HeckFeck

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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   javax.window.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("Hello!"); Forever burnt into my mind from Programming 1008. And in fairness, much easier to get off the ground than the legions of XML required for JavaFX.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   I wish I did. It looks like we will have to be patient.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   I live in a world where my 1989 Macintosh SE can talk to my 2020 Raspberry Pi. It's not all bad =)
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   It was said in jest but I think everyone is taking me literally. I liked sigs on older phpBB forums when they were 2-3 lines and just some userbars. Cool back in the day, but they wouldn't really translate to the more minimalist HN.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   @dang Sigs on HN soon pls?
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   There is still something of it remaining: https://del.icio.us/help > This site is a ghost, haunting the internet. It is a read-only archive of the bookmarking website del.icio.us.... This project is a labor of love (or m
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   Gabe used to work on Windows, he has a long memory.
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   It all depends on the rulers respecting the spirit of the law more than twisting and revising the letter until it becomes oppressive. Unfortunately we've not had anyone who respects our liberty for some time. It's a shame - I thin
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   by HeckFeck 3y ago

   A shame it is. With the state of the current government and its power creeping over more and more of our lives, Magna Carta could do with a comeback. I see it now: Magna Carta II: It's Time For Payback.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    My favourite trivia for Encarta is that it was built using a rich text view + a custom hypertext system, similar to the old Windows Help format before it all became HTML and IE views.
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    Detweeted: Spammers do not deserve rights(thran.uk)

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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    "An Englishman's home is his castle" used to be a well known saying. We once did, but it looks like times have changed for the worse.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Some of us still do! In Northern Ireland, we have a lesser-known seaweed dish called Dulce. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180522-the-renaissance-... It's tricky to find it fresh, you usually only get i
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I don't see why they can't present it as a simple list of blog articles with a link to the repository. It achieves the same thing without anyone knowing who I am.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    The demoscene is certainly top of the 'wish I was there' list. There isn't anything that I know which brings together visual and audible arts with engineering inventiveness in the same way. I have purchased an Amiga 500 to pl
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Indeed. X could raise the funds by using anonymous payment methods, but we all know it won't use those.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Wiby is a great resource. My roll took me back to 'nam: https://jackrvn70.neocities.org/ I happen to run a directory of 'escapist/artistic' websites, if a second instance of self-promotion is permissible
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I wish there was still more of a genuine whimsical side to the Internet or even businesses. The attention economy isn't the same.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I mean, the subject's face probably did resemble a cringe.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I'm working on maximising flow control of the payload.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'su
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    If one called INT-18 today, would we hit a similar stub in a modern PC BIOS?
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I'm glad to hear there have been some consequences to Microsoft's anti-user product direction. But where we need to see Linux permeate is outside of tech bubbles.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I'll get back to you when the Apple credit card appears in Safari.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Unfortunately the truth. The money isn't in creating the best browser they can, it's in what they can siphon from their users. And how they can pry upon impulsive and impoverished shoppers: https://arstechnica.com/
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I wish, but good luck to Linux making any serious inroads into the corporate desktop world.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    > Designed to leverage the feature set and performance of Internet Explorer It's hard to believe it, but there was a time when this statement wasn't a joke.
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    I've had good results with both D-Link routers (DIR-615??, DIR-842) I've owned through the years - the DIR-615 was bought used, it lasted 8 years of constant service, was only replaced because I needed 802.11n and a better WAN por
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    "We can send over any amount of Microsoft Points you desire, probably worth more than when we discontinued them in 2013, we'll even throw in a Game Pass for everyone! How's that?"
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    by HeckFeck 3y ago

    Makes sense. The most gifted coders wouldn't work in DRM and telemetry. At least I hope that's what is happening.