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11-29-10, 08:26 PM
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Posted By umd

I dunno, the UK sites have them for 100-200...

I dunno, the UK sites have them for 100-200 pounds depending on finish and features.
11-29-10, 08:11 PM
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Posted By umd

Any of you geeks know where I can buy one of...

Any of you geeks know where I can buy one of these in the US?

http://buybarometers.co.uk/acatalog/big3025b.jpg
11-18-10, 10:58 PM
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Posted By umd

Well when AND/OR/NOT don't do what you expect...

Well when AND/OR/NOT don't do what you expect because they are bitwise instead of logical, it causes problems. Especially if you are calling things in other languages that don't have the same...
11-18-10, 10:28 PM
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Posted By umd

I'm sure we could swap good war stories. I can't...

I'm sure we could swap good war stories. I can't tell you how many problems were caused by it's lack of real logical operators.
11-18-10, 10:27 PM
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Posted By umd

The problem with VB was that they were so...

The problem with VB was that they were so concerned with not letting you shoot yourself in the foot that they locked the trigger and threw away the key.
11-18-10, 10:24 PM
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Posted By umd

I used to be embarassed but now I don't care.

I used to be embarassed but now I don't care.
11-18-10, 09:51 PM
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Posted By umd

VB6 had it's uses. I was mostly stuck with it for...

VB6 had it's uses. I was mostly stuck with it for a long time, and wrote a pretty robust set of libraries for it that did all kinds of API and memory hacks, including some pretty trick window...
11-18-10, 09:05 PM
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Posted By umd

I'm well aware. Hence the facepalm.

I'm well aware. Hence the facepalm.
11-18-10, 08:49 PM
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Posted By umd

I had a program that would always crash on one...

I had a program that would always crash on one particular test machine. I figured that it must have been memory related and eventually convinced someone to replace the memory (it was expensive back...
11-18-10, 08:43 PM
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Posted By umd

I learned C and C++ before Java as well. When I...

I learned C and C++ before Java as well. When I started CS at UCSB in '97 they had just switched from Pascal to Java. It just seemed like castrated C++ to me.
11-18-10, 08:14 PM
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Posted By umd

Funny language story. I was reviewing someone's...

Funny language story. I was reviewing someone's code a few weeks ago, in VB6. VB still supports a bunch of the old anachronistic BASIC language features, like line numbers.

I noticed an arbitrary...
11-16-10, 09:14 PM
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Posted By umd

Assume it's Computational Fluid Dynamics. ...

Assume it's Computational Fluid Dynamics.

The core of our software was all written in fortran and converted to C eons ago.
11-16-10, 06:12 PM
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Posted By umd

I don't remember there being a huge amount of...

I don't remember there being a huge amount of difference between the editions.
11-16-10, 05:48 PM
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Posted By umd

This just reminded me of the movie "Final...

This just reminded me of the movie "Final Countdown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_(film))"
11-16-10, 05:34 PM
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Posted By umd

Not very old, 25 years or so. It's an object...

Not very old, 25 years or so. It's an object oriented language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)

It popped in my head because I went to high school with one of his...
11-16-10, 04:13 PM
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Posted By umd

Haha, we used Haskell in our programming...

Haha, we used Haskell in our programming languages class.

Anyone used/heard of Eiffel?
11-16-10, 03:15 PM
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Posted By umd

I thought everyone just called it K&R. Matt,...

I thought everyone just called it K&R.

Matt, I'm surprised you don't have Code Complete.
11-16-10, 01:40 PM
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Posted By umd

I have a lot of the "standard" programming books....

I have a lot of the "standard" programming books. I also have some ancient computer science books that I rescued out of our library cleanup at work maybe a decade ago. "Computer Architecture" (1970)...
11-08-10, 06:44 PM
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Posted By umd

Geez I edited my post like 10 seconds after I...

Geez I edited my post like 10 seconds after I posted.
11-08-10, 06:28 PM
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Posted By umd

If I admit I want this, do I win the geek thread?...

If I admit I want this, do I win the geek thread?

http://store.startrek.com/images/products/4/90851-8.jpg?1283436493
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