Please don't use VB.net as a first language. It's unlike anything else out there and the skills don't transfer easily. It allows too much bad practice. If you must do a .net language go with C# which will lead you so very gracefully to Java (if it's still around in a couple of years) and C++, plus other curly brace…

As far as the logical skills go I think you can get by with just not being dumb. The logical skills will come with practice to the point where they become second nature.

from here - [msdn.microsoft.com](v=vs.85).aspx

You are looking at this the wrong way round. It is a paid for app which is free for the casual user or for testing; it is not a free app that you have to pay for for extra use. If you want to pay for casual use drop me a line and we'll send you an invoice. And last time I looked I didn't see you working for free.

Well, Apple get $4.50 of the price for a start. As to which is best well that is subjective but I've seen a very exhaustive test of this app and it is way better than Evernote. This epitomizes the difference between paid for software and free software.

Coding a routine of even minor complexity is a mind-improving pastime. There is something quite elegant and beautiful about a well-written piece of code, where everything is just so and which produces the required outcome. When that code is written by oneself one can rightly feel a sense of acheivement. Of course…

On the day, and even before, controled breathing exercises really do help. Count slowly to four as you breathe out, hold and count to four, breathe in to the count of four, hold for four. Repeat. It really does calm you down. It won't help with the knowledge but it will help with its retrieval

I'm basically talking the reverse. Let's say the author of the original article knows nothing of Lifehacker. LH move in and lift his article for republishing. Unless a comment is left - "Hey thanks, see our take on your work on lifehacker.com", he is unaware of the use of his material or the wider publicity. You are…

I've seen the light - Superstition is my religion. Mind you I'll go to hell because I walk under ladders with impunity and on Friday the 13th I seek out and purposely stand under pianos being hoisted to upper floors.

Netflix probably want to do a Spotify and get integrated into Facebook. It's easier to have Facebook pay you a couple of billion than watch your user base shrink because you have an asshole CEO.

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I think to a certain extent you have ascribed things to me you think I might think but which I don't actually.

Once provided with adequate proof or evidence belief is no longer appropriate - it is then knowledge. I have been presented with evidence that the earth is round. I do not believe it to be - I know it is. In the 14th Century I may have said I believe it to be round. At that time (I chose a century at random but you…

Note the words "To push this to extremes" when I referenced the bottle. However, if pushed I'm actually, having given some thought to it prepared to consider we are a computer program running in some metauniversal machine. I by no means think we are but I can see no way to prove otherwise. The knowledge or lack of in…

I don't know how, I don't think anyone has a decent theory. However, a rational person doesn't have to invoke a god to explain, they just say 'I don't know' and move on, knowing eventually someone will hypothesize a reasonable explanation which is reproducible and makes predictions which are borne out by experimental…

They stole your idea.

Free will is the cop-out answer religious people use when they don't have an answer. Remember back when you were a kid and your mom told you to stop misbehaving and you countered with "Why?"? She replied "Because I say so"; it's the same thing.

When you guys republish something like this from another site at least leave a public acknowledgement and a thank you in the original site's comment box so the author knows his work is appreciated. It's an elementary courtesy.

"How do you get something from nothing? This certainly has not been observed in our universe and defies the laws of physics."

I think you articulated pretty well what I have been trying to say. I hate typing in forums, my fingers are waaaay slower than my thoughts and I always miss out much of what I want to say.