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u/SKZCartoons · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

Have a butchers at this sample code. It is pretty simple, and you should be able to see how is simplifies the writing process. You don't have to worry about < or > or escaping characters.

A seasoned dev will cringe at the hardcoded element names like this:

writer.WriteStartElement("Employee")

because as good practice you should always, always use a constant there. One day, an analyst is going to tell you that a downstream system now has to have it was "Emp" and it's a 3rd party system and they cannot change theirs so you have to change yours. If it's a constant in a source file that all your projects share, it's one change and some recompiles (then a shitload of testing). If it's hardcoded everywhere, you have a job that takes weeks before you can start testing.

Anyway: the internet is your friend. Google will get you solutions to most simple things.

A lot of people go from VBA to VB, and it's a good route in. I would suggest that you invest in a good book with sample code. The O'Relly "Cookbook" series are excellent. I couldn't find one for recent VB, but Microsoft have one which looks OK. Though I couldn't see any advanced examples, the simple stuff looked well explained.

Cookbooks from good sources are great. Want to know how to do file handling? There's a chapter on that, with well-structured sample code and comments and descriptions. Likewise for XML.

It becomes very easy to dig into, and it is perfect material for reading on the bog. Just pick a topic you have never read up on and spend ten minutes having a butchers.

I would also invest some time in learning the basics of software design. I can't help with a book here, because it's 25 years since I was at university and a lot has changed since then.

But how to write good code, well-structured code, test-focussed code is vitally important to pick up. Many departments are filled with code written by people who came from Excel - and experienced devs shudder when they are told the history. You're going to do fine for a few years but then suddenly there will be a jungle of code and you have no idea how it got there.

If you follow good design principles, you will rarely write code that you are scared to touch.

So I will give you just a few tips:

  1. If a method is so long it doesn't all fit on your screen, you probably need to split it into several methods. The Visual Studio "refactor" functionality and "extract method" is brilliant at helping with this.

  2. Always name your methods and variables in a meaningful way.

  3. Use constants or pass in variables instead of hardcoding values and strings.

  4. Comments should be used when there is business logic that is not obvious from the code. If you cannot infer the business logic just from the code alone, then it needs a comment. A Business Analyst ought to be able to read your code and have a good idea what is going on. That way, a new developer (or you, in 6 months) will also be able to understand it.


    So.. this code is bad code:

    public float Calc(object object1, object object2, float r)
    {
    float a;

    a = object2.Value - object1.Value;
    if a<=0
    {
    return 0;
    }

    return a r;
    }

    This is better:

    public float CalculateProfitCommission(Holding initialHolding, Holding currentHolding, float CommissionRate)
    {
    float profit;
    float commission;

    profit = currentHolding.MarketValue - initialHolding.MarketValue;

    // only charge commission on profits - losses get no commission
    if(profit<=0)
    {
    return 0;
    }

    commission = profit
    commissionRate;

    return commission;
    }


  5. Learn "test-driven development". Visual Studio makes this easy. If you develop in such a way that every public method has a set of tests, then you can check any changes (even refactoring) and be fairly confident that you've not introduces major bugs.

    Lastly: VB is an OK language. I spent 20 years working in it. But I would advise you to look at c# too. Form c# it is way easier to pick up Java, Javascript, php, and a bunch of other languages.

    Good luck out there!
u/G_Morgan · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

OK if you were to buy stocks I'd recommend you get one of these things below. I wouldn't put any money you cannot afford to lose in the short term in. Investing in stock has the BTC hodl meme but stocks have proven to have always come back up historically whereas BTC has no history.

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investing-explained/stocks-shares-isa

That is an ISA which holds investments. Vanguard's ISA only allows you to invest in Vanguard funds but they are the best anyway (literally the entirety of my HL pension is in Vanguard funds, can't wait for Vanguard to finally create their pension) and Vanguard have the cheapest fees.

My money is primarily in the fund below. This is a global index tracker which basically buys all the companies on the FTSE Global All Cap index (that is all the world's stock markets and large, medium and smaller companies. There is something like 7800 on the index though the fund doesn't own all of the smaller ones yet). Basically it owns a company value weighted share of everything so you gain the average performance of the entire world stock market. You can do better or worse by making other choices but there is strong evidence that outperformance is rare other than in the very short term (a lot of out performing funds were heavily into tech stocks which are now crashing much harder than average).

https://www.vanguardinvestor.co.uk/investments/vanguard-ftse-global-all-cap-index-fund-gbp-accumulation-shares

I'd keep in mind though as I said this is a long term thing (I'm basically paying in until I have enough to retire, then reverse). I put in the same amount each month so I buy high and low. This smooths out losses during crashes as you'll buy at the bottom as well and gives you the long term peak to peak growth. In any given period you can be up or down (I'm slightly up on the year overall following the downturn's in February and October).

Also read this book if you can. It will explain objectives and how risk, goal, timeline and contributions fit together.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smarter-Investing-Simpler-Decisions-Financial/dp/0273785370

u/WhaleMeatFantasy · 5 pointsr/unitedkingdom
  • Spread very thinly the first time on well buttered toast. When I was little I did fine without the butter but it is much better with it.

  • Then upgrade with a poached egg on top.

  • Also try cheese on toast with the Marmite under the cheese. Gosh, that's good.

  • Also works on cheese crackers with or without cheese. Similarly try it on anything bready like a bagel.

  • Smear it on sticks of raw veg (like crudites) to make them palatable.

  • Add it to a white sauce for pasta.

  • Add it sparingly to anything you might add soy sauce to like a stir-fry or other salty sauce.

  • Try Marmite chocolate

    I don't recommend drinking it personally but it seems there are people who do.
u/strolls · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Returns are inherently related to risk.

If your buddy wanted to borrow £1000 and promised to pay you back £85 a month for 12 months (£1020), you'd probably say "no, thanks, I can get the same from the bank". When you lend money to your buddy you have to consider the risk - that he'll lose his job, or have an emergency or for some other reason be unable to repay you. If he offered to pay you back £100 a month, for a total of £1200, or £200 profit, maybe you'd be tempted - that interest is in return for taking the risk.

Banks don't need to pay you much interest, because their accounts are guaranteed by the government (and because they're no longer dependent upon deposits for money to lend out the way they historically used to be). The 3% bank accounts that have been around the last few years (Santander 123 etc) are loss-leaders, with limits as to how much you can use them, and intended so that the bank can determine your usage (you have to make a certain number of transactions, so they'll probably see the kinds of places at which you spend money) and so that they can sell you other products (like mortgages).

The only way to get good returns is to invest in something with a little more risk. With a well-diversified portfolio, such as an index tracker, and a long timespan, this risk turns into volatility.

Hence the best returns over long periods are things like stockmarket index funds, which buy shares in every company in an index like the FTSE 100, and in which you then buy shares of. If there's a stockmarket crash then the price of your holding goes down, but you still own shares in a wide spread of factories, supermarkets, logistics networks and intellectual property. Over the longterm, these are amongst the highest levels of returns available to consumer investors, and you can buy them inside your S&S ISA.

Heed Lars Kroijer and read his book or Tim Hale's Smarter Investing.

u/borez · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

China is definitely not our economic saviour, you need to take an in-depth look into the subject to understand why though. It has a lot to do with the way they work as a communist country or as the CPC now call it "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" and their Confucianism Principles.

I mean if you think we're in any way Westernising the Chinese then think again. In order to do business with them it's completely the other way around. Google couldn't handle these terms and got out, so have many other firms who tried.

I recommend In the Jaws of the Dragon. It's an American perspective, but it equally applies to the UK doing business with China. It's also a fascinating read.

It also leaves me with the question: OK we're letting the Chinese invest in our own energy infrastructure. So what do they really want from us, because they ain't doing it for shits and giggles?

u/Miserygut · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

I thought the report would be a lot shorter... Bugger. ;)

The report is critical of Neoclassical orthodoxy in academic study and in the profession as a whole.

It suggests moving towards a multidisciplinary approach, allowing other sciences and subjects to contribute. Social theory, behavioural theory and biological underpinnings of microeconomic activities should be defined by other disciplines. Not based on the assumptions of how people behave made by economists. Big data and quantitative method should be the cornerstone of informed economic theory.

Further to this, the INET group is working towards a discussion-based approach to theory presentation. It talks about what policy was implemented in various real world situations, the results and discusses them both with the focus on many different subjects to explain the outcomes. This builds a breadth of understanding as well as teaching historical context.

This breadth of understanding is converted into critical thinking when approaching economic problems, real or imagined. Again, a restatement of the idea that knowledge of many subjects is important.

This train of thought runs through the entire critique of Manchester's Economic syllabus, and is gently applied to the subject in both academic and professional circles. The evidence is compelling and Picketty's treatise on economic equality should stand on it's own as a good example of unorthodox economic thinking - unorthodox in that it is based in reality.

I'm just finishing my degree and honestly, I feel ignorant of many aspects of economics. Perhaps my disengagement is down to studying so many theories that have literally zero grounding in reality - interesting but unrealistic. It's exciting to read that so many fresh eyes will be able to contribute to pushing it forward into a broader, more robust and cohesive discipline. It's a shame it'll take a couple of decades before the fruits of this endeavour come to bear, but better late than never!

u/JimmerUK · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

Sure, here you go:

u/backtowriting · 0 pointsr/unitedkingdom

I told you, quite clearly I thought, that I got my information from this from a scholarly book written by a Harvard scientist - not from the partisan press.

Here's the Amazon link to the book..

Incidentally, the same work explains how capitalism may well have contributed to the decline of violence throughout history. Countries that trade together tend not to fight each-other.

Maybe it's just me, but I think that one of the best received science books of the past decade is likely less partisan than 'The Black Book of Capitalism".

Edit: I can't even find 'the Black Book of Capitalism' on Amazon. The first reference I could find using Google was on some Marxist website.

u/jellyberg · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

If you haven't read The Rise of the Robots, I'd highly recommend it. It's an in depth look at how technology will affect our future economy, describing the current changes that are underway and how this differs from previous technological revolutions. It also discusses universal basic income, and like your OP, concludes that it might be a good idea.

Highly recommended for anyone interested/excited/concerned about the impact of automation on the global economy.

u/beavis07 · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

Oh mate - I don't even know where to start!

Kosovo and SL are ones I get people don't know much about so I get it.

But if you don't see where the money was in Iraq and Afghanistan, there's nothing I can say that's going to convince you of anything.

Only in the comic-book fantasy world of the mainstream press could such nonsense have come.

In the vein hope you've any interest at all In educating yourself. This would be a good place to start in getting a more even-handed view of the conflicts you list


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hegemony-Survival-Americas-Global-Dominance/dp/0141015055

In the meantime, keep reading them newspapers champ!

u/crucible · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

Don't forget to Protect And Survive, either!

You can also buy the whole lot on DVD from Amazon.

EDIT: Bonus: that link offers Protect and Survive, Threads and When The Wind Blows as items that are frequently purchased together too!

u/unnecessary_kindness · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

One has this book on his desk:

Dangerous Hero: Unmissable new biography of Jeremy Corbyn from our best investigative biographer https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008299579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_T9L4DbG2KHBQK




The other talks about some labour members who have compared Israel's actions against Palestinians to the Holocaust.




Whenever I ask what specifically makes Corbyn anti Semitic, they draw blanks.




I don't bother debating it anyway because 1) they're colleagues and it's not a good place to get too political and 2) they're decent blokes and clearly it's not something we'll ever agree on.

u/weblypistol · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

I'm pretty sure Marmite chocolate will be in stock for some time.

Can you imagine the board meeting where they told the Chairman they had a warehouse full of Marmite chocolate?

"...YOU DID WHAAAAATTTTTT!!!!...."

u/EvaOmega · 0 pointsr/unitedkingdom

All of the information about Hyperianism is freely available to anyone who is curious. Iamhyperian.com is a good start, but the main document outlining their manifesto can be found right here, for free.. https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Document-Shadow-Light-Wisdom-ebook/dp/B07J1Z7PHL Yeah they're a cult, trying to brainwash people to think for themselves...

u/racergr · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

What you read does not tell you the full story. You can buy a good charger and cable for like £15.

u/EllaTheCat · 5 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Kate Fox's book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867

It gets better reviews on amazon.com - she understands us, and helps non-English people understand our wacky ways.

u/metalbox69 · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

>a very complex issue is summed up in a 500 word report

Yeah, you probably need about 600 pages to get the full shebang.

It was a low quality application of Piketty's thesis and he didn't even have the courtesy to credit his source.

u/Anandya · 8 pointsr/unitedkingdom

No.

Okay it's a series of problems. Everyone has to face this. Let's look at some examples.

So gender selective abortion, female genital mutilation and all these are real problems. However there are other problems too. Pay discrepancy, glass ceilings, sexual harassment/abuse and the like also exist. And there are generally stupid things like "for her pens". These aren't "Barbie pens" aimed at children, these were aimed at adults. It's a stupid product and should be called out as such. http://www.amazon.co.uk/BiC-For-Her-Medium-Ballpoint/product-reviews/B004FTGJUW and this is a long running joke.

However it isn't on the cutting edge of women's issues. It's just a small part of the issues facing them. Now you cannot expect these people to fight FGM or Female Infanticide like I did. By marching into villages. The best they can do is flag waggle at the side lines in the same way that I cannot replace Sergio Aguero on the pitch and the best I can do is send happy thoughts and shake my fist at James Vardy.

So here is the thing. For all the people talking about slacktivists then tell me what level do you think of activity should they have done? For the record I worked for 6 years in rural India and helped a lot of people directly as a doctor and as a medical trainee.

So I would like to know as a non-slacktivist... what do you think is and isn't slacktivism? Like what's the minimum needed to stop being one. (Because there is a point coming up).

u/JB_UK · 6 pointsr/unitedkingdom

I think he's one of the more interesting MPs on a national level. I usually agree with what he says, even though I don't support his party. He also wrote a book a couple of years back called The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give it Back, which seems relevant to this forum's interests.

u/sh125itonlysmellz · -6 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Richard R. Weiner's 1981 book "Cultural Marxism and Political Sociology" is "a thorough examination of the tensions between political sociology and the cultural oriented Marxism that emerged int the 1960s and 1970s." You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Marxism-Political-Sociology-Research/dp/0803916450

Marxist scholars Lawrence Grossberg and Cary Nelson further popularized the term in "Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture", a collection of papers from 1983 that suggested that Cultural Marxism was ideally suited to "politicizing interpretative and cultural practices" and "radically historicizing our understanding of signifying practices." You can buy it here:http://www.amazon.com/Marxism-Interpretation-Culture-Cary-Nelson/dp/0252014014

"Conversations on Cultural Marxism", by Fredric Jameson, is a collection of essays from 1982 to 2005 about how "the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences". You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Jameson-Conversations-Cultural-Post-Contemporary-Interventions/dp/0822341093

Cultural Marxism," by Frederic Miller and Agnes F. Vandome, states that "Cultural Marxism is a generic term referring to a loosely associated group of critical theorists who have been influenced by Marxist thought and who share an interest in analyzing the role of the media, art, theatre, film and other cultural institutions in a society You can buy it here. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Cultural-Marxism-Frederic-Miller-Agnes-Vandome/2237883213/bd

The essay "Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies," by UCLA Professor Douglas Kellner, says " 20th century Marxian theorists ranging from Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and T.W. Adorno to Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton employed the Marxian theory to analyze cultural forms in relation to their production, their imbrications with society and history, and their impact and influences on audiences and social life... http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/culturalmarxism.pdf

see http://culturalpolitics.net/cultural_theory/journals for a list of cultural studies journals such as "Monthly Review", the long-standing journal of Marxist cultural and political studies"

"Cultural Marxism: Media, Culture and Society", Volume 7, Issue 1 of Critical sociology, of the Transforming Sociology series, from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology.

u/perpetual_C000009A · 22 pointsr/unitedkingdom

I'm a little late to this party, but I did read a book called Watching The English by Kate Fox. She explains how to determine which 'class' somebody is by the words they use for things, and Settee is one example:
>Settee
Or you could ask your hosts what they call their furniture. If an upholstered seat for two or more people is called
a settee or a couch, they are no higher than middle-middle.
If it is a sofa, they are upper-middle or above. There
are occasional exceptions to this rule, which is not quite as accurate a class indicator as ‘pardon’. Some younger
upper-middles, influenced by American films and television programmes, might say ‘couch’ – although they are
unlikely to say ‘settee’, except as a joke or to annoy their class-anxious parents.
If you like, you can amuse
yourself by making predictions based on correlations with other class indicators such as those covered later in
the chapter on Home Rules. For example: if the item in question is part of a brand-new matching three-piece
suite, which also matches the curtains, its owners are likely to call it a settee.

u/dreamstretch · 2 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Watching the English by Kate Fox, a social anthropologist and entertaining writer.

u/frillytotes · 3 pointsr/unitedkingdom

> If you haven't read The Rise of the Robots, I'd highly recommend it.

You posted the US link. Here is the UK one.

u/whatmichaelsays · 5 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Yes and no.

There are two ways to show a discount. One is against the "RRP", and the other is against a previous selling price. To show a 'discount' against the latter, the item has to have been on sale at the higher price for at least 28 days (plus some other minor conditions).

But what you don't have to show is that the item may have been cheaper than the sale price previously.

Take this electric toothbrush on Amazon. It's currently advertised at £29.98 - a 63% discount on an RRP of £80.

But look at the price history. Firstly, the most that said toothbrush has been sold on Amazon for is £69.99, not £80, and that was back in 2014. Secondly, it was actually cheaper than today's Black Friday price for a period in late 2016 to early 2017.

In other words, it's not a bargain in any sense of the word. It hasn't been worth anywhere near the RRP for four years.

u/Gusfoo · 0 pointsr/unitedkingdom

Read Watching The English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox. It is unerringly accurate.

Edit: Really? Minus one`d for a book suggestion? Gosh.

u/zedest · 1 pointr/unitedkingdom

>Who has it been validated by?

Stiglitz backed the Labour manifesto at the last general election, a Nobel Prize winning economist. If you do a search on an academic database, you will find many more articles in support of the type of platform pushed by Corbyn.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/07/austerity-britain-labour-neoliberalism-reagan-thatcher

>How does it?

Above.

>So you keep saying. Without any evidence.

If you have access to academic journals, then do a search, and read some of the results. If not, buy some books on the topic. It's as if you want the knowledge that comes with reading, without actually putting in the work. I've spent thousands of hours reading about topics such as this one over the past few years, a lot of effort and hard work has gone into constructing my political outlook, if you're not convinced by it, then all I can do is point you in the direction of academia, the same place I learnt about politics.

>I don't. And I also don't see you explaining exactly how he is tackling them.

I've explained multiple times. At this point you're rejecting it for the sake of rejecting it. If not for Corbyn, the Labour party would still be towing the line that austerity is an economic necessity. Corbyn is challenging the neoliberal common sense of how to run a countries political economy. I feel that you must not have a very good understanding of politics if you don't understand how Jeremy is responding to the problems i mentioned above.

Though, at this point, I'm fairly sure your just an anti-Corbyn shill that is trying to waste my time. You have not projected a coherent argument over the past few days, and the very few political claims you yourself have made, completely fail to withstand the criticism you appear to be holding my opinions to. Claiming you supported Corbyn at the start, but now you don't know what he's doing to solve the problems i mentioned above, as if this has changed.

No, it doesn't make sense I'm afraid. I doubt you ever supported Corbyn, and claiming you don't know how he's responding to the crises I mentioned, after claiming you've read the manifesto, either means you're not intelligent enough to understand basic politics, or you're being disingenuous, but either way, I've wasted enough time on you.

My advice, if you are a real person that doesn't particularly understand politics very well, buy some introductory books in the area of political economy, and you should soon see how and why Corbyn's platform is different to the Tories, Blair, and all the other political parties and politicians that accept the neoliberal parameters brought to this country by Thatcher.

Gonna block you now, because this conversation is going nowhere, and it won't go anywhere until you actually read about the subjects you're attempting to talk about. I will leave you with a few books, a good jumping off point.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Price-Inequality-Joseph-Stiglitz/dp/0718197380

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TC0MC2C9DQ8NXVW7MSR0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoliberalisms-British-Politics-Christopher-Byrne-ebook/dp/B07HGGT4NT

https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Way-World-Neoliberal-Society-ebook/dp/B00J209OFQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=neoliberalism+world+order+dardot+and+laval&qid=1550859195&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-fkmr0

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey-ebook/dp/B005X3SA74/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=a+brief+history+of+neoliberalism&qid=1550859270&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-fkmrnull