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Given the highly dubious methods used by the Totally Insipid Obliviots Bull Excrement index, I'm assuming that Google's broadened it's "close enough" language matching to bring up C# examples for VB.net searches and vice versa. (The version of this that conflates UWP, WPF, Silverblight, WP7 and WP8 together has been the bane of my recent existence since probably 1/3rd to 1/2 of the things I've been searching for are edge cases that aren't equivalent over the various flavors of XAML.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It's about time. Even though the shop I currently work at doesn't use it, I still think it was better at somethings than C#, but than again C# is better at other things. it's a bit of a trade off.
Honestly, for years I think most VB devs searched for C# articles because that's what everyone else did, you got to be fluent in both.
Pick up a graphics or the latest DotNet framework book, it was likely going to be only published in C#.
One of my biggest complaints about VB.net was treating chars differently than C# did. C# treats them like an integer, as they should. So making hardware communication protocol libraries was always kind of a pain.
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C# treats chars like an integer?? What happens if they're non-ASCII? What if they're unicode? Sounds to me like it's treating them wrong.
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It's still an integer at the end of the day. you can still: 'A'+5 to get a new value. this is not possible in VB with out using Chr() and Asc() functions. Encryption and binary messaging use this feature a lot.
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About time a language with modern syntax-parsing beats out one of those C-style languages with syntax still stuck in the 70's. I mean, semicolons at the end of lines?! Why does any compiler need to be told where the end of the line is these days?! Why the need for "=" and "==" when a compiler can be written to figure it out based on the context?!
Compiler design is so advanced today compared to the era these junk-syntax languages were developed in, there's no reason for keeping this legacy garbage and inventing new languages that are restricted by it.
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interesting that the line over last 5 years for vb .net has been going up month after month. Are they teaching it in schools or something? Maybe like someone else mentioned, is it the old vb6 projects that over time being ported over to vb.net for newer servers with minimal reworking?
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In a recent survey amongst real programmers, C# was at number 1, Rexx was at #2, FORTRAN-77 was at #3 and JavaScript (with jQuery) came in at #4. VBx or VB.NET didn't even make the list.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Here you have some really hard to print parts: Printed a model[^]
I guess most here will know what that is. Almost every part has problematic shapes that bring my little printer to its limits. In addition to that, the data of some parts was really bad and I had to delete a lot of the geometry and reconstruct it.
The parts still will need some sanding before I can paint and assemble it, but that's not really hard anymore. It also does not matter that it was printed in different colors. Í had some gray, white and turd filament left over and used it up before the filament draws too much moisture out of the air.
For now I have enough of printing this model, but if I ever get a bigger printer, I could print a model that is about 1m long. It does not yet look like it, but it's actually very detailed and close to the old studio models used for the TV series. A good paint job and some decals will work wonders.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Eagle Transporter, I think.
I'm surprised - Space 1999 was ... um ... quite a while ago. And a bit cr@p even then. I preferred UFO myself.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's mostly about getting the printer to print those parts. If you take into account that a 3D printer can't print into thin air and then take a look at all those beams and structures...
You do know that Space 1999 was what became of a second season for UFO? Anyway, the Eagles are still very popular models. I have seen plastik model kits on Ebay for 200€ and more. And of all TV spaceships it's still one of the most believable. Ok, it does not seem to have a fuel tank and I would not count on that construction surviving a reentry, but as a worker bee on the moon it's actually almost plausible.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yikes, its the robot apocalypse! I was recently "fighting with a 3D printer" it kept manufacturing a victory. How can anyone possibly compete, if it can simply manufacture victories? 
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Nice! A lot of parts to print.
A friend of mine is on the last day of a 5 day 14 hour RC Boat print job that is taxing the Creality CR-10's 300mmX300mmX400mm print volume.
Deleted the link he sent me.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Bigger Parts, bigger problems. My printbed is not heated, so I always have problems with warping. It's always a pleasure to print something for many hours and then discover that it is worthless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: It's always a pleasure to print something for many hours and then discover that it is worthless.
I call it a PITA but my bed is heated so problems are mostly operator error.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Why waste your time on that thing? What is the point?
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Mostly getting the printer to print the parts, figuring out the correct settings and getting around some limitations. next it will serve as a test object for my airbrushing skills. In the end it will (hopefully) collect dust as decoration on my desk.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Came across this interesting article on creative and practical Raspberry Pi projects that anyone can do. Some of these are really cool, so we decided to try them out for ourselves here at Code Project - keep you posted on the results.
If you'd like to win one of these, i.e. the Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Starter Kit or the 7" Touchscreen Display for the Pi, join our Summer Fun with Arduino Challenge and find the secret code in challenges 1 or 2.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Not sure if I am too late for this, but just submitted challenges 1 and 2
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Not at all Nishant. The contest runs until Aug 8th, but happy to know you've tried both challenges. Good stuff! We will be announcing winners on Aug 15.
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I often visit the local Barnes & Noble and I'm a member ($25 gets you free shipping on all books for the year and 20% off hardbacks).
Saw the brand new book Optimizing Java - O'Reilly pub[^]
Flipped it over and checked price: $69.99 Phew...
Book is only about 400 pages (minus index and the rest).
Add-Ons To Convince (Trick) You
The book has interior color that is completely useless in an attempt to justify the price. 
It doesn't.
Interesting Also : Online Price
Now, since I'm a Prime member I can get that book in 2 days for $47.99. That's $22!
B&N will ship it to me in a couple of days for $59.03 undercutting their own store but still can't beat Amazon. Not sure why they can't/don't.
B&N has to figure something out or Amazon is going to destroy them.
Tech Books Are Way Too Expensive
The latest C# In A Nutshell 7.0 book[^] is $74.99 at the local store.
And, it doesn't have any color printing.
EDIT
Also interesting and somewhat related is that I notice that Packt Publishing is literally flooding the tech book market. I've read a number of their books in the past and they always fall flat.
I won't even begin to read a Packt book now. They even changed their design (I believe so you wouldn't recognize the books are by them).
I am a SafariBooks online member and every book that comes out is available there very fast.
modified 20-Jul-18 15:08pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: on Prime, delivered tomorrow - that's $36.95 including all taxes.
Ok, I believe we have a business venture.
Go ahead and order 10 copies of those and send them to me here in US.
I'll put them up on Amazon as new and we'll make a few $$ per. 
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Buy it for Kindle. Way cheaper
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Yeah I went to B&N the other day and found Practical PAcket Analysis[^] and it was $49.99 in store, I got it used on Amazon for $16 and change.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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