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I completed my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba in 1976. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development…
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@rproffitt - Do you feel that Meta has a responsibility to weed out scam messages when we don't expect the same of Canada Post or the US Postal Service? @dani - In 2004 Bill Gates famously said that they would have the spam problem solved within two years.
Grammar nazi checking in. The expression is "bated breath", a short form of "abated breath". "Baited breath" means you just ate sardines. OK. Technically not a grammar issue. But I'm still a grammar nazi. Perhaps I should start a "misused expressions" thread.
print('Hello, world') Admittedly, not very helpful, but you didn't give us anything to work with. 1. What language? Perl, Rust, Python, etc.? 2. What platform? Mac, Windows, Linux? 3. What environment? Web, local? 4. What do you want it to do? 5. Interactive or automated? In the mean time please …
>Remember that such comes with time. I don't think it necessarily does. With more and more communication being done by text/leet/emoji I think each generation's language skills get a little worse. Kids don't have to get good grades to pass. They just get moved along regardless of ability. In the …
Home networking. I don't know what it's like setting up a home network with Macs but it's a pain in the ass under Windows. Now I'll sit back and wait for the linux fans to chime in.
I think hardware has made me an angrier person. Technology was supposed to make our lives better but it seems I am suffering (not to minimize **actual** suffering) death by a thousand cuts. Nothing works well with anything else (in my experience), and many things that **do** work, work poorly.
>Why do adults like watching cartoons? That's all anime is -- just another name for children's cartoons. That's like judging all westerns after seeing one old episode of the Lone Ranger. I've seen many Anime that had plots that were more complex and better thought out than many adult movies. …
I miss the time when everything on the internet wasn't monetized, at least to the extent it is now. I see the parallels between the evolution of the internet and the evolution of rock & roll and computers. The days of two guys in a garage creating/revolutionizing an industry are …
@Dani - I know you understand brain fog. I've had about three hours sleep since 8:00 yesterday morning so I thought @rproffitt was downvoting the original post rather than tha AI summary. Apologies. I'm still running on empty so I'll just stop there.
First of all, welcome back to Daniweb. Not knowing something makes you ignorant, not unintelligent. We are all ignorant about many things. Being proud of your ignorance and willing to stay that way, however, IS a bad thing. Looking back at some of your posts I see that: 1. You …
Debugging by toggling in hand-assembled code from the front panel.
Several criteria come to mind. In no particular order: o Is it interesting o Is it useful o Is the effort to learn it worth the payback o Will I use it often enough to retain it
Mostly I use IDLE (Python) but if I need to do serious debugging I use vscode.
October 1968, the first time I heard Switched on Bach. I was 14.
There are certain words and phrases that drive me absolutely bat-shit crazy. Some have been around for decades and others are relatively new. "It is what it is". Not the worst of the bunch but mostly useless. Any portmanteau beginning with "bro", e.g. "bromance". "Pre-owned", "pre-loved", etc. Used is still …
>According to me Decentralized marketplaces are the future because it provides more security and transparancy. Can you back that up? How does decentralization accomplish this?
1. Rage-baiting 2. The attention economy 3. Reaction videos Although #3 is more disappointment than shock.
I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it.
Before I start in I just want to say that I want to keep this discussion a-political. We should be able to discuss this without pointing fingers. I think discussions on drawing electoral boundaries should be theoretical rather than ideological. Gerrymandering is at the forefront lately and it got me …
AirReceiver. It allows me to stream directly from my Oculus to my laptop. Also a VPN.
While we still get together with others, those events are fewer and fewer. Most of my interaction is now with DMs and email.
About 50-50. Some times I just want the information, not a link to a website full of ads and menus I have to wade through.
I think I'll reverse those two and put Python first because of its demand for machine learning, data analysis and AI.
>A real programmer is known by how he deals with a problem that no one has solved before I couldn't disagree more. As a rough estimate, maintenance programmers outnumber developers three to one. That means most programmers will spend their careers maintaining and enhancing existing code. A real programmer must …
I like creating something from nothing. Unlike carpentry, where once you cut something too short you are screwed, programming lets me try things without consequence. It's much more open to experimentation. I've also loved puzzles and mysteries, and debugging involves elements of both. My best times at work were when …
The little dot that shows that a user is online is a great feature. I just responded to a question from a user who was flagged as online. I thought it would be a nice feature that if a user is online when someone posts to his/her thread that there …
I'm still seeing plenty of open source packages on github. And packages like Audacity and gimp are still being maintained with source code available for download. VLC Media Player and FxSound are two others that come to mind.
1920 was about the same year our cottage was built so I know what shape your wiring is in.
What anti-virus are you running? Are you possibly running more than one?
I hope not. My feeling is that code camps are about as useful as the "Learn <language> in 21 Days" books. They don't teach good programming habits. The books may be useful if you already have a grounding in proper software design but learning a skill as complex as software …
>Your designs are safely stored in the Figma cloud, ready to be accessed anytime, anywhere. Except from Google Drive, apparently.
I can't recommend a course but I highly recommend the book *Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional* by [Magnus Lie Hetland](https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/mlh).
I've contacted Microsoft twice in the last year with Windows problems. Both times I was in chat for more than an hour and they were very helpful.
There are a lot of people up here in Canada boycotting American products and it is causing significant hardship down south. I am not aware of any celebrities boycotting, but a hell of a lot of individuals are certainly having an impact.
Some bold statements, and I think I see where you are heading with this. Welcome to Daniweb.
As far as I know, other than memory the only laptop you can easily upgrade is the Framework Laptop 16.
First app is Macrium Reflect so I can take an image of the fresh install. Then I repartition to C/D, move my user folders (documents, pictures, etc.) to D. Then I take another image. After that I begin installing my base apps before imaging one more time.
>According to me Mozilla Firefox (google chrome) is best for SEO. A response like that is completely useless without supporting info to back it up.
You are going to get the expected answers from us dinosaurs. The glib answer is that most of my "youth" in computers predates software. At least software that you would recognize by today's standards. I'm talking about anything you would recognize, namewise. Almost all editing was done on mainframes and …
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