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   by buserror 7y ago

   The readme isn't really up to date, but many years ago I started minifs to be the smallest, reproducible linux distro I can get away with. With extra tools like a 'cross linker' that removes /anything/ that isn&#x27
2. 182.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   Somehow, by reading you, I can almost guarantee that will never be a situation that you'll find yourself into. Bless.
3. 183.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   I also got sherlocked around 15 years ago. At the time I was working for a music company, and I was in very close loop with apple CoreAudio and CoreMIDI guys. I had (still have) a whole bunch of apple employees or ex- as friends. Rather ent
4. 184.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   The original Mac version of Diablo also came with debug symbols, at the time I had written some sort of 'companion cheater map' thing that piggybacked onto the game for doing various nefarious things. It was called 'Dieblo&#x
5. 185.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   I don't believe that, you mention this because you put 100% trust on the runtime . When I see syntax like: var array=something[4...$] I don't see security there, all I see is someone pushing the problem further under the carpet,
6. 186.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   I never understood the use of D, or any of the "C replacements" languages trends. C does work pretty well, but it's like a sharp tool. Use with a lot of care with your remaining fingers. There are a LOT of things C is blamed
7. 187.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   For many years now I've owned a 70-300 DO very very compact zoom lens and always been happy with it. There are some rare optical artifacts, in some lights, on some subjects, but it's never been a problem in real life.
8. 188.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   Agreed, it seems cat owners in europe have rights nobody else does, their pet can trespass and kill with complete impunity. Here to protect the songbirds in my garden that were preyed on by no less than 5 cats from the neighbourhood, I got.
9. 189.▲
   by buserror 7y ago

   'saving' comments is difficult; and no the API doesn't handle that, but it's a pretty cool idea I'll look into it! I mean, all i can do is call the 'slaved' API with the comment content and let them re-gen
10. 190.▲
    by buserror 7y ago

    I made an 'extended' JSON format, and parsing library many, many moons ago. I actually want JSON as config file, it's nice, is strict, it's easy to edit, it's hierarchical, it's nowhere near as arcane as XML,
11. 191.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Why the downvotes to that post, people? Most who use stellarium have played with celestia, and vice versa, I've also personally always associated the both of them together. Celestia was THE play tool I used to play with my new screens&
12. 192.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I've been using queue.h from bsd for as long as I can remember. It's slightly different syntax, but it's available on linux, from userland, and is not GPL... Note that the one that ships in linux is pretty simple, the one tha
13. 193.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Thanks, that's exactly what I meant.
14. 194.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I don't think you were "age" discriminated here my friend, it's likely you were just skill discriminated -- sometime it happens -- something you think is terribly easy and boring might come out as completely "wow&qu
15. 195.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Seriously, get down low, and go up a few notches gradually. I mean, learn SOME assembly of some sort. It doesn't really matter if you never WRITE assembly, but learn how a processor works at the very least. Pick whatever is you fancy,
16. 196.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Thanks -- actually, interviewing is also a skill that is about as important as your tech background. I'm lucky to be gifted in the way I can convey my passion(s) (despite english not being my native language) -- but people who don&#x27
17. 197.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I'm not in management -- my philosophy has always been to try to be the tree that stands outside the forest, not the one IN the forest. In management I might make a good manager, or perhaps a crap, or average one, and where is my edge
18. 198.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Well to be fair I went from doing well over 20 years of Mac programming with a lot of UNIX/Linux alongside to a semi-hardware developer with linux low level stuff, pure embedded and FPGA development... There's LOADS of fields that
19. 199.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I'm contracting, so the last time I aced a discussion about a job was about 5 hours ago.
20. 200.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I had a bit of a burnout around 2006 -- I had worked my ass off on a fantastically complex framework, the pinacle of years of experience, and it was a joy. It was SO cool. There was an application on top, which was also pretty cool. And the
21. 201.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Basically the only rule is: NOBODY (that much younger) will ever know how good or experienced you are. They just can't know. It's impossible for them to be in your shoes, but you CAN put yourself fairly easily in THEIR shoes and w
22. 202.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Phoew that's cool! I have to say Opendoc always smelled wrong to me, so I stayed clear -- But I did implement the 'whose' descriptors in Applescript once, and I still have the scars to prove it :-) I wrote a lot of "Ap
23. 203.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I'll just tell you now I've got a T-shirt with "Copland Driver Kitchen" :-)
24. 204.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I'm 49! I've been working since I'm 17 as a developer -- I think the KEY thing is to be valuable, and be able to change quickly BUT not as quickly as the snowflakes. Ignore the fad tech, get a good, serious, bulletproof base
25. 205.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I don't necessarily agree with this. As a french native who has grown up to english music, I realised years later as my english improve that I 'remembered' the english songs lyrics from previous years by basically 'map
26. 206.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I was left very disappointed with the quality of his images. He used a large format camera, so there ought to be a lot of detail and grit in these images, but the framing and the processing leads to pretty dull images... Too much, and too d
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    by buserror 8y ago

    From my experience dealing with upstreaming, it has become more of some sort of priesthood that is required to go thru the proper mantras and speak the proper language. And most of the priest no longer have any real idea of what's the
28. 208.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Sure. I remember one. For about a million years, you could declare a naked virtual method with int blah() = NULL; -- perhaps it wasn't /suposed/ to be used like that according to the standard... but it worked, and was used a
29. 209.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    Excellent article! I stopped using C++ completely after completing the meme that is posted near the end, I wrote gazillions of lines of C++ over 20 years, used all the gizmos, and then, gradually started to cut down on them, eventually sett
30. 210.▲
    by buserror 8y ago

    I think I have 1, 2, 3 no problems after 35+ years of programming -- I still love it, I still learn stuff, and I'm shockingly experienced in a rather large amount of subfields. The problems is #4. 1,2,3 are 'easy' given time