fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
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fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
The problem is, Macs are too expensive and underpowered these days. More important than developers are users. Right now the Mac is sort of a tax levied on iOS developers
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: A new census shows how a Brazilian favela works
Favelas are a mass transit problem. People live there, in bad conditions, because they are somewhat nearer to their jobs. Otherwise, they would spend half a day in their way to work.. Renting a 'house' in a favela is more expensive then renting a good house in small cities.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
You mean the BLE API? In classic Bluetooth the main problem was the lack of APIs, only SPP is supported (and not even that, in iOS).
Bluetooth is really a good bad example of committee design.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Riding alone in a car is an increasingly unaffordable luxury
The car is the last place you might have some privacy, listen to loud music, talk to yourself. I take "micro-vacations from marriage" consisting basically of driving alone a couple days.
The bathroom is arguably the other remaining place for complete privacy, so I understand completely people that can afford huge bathrooms with magazines, TV, etc.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
That's what happens when you are bogged down in Donglegate-like discussions.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
I'd say Flutter/Dart.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: What to Do About Inequality (2012)
These people are human beings too. And the middle class is looking: whatever happens in the top tax bracket, trickles down.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: What to Do About Inequality (2012)
Yes but if you are left with less disposable money you don't have any escape whatsoever if the government is not well run.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: What to Do About Inequality (2012)
The destination of this money is equally important. Tax and hire a lot of lazy public servants is a moral hazard as well.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
God allows you to succeed. That would be awesome.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?
There is a stoichiometric mix of pain and pleasure that lends to happiness. In the present time, we have too much pleasure over pain, and we respond to unhappiness by adding even more pleasure.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Reform capitalism or face revolution
There are cooler heads like Warren Buffett that have been telling this for what, decades?
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
Regrettable. Are they banning radical left types? Of course not.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Agony of an African Programmer (2014)
Lots of software developers (mainstream ones, but even someones that deserve way more) make no more than that in LATAM.
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
fopen64 | 6 years ago | on: Intel Exiting 5G Modems
RF is difficult.
fopen64 | 7 years ago | on: A fork() in the road
For some reason the book (Beginning Linux Programming, Wrox Press, 1998 edition I think) explained select() first, so like the proverbial little duck that names 'mother' the first think it sees moving after hatch, select() caught my heart.
fopen64 | 7 years ago | on: Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing
In Brazil the govt supplies the software for free, runs in all major operating systems, and autofills what the IRS already knows if you have a digital certificate.
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Due to this factor, and others, VB had the typical Microsoft learning curve: extremely easy to do simple things, and then exponentially difficult to do big things. It was the same in MS-Access that many people thought it was the future of client/server apps, ERP apps, etc.
This limitation was lifted in VB6 or so (dumped VB for Delphi when left win16 for win32 so I am not sure).