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by benibela 7y ago
I still write my software in Pascal and store it an Mercurial repo on Sourceforge It was just the best development environment on windows
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by benibela 7y ago
And perhaps because there is no good offline ui for git So you end up using github as ui, even if you do not want to use a webpage
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by benibela 8y ago
I made such a library for FreePascal ( http://benibela.de/sources_en.html#internettools ) Windows WinINet, Android JNI for Apache HttpComponents or OkHttp, Linux OpenSSL through another FreePascal library
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by benibela 8y ago
That was the reason I used the platform APIs in one app, and it is an awful mess. Then people use Android 4.0 or Windows 2000/XP, and complain they cannot use TLS1.2. And you cannot use the platform defaults, or Android 4.x fails with
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by benibela 8y ago
Now you are confusing everything. Delphi has three single byte string types since 1996: (ansi)string, shortstring and string[length], and the last two are mostly there for backward compatibility. >No awareness of encoding, so easy to bre
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by benibela 8y ago
Or everyone works remotely, so no one hears their outbursts
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by benibela 8y ago
Delphi/Pascal had the best strings Single byte storage, so it works well with utf-8. Byte length field, so it knows the length of every string and it can store null bytes. An additional null byte past the end and pointer shifting, so e
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by benibela 8y ago
Does it work with German? I write a lot of German emails and almost never get an answer
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Show HN: Immutable maps and sets as hash array mapped trie for FreePascal(github.com)
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by benibela 8y ago
That is why I am using INI files for config Unfortunately now I wanted to store a multi line value and the library I am using does not support that. I need an entire new config system
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by benibela 8y ago
Something like KIC 8462852
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by benibela 8y ago
Born in 89, I made a webpage for my mother at that time. She still likes it :/ Check the generator tag on the frameset page http://www.roswithavanderzander.de/index_EN.htm
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by benibela 8y ago
" You need to have JavaScript turned on for the shopping cart to work. " That rarely happened on old pages
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by benibela 8y ago
You could also have a webring for that
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by benibela 8y ago
Although the Lens must have enormous computation power, since it can crack any encryption instantaneously. I have always wondered what happens if the Lensman tries to read an one-time-pad
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by benibela 8y ago
This is especially weird in the Perry Rhodan series. Written since the 60s it might now be the longest scifi series ever. So there they have spaceships of 2.5 km diameter that can fly faster than 100 million times the speed of light shootin
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by benibela 9y ago
Recently I had to edit test data for a grading platform (People upload their programs, the programs get called with the test data and they get feedback if their program works correctly). One test file had 900 000 characters in one line. Alm
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by benibela 9y ago
you do not need javascript for portability emacs pretty much runs everywhere And there is a webkit extension to turn emacs into a browser. I wonder how well atom will run in emacs
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by benibela 9y ago
https://sourceforge.net/p/texstudio/hg/ci/69381fad4634edc4fb... :(
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by benibela 9y ago
I often run into trouble with IDEs that think they are smart, but aren't. "I see you have a space following a tab, so I will replace all your spaces with a tab, whenever you save the file"
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by benibela 9y ago
Perhaps it will make trees faster than hashmaps? Linked lists better than arrays?
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by benibela 10y ago
I meant bookmarks to pictures. Like infographics or memes
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by benibela 10y ago
How would that deal with pictures?
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by benibela 10y ago
Object Pascal just calls the function with this == null (well self = nil)
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by benibela 10y ago
I have an app for hundreds public libraries. Such libraries have online cataloges where you can search books, or renew books you have lend, and my app connects to their webpages to show all catalogs in a common interface. Or do things the c
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by benibela 10y ago
I made a link tester for all the links on my webpage, after I did not maintain it for a while and half the links were dead: https://github.com/benibela/site/blob/master/manage.sh#L33
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by benibela 10y ago
The opposite is also annoying. My name is quite unique, and people are not sure what is middle name, and what is last name. So often they cannot find my file and sometimes they create a new file, so they believe I am multiple persons. Well,
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by benibela 10y ago
And how would a self-driving car has swerved?
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by benibela 10y ago
Can we build a space elevator with this?
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by benibela 10y ago
And this will be the outcome: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/self-driving-car-ethics

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