chris_j

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by chris_j 5y ago
Cool thanks for expanding. That TODO list of ideas makes sense now. Am I correct in understanding that finding the time/energy to actually do something with your ideas is the limiting factor for you? Or is it something else?
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by chris_j 5y ago
It would be helpful to give some ideas of the sorts of projects that you're thinking of. It sounds like you have a very specific idea in mind. What sort of things do you have on your TODO list and what are you assuming that folks here
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by chris_j 5y ago
What languages did you use on the ST? I cut my teeth on STOS, GFA BASIC and DevPac 2. Learning assembly language, which I was trying to use to write games, proved to be very useful when I later worked on embedded systems. Though I never man
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by chris_j 5y ago
EmuTOS runs fine on Hatari on my Mac (never tried EmuTOS on real hardware). One thing to bear in mind is that some software, especially games, might not run on EmuTOS, but you ought to be able to find real TOS images without too much hassle
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by chris_j 5y ago
Wise words. I'm sure most of us would never have learned all the of the basics of mathematics on our own. Though I do remember Feynman claiming in the book that he'd come up with certain trigonometric concepts on his own and then
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by chris_j 5y ago
Thanks for expanding. I had forgotten about the painting anecdote. As others have pointed out, a lot men in that era seemed similar in a way. I'd been assuming that going through all the changes that happened in the 60s as a middle age
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by chris_j 5y ago
This is one of my favourite anecdotes from that book. In recent decades, we've learned how important intrinsic motivation is, and this is a great example of it. My father was a massive fan of Richard Feynman and also happened to be ext
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by chris_j 5y ago
What is it about those anecdotes that makes you like him less?
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by chris_j 5y ago
Many thanks for the explanation. If the product is built using different tech from what you want to use then a rewrite does make a lot of sense.
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by chris_j 5y ago
Many thanks for the explanations.
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by chris_j 5y ago
There are a couple of terms here that I'm not familiar with. What is "elevating code"? (I'm trying to work out of autocorrect has screwed up the word "deploying".) What is an ASC?
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by chris_j 5y ago
What motivated you to rewrite it rather than fixing the debt in the old product?
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by chris_j 6y ago
A cynic might suggest that Oracle deliberately sabotaged Java EE because competitors like IBM and RedHat had beaten it in the marketplace and were making all the money off it.
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by chris_j 6y ago
Read the book Apprenticeship Patterns (which is available for free online here: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/apprenticeship-patterns... ). It contains a set of patterns that you can apply to figure out what
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by chris_j 6y ago
I hadn't realised that the site was live that early. I have fond memories of discovering Hacker News in the early days (sorry, Startup News, as it was initially called). I'd been lurking on Reddit but the Reddit was rapidly losing
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by chris_j 6y ago
Same here. I recall being most anxious when I worked in level 3 customer support many years ago - a different highly stressful customer problem would land in my lap each day. I used many things to help with it. One thing that was crucially
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by chris_j 6y ago
The word was definitely used (and was understood to be offensive) when I was growing up - in Worcestershire in the 90s. I wonder if it's fallen out of use since then.
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by chris_j 6y ago
Puppet made a big deal of adopting Clojure quite a few years ago: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2687553/puppet-server-drop...
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by chris_j 6y ago
> What I ended up using heavily was REPL to file integration, which gave me the ability to write a function normally, evaluate it in the attached REPL session, and then play around with it in the REPL When I do REPL driven development in
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by chris_j 6y ago
Stealing The Corner Office by Brandon Reid was very useful for me. The premise of the book is that there are certain behaviours that you need to exhibit in order to get ahead at work (other than actually doing a good job and producing for y
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by chris_j 6y ago
What gains available in traditional taxi companies did Uber lose?
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by chris_j 6y ago
I'd be interested to hear about the sorts of systems that you've worked on and how anything you can do with microservices you can do with a monolith. Some problems that I've had to solve in recent years: - Urgently deploying
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by chris_j 6y ago
What does Common Lisp have, in terms of interactive programming features, that Clojure (together with Cider and nrepl etc) lacks?
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by chris_j 6y ago
Apologies in advance for going on a slight tangent here but it's my view that defining getters and setters is not considered idiomatic OO code either. If one object is using getters and setter to access the state of another then this s
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by chris_j 6y ago
Well Clojure most definitely does support state-bearing entities that communicate using message passing (channels / agents / atoms...) and, while I confess I that I personally don't use them in _quite_ the same way that I use
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by chris_j 6y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to describe Common Lisp as ugly but it's an old and fairly large language that carries a lot of baggage does a few things differently from modern languages and operating systems. Personally, I tried to lear
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by chris_j 6y ago
Which companies?
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by chris_j 6y ago
Are you using an original TOS image or are you using EmuTOS (which comes with Hatari)? I have run a few old games on Hatari and have found that many of them fail to run on top of EmuTOS but no idea which OS calls are the problematic ones.
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by chris_j 6y ago
I fondly remember the assembly programming tutorial which Bullfrog did in ST Format magazine back in 1991, which was the first time I had been exposed to "real" games programming techniques in assembler (the ST lacked the custom g
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by chris_j 6y ago
For me, TDD is useful for a number of reasons, not all of which are directly related to testing. Firstly, it forces me to think about the "what" and not the "how". When I start writing a unit of code, I write a test befo

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