Hi Sean, First I must say that I am relieved that you are ok - and didn't do whatyou hinted at. I also admit to being the perpetrator of the heinous crime of trying to help "one of us" in distress. But no, I didn't send the police.
I did read your email to the end btw - we do care even if you think the world is against you at the moment! - If you don't have empathy then you are a Politician or a Psychopath. Before I start my lengthy stream of consciousness (ramblings?) please accept the invite because gofundme keep sending me emails and I do not have access to the money. Pride comes before a fall and respect isn't lost for one "failure" those who love and respect you do for the sum total of your life not the "failures" which can in many respects be out of our control. And paraphrasing Roosevelt ... "The man who never had something go wrong never did anything". "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie Please re-read what you said and tell me how I was to react to this.... how would I or your family have felt if "goodbye" really was goodbye and we had done nothing ........ <snip> I am £1000's down and well out of pocket. I will never get it back. I have/will-have lost everything. I don't think I can come back from this. My life is worth £0, especially to you guys. I'm like abandon-ware. Your failure cost someone their life (not to mention his wife and two boys who may well miss him but will be better off without him for making the mistake of using LC and all things LC!). </snip> <snip> Now my life is over. Worst Day Ever! Miserable. Rained on and soaked through. Insurance doesn't cover for events like this and not one person at LC or on here will be able to help me out of this hole. I guess this is goodbye. </snip> I might not have bothered except for the first paragraph sounding so final. it didn't sound like "shit this is bad". We have all been faced with a situation that seemed hopless and i've got that t-shirt more times than I care to remember. #### TL;DNR -- Short version SHIT HAPPENS!!! but never give up. The worst was when I was in hospital ready to start chemotherapy and attached to a trolley having a blood transfusion and trying to finish off a program/demo (on my 386 windows 3.1 PC "kindly" brought in by my partner) . We were going up against some rather large companies for a demonstration to British Telecom the next day. I finished the program and in the end the program that won the contract, did so because it had a GUI (it was written in VB) - Mine was written in Turbo C with a dos windowing system and a multitasking kernel (it was a multline voice application with a built in mini Domain Specific Language I wrote). The fact that it would not be seen by ordinary mortals and would be in a "closet" just working it seems was secondary to the eye candy. When I got out of hospital I wrote a VB front end to it and got it installed into the biggest Opticians in the country - great I thought the big time. No such luck - they were bought out and my system was replaced by one of the big boys - to this day my system has stuff that none of the later systems have. O well. Get another system into a large telecommunications company - programmed to do what they wanted - we were vying against Digital Equipment corporation and IBM, - I won because I I could do it in 4 months (I did it in 3) and they said a year. It worked! They then gave me a new contract job to do, that saved them thousands - great I thought my meal ticket - No such luck they were bought out by Vodaphone and DEC got back in. I could go on. I created a system for a financial services company bought out by a bigger firm and my system was replaced by IBM. Did I give up no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPb8tb3D6N0 There have been more before and since , there have been BUGS in Borland C, Foxpro, TAS, Clipper, VB, Delphi, UCSD Pascal, AlphaSoftware - but that's what you expect. I jettisoned everything and jumped in with LC - I checked out and paid for B4A/IJ Xojo and a few others but I have to say LC beats them all hands down but i keep them in reserve. Ive been using 6.7.11 for my applications until last week when the manufacturer of my equipment changed something in the firmware and the com/serial ports wouldn't working. I compiled it with LC9 and all works now - except it's 17MB file size instead of 7MB. Yes the IDE is slower, yes certain things don't work - but show me a language or program that doesn't have any bugs - here's one in basic - and I'm not sure if it is bug free. 10 END ========= To speak directly to LC I agree totally with Sean and Richmond and everybody else.... STOP ADDING NEW FEATURES GET THE STUFF FINISHED THAT YOU PROMISED AND FIX THE IDE. sqlite library the stuff Andre goes on about - tying in the javascript ecosystem so we can use LC with all those "free libraries" the IDE lagging Sound (not for me for the others that ask) Bring Android into Parity with IOS Your bread and Butter (LC) is Windows desktop business apps with Android - not MAC and IOS - - setup a survey for what the community would like as Mark suggested and see. Sean I hope we don't lose you from the community- i've seen the quality stuff you have done on your website - if you posted a couple of times you might not have been on my Radar - but to be honest I was thinking more about your wife and Kids. What if I had given up and died of Cancer at the age of 33 - I never doubted I would live and in the end I believe it was my mind that saved me - it was 20/20 hindsight but I've learnt a lot about Cancer since then. My family would have been ok I know - I have an extended and close family but the way you were talking I couldn't be sure - so I planted a tree - you had done it many times before me with the help you have given the community - you did it because you wanted to not because you were obliged to - the same here. I'll paraphrase an ancient greek proverb .. again! . "The Real Meaning of life is planting trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit" When a man plants a tree he always in some way expects to gain from that tree, Whether it be its fruits or its shade. But when old men plant trees they know in their hearts that they will not live to eat of its fruits or enjoy of its shade. Why does the old man plant that tree? Because future generations ( family, friends and community) will be benefit from this unselfish behavior. That is the greatness of a community and a society. This only made sense when my dad wasn't here for me to say "now I understand". So please Sean accept the invite I sent via Gofundme at least it will help while you find your feet. And while I am at it (sorry Heather this isn't Religion or Politics or Conspiracy theory) I would suggest getting a book by Dr Andrew Saul called doctor yourself and while you are at it the book "fire your doctor" ( doctoryourself.com) I'd suggest all of you do for your families - you will thank me later (no I don't want thanks - there are 2 people who listened to me nearly 20 years ago when they asked me what to do because they were diagnosed with cancer, the other 6 or 7 asked but followed the doctors' and died in agony - ALL but 1 - although he did take my suggestion of building up his immune system before he started on the chemo. And before I go further - your mind has more to do with survival than any Herb, Drug or Doctor - <END OF SERMON> http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html http://www.doctoryourself.com/epilepsy.html Depression, Schizophrenia and MUCH more can be FULLY reversed via the use of massive (and I mean massive amount of Niacin) and other vitamins/minerals - there are other things I've discovered over the years that Saul doesn't cover. Learn about "tapping" emofree.com (it's all free but like everything there are people who you can go to that can advance your knowledge very quickly but charge for their time). <snip> Your failure cost someone their life (not to mention his wife and two boys who may well miss him but will be better off without ...... <snip> Read that last bit again and tell me I over reacted. I phoned your mobile and your office more than once and no answer .... If you were P**ed with LC just say that, not that your wife and kids will miss you when you are gone - I took that at face value - as a Shakespearean Soliloquy. If you appreciate what WE as a community have done then ACCEPTING THE GOFUNDME INVITE WOULD BE GOOD. Software is dependent on so much coming together that it's surprising anything at all works, and if google had "pulled the plug" a week later and you got the accolades we wouldn't be having this conversation - you probably would have been on here extolling the virtues of LC - but that's on another timeline in another Universe where maybe even the Geometry manager is working. Now I will go and play with my Grand Kids - they are staying over tonight - couldn't have done that if I had given up!!! To all, I apologise for the length of this monologue (I'm not good at Soliloquys) - and excuse the Smelling Pistakes, punctuation and Grammatical errors - I'm not Richard - but I hope to be when I grow up. Kindest Regards Lagi p.s Another piece of wisdom that has made life easier forget about "pride" talk to family talk to friends don't keep it inside - how did any of us know you hadn't told your wife or kids? And don't ever think that everybody will forget about you - just think what the world would have been without you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0h50v7UNJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBmsonjSe0&t=1571 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode