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Yes. PowerBasic. Since the original developer has passed on (Bob Zale), I don't use it for new coding. However, I have an extensive existing code base. Very fast compiler, very small generated exe's, and very easy to work with. But, I don't see any progress in a 64-bit nor linux versions so I've switched to Python for such things.

In short ... too many people take themselves too seriously. too many people reading the intent to malign from internet postings made by people intending to help.

We Americans are not lost because power is taken away from the Federal government. The states (or even more local authorities) should be in charge of this. Ask someone from sparsely populated northern Minnesota what they think when their cattle are slaughtered by wolves that are over-populated because people in the big cities dictate law.

Stunning out of the box thinking. Fantastic idea and implementation. Color me impressed.

It is more irresponsible to make a comment like this. People should write software in a language that A) can do the job B) they're proficient in. For example, I would much rather have a C program written by someone proficient in C than a C# program written by someone new to the language.

Yes. I agree so much. Everyone should be free to purchase the car they want. If it sucks gas, the free market takes care of it with gas costs. I pay a ton more in gas tax (priced per gallon) than a smaller car. I also am free to use the suburban for what I want ... long road trips with my family of 5. Towing my boat. Hauling wood. I am also free to park the thing in my garage, because weather permitting (meaning above 10 degrees F) I commute 15 miles each way on my bicycle. My choice. Not anyone else's - including (and especially) the government.

Unheard of ... unless you live in the midwest. Here in Minnesota, a ton of cars have them because a ton of people own boats and/or rv's and/or snow machines. The same reason a lot own all-wheel drive vehicles.

I'm not sure how this works ... 1) husband is sleeping around. 2) wife says "pay me for sex" ... why in the world would a husband whose sleeping around on his wife pay for sex with his wife.

waiting for kimdotcom to weigh in ...

My frustration with automotive controls isn't limited to touch screens, but I've never used a touchscreen I like. I have two cars with awesome controls - a 2000 camary and a 20007 suburban. Both have 3 knobs: 1) how hot/cold 2) how fast is the fan blowing 3) where does it blow. The radio has two nobs - "what channel" and "how loud". My wife's 2013 (?) "luxury" car is quite the opposite. All controls are either 1) buttons you have to press or 2) something on the touchscreen. The user interfaces force you to take your attention from the road to use. That is bad and dangerous design ... end of story. I know the world likes to complain about using phones while driving, the the controls on some cars are just as bad.

One thing to understand, my Harley riding brethren, Harley cannot be targetting you. They are clearly targetting new riders. The combustion engine is a hobby as much as anything for 1/2 the riders I know; for them, it's the fun of owning a bike. Unless you have a lot of money, the only way to fix an oft-broken motorcycle is by doing yourself. I've owned a similar (not Harley) bike for a number of years. Parts are always vibrating off off the damn thing. It is loud; I do believe it helps make you visible. Yes, that is anecdotal, but I have ridden bikes with all types of pipes and I find it 100% true. I am much safer (heard) with my La Chopper's Curvedd pipes than the very quiet stock pipes; meaning, many fewer close calls.

So, they are looking for riders that don't care that their machines will (ostensibly) be more reliable (less vibration), saves money on fuel, and is quiet and efficient. I care about none of those things, BUT I want Harley to stay in business, and if they can do that while attracting new riders, I fully support them.

A side note, gas sport-bikes accelerate insanely fast now ... imagine how fast they will with an electric engine ... scary!

You have a fantastic gift for finding small useful projects. Truly fantastic.

Interesting that they mention medical records. I'm pretty sure that US HIPAA law would preclude storing any medical records from being stored on a network whose owner you don't have a BA with. From my readings (see Digital Ocean's various discussions on the topic) this even includes data that is chunked and encrypted before sending off to storage. HIPAA laws are woefully vague and inadequate to deal with many new technologies. I'm not trying to argue for or against storing PHI in this matter, just pointing that they reference it, but I'm not sure it could be implemented in the US and be in compliance with current laws.

An observation ... just the fact that many here treat the "midwest" as one place in their comments speaks of maybe misunderstanding/ignorance or even arrogance. As a person who has lived in Wisconsin (suburban and rural), Minnesota (urban and suburban), and Chicago, there is an absolutely astounding difference in people, attitude, and culture in all 3 areas. Granted none are really like the east or west coasts, but they are all vastly different places to live.

I hate these stupid "my db is better than whatever db" articles. 1) What db to be used depends on the situation AND MORE IMPORTANTLY 2) what experience your staff has

I can say that 10 years go, I would have chosen M$SQL over MySQL and it would have been the correct choice. At the time I had almost 10 years experience with M$SQL and almost none with MySQL. Now I have more than 10 years of MySQL under my belt. AND the MySQL experience is more current. Right now I could choose between the two based on specific features and performance characteristics. For me to pick Posgresql because of a specific feature would be insane because I don't experience with it. No knock on Posgresql ... maybe I'll spend time with it and pick it for some down-the-road project.

I have implemented couchdb as a caching solution. I know how to manage, backup, and restore the database server. I have managed a 5 node cluster. If you ask me to implement NoSQL, it would be my choice for 2 reasons: 1. It can do the job. 2. I have experience making it do the job.

I'm sure there are 10 million people out there would would choose mongo in the same situation. The would not be wrong and they may come up with a superior solution. For me to implement Mongo today would be wrong - I would almost certainly come up with an inferior solution. for them, it would be stupid not to.

I'm not saying "don't learn anything new". I'm saying "don't gamble your business on technology with which you're not familiar".

Its a bit like backups ... the most important thing about a backup is not the technology you use, but whether you are capable of restoring and maintaining the backups.

Call me a right-wing loony ... but why aren't we questioning why the government is giving out loans in the first place. Since the proliferation of government student loans in the last 30 years the cost of higher education has gone up significantly. The loans aren't working and enforcing them is a no-win situation.

Various governments were not happy with BitCoins ... I'm sure this will drive them crazy x10 if it catches on.

I am of the opinion that web sites should never make noise automatically. Never, no matter what site. I often have my sound on without even realizing it. Nothing is more disturbing to me or those near me than me going to a site and having stuff come over the speaker. I almost always close the tab immediately. Please never autoplay anything.

Wonder if he uses the air conditioning? Wonder how many people are in the car? Are there places he can't visit specifically because there aren't charging stations - sorry I don't know his route. I wish him success, but he seems to gloss over a lot of details ...

so if i do this, every list server that i subscribe to will be junked because normally have unsubscribe info in them ...

I don't think Joel is wrong per say, however, I don't think he is attacking the symptom not the problem. The answer lies in federalism and giving power to the states. If the federal government didn't have such broad and sweeping power it wouldn't be worth the money to fund their campaigns in the first place. Let's take the power away from the federal government. Big business can only benefit from massive donations if the clowns in power can give them a return.

Let me preface this by saying I'm not particularly a microsoft basher, however this smacks of their history of interface development. Remember COM in the 90's? It was so complicated no one really knew how it worked. The only way to use it was to use a compiler that had native support for it ... MS Visual Studio and MS VB. Delphi came a long way quickly and made it work. Anyway whether intended or not, the result was you were initially tied to using a MS tool to use the technology. SOAP seems the same. Odds are if you're writing one end of it or another (client or server) somewhere the mix you're going to have a Microsoft tool. If you want to talk to the product of that Microsoft tool by far the easiest way will be to use a Microsoft tool. So despite being "open", their implementation of it ties you into some vendor-specific tools.

i wouldn't dispute that c# is a fine language. i wouldn't argue that object pascal is better than c#. i would, however, argue that delphi, mostly because of its incredible two-way design interface is a terrific development environment, superior than any forms designer included with visual studio. i don't know what hand anders had in the interface builder of delphi, but its better than visual studio's (better than all of the vb verions, etc).