liontwist

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by liontwist 2y ago
It's extremely rare to revisit a game like this for fear of new regressions. I'm sure every game goes out the door with 10-20 bad bugs that would be easy to fix, but it's just too late to touch. It also sounds like the fixed
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by liontwist 2y ago
There is the lisp meme “mom can we have defmacro? No we have defmacro at home”
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by liontwist 2y ago
Lisp macros can take arbitrary parameters and are written in lisp. C++ macros can only take types and numbers (until variadic), and writing any code to operate on those inputs is challenging.
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by liontwist 2y ago
Normal engineering isn’t a vehicle to the upper middle class. Supply of engineering degree holders (challenging) is much closer to demand.
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by liontwist 2y ago
> but after that they are golden. Of course. They paid an enormous cost and beat other competitors for that privilege which is carefully guarded by regulation and certification boards. No doubt software has more instability, but the trad
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by liontwist 2y ago
You can change background and button colors too. Other point is noted. But let’s compare the alternative: 1. Fiddle with a config file for each app for a week. Distro includes this in dark mode set. 2. Each app writes custom code to listen
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by liontwist 2y ago
It’s not insane for companies to filter candidates. More people want to be highly paid software engineers than positions available. The insane thing would be to expect someone to take you at your word for 150k*, when hiring managers know th
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by liontwist 2y ago
Remember that in other fields like medicine, finance, academia, and law, getting in involves 5+ years of hoop jumping and commitment signaling that have nothing to do with the final job. We are blessed.
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by liontwist 2y ago
Dark mode would have been trivial with old toolkits because they used standardize look and feel. In fact motif lets you customize the color scheme through a text file. Which can make each app fit the appearance of the given desktop. Old gui
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by liontwist 2y ago
Motif is another great example where every component is focused on functionality. Everything can be driven by a keyboard, there is accessibility features, etc.