lbruder

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by lbruder 7y ago
Delphi was, and Lazarus is, amazingly well designed. Lazarus comes pretty close to a Swiss army GUI tool, and once you get to know it a little better, Object Pascal is actually a very nice language that rivals C++ (!) in power. It's st
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by lbruder 8y ago
mcedit, the editor of mc, is a nice DOS-like editor, complete with blue background and pulldown menus. The mc suite contains a simple but powerful hex editor, too.
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by lbruder 8y ago
I still fire up my trusty old Win2k VM from time to time. Fast, stable, simple, intuitive. Along with Delphi 7 it's incredible how productive we used to be some 15 years ago. Documentation was sooo good back then.
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by lbruder 8y ago
Holy shit yes please. And grap.
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by lbruder 8y ago
That would emit a beep from the speaker, right? So long ago...
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by lbruder 8y ago
Working for a water treatment company here. We have created a mathematical model for public pools that includes a projected number of visitors per weekday, the weather forecast, school holidays, and based on that, a daily influx of urine, f
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by lbruder 9y ago
Especially SQLite is often overlooked. A marvelous library that should be part of every personal toolkit.
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by lbruder 9y ago
Don't mind at all. ATM we're using a simple VMWare server backing up the virtual HDD every night, with a dirty hack thrown in (no full backups on weekends as that's when the bigger jobs run, so I dump the current day to a CSV
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by lbruder 9y ago
We use a combination of SQLite and a sharding frontend service. One SQLite database file per device, one table per sensor, table contents are timestamp and measured value. As simple as it gets, easy to scale, and damn fast. But try telling
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by lbruder 9y ago
Taking iodine would be useless after two weeks. On the contrary, that would make future problems with your thyroid more probable, so don't do that. Iodine shouldn't be taken at all if you're more than ~45 years old (as a reme
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by lbruder 9y ago
YMMV, but my experiences with SBCL were way better than with Go. Using Hunchentoot and the other Quicklisp libraries made developing fun again. With Go I had to constantly worry about errors, repeat the same code snippets over and over ag
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by lbruder 10y ago
I'd go for Mint. The only system that never disappointed me and always just worked. Second place would go to Debian "stable", old (== problems with Wifi) but rock solid.
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by lbruder 11y ago
Try to get your hands on an old copy of Delphi 1 or 2. Thousands of pages of documentation in PDF format. Docs used to be so much better back then, it's sad. I still have a copy of Delphi 7 lying around just because the help system was
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by lbruder 11y ago
The one thing Delphi really did wrong was to make GUI programming too easy. It was just too simple, too tempting, to just put all your code into your MainForm.pas, making it grow to over 10'000 LOC. If (and only if) the programmers too
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by lbruder 11y ago
For a nice Delphi alternative, try Lazarus ( http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ). Like Delphi 7, but with more features. Documentation could be better though.
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by lbruder 11y ago
It's the curse of the gifted: http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
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by lbruder 11y ago
Have a look at lazarus ( http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ). It uses a different language (FreePascal instead of C#), but for me it's much more productive, and the programs written run without any framework and feel much snap
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by lbruder 11y ago
Maybe Windows 10 is the best thing that ever happened to Linux...
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by lbruder 11y ago
Interesting article about the "Tcl experience" here: http://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html I love how simple the language is. Quick and easy to learn, small footprint, embeddable. For qui
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by lbruder 11y ago
Sounds like a mixture of the sc file format and BASIC: let A0 = 123 let A1 = 234 let A2 = 345 rightstring B3 = "asd" leftstring B5 = "foo" label B11 = "bar" goto B11 A0 Just
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by lbruder 11y ago
Did they fail as in "some/all data lost", or did they switch to RO and you could at least get your data off them? Thinking of replacing my current home server HDs with SSD but worried about robustness...
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by lbruder 11y ago
There are always three sides in every argument: The ones arguing, and the truth.
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by lbruder 11y ago
Still using D7 nearly everyday, alongside XE7 at work. The impressive, yet sad, thing is 2002's Delphi 7 still runs circles around XE7. Fast, robust, sound documentation. Even Visual Studio and IntelliJ feel weird compared to the simpl
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by lbruder 12y ago
Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us: http://www.nedhardy.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2011/may/h...
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by lbruder 12y ago
Interesting bit aside: The current Delphi versions are becoming better again, to the point of actually being usable. Now it's just that its reputation was ruined when Borland decided to f*ck it up. I'm using it at work to build an
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by lbruder 12y ago
We used to run a decentralized server on our office PCs to aid in protein folding. The program would lie in the background and monitor CPU usage, then spring into action once the CPU was idle for some time, and utilize all but one CPU core
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by lbruder 12y ago
Well, it was the original name Forth was going to have. Just that the OS it was built on allowed only five character file names...
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by lbruder 12y ago
What, exactly, is a mess? The language itself, or the project you inherited?
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by lbruder 12y ago
That's why I loved the CBM64 floppy drive. The 1541 didn't have a light barrier to find its base position, so the stepper motor had to move against a physical barrier long enough to ensure it was at a known position. Brrrrrrrrtttt
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by lbruder 12y ago
The main difference is graphics vs text. While bitmaps won't profit from a better resolution, text will. Sharper letters, no more blurring around the edges. It's a big difference in readability.

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