot less bad habits than its strongest current competitor, which in my opinion is Python.
As a quick GUI to call library functions it's just unbeatable, but take my opinion with a massive grain of salt - if some crazy mofo in MS will ever release a VB7 I'd jump on it in .3 nanoseconds.
GCS/GE d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Yup, had that book. Dipped my toes in the Windows development world.
386SX system, Microsoft C on diskettes. Had some Microsoft book on graphics for DOS (memory vague here).
First project was creating a "bird" (2 triangles) flying around the screen bouncing of the 4 edges.
Proud, I was. First comment was something like: "that looks like crap!". Truth often hurts.
Real project was on a fabricated, vehicle mounted "laptop" with mono screen. No flying birds.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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386SX -- 32-bit chip (internally) with 16-bit bus access. 
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
modified 29-Aug-24 5:34am.
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I thought this was a slang term.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Completely lucky guess. I do not have a regular starting word, always just use a random word.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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I guess you could say, we all failed. 
Those who solved it will get that.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks for the link, always have trouble tying simple knots.
I'm knot good at knots.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mike Hankey wrote: I'm knot good at knots.
Tell me about it! If I would have been a surgeon many patients would have died. 
Mircea
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I have been told I'm a knot head.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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good one 
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I spent a fair while over the years working at the pointy end of various offshore racing yachts.
Haven't stepped aboard one in 20 years, but I can still tie a bowline without looking.
Tied a couple yesterday actually. VB cord to tie up plants.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Finally! A good use for VB! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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