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by Crinus 7y ago
Thanks, i didn't knew about that :-).
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by Crinus 7y ago
Depends which versions we're talking about and if with "Borland C++" you mean the Borland C++ or the later C++ Builder. I'm going to guess the former. I have actually both BC5 (the last version that was released as &qu
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I've certainly never seen any of this mythical good documentation on the Microsoft side where I live Depends on what you're looking for. If something existed in the 90s, chances are it'll have great documentation (e.g. s
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by Crinus 7y ago
I remember ~10 years ago i used Automator with Folder actions (or something called like that) to setup automatic resize and transfer of videos from a folder to my iPod Touch through iTunes, so my guess is that iTunes would do the trick. Unl
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Used to be, if you bought a compiler like Visual C++, it came with a book (printed on paper) that was readable and useful and helpful. Some time ago i found a copy of Borland C++ for Windows 3.1 in its original box on eBay. The box was
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, since you are here... can we have something like the old MSDN CD CHM files and/or WIN32.HLP files (ie. a simple offline version of the documentation that includes everything)? Almost every other mention of Win32 documentation her
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by Crinus 7y ago
As a user i'd rather blame the developers who made the choice to use Electron despite its drawbacks for users been repeatedly mentioned every single time Electron itself is mentioned.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> the market has spoken multiple times Every time i hear "the market" speak is to complain about Electron's resource use. Most of the time though "the market" has no idea why their computers become slow and they
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by Crinus 7y ago
"All of these professionals have years of schooling and relevant work experience and have passed rigorous certification exams. [...] To start, coders who work on critical infrastructure should have a professional accreditation framewor
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah sure, conversation persistence is neat although personally i do not consider a must have. Regardless, my comment was really about how "noob friendly" IRC was/is.
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by Crinus 7y ago
dbus is also a dependency though. If you are on the bus (heh) that says systemd is a hard dependency that should be avoided then dbus is also the same thing.
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by Crinus 7y ago
A lot of people who learned programming in the home computer era learned through BASIC which was already a very high level language (well, except perhaps the C64 one which was kinda crippled, but that was an exception), often with graphics
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by Crinus 7y ago
It was on the Win95 (and i also think 98) CD in an "DOSUTILS" folder or something like that.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> If Windows had shipped with the equivalent of GW-BASIC + extensions Windows 98 shipped with Windows Scripting Host that could run .vbs scripts. I wrote a lengthy (10 page, IIRC) "introduction to programming" article for a gam
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by Crinus 7y ago
I remember back in the days of IRC being megapopular, a lot of servers would kick me out because they had too many channels and listing them triggered flood protection :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
I remember IRC in the late 90s, early 2000s having A LOT (like 9 out of 10) of people who otherwise had no idea about computers (remember droves of people disconnecting after 'Press Alt+F4 to get @'?). People who didn't knew
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by Crinus 7y ago
No, it is exactly as i wrote above, the idea isn't to complain back, it is that you get shit for free and you have no standing to demand for anything more than what you got. If free candy makes you sick maybe next time do not accept fr
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by Crinus 7y ago
Similarly, also even today i use wget --clone and the Firefox addon Save Page WE to save interesting pages (the latter works for single pages, but it is useful for blog articles, etc).
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW those particular formats are widely understood even if they are proprietary (well, at least in WordStar's case). And as long as the software runs (be it natively or via an emulator or VM), you can always open and convert/prin
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that source code access and FOSS are orthogonal. AFAIK in older Unix systems software you'd buy would often be in source code form. In fact at the past severa lLinux distributions had a lot of such software. As an example Slackwar
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by Crinus 7y ago
Which wouldn't really be much of a problem for its users if it wasn't gtk breaking backwards compatibility between 2 and 3 (but that is another painful topic).
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by Crinus 7y ago
People are not a hive mind, some developers may ignore bugs, others may complain about end user oriented FOSS acceptance and perhaps some do both, but chances are these two groups are separate (and in larger projects you may even have peopl
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by Crinus 7y ago
> "it's free, go away" is a real problem. Characterizing this as a problem is like accepting free candies from someone and then complaining that you were not given more candies.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Their app bundles are not binaries, they are a directory structure. Yes, but on Linux no file manager understands directories as bundles (except perhaps GNUstep's GWorkspace). > Also I don't really understand why anyone on
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by Crinus 7y ago
The UX is certainly worse, especially on Win10 where it displays a tiny popup at the bottom right side (at least in Vista and 7 it had a popup at the center and IIRC the popup even had an icon of the game/program if autorun specified o
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW i am not a FOSS zealot. If anything some of the software i find enjoyable to use is not FOSS (but sadly a lot of it is older software, largely because of user hostile modern trends - see Electron, phone-home DRM, adware, etc - but also
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sadly it worked until users were taught to expect everything for free (see how every single time someone posts something here or on Reddit that costs money, there is at least one post - often more - with free "alternatives" upvote
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by Crinus 7y ago
> using the worst input imaginable (touch screen) to do nice builds. Minecraft's controls for building stuff is very simple - you just point and click to place or remove stuff depending on your active item. Here you can point (via g
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by Crinus 7y ago
If you aren't replying to my points why are you making a reply to my comment? Yes, all properly filled bugs reports are useful. The important part here is that "properly" word though and on a popular project they can be hard
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by Crinus 7y ago
It was also incredibly convenient - put game CD in drive, game launcher appears with INSTALL / PLAY (depending on the status). Also it was neat to give a DVD with some sliceshow/photos/videos/etc to your grandparents&#x2

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