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by dejv 10y ago
well, there are tons of active projects all the time. Scope, size and quality of those projects vary a lot, but they do exists.
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by dejv 10y ago
... and death penalty for caring drugs, and caning for minor offences, and that chewing gum could be obtained only by doctor prescription, and that you will be followed by secret police if you look suspicious (you have wrong color or whatev
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by dejv 10y ago
6 mb for typical binary, but there are around 10 different exe files compiled from this codebase, most of them overlaping and sharing big portion of functionality.
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by dejv 10y ago
Hard question. I am working on this software for almost 10 years now and there were times where I was working on it fulltime, there were times I was also working on numerous other apps and businesses, and also two years when I basically qui
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by dejv 10y ago
Yeah, I tried to migrate out of that mess into other tools and it ends up as even bigger mess. Now I do have three different reporting systems in three different technologies (QuickReports in Delphi, code that generate HTML code from inside
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by dejv 10y ago
Probably not: the application has around 100 printouts (with tons of spaghetti logic behind it making it impossible to count all variations) and it will be very hard to switch to new reporting framework. The big problem with legacy software
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by dejv 10y ago
Three main things: - memory space for printers and sound cards changed in Vista, so when you have some constellation of printers and you change the printer in dialog whole program just crash, because it is trying to touch restricted memory
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by dejv 10y ago
I make living off desktop app in construction industry. The app is 21 years old and is still written in Delphi 5. I still actively maintaining it and it runs fairly well on modern Windows OSes, but there were some low level problems in rec
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by dejv 10y ago
Sketch-driven development is not that much better. It is easier to get from design to app, but then edge cases and real data start to interfere with vision and you are doomed anyway.
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by dejv 11y ago
QCAD is great, but I would not consider it free: without paid package is not that usable. But this package is just 40 bucks, which is really cheap.
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Side Projects(avc.com)
2 points by dejv 11y ago|0 comments
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by dejv 11y ago
yes
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by dejv 11y ago
I used to work in one game company and one of my team mate had parrot that he was bringing to our offices. This parrot like to annoy certain people with uh-oh sound, which always cause automatic reaction of checking the the ICQ client and a
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by dejv 11y ago
It's behind you - the making of a computer game: http://bizzley.imbahost.com/ is great There is also diaries for Making of Prince of Persia and Karatek. http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journ
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Living Off Hackathons: The Possible Rise of the Pro-Hacker(techcrunch.com)
5 points by dejv 11y ago|0 comments
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by dejv 11y ago
I am doing something like this (aimed to QA/contract laboratories), it is in pivot phase with first customer, replacing pen and paper system (for laboratory doing 500 samples a day). Let me know if you want to check it out.
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by dejv 11y ago
Yes, they are very common in countries where the short term profits are king. The problem with aerial spraying is wind: you don't want your herbicides/insecticides to be sprayed out of your field: as it can kill bees or local popu
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by dejv 11y ago
Not only FAA, there are additional regulations that prohibit use of aerial vehicles to spray crops. The reason to do that is to minimise chemical pollution to other fields/nature. These regulations depend on country and few other thing
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by dejv 11y ago
Sure, there are not much new development, but there is still a lot of people working in it every day. I am one of those people, maintaining and developing big business system. You can find Pascal/Delphi projects everywhere: a lot of sc
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by dejv 11y ago
Checkout Farnell, they offer next day delivery to most of EU countries. (Just ordered three of them)
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by dejv 11y ago
Take a look on Bast Instrument: http://www.bastl-instruments.com/ Their stuff looks interesting and you can even buy DIY kits. They even have modules for servo motors, solenoids and other stuff that you can interact with re
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by dejv 11y ago
Battery of my mid-2012 Mac Air died (12% capacity) after 550 cycles, they usually just swap the batteries for free, but I bought my computer while living abroad, so no luck. After some thoughts, I just bought replacement battery, two custom
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by dejv 11y ago
Transnistria was one of the strangest places I ever visited. It still lives in their old Soviet times and you can find statues of Lenin everywhere. Other than that there is not much to do in this country. To illustrate the state of this cou
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by dejv 11y ago
My guess is that they just copy the blobs and then send it to other machines/datacenters.
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by dejv 11y ago
Wrong information, sorry: during swarming the old queen leaving the hive and left the new queen her old hive.
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by dejv 11y ago
Well there are other factors in this debate. European-African hybrids are much more aggressive to the beekeeper and there are different conditions that kills the colony. Another factor is the honey production rates for these hybrids. There
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by dejv 11y ago
Yes, bees create new hives by themselves. Every year there are couple of swarming that include young queen leaving the hive to build new colony. In traditional beekeeping, the owner will catch the swarm, put it to new home and you've g
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by dejv 11y ago
So, we have learn how to produce bee queens on industrial scale, package them to sealed bag and sell them for 100 bucks. We replaced the natural way with industry and the author call it success.
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by dejv 11y ago
I am sure I am sticking around as long as possible, but it is always good idea to be ready for all eventualities. Especially when you are running legacy apps that you have no time to update, but still don't want to let them die. Thanks
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by dejv 11y ago
I just hope they are really keeping the pricing on current levels. I am running couple of legacy apps there, but I guess it is better to prepare for migration. Any suggestion on similar services?

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