The OFFICIAL programming thread

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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I loved early VB. VBA too. I built some really fun and powerful apps with them in my first proper IT job. And it was a joy to use.

Pre-Google, you only had the manuals and help files and nothing like Stack overflow to look up out how to do stuff but I never felt it slowed me down; it was that well designed.

Edit: damn, I miss those days. I soon got seconded onto an ERP implementation project and my career has never been as fun since.

I built a few things with vba back in the day, most notably a project management system with another guy. I prefer python any its myriad of libraries for what I do now though.

Tazz

Pakoon

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

We Finns pushed the no button centuries ago.

Tazz

Maybe because most people are now using iPhones and Android devices and not a PC with Windoze.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-cut-10000-jobs-tech-layoffs-intensify-2023-01-18/

They should have kept the winders phone going

Blanks

The biggest issue with Microsoft, from my perspective, is their consistent habit of abandoning their products. It’s only a matter of time before they stop releasing updates and bug fixes for my covidshot wifi.

@Blanks sounds like Google too tbh

I liked the only Windows phone I had. I think it was a Nokia from memory. Aside from them completely screwing up the Windows Desktop UI to try and match the phone UI, it wasn’t a bad product.

Gators1

@Blanks said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

The biggest issue with Microsoft, from my perspective, is their consistent habit of abandoning their products. It’s only a matter of time before they stop releasing updates and bug fixes for my covidshot wifi.

Worse, buying good products that I enjoy, ruining them and then abandoning them.

Gators1

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Blanks sounds like Google too tbh

I liked the only Windows phone I had. I think it was a Nokia from memory. Aside from them completely screwing up the Windows Desktop UI to try and match the phone UI, it wasn’t a bad product.

I don’t know if I would trust it not to bsod when I am trying to make a 911 call.

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Fucking programmers! Ban them all!

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Gustaf

Also known as a TazzCursor

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I never switched to the new style

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Gustaf

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Gators1

Terrible. Use the correct thread!

Gators1

This is disturbing. Apparently there is maths in our computers! How do we get it out?

The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math

Stu

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

This reminds me of something I saw earlier today. Apparently when the space shuttle was still flying NASA had a complete engineering model of its computers and wiring so they could test software and hardware changes without killing astronauts.

It has a mock flight deck, but it also has identical wiring…

Gators1

When Pakoon was a cosmonaut, the Soviet Union had no need for such extravagances. If there were ever any issues in space they would just play Swan Lake on TV and the mission never happened.