Solar water heaters - Re: Wonder if they stink?
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From: Rod Speed on 29 Dec 2006 17:16 Solar Flare <solaerfart(a)hootmail.invalidated> wrote > Same old troll. Same old couldnt bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag. > You have been discovered. You've always stood out like dogs balls. > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> Solar Flare <solaerfart(a)hootmail.invalidated> wrote >> >>> There is no spreadsheet. >> >> There is in your question. >> >>> You are the one suggesting the spreadsheet. >> >> You are the one that asked that question. >> >>> Post any spreadsheet code here so we can paste it into our >>> spreadsheet compilers. >> >> You post a link to the spreadsheet, stupid. >> >> >>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >>>> Solar Flare <solaerfart(a)hootmail.invalidated> wrote >>>> >>>>> Can you post some spreadsheet math and see if anybody can use it? >>>>> Cut and paste it into their spread sheet? >>>> >>>> You post a link to the spreadsheet. >>>> >>>>> I wasn't promoting C at all in case you didn't catch that. >>>> >>>> That was obvious. >>>> >>>>> C is a horrible language. >>>> >>>> Thats overstating it, but its certainly not appropriate for the >>>> sort of stuff that Nick posts, just because most cant read it. >>>> >>>>> Visual Basic has gotos in it >>>> >>>> Yes, but only a fool uses nothing else. >>>> >>>>> and an EXITIF is a goto with a fancy name and a condition. >>>> >>>> Wrong, it isnt as general as a goto and its a lot more obvious >>>> when reading the code what happens when it gets triggered. >>>> >>>> >>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >>>> >>>>>> He'd be a lot better off using Visual Basic, and should be using >>>>>> a >>>>>> spreadsheet anyway.
From: Rod Speed on 29 Dec 2006 17:20 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote >>> Debuggers are overrated >> Nope. >>> - I used to use them a lot before I appreciated the utility >>> of good abstractions, clean interfaces and unit tests. >> They still improve your productivity when the inevitable fuckups still occur. > Well hey I've only been programming professionally for 28 years so Yawn, I leave that for dead. > I probably don't know much about productivity. Seriously good automated > unit tests do far more for productivity than debuggers ever did. They arent mutually exclusive.
From: Rod Speed on 29 Dec 2006 17:22
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote > Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo(a)eircom.net> wrote >>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote >>> I usually use xspread[1] when I want a spreadsheet, >>> I presume you are thinking of things like OpenOffice.org >> Nope. The vast bulk of the free spreadsheets >> are happy to load excel spreadsheets. > Hmmm gnumeric doesn't seem to claim it (and being gnome based > it is more than just a tad bloated), abs claims to support export to > Excel but says nothing about import, siag makes no such claims. The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample' > Er which ones were you thinking of (please restrict to open source > not free binary because I don't run Windows on my own kit). I never said a word about open source. >>> as well as being several orders of magnitude larger than I like. >> Your problem. > Not a problem - I don't use it. What you like is clearly your problem. >>> [1] Yes I don't tend to want a sophisticated spreadsheet :) >> More fool you, particularly when loading someone else's spreadsheet. > I don't load other peoples spreadsheets on my boxes You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant. > - now for work I have a work issued laptop running XP with a full Office > suite on it. I use it as little as possible and not for my personal stuff. You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant. |