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Jacquers wrote: Can also be celebrated on 22/7 ? Not in the USA.

He should have brushed up on winter wear recommendations! Latest Article: SVG Grids: Squares, Triangles, Hexagons with scrolling, sprites and simple animation examples

Most excellent fare. KSP is a great game. I'd guess the giveaway will do wonders for KSP 2 (next year?). The CP newsletter article today about on-demand learning relates a bit. There is an assertion there that on-demand learning cannot teach general concepts. However, conceptually, I know orbital mechanics better than at least 75% percent of the population and this game is the only reason. I didn't go about studying astrophysics or rocketry for an understanding of deltaV. A need to understand deltaV lead me to diving into astrophysics and rocketry. For gamer-coders and maybe especially game coder gamers, on-demand is a clear far and away favorite and on-demand isn't inherently inferior at teaching concepts. Gamers and game developers go learn concepts all the time on-demand, some concepts might be strictly game-mechanics, others are real-world physics, chemistry, or biology. Obviously specialist domain knowledge might be something you would pre-learn. The stuff you pre-learn.... it's about eliminating the very important unknown-unknowns. Everyone has maybe heard of HIPAA, except for people who haven't. Am I going to memorize the .NET Framework namespaces? Nah, probably not. But skimming every bit is good because later I'll be able to at least know "oh hey it does that" and start the searches there. Maybe even intellisense and knowing it exists are enough to get things done. If you want to eliminate unknown-unknowns in code that will bite you? Pre-learn anti-patterns. Stuff's wrong for the same good reasons. It's wrong in any language you want to butcher the logic in. Fundamentally faulty logic is what's wrong.

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Oh dear. This a nice joke until you meet a girl. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

Comments are often restricted to what the code does, this is only half the story. It arguably more useful to know why its been written or why it's been written a particular way, this can't always be inferred from the code itself.

Chris Maunder wrote: I TOdo that all the time. :doh: FIFY

You just ruined my day by reminding me! :mad: Robust Services Core | Software Techniques for Lemmings | Articles The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Hubble had a problem with the mirror warping in zero gravity (if I remember it right), so all pictures were blurry until they went up and fixed it via a shuttle launch. I remember a Nasa guy saying at the time "This is why you should never name a project something that rhymes with trouble." Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@mhemail.org

Sometimes elements that appear to be common at first are not really common. Say for example, both forms have a name field. One might jump to the conclusion that the name field is common to both forms and factor it out for reuse. Then down the track one of the forms needs the name field to be changed to say nick name. Now we realise in hindsight that just because the code was identical between the forms in the first instance they were not really common code and more refactoring is now required. When you factor out common code try to make sure the cut is in areas that are unlikely to change if requirements change.

Probably because minimum-wage people are still cheaper than the capital cost + maintenance of the robot. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

And while doing so, accidentally knocked the task bar over to the right and dented it. :-D "When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid." Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn. Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning. Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.

Visual Basic is alive and well inside Excel.

In my opinion it goes far beyond what an OS should do and I would prefer that it butt out. "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

MFM or RLL? Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.