Yup.
About how old my grandpa was when he bought a plot of land, a shit ton of wood, and a shit ton of concrete and built the house that was sold to pay off his medical debt when he died...
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Honestly, the only reason I want to own is because I have gotten too old, out of shape, and fat to move most of my furniture myself, and I am not sure I can afford a mover, so I want the security that I am on a straight and narrow that doesn't have the constant looming threat of the owner going "yeah... I'm just not gonna renew the lease" even though I am still somehow keeping up with the payments.
Please at least tell me that the Macros are just a front end for ODBC connections to actual SQL servers for ETL functions, and it ALL isn't stored only in excel...?
I feel like we are "mirror images", but not in a predictable way.
Like, you get off on flying through languages having done things in said languages but never fully understanding any language and I get off on not needing a new language until I fully understand the one Im on, but LOVE informing you on the same tripwire you hit in each new language whilst I trip over that same thing in my language. Every. Time.
I dont fancy you wrong, just not correct.
I'd hope you'd fancy me not correct, but also not wrong.
I challenge your read.
I love programming. I'd love to expand my knowledge.
I am 5 years deep on "you hired an analyst and then demanded a developer/architect/salesman, and the payrate didn't follow. I am still making creative ramen dishes from my rental when I should have a house, and I should get a yearly vacation."
My CEO gets 30% gains yearly... and he is the only person at my company that enjoys that.
Basically I am striking. Like the rest of the world.
Cool you are making a fair wage and aren't scabbing on your peers. Because a love for leaving behind what works to make something in a different language that also works fills your soul with joy?
Well, if VBA disappears, Python is what I'll need to learn.
If I don't need to learn a new language tho, I'd prefer that.
Honestly, 95% of my vba is just nested do until loops.
The remaining 5% is ODBC connections and BCP shell commands.
This is true for software in general.
The same description can be given to workshops (and you know they already exist) that do the same stuff with ChatGPT.
It's a scripting language.
A solid, verbose, diverse scripting language that gives you impressive control over Windows environments.
If some people are delivering malware or phishing, that sucks, but it doesn't negate the languages merit.
It would be the same as ceasing production of spray paint because of taggers.
The ends don't justify the means.
Or how about this... we use what works and stop throwing the world into chaos every 4 years so Microsoft can sell their next 50k/year enterprise application.
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I lean on the word "about".
He actually illegally enlisted in the Navy during WWII when he was 16, so it was more like 20/21 when he bought the plot and materials.
Ya, still dark AF. And I also don't think its a rare family story.