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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
Such brilliance, such originality. Buried by a copier-focused organization. Ironic that Xerox published a book called " The Billions Nobody Wanted ", about Chester Carlson's long road to inventing xerography.
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
The logs are written as raw HTML. They can be searched by including HTML id's, tags, etc. They are plain text so they are searchable. The color option really makes things stand out. The formatting possibilities has made debugging so mu
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
I write my app’s logs in HTML. It allows me to format as tables, large fonts for alerts, colour for errors, embed images, all sorts of visual aids. Easy to scan and identify the important stuff at a glance. There is one common function to f
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
This is quaint. In 1970, computer-driven plotters were already widespread. It would not have been hard to see CAD coming, even with punched cards.
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
A hole at any of those points could represent either a one or zero That's not quite correct. There were twelve rows: 0-9, 11 and 12. A hole in row 0 was a zero, etc. Holes in 12 + 1 was an 'A', 11 + 1 was 'J', and
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
Programming is not for everybody. It's hard. It takes patience and humility. That's why those few who master it get paid the big bucks.
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
We cannot escape that "all our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end" (Thoreau). The perversion of knowledge is a paradox that was known to the writers of Genesis: it's the Tree of Knowledge that gets the fir
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
The loss of magazines in general is a shame. I spent many magical hours perusing the back issues of Scientific American in my school library in the 60's. Some of the "Amateur Scientist" projects I built steered my career. As
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
Do you really trust China to manage the World’s currency? Scenario: Monday: China buys 100 billion Yuan of oil from Saudi Arabia. Tuesday; China prints 100 billion more Yuan. Oops! The only countries that the World mistrusts more than the U
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
"ML" = Meta Language
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
DVDs should not be overlooked for backup. The Millennium type have been simulated to withstand 1,000 years.
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
Tape has come a long way since the 800 BPI (bits per inch) NRZI (Non-return zero insert) and 6250 BPI PE (Phase encoded) 2400' tapes I worked with in the 70's. The tape sort algorithm read tapes backwards to avoid the delay of rew
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by GnarfGnarf 3y ago
RPG is an abomination. It's a paradigm of the old plugboard tabulators from the 40's. No indentation. Cryptic op codes. Rigid fixed-column OP1/OP2/operation/result. Assembler without the power. "Repulsive Progr
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Borland C++ ver. 3 was a great product, vastly superior to Microsoft's Programmer's Workbench (character-based UI). However, when we upgraded to Borland 4, we encountered catastrophic bugs: Symbols were flagged as undefined that w
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
hibaku: The term is from Japanese: 被爆, lit. 'bombed, A-bombed, nuked'
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Too bad. STL deque's are non-contiguous, allow for much bigger arrays. I had an application that used vector<>, ran out of contiguous memory. deque<> solved the problem.
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
I found a lot of bugs went away when I switched to STL (Standard Template Library) arrays and ditched managing my own memory. That's C++, I guess it's not available in straight C?
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Excellent suggestion. I use this style myself in many places. Makes the code more legible. As has been pointed out, there are cases where it's not efficient or correct, but in general it's very useful. (Been coding since 1965, not
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Sorry, but not good. Too many statements on one line. By indenting the functions, you lose too much space at left of the screen. If I had to work with this code, the first thing I would do would be to completely reformat it. However, if you
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
What, I can't learn something new?
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
That's pretty deep in. Requires more time than I'm willing to invest, not knowing if there will be an outcome
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
They're only good until December. They don't keep, so beware of how old the apple is.
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
ORM = "Object–relational mapping" You'd think they'd mention that once in their Website?
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Ironically, you will never find the best-tasting apples in your local grocery store. The tastiest apples are often smaller, brown or dark skin, not the big red 'juicy' apples the uninformed consumer thinks are the best. Viz. the R
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Radio Amateurs will be indispensable when the next CME (Corona Mass Ejection) annihilates our grid and the Internet. Look up "Carrington Event".
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Software systems will be fragile as long as people and organizations don't understand the cost of quality software, or don't think it's worth it. You don't get what you don't pay for™
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Funny! As a Canadian, I am riveted by CNN/MSNBC/PBS/ for news on American political developments.
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
I first saw this cartoon in 1971.
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A fine quote to describe software development and debugging
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by GnarfGnarf 4y ago
Just to put things in perspective: for ~350 years (1600-1949), the West dominated and exploited India. The British taught the Indians that it was OK to steal from another nation. And they taught them English too. What goes around comes arou

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