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"2001" and "I Robot" were written by highly talented authors. Asimov wrote the latter, and he was a professional astronomer.
Why would you ban such works from being taught?
"HAL" in 2001 was a warning simply to not rely heavily on computerization.
Clarke was correct.
Look at our world today...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: Why would you ban such works from being taught?
I am going to guess that Shawn was being sarcastic?
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Could be.
I just didn't read it that way but I could have misunderstood the nature of his comment...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I completely agree...
However, I really don't care what most Humans think. I have a large library of military history and technology books. And it is still expanding and I try to do some reading just about everyday, in addition to my research into current world events.
I spent a large part of my career as a software engineer fighting against stupid, arrogant technical management.
And when I had the opportunities to enter their ranks, I refused.
After 43+ years in the career I retired but am still at it doing database development, learning game design and Game AI. And I have decided to ignore most of the new fads and hype around all the new technologies being released. Most of it is junk anyway.
Look at the complete gibberish that Microsoft has turned ASP.NET Core into. We were doing basically the same things with WebForms but then the "purists" got involved. Now Microsoft web development is a complete mess. Eve professionals here at The Code project have been complaining about this for several years now.
The moment our best professionals start to listen to what other "stupid" people say or think, our profession will be finished. The problem is, it already looks as if it is...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Keen observation... something I cannot un-read now that I've read it.
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raddevus wrote: Then you'll argue and say, "but, Ive read 4 books on the subject"
Couldn't I just lie and say instead that I have watched 4 youtube videos?
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Eloquent, imaginative ... a train of thought with all the logic in the loose caboose. !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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raddevus wrote: And since the minority is aka "The Fringe" your ideas will be considered garbage.
Like Fringe (TV Series) (2008) - FilmAffinity[^]? (Very interesting serie the first 2 seasons... afterwards it started to go a bit over the fence)
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And don’t forget the proven maxim:
Underperformers always over estimate their ability.
Overperformers always under estimate their ability.
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One hundred - C (Roman numeral)
or no piles - as is
arranged - anagram of the above: NECROPOLIS : where the dead rest
So I guess I'm up again tomorrow.
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Afraid so - I would have taken it, but Herself needed help and I missed the four hour window.
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No problem, and family first always.
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Good clue Richard and you are sort of Welsh 
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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Croeso
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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Richard MacCutchan wrote: or no piles - as is
Can't figure out this part...
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Sorry, lazy English. It just means take the words "or no piles" as they are written. So combining those with the C (for a hundred), and (re)arranging them all gets the answer.
Makes sense?
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Yes, got it... thanks 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Been trying to find this "bug" for 3+ years. It lives in a critical piece of code for a specific oem. One of the first rules of debugging is to determine if you can repeat the behavior, etc. It's very easy to go off shotgunning, etc. so step 1 is to answer, "What changed?"
What works (we're going back to 2009): WinCE 5.0, EVC++, embedded IE browser in CE 5.0, activeX controls, javascript and vbscript.
What changed: OS to WEC7, VS2008, a new half baked embedded IE browser in WEC7, minor edits to the code to make it happy with VS2008, and new hardware.
Beginning to see the problem?  what could go wrong? So, just about everything changed except the application. Where my bug lurks.
So, last week I was taking another stab at obtaining data as to the problem (the oem supplied web page doesn't run, the activeX controls don't behave). Started up the debugger, application hung - same behavior as before. Shut it down, added some logging messages, started it up and the damn thing worked. First time I had seen this, and we're now into divine intervention mode. Yeah, I know, you can call it blind luck.
I have an initialization problem.
In about an hour, I tracked down the "bug" to lack of initialization of a pointer in an activeX control. EVC++ and CE 5.0 had no issue with the code and always behaved. WEC7 had trash in the pointer (why we initialize things). It was a 15 year old cut/paste oversight.
Yeah me. Learning points: get a lint tool and use it. Going back to 2005, running mfc applications caused lint tools to explode with complaints, so we never got serious about it. Going to have to dust the issue off.
Here's the missing line of code: "m_pMainAppHandle = NULL;"
Sometimes I love my job, sometimes I want to cry. Just get in the habit of watching for uninitialized member variables. Simple issues like this are caught by source code tools, but this is something that should always be done.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 28-Jun-23 10:34am.
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Erm ... are you sure?
m_pMainAppHandle == NULL; Is a comparison, it shouldn't change a thing ... if it does, there is something really nasty going on your code!
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Oops, corrected.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Paul, you are definitivelly nitpicky and evil...
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I love it 
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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 The above statement with "==", not the original poster's "=",
makes me look all over for your lol emoji.
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There isn't one: charlieg: Oops, corrected.
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