>You still come across as an arrogant jerk, Mike. Especially with your "real learning" statement.

It was you that - pardon me if I interpreted it wrong - but IMO rudely said "Enough said" at one point. This to me seemed to indicate that you are unwilling to have a discussion about what is BEST because you've already closed your mind by accepting what simply works for you and your environment.

I'm looking for engineering ideals, not personal preference.

Most people handle simple tasks like number of weekdays between two dates by looping and counting the weekdays. This works but the ideal is to calculate them. Without searching for the ideal, everything stagnates.

>And despite your comments to the contrary, you make it clear that you feel anything you do is the correct way and anything different done by someone else is the wrong way.

Were that the case, I would not have any interest in best practices.

> You are the one that made this into an argument because you saw me doing it differently and you had to make sure that I and the rest of the world understood that your way is the one and only correct way. You go around talking about "science" a lot. Well, despite scientific evidence in a lot of fields, people still have the right to interpret data and create solutions that work best in their situation. You ignore that. You decide it can only be one way and that way is the way Mike Yearwood says. You are right about this one thing. This is a minor issue, but you had to jump in and make it another situation where "if Mike Yearwood says it should be this way, then everyone should fall in line." You have a very
>inflated opinion of yourself.

Everyone always has the freedom to do what they want. Just don't forget that what works seldom means it's ideal.

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>>>Mike,
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>>>You do seem sometimes to have this "if you're not doing it the way I say, you're doing it wrong" attitude.
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>>Seem is the key word. You're imagining my attitude. It's not just the way "I say". There are many many people that have found running the exe locally to be best practice.
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>>> You talked about "data". Well, have you ever seen a situation where a local drive was slower than a network drive? I have.
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>>Yes. Long ago. Now the drives in the local PC are almost as fast as the server's own drives. Thereby we get into discussion of NIC speed versus local hard drive speed and the bandwidth from the local disk to the local CPU usually far outweighs the LAN bandwidth.
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>>>Have you ever thought about the fact that "data" is interpreted differently by different people?
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>>Why should I? I'm not responsible for other's interpretation.
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>>Dictionary.com: Computer Science Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
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>>The exe's contents are not "data" in this context.
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>>> If you take the pros and cons of doing anything, you have to remember that people weight those pros and cons differently.
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>>Yes. Some feel smoking is fine. There is nothing good about smoking.
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>>> So they may come to different ideas about what is the proper way to proceed. But what you want to tell me is that I'm only going "halfway". You look at it with your perspective and your ideas about the weighting and I look at it with mine. I'm glad you have some sort of loader. It makes sense, in general. The difference here is that you're telling me how wrong I am and how I'm only going halfway (again, based on your perspective and not mine). I'm telling you nothing of the sort. When you can quit looking down your nose at me over a
>>> issue as minor as this, then maybe I might give your comments more weight.
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>>What I don't understand is how something scientific as computing is constantly being muddied by "personal preference" instead of hard data.
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>>Tell you what, go migrate all your stuff to local drives instead of running the exe from the LAN. Until you've done that experiment, you're perspective is based on what - religion/faith?
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>>This is purely a technical discussion and I'm not looking down my nose at anybody.
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>>Maybe when you can stop getting your back up over an issue as minor as this real learning will begin.