The pieces are already set in the table for a new game, it is his and his team’s turn to show the people what is what they got. I still dislike the character due to all the crap he threw during the campaign, aware that it was all made up for a specific purpose, not casual. What puzzles me is why I am so interested. The only thing left now is to buckle up and try to enjoy the ride.

I couldn’t believe it when I realized that the small cubicle that stands for our HQ in NYC is 3 or 4 blocks from his castle-tower! I can’t just ignore him. I am aware that his goverment will change some business rules that might affect our interests, who knows which way, that is why we need a the JLM more that ever. 🙂

Best wishes for you and family.

That HRC came so close, that she even got the nomination, that she wasn’t already in jail, tell me that our country is one step from going off a cliff into a deep canyon, e.g., have a SCOTUS that destroys the Constitution and becomes socialist dictators for nearly every wacko idea of Hollywood starlets, the Green Glob, the PC crowd, the globalists, etc.

Trump and the people who elected him are saving our country. That we could come so close to going off the cliff is sad to realize, and scary. We’re safe for now.

Yes, VB is fine with me. As far as I can tell, C# is better only is some recent extensions if that.

I see possibilities for better programming languages, but so far I see little or no efforts for what I have in mind.

E.g., write the code and give it to someone else. How the heck can they understand it? Do good testing? Have some more progress on proofs of correctness. The language needs to have some design features to help that.

E.g., we should have some code transformation operations with some useful, guaranteed properties, especially invariants..

Yep, thankfully I did. This year season I am playing the cook. I learned to make pork ribs cooked at low temperature and the results were… delicious, as I could tell watching guests faces singing, which is by far my prize and motivation. Wife said I cheated because I took a nap while the thing was in the oven and she took the watch. But come on, I have been working as a dog as the beatles song goes and, what was the point of staring at the oven for 5 hours? Good times as you say, happy you got them too.

I was thinking about you this week as I have been coding in VB.net. I am very impressed about the status of the language and framework. It saved my ass because I had to ditch the C++ version of the same component due to crazy windows component registration and bitness compatibility issues.

I wish you get more good times this weekend.

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Haha, well played. Well played, indeed.

Thank you.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Merry Christmas, Big Red Car! Say hello to Sigma Algebra for me too. There is plenty more to say about the election. Let’s start with a tacky but funny, very lossy image algorithm GIF, uninstalling Obama.
MAGA!!!

Thanks, hope you had a Merry Christmas still feeling good from the good times and will have a Happy New Year celebration and year.

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In 2012, BHO/JB took 53% v 46% for Romney/Ryan. Hard to see a trend — at the national level — with those numbers. Pretty solid majority. Presidential and Governor races are driven by different dynamics — most obvious being national defense and foreign policy.

Total third party votes in 2012 were less than 40K v the 188K in 2016. That’s 4.6X greater. A big swing.

People may forget that Gary Johnson and Jill Stein were in the mix in 2012 and took a total of 28K votes in Wisconsin.

It is clear that the 2016 vote for either Johnson or Stein was a vote of dissatisfaction with either of the candidates. A lot of savvy Republican operatives saw Stein as sucking from the same straw as HRC. I know Republican folks who helped get her on the ballot in Pennsylvania.

HRC had many flaws but if she’d been able to pry away some of the third party vote, she might have closed the gap. This is also more glaring as she, essentially, did not campaign in Wisconsin.

I am happy with the outcome but I don’t want the Republicans/Trumpians to get cocky and complacent. It was a Perfect Storm and now they have to govern their way into a majority. All they really won was a spot on the team. Now they have to be able to play.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Michigan and Wisconsin both have been trending Republican for the past few election cycles. If their checkbooks improve in the next four years-and more importantly their state governments do the job they should, put them in the Red column for a few cycles.

By state govts doing their jobs it’s 1. Right to work 2. Reforming public pensions from defined benefit to defined contribution 3. Lowering taxes and regulation 4. School Choice.