@phoneboy 28/83f and rooting for the first rain in over a month to hit. Hopefully.
// @larand
@matigo A lot of the framework stuff was bittersweet to me. I truly wanted the stuff to work and so often, it didn't.
I mean, look at MFC. It was a bunch of C++ classes designed by people who didn't really "get" C++.
It was hard to trust frameworks after dealing with that.
// @konrad
@matigo You have to realize, too, that managed languages went against almost everything you were taught or experienced.
"They say this stuff will automatically know when to dereference and dispose of this object. HAHAHAHAAHAHA. They are on drugs!"
Also, it didn't help that most of it was being done on a platform with "BASIC" in the name. Especially to people like me who thought that every word Dijkstra uttered was golden.
It took me a while to get comfortable with that concept.
// @konrad
@konrad It's hard to trust a modern "journalist" because true journalists are hard to come by. A field that used to draw stubborn, analytical and insightful people now attracts the distressingly vapid.
@konrad I have a certain nostalgia about that era but I am pretty sure I would react violently if you tried to drag me back there,
I can only imagine the frustration where the UI was concerned. Particularly if this project were a a Win16, C language monstrosity with a 100 km long switch statement capturing all of the messages.At least I hope it wasn't like that. That'd be a nightmare. and if you had to live with that nightmare, I'm sorry.
// @matigo
@matigo Ahh. I see where you are coming from now. I remember everyone screaming, "It's junk". After I checked it out mysefl, I realized they were in error and had actually meant to scream, "I don't get this".
I can get them screaming at it though. I still scream that phrase where the early Component Object Model stuff is concerned.
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// @konrad
Youtube is completely unwatchable at this point. More ads than content. If I wanted that, I'd turn on a TV.
Sip by sip, I feel my relax-o-meter rise. Once the glass is empty, I will be in a nice place. My only annoyance being the Gregorian chant coming from the living room. Need to replace that with some Jazz or something. The only Latin I want to hear tonight is percussion-based.
@japchap I'm trying to avoid them mainly because I am not fond of the business model. I could deal with it if their license management were as straightforward as Microsoft's with their Azure stuff. (ie: I can control instantly what machines can access what instantly without picking up a stupid phone)
All I am looking for is decent software for freehand drawing and painting on dedicated tablets.
// @kdfrawg