Archive for January, 2006

Confirmed by netcraft

Isak seems to have declared me dead, so here I am to prove that I am not. Besides, I can’t really concentrate anymore after having studied for 6-7 hours.

By the way, did you know e^(iy) = cos(y) + i*sin(y)? Or that the solution for y” + y’ + y = 0 is e^(-x/2) * (c1 * cos(sqrt(3)/2 * x * i) + c2 * sin(sqrt(3)/2 * x * i)) ? I do, and I hope I still do by Monday.

In other news, I was a huge Delphi fan. In my opinion, Delphi 3 was the best IDE at the time. I installed Delphi 2005 Architect a few days ago. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It requires .NET Runtime, .NET SDK, Microsoft J# SDK, Microsoft XML Services, Microsoft OtherStuff. Delphi has become 10 times slower, even on this ultra-fast Athlon64 3000+. It looks very similar to Visual Studio, only more bloated. But it looks nothing like the old Delphi. Things have become too Microsoftish. Delphi crashes at exit. Half of the components are useless database components. Overkill.
No more Delphi for me. Borland isn’t what they’re used to be. :(

I also installed Visual Studio 2005.NET. And frankly I can’t see why people like it so much. The form designer isn’t up to pair to Delphi’s (not even Delphi 2005’s). And its slow even on this fast computer.

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