jdswain

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by jdswain 9y ago
I thought Delphi was mostly dead. I saw a job listing recently and thought it would be kind of cool to go back to it. But when I checked the Tiobe index it's still quite popular at number 11, notably it's above Swift and Objective
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by jdswain 9y ago
And the QFP Spartan 6 is the most powerful Xilinx FPGA that is hand solderable. Maybe not a concern if you are using an existing board or have a reflow oven, but for me that is a good reason not to go up to Spartan 7 or newer.
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by jdswain 9y ago
In New Zealand 'up' often means north, and 'down' south, but it also, depending on where you are, refers to altitude. I'm currently at 550m elevation, and I'd go down to the coast even though the place I'd
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by jdswain 9y ago
Soon after the Windows 95 release I heard that one of the members of the Windows 95 team had a copy of NeXTstep on a computer they used, and that it was a source of ‘inspiration’. I can’t find any reference to this now, but the 3D look and
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by jdswain 9y ago
Where I live it would cost us $45 for tickets alone, probably $65 including food and drinks for a family of 3. I can buy a movie on iTunes for less than half that and watch it as many times as I want whenever I want.
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by jdswain 9y ago
I think 'Revolution in the valley' could qualify, it's not really a coffee table book, but the stories are so short you can pick it up and read one in a few minutes. There is also 'Appledesign: The Work of the Apple Indu
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by jdswain 9y ago
I tried this too, but there appears to be no way to swap caps and control. This is simple on macOS and Linux and something I am so used to that I can't really work without it, especially in emacs.
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by jdswain 9y ago
Could be worth looking at graph theory and graph colouring algorithms. Also maybe a Turing machine with colours instead of symbols, you could hand execute the state machine and end up with coloured patterns or even a Lo-res picture.
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by jdswain 9y ago
I used to go out in the morning to a local Starbucks and do email and planning tasks plus also get some social interaction. That worked really well for staring the day with a clear boundary. At the end of the day I'd walk up to the tra
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by jdswain 9y ago
I've found the timezone to be quite an issue. For a start a lot of positions advertised as Remote really mean Remote US Only, but then there are also many companies that aren't too concerned about being outside USA. I'm in UT
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by jdswain 9y ago
I've got that book, it is interesting to read. I also spent quite a bit of time looking at the Oberon system and that has been very educational. Oberon is quite like Pascal, but in some ways simplified even more. He wrote a complete op
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by jdswain 9y ago
That is why many people have life insurance. It's probably not common in large parts of the world, and requires a certain income level to pay for, but it can make a situation where a parent dies a lot easier to cope with, at least the
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by jdswain 9y ago
It doesn't matter what you do, it's what you're seen to do. People that are good self promoters do well at this, and people that quietly get their work done, don't. I don't like this myself, and I'm not very go
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by jdswain 9y ago
I used to do something similar. Go out but to a coffee shop and do my emails and planning, then go home and start the real work. I just found it too hard to go straight from breakfast to working at home without some sort of routine to switc
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by jdswain 10y ago
This is a bit complicated because NeXTstep didn't use a BSD kernel, using the Mach microkernel instead. Much of the layers above were taken from BSD, so it definitely had a BSD feel to it, but it wasn't a BSD kernel so maybe could
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by jdswain 10y ago
I'm actually trying to read less and do more. So instead of reading about compilers I'm building some. It feels like a slower way of learning sometimes, but it's exposed lots of places where I thought I knew how things work b
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by jdswain 10y ago
Try joining a meetup or two, they are really good for meeting people in similar situations to yourself and having conversations about work.
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by jdswain 10y ago
His NeXTStep user interface also strongly influenced Windows 95. For a long time Keith had a web site called pixelsight.com. It used a NeXT computer and the display postscript rendering to generate images from options you could select on th
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by jdswain 10y ago
When I was young I visited our city's traffic department, they had a map on the wall of all the traffic accidents. In the city I lived in the older parts were a very regular grid, and the new parts were cul-de-sacs. Almost all the traf
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by jdswain 10y ago
There are quite a few interestingly designed cities in the UK. I used to work in Bracknell which is similar to what you suggest with walking paths and basically parks around many of the houses, especially in an estate called Great Hollands
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by jdswain 10y ago
There is a lot of price pressure on iOS apps, people expect them to be free or at least under $2. At that price you need to sell a lot of apps to make a profit, and probably very few apps reach that level. I've tried the opposite, sell
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by jdswain 10y ago
I'm battling this problem at the movement in a server I wrote (although I'm using a C++ framework above the socket interface which adds to the complexity). The problem only occurs on linux so wasn't detected for a while, and
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by jdswain 10y ago
It's generally agreed that you are unlikely to make money from the book alone, but there are other reasons for doing this too. Is the topic is something that you really want to promote? Do you have the spare time to do this for the exp
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by jdswain 10y ago
Not all calves, but most. They need to keep the cows lactating, so they need to keep having calves. There is some work on selectively breeding to produce females, but even then there are more females born than are useable for milk productio
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by jdswain 10y ago
If there were still baby cow's. The baby cows are taken away from their mothers and slaughtered.
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by jdswain 11y ago
I get allergy headaches, and I've found that the single best way of reducing them is to dive into cold water. Works way better than painkillers, but when you have a bad headache it's not really something you want to do. I think it
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by jdswain 11y ago
I made the move from Java to C++ at one point in my career. I'd actually programmed C++ before Java, but it had changed so much it was almost like starting again. The language itself is not that hard to pick up, but at the time I kind
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by jdswain 11y ago
It's not quite that simple. Saleae wrote desktop software, which is an important part of the product. By reusing the USB VID/PID I'm guessing (I've not looked at a knockoffs) that the knockoffs allow you to use Saleae&#x
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by jdswain 11y ago
Looking back it does appear that Intel did nearly everything right, and their competitors didn't. It did help a lot though getting the IBM PC business, and due to that, aligning with Microsoft. If you look at the 68000 machines at the
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by jdswain 11y ago
The 68000 really took over from the 6502, even though it was completely incompatible. There is a 16-bit 6502, called the 65816, from WDC. They are still in production today and were used in some very high volume applications, like the Super

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