benibela

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   by benibela 6y ago

   I have always used Pascal for memory safe strings. Reference counted, mutable xor aliased, bound checked: their safety is perfect. Unfortunately there is no string view, so you need to copy the substrings or use pointers/indices. I tri
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   by benibela 6y ago

   I have even pointed various webpages to 127.0.0.1 When I do not want the browser to access somedomain.com, I redirect somedomain.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file
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   by benibela 6y ago

   That is just what they did I think, when I used the Internet Explorer, version 5 or so, for everything, there was a setting to ask before setting any cookie
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Not if a part of the variable is used I just had this problem in a GUI. There was an edit view, correctly created and initialized with a default value. Then the user could enter a value, but whatever the user entered would be ignored.
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   by benibela 6y ago

   Or ASCII control characters No reason to use tabs, when there explicit group/record/unit separators
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   by benibela 6y ago

   What name? Is it like appname.com or audio.app or audio-app.com ? Perhaps it is best to purchase them all?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   And then there was a time with a my... prefix like myspace Something24 was also popular And of course ending with dot com
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   by benibela 6y ago

   And Delphi
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   by benibela 6y ago

   An alternative would be to use XPath 3.1. I am implementing XPath in a tool called Xidel. There the syntax for the example is much simpler: xidel - -e '?items ?* [?name="green"] ?rgb' Depends what kabacha means with bloa
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I have, but I wake up after every lucid dream, so I need to spend more time in bed to get a full length sleep. And it only last a few minutes, so there is not enough time to study. Even if there was, I am always more interesting in flying a
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I use Lazarus for that In theory it is great, you write the app once and then it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, using a wrapper around each native GUI. Unfortunately it is written in Pascal, so the community is tiny
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    by benibela 6y ago

    But with the app stores you get more users I basically had no users for one of my desktop apps for seven years, till I ported it to mobile and put it in the normal app store
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I have searched something like this for backups, but have not found anything good. But I also have conflicting wishes. I want it to store the history (so that a backup of directory A cannot be overridden by a backup of an unrelated director
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    by benibela 6y ago

    There is also a map of Japan emoji, but no other country has one
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >Do you think that the removal of the downvote capability solves this problem? What solutions are available? You used to get downvoted for disagreement. Nowadays, you get banned from the sub altogether.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Or pronounce the word in a more German way Ma na ger Manaːɡɐ Where Nager translates to rodent.
17. 677.▲
    by benibela 6y ago

    ... and Pascal ! Many languages are superior to C/C++ C/C++ just wins from the amount of available libraries and high-quality implementations.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Or XPath
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >durantino >du·rantino > a dairy-based flavor made by supplementing milk with milk of the same consistency as dairy acid > "durantino preserves and protects against all age-related diseases through the combined action
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    by benibela 6y ago

    The browsers had support for XSL templates You write your website in XML and the browser renders it using the template
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    by benibela 6y ago

    That is the one
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    by benibela 6y ago

    A typical Delphi app might have done that, but a selling point of Delphi was that it had data binding. Connect the TDB* vies to a TDataSource, and it would show the values of a database, without requiring manual updates.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Java has a good chance to be smaller When you need a library you either call one of the Java default libraries (through JNI which I suspect is larger than a class file) or include a native library. And the native code needs to be included f
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Yes, Android Studio (and the emulator) The Android app development went from my first laptop with 4GB RAM and HDD to my second laptop with 8GB RAM and HDD to my current, third laptop with 16 GB RAM and SDD. But all the laptops were real
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I wrote my Android app in Pascal Although I used Java to create the layouts/views. But I have started porting some things to Kotlin. Nearly finished replacing all the Java I also had to buy a new computer. The Pascal IDE worked great o
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Or is it because X Æ A-12 is not a valid child name in California?
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I use NoScript, so if a site needs JavaScript, it does not work in my browser and I go to another site.
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    by benibela 6y ago

    That reminds me of the PAD files used for shareware But they seem to have died out
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >but then you owe 8% of the $1 in sales tax, and you've now lost a third of the money you used to have to Uncle Sam so they can give it to Bank of America and Halliburton. Sounds like a good argument for universal basic income
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    by benibela 6y ago

    But when the BOFH is involved in the band, he will take power and rule the world himself