vic20forever

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by vic20forever 3mo ago
You are correct. But, that's about the only difference between VBA and VB. I was a VB developer for 10 years before I wrote my first VBA application (in Excel), and I was surprised when everything I tried to do in VBA just worked(TM).
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by vic20forever 4mo ago
Yes, but that was the standard behavior in DOS & Windows world (not including C/C++). We thought that case sensitivity was the broken behavior ;) I was referring to the parent's statement "If a method or function call is
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by vic20forever 4mo ago
Say whaaat? VB (v.3 through v.6, at least) wouldn't compile if you misspelled the name of a function or subroutine.
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by vic20forever 8mo ago
When I studied in Russia (early 90s, it was still the USSR), we learned to answer the phone with слушаю (I'm listening)
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by vic20forever 3y ago
This looks like what you need: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-dis...
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by vic20forever 4y ago
"Shoot first, ask questions later"[0] when cutting staff seems like a delusional idea to me. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808
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by vic20forever 4y ago
Moving a window: Alt-Space, M, arrow keys
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by vic20forever 4y ago
OneNote can do simple calculations for you: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-and-calcul...
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by vic20forever 5y ago
Click on the '+ help' label in the upper-right corner for a detailed description.
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by vic20forever 6y ago
Please don't do this, Mozilla. I have a lot of open tabs on my 1920 x 1080 monitor, and switching from compact density to default (I just tested this) reduced the amount of visible text on each tab such that I couldn't identify wh
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by vic20forever 6y ago
Edit and continue, Visual Basic 3, 1994 After adding a major piece of new functionality to my app, I would step through the new code, fixing each bug as it appeared, and then continue stepping. Being able to produce bug-free code after onl
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by vic20forever 6y ago
There's the correct answer. You're seeing the fruits of 70+ years of conservatives telling their audience "Everything sucks now, and everything will suck more in the future, and those people over there are to blame for all of
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by vic20forever 6y ago
I think the Functions Translator[1][2] add-in might be worth a look to you. Note: I haven't used it myself, and it's a Microsoft Garage project, so there's no guarantee of support or maintenance. From the description: Functio
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by vic20forever 6y ago
>You could do that, but the way to write it in the bash way would be `dir | select -first 3` Fyi, `dir | select -first 3` also works in PowerShell.
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by vic20forever 6y ago
You're charging it wrong.
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by vic20forever 6y ago
Firefox bookmarks became much more useful to me when I started using its tagging feature. Combined with the ability to sort search results by last visited date, it gives me a complete picture of my past work on a topic at a glance. For ever
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by vic20forever 6y ago
Correct (a HAM radio operator)
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by vic20forever 7y ago
Comparison of I2C and SPI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9303405
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by vic20forever 7y ago
...and those unemployed people will find better jobs with other companies, since all California companies are required to comply with the new law, and the collective amount of work performed by California companies (and thus the collective
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by vic20forever 7y ago
How much time have we all wasted reading threads that consisted mostly of folks arguing past one another, because each participant misunderstood what the other was trying to say? I used Usenet during the 1990s, and communication was much ea
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by vic20forever 7y ago
archive.org has the following pre-dotnet edition of MSDN Library - you'll find a lot of COM info in it: https://archive.org/details/MSDN_Library_October_2001_Disc_1 https://archive.org/details&#x2F
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by vic20forever 7y ago
I created my little memory-wipe routine with POKE, and boy was I proud when it worked! Cool username, btw
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by vic20forever 7y ago
The Army Corp of Engineers can be viewed as the federal government's civil engineering service. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_En... for a good description.
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by vic20forever 8y ago
Meanwhile, in a smoky apartment on the bad side of town[1]: Warning: this hard locked my MBP. [snip] It was a pain in the ass to recover: my only option seemed to be to power down and power back up again, at which point OSX helpfully rememb
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by vic20forever 8y ago
> This will be especially true when Firefox inevitably shutters it's in-house efforts in a couple of years due to the amount of sites that won't work with it, and starts using Chromium too. Watching Mozilla align Firefox's
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by vic20forever 8y ago
They've always recommended the 32-bit version to users who require compatibility with those 3rd party extensions: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee681792.aspx https://support.office.co
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by vic20forever 9y ago
Win-Shift-S to select a rectangular area to capture
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by vic20forever 10y ago
Exactly - the first time I looked at https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness my immediate thought was that we're recreating Yahoo, or maybe publishing a webpage with all of your bookmarks is making a comeb
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by vic20forever 10y ago
In 1994, I was looking at languages for a Windows GUI project, and I narrowed my options down to Borland ObjectVision (a sort-of "predecessor" to Delphi) and Visual Basic 3.0. I went with VB3 because the userbase was larger, but
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by vic20forever 10y ago
One thing I hope the engineers are addressing: Google Maps recently directed me down a cobblestone street that required me to slow to a crawl. If an autonomous system attempted to maintain the speed limit on that road, I'm not sure the

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