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by goddstream 4y ago
I'm a veteran calcium oxalate stone former; I've ended up in hospital three times because of them, and my last scan showed I currently am carrying 16 of them, (plus 3 bonus bladder stones). I'd thought I'd pass on what I
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by goddstream 4y ago
The Picol code has always been a fascinating read, until you get to the comment /* XXX: escape handling missing! */ and realise it won't escape/eval stuff inside strings, so you think ha! and roll up your sleeves and get
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by goddstream 4y ago
Nice start, in the same simple-is-good spirit as https://thinktype.app/ If you switch between browsers and machines, how do you transport/export/import/backup the localStorage content?
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by goddstream 4y ago
Justine's posts are always worth reading, even if their subject is outside your normal area of interest.
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by goddstream 4y ago
Piece tables used in text editors https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2...
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by goddstream 5y ago
What happened to us, as a society, that creates the expectation that a thing should be monetized? I don't like ads, on the internet or TV, and therefore refuse to inflict them on anyone who plays the little game apps that I release, ot
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by goddstream 5y ago
I was once told, by a car rental chap, that the rental companies don't make money renting out cars; instead, they make money by putting some miles on the cars in their fleet, and then reselling them at a profit. He told me that the dea
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by goddstream 5y ago
Genius. How can any programmer be bored on a Sunday when there are things like this. What a time to be alive.
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by goddstream 5y ago
Interesting, but it made me wonder - are there any programming languages that you can use with a proportional font? Python would not be on the list...
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by goddstream 6y ago
Me too! Pascal has a natural "flow" that I lost when I transitioned to C.
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by goddstream 6y ago
Okay, roughly in the same boat here. Every time I'm deep in a project, I start looking wistfully at other 2D game engines and seemingly waste a few days looking through the docs and tutorials for Flutter/Xamarin/Monogame&#x2F