macjohnmcc

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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
A great tool for understanding source code is Source Trail. Supports parsing of C/C++, Python and Java currently. I love tools that help understand a large code base.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I knew somebody who got national attention for making an energy drink named Cocaine. It did not last long on the market due to the name.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Yeah I remember when there weren't dozens of services running in the background just for basic OS functionality.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
They were using SLM (Slime) but I did not have access to the server since I was on a different project (Microsoft Systems Management Server).
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I just thought of something. At the time blank CD-R's were about $15 each and the fastest burners at the time were 2x burners. I'm sorry I wasted so much of time the person who burned these and the cost of the media!
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
And it was not compressed it was just a bunch of files and folders. My guess is it was around 15 CD-ROMs
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Make that winning animation use the GPU!
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
It took ages to figure out where the code even was in the many files and folders. The directory structure did not make it obvious.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Many years ago when I worked at Microsoft I asked for the source code to Solitaire. A few days later I received a stack of CD-ROMs with the entire source code of Windows NT (4.0 maybe).
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
My son now regularly crushes me in all video games and has for more than 10 years. :)
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
When my son was around 4 I was playing GTA and was not playing it violently when I took a car from someone and they tried to pull me out he said "Hit him dad! Hit him!" but never in his life (he is 21 now) has he struck anyone. It
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I'm also confused as to why there are no Spider-man movies in the suburbs.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I loved the old flat crt grey scale vga monitors
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
No but something nearly as bad was typing on punch cards and having to feed them into a card reader to get the code into the computer. And all but one of the terminals was a TTY at 110baud and printed on paper. There was a single Dec VT100&
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
There are some labels developers use today that sound like a need to validate themselves. Is this a result of a competitive environment or a time when everybody gets a trophy? I'd like to understand this one.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
When I was in high school we had a PDP System 10 and PDP 11 where I took a programming course on PDP-11 assembly language. It makes me feel old knowing these weren't antiquated at the time.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
So many articles on Lisps on the front page. Did I miss something? It is Lispmas?
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I took a 6502 assembly language class when I was in high school I already had some experience with it so I spent my time doing machine language monitor with disassembler and helped others. It was the best class I had at the time.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I don't have a degree. I feel that not having it has cost me some opportunities. Someone once said that when someone has put in years to get their degree they want the candidates they interview to have done that work as well.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I don't have a hard time being alone but I suspect it would be different if I didn't have at least online interactions with people. I start to talk to myself out loud after a while if not around other people.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I love the show. It grows on you. There is a lot of heart and story in it.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
This is one of those stay off my lawn moments but involving computer resources.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
How much could it possibly cost them to have an account doing nothing? Sure they don't make money if it is dormant but it costs them nothing.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
Yeah if there are lives at stake that’s the important stuff.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I've worked on mission critical software over a long period of time and it can be a challenge to be performant and also not fail or bring down the rest of the apps on the computer at the same time. Nothing as mission critical as flight
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I think Apple should have to sell OEM parts at a competitive price to avoid hazards and take away the monopoly.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I like it for the most part but some apps take it such an extreme that I can't even tell where the window edges are when they are overlapping each other and buttons are indistinguishable from the window background color. The skin I am
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
A house in our neighborhood burned to the ground and the fire was started by a laptop battery (replacement) charging. It shot up through the roof of the kitchen into attic and started a fire that quickly consumed the house. I would never pu
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
I'm not trying to say you are anything not sure why you are taking it as an attack on you I was just stating that those people exist in Texas and aren't a quiet minority. I live here I have reference.
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by macjohnmcc 6y ago
People who knew it is what it is right from the get go. They didn't do any bait and switch.

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