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How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops?
DonLab writes "I was a proficient software engineer in the 1980s, writing hundreds of thousands of lines of ALGOL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and Pascal programs, as well as working in 370 and 8080 assembly language & pre-relational DBMS systems. My hands-on programming career ended when I became a freelance analyst and designer, ultimately retiring young in the early '90s. Now I'd like to reenter the field, but I'm finding that I know nothing about today's post-C languages, programming tools, and computing environments. I wouldn't know where to start learning C++, PHP, Java, HTML5, or PERL, much less how to choose one over the other for a particular application. Can I be the only pre-GUI software designer or hobbyist searching for a way to update his skills for Windows, iOS, or Android?"
I wouldn't know where to start learning C++, PHP, Java, HTML5, or PERL, much less how to choose one over the other for a particular application.
You should start out with Visual Basic .NET. It has two important features that the other languages lack:
* Image Enhance
* Creating a GUI app that can track an "IP address" features
(If you get either of these references, jump head first into any of those languages. You're still sharp. If not... I'll get off of your lawn right now)
I just lost.
Eat sleep die
Don't forget to B#.
Do you get your jokes right.
It's A flat minor.
You get it when you drop a piano down a mine shaft....
...(although a mainframe would do two).
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
I was going to say Fight Club, but I guess learning a new language would work too.
Same with the parent of this thread.
Coming-out-of-retirement is a geek codeword that means someone failed in the entertainment Internet Kiosk fad and are now looking for a corporation to get Health benefits-from just as they heart-problems and cancer starts to kill them. COBOL is a codeword that means your skills are old, as in Visual Basic.
Literaly, guys, a computer-programmer is someone that just knows how to program a VCR for a television. The real players in the industry all have backgrounds in Chemistry stemming from metalurgy and machining to confer an ethic of heavy Science and Mathetics to employ computer programming skills to design the appliances that will be bought. The industry is worse in Bio-related branches of study because all the money goes to manipulating the politics of health to deprive cultures of actual food that induces the diseases to appear. That's why USDA, FDA, AMA, APA, BATFE, and now recently DOJ and BLM all work together to prevent the people from removing all the fake industry by growing natural food and being off the grid in growing and mining materials to sew or cast their necessaries without the monopolised economy.
Drug-dealers run the countries south by the help of the CIA, while FBI and NSA run the communication business together, and US Army with HLS/TSA sells the tiger-rock insurance with help of their foreign-raised terrorists to continually divide and conquer the people away from the self-sufficiently defending theirselves offensively (2nd amendment) and collaborating in fellowship (1st amendment).
There is no B#, B# is C.
B# does exist, depending what key the music is in, it can be better to have a B# then a C natural when notating
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It's good to B-natural AND B-sharp in interviews.
Doesn't sound harmonious, but try it and C if it falls flat.
All pianos I've ever seen with the notes clearly marked NEVER have B#.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
That's because B# and C are enharmonic, dufus...just as Db major and C# major are enharmonic.
If you don't know your scales, don't bother commenting on musical topics. KTHXBYE.
Still confused? B# is used so that each note name appears only once in the scale.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Heh, if you hit the wrong note, we'll all "B flat!"
"Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two" -- RFC 1925