bigbizisverywyz

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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Objc, in my experience is a great language, particularly for building GUIs and I concur was a big part of Apple's success with OSX and later iPhone and iPad. With the core foundation classes (and other frameworks) Apple inherited from
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Yes, you're right, System 7. I had a Performa 275 with a 68030 CPU and learned to program C & C++ with Metrowerks (a fantastic IDE for the time). I don't have that anymore but might still have a copy of Inside Macintosh somewh
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I always thought it meant 'leap forward through the use of technology'.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I'm still using my 2014 16" MacBook Pro too - the SSD has made such a dramatic difference to the performance of machines that I think in general they age much better than previously. I'm not a heavy user but that machine can
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>like we're still living in the 90s when you could realistically master the whole chain of tools and ideas as an individual. Well, I personally quite near the beginning of my career had the exact same problem as the OP in the 90s. I
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
From the picture it looked more like a walking gun platform. Saying that, if I was a downed airman in hostile territory or in the middle of an inhospitable desert I wouldn't mind having one of these little guys along with me.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Very very sad to see these birds disappearing, and lapwings too. The last time I visited my sister in Ballater I heard not a single one. I'm guessing pesticides kill the insects which then starve the birds for food. I'm sure if we
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I'm surprised people are applauding this. The net result of this support (and cockroach's) is that it will take mindshare away from Postgres which has worked hard for decades to build a loyal fanbase. It's also step 1 of th
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I have to say this really surprises me, smartphones now are so good that you could easily keep one for 2 years or more and not notice the difference. My personal cycle is about 4 years, and I do my best to take care of the battery so that I
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>sometimes everyone else gets paralyzed with indecision and can’t even get started. I once worked on a project where exactly that happened, and I view it as one of my biggest failures of my career. I often wonder why I didn't just s
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
If nobody had previously succeeded then I would take the point that Carmack was somehow unique, but by the time Doom came out lots of programmers had produced 3d games, and we had ray-tracing and lots of graphics theory and implementation
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Kinda reminds me of the Rational suite of programs from early 2000's that did UML modelling and other aspects of software requirements & project management. They were some of the buggiest most crash-probe applications I've eve
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Although this does make you sound a bit like Wally from Dilbert, but done in the right amount I think it does make sense as taking on too much is the quickest way to never getting anything 'done'.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Is this not just as simple as recommending to use an input mask, or date picker or lookup list so it's impossible to end up with an invalid value in your system? I always took it as such.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Actually any sufficiently imaginative and slightly evil tester could have also thought of that one too, which means Apple are either missing that skillset or rushed it out.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
A useful addition to the kernel could be a flag that disallows a thread from launching child processes. Then when doing any of this risky stuff like handling gif/png/ASN.1/etc data from outside sources you can handle it in a
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>the appstore wasn't a very significant part of their income. So why did they even pick the fight?
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
The Agile Manifesto itself is actually a fantastic set of tenets. Unfortunately most people I've talked to who are trying to push 'agile' have neither read it, or have enough experience in software development or projects to
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Would maybe be nice if there was a static check in C++ to verify whether something was declared on the stack, then that could be used to eliminate some of the potential RAII mishaps.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
I kinda get the feeling that most of the issues with these projects are well understood and already solved. Basically it's probably at a stage where somebody just needs to 'do it' - like on the moon as a starting point, and s
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>Sending multiple queries from your web server will likely put more load on the database server than using a stored procedure. Lots of people seem to not realize that db roundtrips are expensive, and should be avoided whenever possible.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Sci-fi authors. I could be wrong about 'meatspace', but I'm pretty sure that was Ian M. Banks.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Some interviewees quickly decide who's the boss, or primary decider in the interview, and then totally focus all their charm on them.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Pity those that have to maintain it later though.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>SON and Rest waltzed in and (somewhat) did that organically without the hype. This is a perfect description of how it happened, and how practicality trumped the bombast of the people pushing SOAP and what later became the terrible frame
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>How does one get close to mastering software engineering? By doing it, doing it a lot And then listening to, and watching your users use your stuff. They'll teach you more about creating better software than anything else.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>The language needs to do a lot of file access for includes, and on NTFS those are super slow, I'm not sure I'd blame NTFS as such - but you can massively improve build times by creating a precompiled header .pch include file i
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
Would agree with you on Winforms, it's a pretty good GUI RAD development environment, and I wish they'd just stop trying to replace it with something 'better'. WPF I found to be constantly irritating and produces weird l
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
By the same logic, XBOX and the OS that runs it should be separate, and the PlayStation and the OS that runs on that should also be split into separate legal entities. But that really makes no sense either.
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by bigbizisverywyz 5y ago
>he wanted to achieve herd immunity without having enough vaccines or not having them at all Instead he managed to brew an exciting new variant, which is what every health official was warning against. And I'm guessing that unless t

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