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IMHO VB was not respected because you could not write your own components/widgets in VB, you had to resort to C++. Delphi components were all written in Delphi. It was clear VB was a second-class citizen.

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

That's what happens when you are bogged down in Donglegate-like discussions.

I'd say Flutter/Dart.

These people are human beings too. And the middle class is looking: whatever happens in the top tax bracket, trickles down.

Yes but if you are left with less disposable money you don't have any escape whatsoever if the government is not well run.

The destination of this money is equally important. Tax and hire a lot of lazy public servants is a moral hazard as well.

God allows you to succeed. That would be awesome.

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.

There are cooler heads like Warren Buffett that have been telling this for what, decades?

Regrettable. Are they banning radical left types? Of course not.

Lots of software developers (mainstream ones, but even someones that deserve way more) make no more than that in LATAM.

RF is difficult.

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.

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.

When I learnt how fork() and select() worked, I just felt in love with Unix. The Win32 API was so ad-hoc and unnatural in direct comparison.

That was the major ugliness of slavery, the double fault - keeping humans in captivity because it was believed the economy would collapse and even the slaves themselves would starve if freed.

Racism is a similar double-fault prejudice: "jobs are limited in number [wrong] so let's reserve them to 'our' kind of people [wrong and immoral]".

I flip a bird every time I read about this subject. How did we allow the hiring process get such bizarre when we are the scarce resource?

The question is, how much pollution per tku (tons x kms)? Even if it exhausted nuclear waste, it would be worthwile if it was 1 gram per trillion tku.

Yeah, I don't know. I thought about going from Barcelona to Malaga by train because I love trains, but it was 10x more expensive than one of these low-cost flights.

If I pack air, sell it as panacea, and employ 150k people doing that, do I deserve to be be in business?

That's what I thought. Put the house in an auction starting at $1 and it will find its price point. Biggest problem is people thinking someone will pay cost-plus-sentimental-value-plus-a-nice-profit when 2 houses could be built on the same dime and under modern standards. Used stuff must be sold at a discount.

Depends on the hobbies you pick up. Model railroading, snooker, I regret not having space for such things since I moved from a house to an apartment.

The iPhone 5/5s was the zenith of the iPhone.

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