Posts by J27

Re: I used to believe that too

The US has the issue that their more liberal party consists of a "progressive" arm that's center-right and a "moderate" arm that's right-wing. As a result most Americans think that any opinion that's left of centre is Communism.

Re: Why should any language be able to load arbitrary code?

I'm not sure what sites you're visiting, but a lot of sites aren't even usable without JS these days. The Register being a notable exception.

Re: Is that a feature or is it a bug?

The UI Paradigm in Windows 95, was revised in 98 and 2000 and slaughtered in Windows XP. Windows XP's UI was blown up in Windows Vista, which was then revised in Windows 7.

Which of these many UI styles are you talking about?

You can quite literally take your JavaScript and add types to it to make it typescript. The transpiler then strips the types off after type checking. If the code isn't the same there is either an issue with the transpiler or you didn't actually use the same code in the first place.

Typescript isn't actually executed by the browser in any case. When I was considering adding TypeScript support to the codebase of a large application I work on regularly I tested the performance difference for several common operations and it came out within the margin of error (+/- 5%). I'm using babel to transpile the code so perhaps they used tsc or something else?

Re: Confused

It is on this side of the pond. In the UK the idea of negative negation is pretty popular. In the US, negative agreement is seen in most dialects. E.G. UK 2 negative = positive, 2 negatives = negative. As in. I ain't never seen no airplane no how. Means I've never seen an airplane.

Re: "counterargument"

How dare you bring logic into a discussion of cryptocurrencies! Crypto is the future, despite it being both less convenient and not supported by anything but the greater fool theory!

They're slowing the bi-yearly feature updates to once yearly. No one said anything about security updates.

Yeah, React JS isn't about performance. It's about making it easier for the programmer. I fully acknowledge it, but I still use React JS otherwise we wouldn't be able to produce the fancy UIs the stakeholders want in the required time frame.

That's just how it is today. It's similar to the reason that almost no one writes programs in assembly anymore. But if you can figure out how to get users to care about how much CPU web applications use I'm open to it, that would create a bunch more programming jobs making my skills even more valuable.

Re: Thin ice

Microsoft Access is a flat-file database program. It's terrible, but it does exist.

Re: Privacy

Chromebooks are much worse than Windows, ditto for iOS and Android. Mac OS is about on par. But for some reason the greybeards always get hung up on Windows when we really should complaining about the lack of privacy in ALL the major OSes.

Re: I actually use VS for Mac

That's patently not true, if it were a real version of VS then they'd be trying to charge $899 for a license like they do with real Visual Studio.

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

That's a matter for medical boards to crack down on. Phony exceptions should result in license suspensions.

Those are the perils of open-source software. Closed-source software suffers from having no insight on the inner workings at all. It could be riddled with flaws and if the developer walks off you're totally SOL. You also missed the point if you have issues with open-source software you can fix them yourself (maybe you can't, but I definitely can).

There is no panacea, but I think software that's developed open-source but with a big corporation paying the bills is a good middle ground. E.G. .NET Core, My SQL. That way you know it's likely to keep going, but if it doesn't you can pick up the code and fix it yourself or maybe someone else will.

Re: Wonder if there's a software developer somewhere...........

I doubt it, The Annoying Orange is so cheap that this is most likely a byproduct of him refusing to pay the money actually necessary to build a platform.

It's both. Google's half-baked ideas combined with Apple's inaction. Things were a lot better when they worked together.

Microsoft IS .NET

Re: New version of Windows? Yay!

That would be the 1H 2023 release because they're on a 6 month cycle.

Re: Holy crap

I did too, congratulations to the Slack founders for getting out at the right time and getting 10x what the company is worth.

Re: Pural

English is Germanic language, if you want a Latin language you need see French, Spanish, Italian, etc.

Re: How do I opt users out of this "upgrade" ?

You can't turn off Windows Update. You can block the servers in the host file if you want, or disable your TPM and/or secure boot.

Its a perfectly good version of Windows a small segment of people grabbed about non-stop for years? Nah, it's more like Windows 8 where they changed the interface for no reason and pissed everyone off.

Re: Win64

I don't think Office for Mac supports VBA.