@IvenBach oh man for me that is the classic valve games
original HL era and then early Source
i think the first one that didnt cause it was portal
also wrt my earlier question i found the answer on google, but i think asking it here helped clarify mentally what i needed so thank you for tolerating it
" By using an inanimate object, the programmer can try to accomplish this without having to interrupt anyone else embarrass themselves." - seems more accurate :p
Interface: Procedure(ByRef cntl As MSForms.IControl)
Implementation: Interface_Procedure(ByRef cntl As MSForms.Textbox)
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications: "Procedure does not match declaration.
there is surely something fairly obvious im missing but google actually cant help this time. doesn't textbox implement that interface? or does the parameter signature have to be exact?
@theVBE-it'srightforme The parameters if interface member implementations can only differ in their name.
Think about it, when you implement an interface, the implementation is supposed to work for all arguments valid for the interface. This, from a theoretical standpoint, the parameter type of the implementation has to be at least as wide as that of the interface.
So, in theory it would be ok to have TextBox in the interface and IControl in the implementation, but not the other way around since there are controls which are not text boxes.
In practice, I think VBA enforces exactly matching types, though.
@IvenBach The blog could simply pull the current icon from GH, could it not? That way it will always be current (unless you open the blog just before someone commits an icon change). How often do icons change, anyway?
Just curious, why is a passenger in the lavatory (when they're not supposed to be) relevant to the flight? Is it because of passenger safety? — a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75ae10 hours ago
Although Canada is not nuclear capable, and we do not station nukes on our land, we DO have a couple. Sort of. We don't really know exactly where they are. The Americans dropped at least two on us, entirely by accident. One in Quebec, one in BC. — Justin ThymeJan 3 '18 at 21:33
@this one very important thing to keep in mind... the definition of "bomb" has changed, so there are lots of "bombs" around now, that are at known locations that weren't considered "bombs" at the time
the destinction is literally how those events were allowed to happen without any ramification (with the exception of the navy who classifies anything incendiary >1 kg as a bomb)
You see, the cold war was much more deadly to the soldiers serving their country; not because they got killed by the enemy but because they got killed by their superiors' incompetency.
so bikini atoll was a bomb, but the nevada thunker, aka we set off an atomic bomb on ~50 of our own, was a prototype incendiary, so it wasn't a warcrime
Which brings us to the point; I'm kind of glad we bombed Japan when we did. If we hadn't, they would've been used anyway, after they'd become a lot more powerful. As it is, they were relatively weak and the danger got into the public eye.
Not glad for everyone involved, but it's just a better version than the alternative with the USSR and USA launching them at each other.
one thing i've read, and i have never verified, was that japan supposedly surrendered like 4 days before hiroshimia and 17 days before nagasaki. anyone see/hear that?
> Harry Daghlian dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium core, inadvertently creating a critical mass at the Los Alamos Omega site. He quickly removed the brick, but was fatally irradiated, dying September 15.[3]
So, that running gag of Homer handling the glowing brick isn't without precedent. ;-)
the US was quickly gaining naval (and air) supremacy on the pacific, but getting the japanese to surrender would have involved rolling up their forces through most of southeast asia, basically from australia upwards
the loss of life would've been considerable, but the outcome was pretty predictable at that point
Also, I read Eugene Sledge's book about his experiences in the Pacific. What a lot of people don't realize is we were losing men faster than we were replacing them, until we won the European side.
Before he was sent into battle, he finished bootcamp and extensive specialist training. Toward the end of Okinawa, their replacements were just out of bootcamp and completely unprepared for war. They often wouldn't even advance with the unit until they were made more afraid of the seasoned Americans than the Japanese.
Sorry this has been your experience thus far with Rubberduck! The logs indicate an `OutOfMemoryException` occurring during the parse... this is most likely related to #3347, which can be observed in very large projects, especially in 32-bit hosts.
Upgrading to a 64-bit Office install should help, if it's something that's possible.
Rubberduck isn't a lightweight add-in; in order to properly understand VBA code it needs to not only parse all the user code, but also load all re
Version 2.4.1.4627 OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1, x64 Host Product: 2007 Microsoft Office system x86 Host Version: 12.0.6606.1000 Host Executable: MSACCESS.EXE
**Description** When using Rubberduck on an existing project, I get parsing errors on the following code, when trying to calling the Report.Line method during a Report Detail_Print event. However, the project compiles successfully.
This problem was fixed with the merge of PR #4884. The fix has been available as a pre-release build since then, and will ship as part of a "green release" with v2.5.0 later this month.
@Duga @MathieuGuindon a workaround would be to add '@IgnoreModule to a variety of them to skip parsing, would it not? Not quite as handy as being able to parse just "this" module, but effectively the same?
Anyway, I am not sure how much it'll help. I never took time to verify whether 64-bit Access has more stack frames available than 32-bit Access -- it should but?
Well... there's lot of resistance to running 64-bit, in fact. The most commonly cited reason is because of dependency on ActiveX controls that don't have 64-bit counterpart.
Ed note: This is a part of series where an author plays both sides of an issue, one of which is obviously terrible. Can you guess which is which?
Our industry needs to own up to something we’ve all known for a long time: whiteboard coding interviews suck. At best, they’re ineffective at measuring a candidate’s capacity and aptitude for the real day-to-day work of a developer, and at worst they’re an inhumane ritual that amounts to little more than fraternity hazing.
I have never, in over 20 years as a professional developer, had a single project that required me to stand at a whiteboard and impl …
What a POS article.
I mean, I agree with his premise.
It's this piece, and the actual implementation of it: This is a part of series where an author plays both sides of an issue, one of which is obviously terrible.
You can't play both sides of the issue if your entire point is that "one is obviously terrible."
So don't even pretend to try.
And, TBH, devs and other professionals are forged by fire, and to some extent, you need to be able to whiteboard code.
Who's going to bring the web back online when the web is offline and you can't search for help?
Reminds me of an article I read by a Windows kernel programmer. He'd broken something really deep in the kernel, and the logs weren't working or anything.
And everyone was like "have you checked the logs?" And he was like "I'm a kernel dev. I often work on things that have to work before you can write logs, and this is one of them."
PM is where most people hit their level of incompetence.
Either wanna-be managers who can't manage or devs who got promoted out of being a dev and shouldn't have been.
They are often too vague and don't give enough details or focus too much on the user experience and don't give you enough information to actually know how it should really work. Even worse is when they ignore the user experience entirely and try to give very specific details on how to implement the backend.
Down to how to structure the code...
You can learn a lot by telling them the project is going to be late.
Some will go nuts.
Some will be like "OK, sure."
The good ones will want to get an update on where the project is, what is going wrong, and an estimate of how long it will be delayed.
Note that just because a PM does that doesn't mean they are good. It's just the other (common) responses are signs of being bad. The first for obvious reasons. The second often has projects run late by not keeping track of things and keeping the project moving.
And for all I can give a dissertation on the qualities of a good PM, don't trust me to be a good one myself, for any recruiters watching this :P
They are like ticks. They get in your hair before you realize they are there, and are pains to get rid of.
TBH, chatrooms would be great places for sensible recruiters to stalk people.
See who is helpful, knowledgeable, and not a general dick.
It's weird. I've not mentioned C++ or Java on my resume, and I get recruiters headhunting me for those positions. It's like they didn't even do their basic job.
If someone wants to message me on LinkedIn, fine. But read my profile first...
I've gotten a couple contacts for VB projects. I tell them I do VBA which is similar but different. I'm willing to #GiveItAShot but can't guarantee anything.
@this Which is why I pre-qualify every call for those with "I'm a VBA/Excel dev that learned some C#..." to make absolutely certain I'm not misleading them.
sorry, i just sat back down... today has been crazy. daycare is closed for the kiddos, so i'm working from home, watching them, and have an interview in about 50 minutes... really hoping they stay down for their nap
@Hosch250 will try to focus on that. just do my damnedest to keep to speak only on what i can know without speculation
worst case is i don't get it and get to brush up on interview skills
@IvenBach is that one that can use generic CAD drawings, or is that special software? software section lists "Cura、 Simplify3D、 Repetier-host", but i don't remember if CAD drawings can be of the appropriate extensions, " STL、 OBJ、G-Code"
@Hosch250 i have to touch on SQIPP/SISPQ in the discussion, so i'm hoping to get to tell them my favorite related acronym... QPIES (q-pies), which i guess never caught on? sounds way better than "skwipp" and no idea how to make SISPQ not an initialism
safety, quality, integrity, potency, purity... safety, integrity, strength, purity, quality... quality, purity, integrity, efficacy, safety... pretty much choosing between potency, strength, or efficacy
it's because the management zombies need to show that they are in the know, current with latest trend by spewing out a boatload of acronyms and meaningless phrases to justify their worthless and pathetic existence.
Now I'm trying to decide who has the most pathetic existence I know.
Probably my mom, who's basically a 60yo slut or my brother, who's can't stop chasing girls. And each time there's a breakup, he gets dramatic about how he's not going to chase another one.
Management: What is your title?
Iven: Uh... I really don't know.
Management: What do you do then?
Iven: I just get done what needs to be done. Fix what's broken or could be better. Mostly make working easier, faster, better, efficient.
Management: Oh we label people like you unhireable because you have no title. NEXT!
Hosch: I'm a software janitor.
Friend: What's that? Never heard of that before.
Hosch: I clean up crappy code, beat it with a 2x4 and make it bend to my will.
when you start having people calling themselves "code ninja", "development diva" or "unicorn of the code kingdom", you know we're really pushing the jargons.
Remember the days when they were just called.... programmers? Such a dirty, filthy, horrid word today!
That's the other thing that really gets my goat - deliberately misspelling as if adding the "z" made it somehow more cool, better, trendy, whatever. Bullshit.
@IvenBach AIUI, the stature is on the using the word "engineer" in any industry since it implies you hold a certification/degree/license/whatever to do the job.
software industry is nowhere regulated as much as say, civil engineering.
Caught me off guard not being able to use the work "engineer". Thinking it through does make more sense though. Same as not allowing someone to self assume the title of Doctor.
In software you can teach yourself. Not so much in medicine.
because programming covers much wider variety of tasks, I just don't see the industry as whole having the same level of regulation. More likely, they might be more successful in regulating where lives are involved like aerospace software or medical software.
@Vogel612 Git Guru: Why does git sometimes get stuck in a stat where no matter what I do > is displayed on its own liken expecting a command to be entered?
went pretty well; i asked some questions that caused them to side bar, and as i did my final 10 min and final 5 min time checks for them, they seemed happy with my answers and stated that my "thought provoking questions were a breath of fresh air"...
> Ok, I have several systems that use the 64bit versions of office, but I also use the 32bit to check on development work since some clients have one and not the other.
I will give it a try on a 64bit system and let you know what happens.
Thanks for such a quick response.
Robert
From: Mathieu Guindon <notifications@github.com> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 11:25 To: rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck <Rubberduck@noreply.github.com> Cc: Robert Rude <robertr@rsquarednerds.com>; Author <aut
> Ok, I have several systems that use the 64bit versions of office, but I also use the 32bit to check on development work since some clients have one and not the other.
I will give it a try on a 64bit system and let you know what happens.
Dim instance1 As IInterface
Dim instance2 As ClassImplementingIInterface
Set instance2 = New ClassImplementingIInterface
Set instance1 = instance2
is there any particular reason this would be throwing a type mismatch error on the last line every single time i reopen my project that can be resolved simply by deleting and retyping the "Implements IInterface" line in ClassImplementingIInterface?
@theVBE-it'srightforme If you’re getting a consistent issue we can all look into it. MVCE = Minimal Verified Complete Example. The bare minimum needed to reproduce the issue. All classes, interfaces, modules etc bundled together so we can copy and test ourselves.
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