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by anta40 11y ago
any long-term plan to add 32-bit compatibility, probably?
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by anta40 11y ago
A computer club, but no computer? OK this is weird. So what did you guys do at the club, then?
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by anta40 11y ago
I tried NetHack several times. Still cannot like it. Programming games like Robocode or Core War are way more interesting to me :D
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by anta40 11y ago
How big is teletext usage nowadays (if it's still being used)? Last time I used it, if memory serves well, was probably 1997, in a town in Indonesia. I was a kid back then, didn't aware of internet, yet. Boy it was pretty handy fo
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by anta40 11y ago
Switching to 'dumb' phones is probably not feasible to me at the moment, for several reasons: 1. When I'm bored or waiting for something, usually I read books/comics. Not so much on games anymore. 2. I'm into digita
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by anta40 11y ago
>> give Rust a try Or Pascal. Combined with Lazarus, we have a nice open source Delphi-like environment. Really cool, eh? Rust might be an option for C++ folks who likes functional programming :D
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by anta40 11y ago
I really like the fact that Lazarus is easy to build (even on my Windows system). 1. grab the source code 2. make install LAZARUS_INSTALL_DIR=C:\lazarus NOGDB=1 3. done Anyway, it's nice that we have an open source, cross platform Delp
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by anta40 11y ago
>> While I enjoy tackling these exercises (and have devoted my academic career to doing so), most people don't, further raising the barrier for learning to code. My formal background is computer science, so somehow I can resonate
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by anta40 11y ago
The tool is used to manage some our smart card applets. And since it web-based, we don't need to give the copy of the tool to other people. I don't write the tool, but maybe I can convince my supervisor to rewrite it into desktop
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by anta40 11y ago
So, how do you interact with connected hardwares, then? For example, the company I'm working on have a interal-only, web application that interact with smart card readers. This one of the cases where Java applet comes in handy...
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by anta40 11y ago
>> Hoping to avoid the need to write the whole compiler myself, I obtained the source code for the Pastel compiler, which was a multi-platform compiler developed at Lawrence Livermore Lab. It supported, and was written in, an extended
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by anta40 11y ago
>> So, why can't people accept that Linux and open source have won the software wars? By this logic, most Windows/OSX users have already jumped to Linux, and most Windows Phone/iOS/etc users have already jumped to
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by anta40 11y ago
For me, completely abandoning Windows at the moment is impossible. Obvious reason: PC game :p Linux itself makes a excellent tinkering platform, though. And for daily use I think it's relatively "user-friendlier" than a decad
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by anta40 11y ago
>> - It doesn't blaze any theoretical trails in computer science today (e.g. Haskell) Which is probably a good thing. As much I'm fascinating by functional programming (type system, lambda calculus, etc etc), I find it kind
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by anta40 11y ago
Glad to hear FPC is still well alive and kicking. BTW, AFAIK Wirth's work is not limited to Pascal (there are Oberon and Modula, for example). Wonder why those languages don't gain as much exposure as Pascal does?
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by anta40 11y ago
>> How will the industry deal with people who can't hack/program at a low level? Assembly programming is still being taught as a EE/CS curriculum, so the younger folks know (some) assembly as well. That said, not all pr
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by anta40 11y ago
Initally I thought it was written by Russ Cox, one of golang contributors.
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by anta40 11y ago
£80 is definitely not cheap. I'm curious what factors make those textbooks so pricey.
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by anta40 11y ago
Wonder why the author doesn't mention Smalltalk. Or Ruby...
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by anta40 11y ago
Yes, Windows Defender on Windows 10, mainly for daily scanning purpose. I don't enable the real-time protection though. I don't run untrusted executables without scanning them, or runing them on VM first. Better safe than sorry.
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by anta40 11y ago
>> I don't understand how anyone can prefer reading on a phone or kindle Well my phone (Galaxy Note 4, 5.7") is also my ebook reader. I can easily read my favourite books and comics while on the bus. Kindle is fine, but I d
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by anta40 11y ago
Two days ago I just upgraded a laptop to Win 10, and for the sake of space saving (about 24 GB), I removed the "windows.old" http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2066-windows-old-folder-d... Now I regret cannot
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by anta40 11y ago
Whoops, I forgot to mention that I'm aware of Steam. Yes, thanks to Steam, gaming experience on Linux is better than before. That's said... my favourite games like Grand Theft Auto, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Wolfenstein are un
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by anta40 11y ago
As much as I enjoy using Linux for tinkering, probably I'll wipe my Windows 10 installation and revert to 7. You know, Linux is not a pretty exciting gaming platform at the moment :p
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by anta40 11y ago
Nowadays most people (including myself) prefer the convenience of digital books (EPUB, PDF, etc). I still do buy and read physical books, but then again I can easily put dozens or even hundreds of digital books on my iPad for reading while
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by anta40 11y ago
>> That downloading and running unknown executables is borderline insane That's what VMs are for :p
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by anta40 11y ago
I don't think Stallman himself would like to waste his time on HN :p
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by anta40 11y ago
Where's assembly? :)
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by anta40 12y ago
http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/30018 Object Pascal Handbook by Marco Cantu Available to registered users of Delphi XE8, RAD Studio XE8, C++Builder XE8, and Embarcadero All-Access XE This promotional item are available
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by anta40 12y ago
>> I don't think Modula-2 ever really caught on, though. Oberon too. I wonder why Pascal (Object Pascal, to be precise) get most of the spotlight.

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