CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Old toolkits make it much easier to set the text color of some label to #444, which looks fine on a light background, but is very hard to read on a black background. That's why in for example Windows, up until ~early/mid W7,
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> A working Build button that spits out an "exectuable" that runs in the browser would be killer! Check out Jon Aasenden's Quartex Pascal: https://quartexdeveloper.com/
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Any ideas? https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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by CRConrad 2y ago
How to tell if somebody never got to use Delphi: > And till today, I still think that VB 6 GUI Builder is the best I have ever tried. ;-)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I still miss such tools in the Modern era. There are lot of so called no-code or low-code tools that does things very differently today. You don't have to miss it, there's still one that does things similarly: https:/&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
No, he needs to learn how to screw on a bottle cap. We keep soda bottles horizontal in our fridge, and they don't leak.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The meme that goes around atm is that while Elon Musk created Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink the EU managed to get everybody to now have plastic bottles who do not close properly anymore: due to some regulation that mandates that bottle ca
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> VB6 was the best IDE by far for people that get things done right now. No, it was second-best. The best was Delphi. (And now possibly Lazarus.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Even sex isn't fully binary; there are people with other sex chromosome combinations than XX or XY. And people who, due apparently entirely to biology (endocrinology stuff, how their bodies react to hormones etc), develop different s
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Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg for High Performance Analytics(crunchydata.com)
2 points by CRConrad 2y ago|0 comments
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Duh! Yeah, I forgot... Two people already had in the last day or so. (Judging by the user name, one of them the author. ETA: Ironically, he earned fewer points for it.)
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A Shiny New Programming Language(hackster.io)
1 points by CRConrad 2y ago|3 comments
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Not that I can see how this is a “New Programming Language” at all, much less a particularly “shiny” one. It's another (are we at “Yet Another...” already?) AI code generation tool, spewing out code in the already existing and not enti
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If you're 6, your parents just put you on the seat and push you until your balance gets good enough that you can take the training wheels off. Which can take a very long time, because you have training wheels to begin with. If you
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The legacy of BASIC on our industry can hardly be understated. The expression you're looking for is “the legacy of BASIC on our industry can hardly be over stated.” You're trying to say its legacy is huge; whatever anyone sa
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> 2024-11-01 is in winter, 2024-09-13 is in summer. Not in... What's in the same time xone, but southern hemisphere; Sawth Effrika?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. IIRC, the DSC_XXXXXX naming scheme is from Samsung smartphones. (Or maybe just Android in general?)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> There are a lot of folks who feel like the object obtains some "magical aura" by physically being at a concert with you Or at an Arnold Braunschweiger action movie.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I don't think your clarification made much of a difference: A lot of the shit those VC-backed gig-worker-abusers do probably is (and certainly should be) illegal, too.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Nah, probably not: Hard as heck nowadays to find a machine that even has a floppy drive. Or even a floppy to put the software on.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But 99.72 % of the time, it does.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Thanks!
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The browser only reluctantly accepts its role is an application UI platform. Yeah, rightly so. It's reluctant to be what it shouldn't be.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes, really.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If you built an app that used just what the browser gives you and nothing more, you're leaving so much functionality on the floor. Yeah, please do. Because 99.72% of that "functionality" is used to implement crappy ugly
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> peoples takeaway is that you shouldn't adopt anything from large companies as a small company by default. And thats simply not true. Yes it is. You said so yourself: > The point here is to understand what are the problems that
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> ...one of the Meta monorepos (yeah there’s not just one! Eeh... Might be quite meta-, but really doesn't feel very mono-.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Any tips on where to find these tools, or just generally find out how that works?
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WordPress.com's owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine(theverge.com)
3 points by CRConrad 2y ago|0 comments
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I think consistency within an application is far more important than consistency across applications. And I think you're wrong.

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