Random Thoughts 7

[Borg]

I'm giving two demos of my architecture design today. After the last fiasco where I was barraged with idiotic and off-topic questions from the audience, this time I will be refusing to allow any questions until the demo is complete.

 

[fresh_42]

I somehow only just realised that programming languages are all "in English" - like they use English words for syntax (e.g. if)

I once coded in an IDE that used French, English, or both. You could type, for example, "IF ... ALORS ..." or "SI ... THEN ..." without any problems.

 

[TensorCalculus]

I once coded in an IDE that used French, English, or both. You could type, for example, "IF ... ALORS ..." or "SI ... THEN ..." without any problems.

What did you use? I am curious now

 

[fresh_42]

What did you use? I am curious now

https://windev.com/

I sometimes decided according to which one is shorter to type. E.g., "sablier" is shorter than "hourglass".

 

[TensorCalculus]

Whoa - so cool! I never knew that existed. Might give it a try at some point just for fun

 

[fresh_42]

Whoa - so cool! I never knew that existed. Might give it a try at some point just for fun

It is very focused on the UI part of programming, and code is usually behind "buttons", "tables", or similar UI features. But, yes, it is really faster and more intuitive to produce applications. I think it produces C++ code internally, but you don't see it. The IDE is basically UI stuff with code lines that look like Visual Basic.

 

[TensorCalculus]

It is very focused on the UI part of programming, and code is usually behind "buttons", "tables", or similar UI features. But, yes, it is really faster and more intuitive to produce applications. I think it produces C++ code internally, but you don't see it. The IDE is basically UI stuff with code lines that look like Visual Basic.

That's very interesting (and quite unique)! Is it widely used?

(I'm not going to try it because it costs money )

 

[fresh_42]

That's very interesting (and quite unique)! Is it widely used?

According to their list of customers, yes, but I'm not so sure.

(I'm not going to try it because it costs money )

Doesn't it have a test version anymore?

Here is what it typically looks like:

For example:

with the button code line

Static1=Edit1^2

took literally seconds. The watermark is due to the test version I used. It has also its own database, but is also compatible to most existing ones. What I really like about it is, that you can setup language versions: the UI, i.e., button titles, help texts, etc. can be arranged to use dozens of languages between you can switch.

 

[TensorCalculus]

According to their list of customers, yes, but I'm not so sure.

Doesn't it have a test version anymore?

Here is what it typically looks like:

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For example:

View attachment 363063

with the button code line

Static1=Edit1^2

took literally seconds. The watermark is due to the test version I used. It has also its own database, but is also compatible to most existing ones. What I really like about it is, that you can setup language versions: the UI, i.e., button titles, help texts, etc. can be arranged to use dozens of languages between you can switch.

Nope, no more test version I don't think. But this seems so easy to use! I never knew things like this existed, that's really interesting, thank you!
(BTW keep your eyes on the Fermat's last theorem page - a lot of rings and headaches later, I am close! I think.)

 

[fresh_42]

Nope, no more test version I don't think. But this seems so easy to use! I never knew things like this existed, that's really interesting, thank you!

https://windev.com/windev

 

[TensorCalculus]

Oh, I am blind, then I will try it out!

 

[fresh_42]

Oh, I am blind, then I will try it out!

You aren't allowed to use it for commercial reasons, of course, but it is sufficient for a try and private "quick-and-dirty" applications. Of course, the work starts if you want to pimp it with proper titles, different layouts, or whatever makes an application user friendly. Their web version is a bit nasty since they use an AJAX architecture, but their mobile version is nice. I once programmed a little app for my cellphone that counted the time during which I didn't smoke.

 

[WWGD]

Had my svchost.exe suddenly escalating privileges of all sorts of subprocesses through UAP. Then reverted LUA. Having to learn a lot of new stuff, including basic PowerShell.

 

[Hornbein]

I just saw the first episode of Hazardous History with Henry Winkler. So many memories of my childhood like lawn darts and things that I had never heard of before like the radiation lab for kids with real uranium and roller coasters that subjected people to 12Gs. Wow.

In western Colorado in about 1969 I saw a roadside sign for a mine where the customer could breath air that contained radon. It was quite a ramshackle sign though so it appeared not to be a going concern.

 

[Hornbein]

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I often think on similar lines.

In Corvallis Oregon there is a set of streets named after the presidents, in order. When looking for an address one could ask oneself who came first, Polk or Garfield? This is however better than the Japanese system for street names. At this moment I am in a place that shares its address with two other buildings three blocks away. This is accessed by walking through a long parking lot then entering a tiny unmarked opening in a chain link fence.

 

[Hornbein]

Mr & Mrs Lamb who called their son Sean

I don't get it.

 

[Bystander]

I don't get it.

"Shorn?"

 

[Hornbein]

"Shorn?"

I thought it was Shawn. But I've never been to Ireland.

 

[Ibix]

I thought it was Shawn. But I've never been to Ireland.

There are a couple of fairly well known guys called Sean.

 

[Hornbein]

There are url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery]a couple[/url] of fairly well known guys called Sean.

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

 

[Ibix]

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

Sure. I was just surprised you seemed to have managed to make it this far through life without hearing either of those gentlemen's names spoken. Or perhaps I misunderstood your comment.

 

[WWGD]

Well duh. Aren't we discussing the pronunciation?

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

 

[Ibix]

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

Well, if Hugh Juan to relax it Hugh can.

 

[WWGD]

Maybe it wasn't such great idea to place the coffee shop " Gofuku" just left of the " Mamma Mia" Italian place.

 

[Borg]

I have an unfinished bathroom on the lower floor of my house that we use to store stuff. We call it the garbage room. The gods have decreed that we clean out the room by allowing water to find a way into the back of the room during the heavy downpours that we've been getting lately. The only way to figure out where the water is coming from is to empty the room...

 

[Mayhem]

If you relax the term , it's likely the world's most popular name: Sean, John, Ian, Juan, Jean, Ivan,....

"Relax the term" gave me traumatic flashbacks to quantum classes.

 

[WWGD]

There should be a ring of hell for companies that charge automatic renewals. Like Norton's.

 

[Mayhem]

Popular diet science is so hacky.

I think that if you took the average of all popular nutritional advice, you'd find you shouldn't eat anything and that carbon is a major predictor of unhealthy food.

So silly. Eat.

 

[WWGD]

Seems like a law has been passed recently that requires authorization and disclosure of the use of your online data. Edit: Because I see related warnings almost every page I visit.

 

[Astronuc]

Windsurf was a startup Cinderella story. Now it's become a cautionary tale.
https://www.businessinsider.com/peo...d-windsurf-has-set-dangerous-precedent-2025-7

Windsurf, an AI coding company, was on the verge of being acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion, the kind of windfall startup employees dream of. But the blockbuster deal fell apart at the last minute, setting off a whirlwind of last-minute negotiations that left employees in the dark about their future.

The end result — a company split in two with its CEO and top talent getting bought out for far more than the rest of its employees.

Discussions with OpenAI fizzled, and there was a new suitor: Google. But instead of acquiring Windsurf, Google said it would pay $2.4 billion to hire its CEO and top talent and license the company's intellectual property. The hundreds of employees who remained at Windsurf were left adrift until last Monday, when Cognition sent a life raft in the form of buying what remains of the company.