It is not, and I’ve heard of people preferring it even. Just not me. In my eyes, it’s just a worse version of the C#.NET aspx views that might make OC shudder again.
Maybe more to your tastes, we also still have COBOL systems. Not quite Fortran old, but close
Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2
It’s the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.
There’s also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB
This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.
Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.
“No, stop!”
“Okay, here’s a montage of your most shameful memories.”
“… back to Full House please.”
Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.
I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.
There used to be more just a few years ago, but I’ve managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.
I think you might be right, but I give up on trying to link the damn articles.
It’s hard (apparently for me) to find English articles about Chinese etymology. Bunch of pdfs or translations of Chinese pages.
At the latest I saw claims Chinese adopted the “mang” term as late as the 1800’s.
Another said China adopted it at the same time as Portugal, during the 1500s southeast Asia trades.
Their first words referencing the fruit were in the 600’s but that was a completely different word.
I thought this would be an easy find… it’s simultaneously annoying and fascinating how tricky it is to get a clean answer.
Or I’m just dumb. Not claiming my research training is any good, but I Googled my damnedest.
In 2028, you’ll need a hell of a knife
My China related conspiracy theory:
As a total layman, if I look up the origins of the English word “mango”, I find its first use in the 1500’s by Portuguese traders converting the Tamil word mankay.
The Chinese word for mango is “mang guo”, a cognate. What’s weird is that “guo” means roughly “fruit,” also used in “ping guo” for apple.
When I ask around if the original Portuguese translation came from the Chinese word, rhe common answer is no, and that’s the conspiracy.
I think the word has already transferred into Portuguese through Mandarin before its first recorded use, either through direct trade or via Arabic traders who also visited Mandarin speaking ports.
Because otherwise the match on the “guo” is just too coincidental.
Oh hey. You rang?
guy who got kicked out of the paych ward for f**king another patient
A two way mirror where you turn on a backlight behind the mirror to turn “off” the reflection?
It could be a nice painting or something behind it?
Motorized curtain
I imagine there could be a lot of gravestones that just read “engineering”
What? Cmon’…
Promise<T>
*(okay it isn’t really a sin like any, but I wanted to wedge this into this thread somewhere)
You can find SAD lamps made for this. I think there are even some that attach to your body. “Verilux HappyLight” is the best I could quickly find, not recommending it exactly, just as a starting point.
But I agree with the person who said “movement”. I get that’s kinda a “solve your problem by solving your problem” piece of advice, but it’s just kinda how it is. It just sucks a little but forcing your way through will make it better, and eventually you grind the habits in
Ice ice baby
Wait dammit fooled again
😭 I had a cat named Loki that looked like this.
Except my Loki preferred her girl form and once made a bunch of little frost giants