Carnac the Magnificient - Truely a Nerd

[Ben]

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@crossrulz wrote:

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@LV_Pro wrote:

I haven't had one of my comments get this much traction in a while!  I'm just glad that I can choose between the two modes, that some NI person didn't make the command decision that auto-tool was the only way to go!

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*cough*NXG*cough*

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Unless they changed their minds on that without me knowing

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Add me to the list of tabbers. As explained above, I can have the right tool selected before I get to where I will use it.

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Re: NXG

I am dearly hoping I can retire before NXG is ready from prime time. So much of what I have seen so far runs contrary to my coding style, screen filled when editing a VI to show me stuff I do not want to know now, hiding constants and settings that make the code run different, ... and the icons they used give me the impression that I will have to turn my precision German made drafting tools and switch over to using crayons.

And now I am learning that I am not going to be able to choose my tools myself...

Ben

[Ben]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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@crossrulz wrote:

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*cough*NXG*cough*

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Unless they changed their minds on that without me knowing

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Every time I've brought it up, the response has been something to the effect of, NI will allow for auto-tool to be turned off in NXG if there is a large enough user base asking for it.  Which is usually followed up with me, being told there is likely never going to be that large of a user base asking for it. 

I will change...if I have to...I guess.

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Trying to get this thread back on topic...

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Ben says sarcasticly.

Ben

[LV_Pro]

Poor  Kool-Aid. It was Flavor-Aid at Jonestown.

I figure I will be retired before NXG is in primetime too. Sad, really love CG LabVIEW, have been making my living for a freaking quarter century using it. Wow, until just now it really didn't hit home. Man, I'm old!!! Just as I think I am getting a real handle on LabVIEW too, figured I'd really understand it in another decade or so ... (Hey, my Dad, whom an number of you have met at NIWeek events over the years, teaches a computer skills class at an extended learning center and he is 96 as of last week)

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@LV_Pro wrote:

(Hey, my Dad, whom an number of you have met at NIWeek events over the years, teaches a computer skills class at an extended learning center and he is 96 as of last week)

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Congratulations!

But what's really important...

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Does he use auto-tool or not?

[jcarmody]

Here's the easy way to separate code:

don't be silly

It reminds me of the Three Stooges:

[LV_Pro]

I have, for many years self identified as a techno-Nerd, but last Friday I had it proven to me. I was getting a diagnostic medical procedure and was under sedation. Upon reawakening I actually remembered that I had been dreaming, and realized that I had been dreaming of coding in LabVIEW! Sadly, I don't remember what I coded..... Probably some of my best work!

[Blokk]

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@LV_Pro wrote:

I have, for many years self identified as a techno-Nerd, but last Friday I had it proven to me. I was getting a diagnostic medical procedure and was under sedation. Upon reawakening I actually remembered that I had been dreaming, and realized that I had been dreaming of coding in LabVIEW! Sadly, I don't remember what I coded..... Probably some of my best work!

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Maybe you do not remember your code which might have been the best code in the world, but you could make a tribute of it! 😄

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@LV_Pro wrote:

I have, for many years self identified as a techno-Nerd, but last Friday I had it proven to me. I was getting a diagnostic medical procedure and was under sedation. Upon reawakening I actually remembered that I had been dreaming, and realized that I had been dreaming of coding in LabVIEW! Sadly, I don't remember what I coded..... Probably some of my best work!

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I had my first "coding while sleeping" experience when I was ~14. I had been programming assembly until 2 in the morning. In my sleep, I tried to figure out all night (well, what was remaining) why Int 0x21, AH=0x4c did not stop my program and turn me into sleep... A nightmare really. Didn't do well on school that year, but learned a lot.

[JÞB]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@LV_Pro wrote:

I have, for many years self identified as a techno-Nerd, but last Friday I had it proven to me. I was getting a diagnostic medical procedure and was under sedation. Upon reawakening I actually remembered that I had been dreaming, and realized that I had been dreaming of coding in LabVIEW! Sadly, I don't remember what I coded..... Probably some of my best work!

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I had my first "coding while sleeping" experience when I was ~14. I had been programming assembly until 2 in the morning. In my sleep, I tried to figure out all night (well, what was remaining) why Int 0x21, AH=0x4c did not stop my program and turn me into sleep... A nightmare really. Didn't do well on school that year, but learned a lot.

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I have, on more than one occasion, awoken to find that I would need to re-code the fix I had only dreamed about fixing.  The LMB will sometimes wake me up when I start "Rubber Ducking" the code aloud and explain why the fix is needed.

The fixes usually work.

[alexderjuengere]

The idea for it came to him in a dream but was lost in another dream.

http://theinfosphere.org/Dark-matter_afterburner