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by mark-r 5y ago
I wrote a disassembler for 68k in 68k assembler. It was part of a home brew monitor, so you could show the code you were executing.
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by mark-r 5y ago
He's made this point before, more than once I think. But never so succinctly - well done. The only thing his less succinct essays give you is his motivation for liking Lisp and macros in particular - it allowed him to build a successf
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by mark-r 5y ago
My two favorite problems with Excel automatic type conversions: Zip codes that lose leading zeros. Gene names that get converted to dates. The names of some genes were recently changed because too many databases were being corrupted by res
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by mark-r 5y ago
They complain about the loss of metadata, but never get into specifics. I'm surprised they didn't mention the biggest example of this. Excel is forced to guess the type of input data it's reading, and sometimes it guesses w
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by mark-r 5y ago
You are correct. Inside the function you reassign listA but that doesn't change anything outside the function; you now have two different lists. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/986006/5987 .
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by mark-r 5y ago
Surprised he didn't mention the Gill Sans shown in one of the screen shots. It's distinctive because of the "R".
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by mark-r 5y ago
Don't worry, they'll be changing back. https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10919686/clearview-highway...
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by mark-r 5y ago
Designing a new font is a hard job, not something you just slap together for a movie. Even big corporations who want a custom font will generally hire a designer who bases it on something they've done before.
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by mark-r 5y ago
If you're doing actual OCR these days, it'll be sophisticated enough that it doesn't need a dedicated font. OCR-A has no practical purpose anymore other than to convey a certain look.
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by mark-r 5y ago
So now you need both a metric and SAE adjustable wrench?
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by mark-r 5y ago
These escape sequences were known as ANSI long before the invention of ANSI.SYS. I suspect the standardization may be for the syntax and not the specific commands.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Google Play was perfect for playing the .mp3 files on my Android phone. No need for an internet connection. Then suddenly it was ripped away, and YouTube is not remotely a replacement. I still haven't found an adequate replacement b
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've found that the best programs are the ones under the control of a single benevolent dictator. They can maintain their focus and consistency much better than any other structure.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The more settings you have, the more settings you won't care about. It's easy to get settings fatigue. And every setting you introduce adds complexity to both the code and the testing.
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by mark-r 5y ago
If you ever come to doubt the power of advertising, just remember Sinclair.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I had to laugh when I saw the Trophy Bass game. My first big program was a fishing game, around 1974. Text only, there were no graphics back then. 20 years too early I guess.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Awkward perhaps but not terrible. It emphasizes the one quality that makes it different from std::map.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Same reason high-powered graphics boards are used today for cryptocurrency - high throughput calculations.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Funny story. Johnny Appleseed was famous for planting apple seeds across much of the U.S. But because his apples were grown from seed, they weren't hybrids and were probably all crabapples. And the only use for crabapples was making
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by mark-r 5y ago
Now think of all the other areas of your life where the same thing has occurred, but you're not aware of it yet.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I live very close to where the Honeycrisp was developed, and sadly I don't frequent them or the other local orchards as much as I should.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The Red Delicious stands out to me as the textbook example of the power of naming and marketing. The origin story is unbeatable. The power of a name on our perceptions is undeniable. Realizing all of this has been one of the most empower
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by mark-r 5y ago
So perhaps the real answer is to inject your own random yellow dots on the page so it confuses whatever encoding they're using.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Perhaps that's still true in casual conversation, but in the hiring world .NET appears to be about server applications exclusively. At least in my observations.
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by mark-r 5y ago
They give an explicit example of a HP Laserjet. The image is B&W under white light and my experience with Laserjets is that they're B&W printers. I know they make color versions, but that's not how it's presented in
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by mark-r 5y ago
This situation isn't completely universal. I've spent the last 20+ years developing C++ applications for Windows. Now I know how the Cobol developers felt 25 years ago - nobody's looking for the kind of skills I can demonstr
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by mark-r 5y ago
The recruiters I get reaching out to me through Linkedin rarely tell enough about the job to make it interesting.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I recently had a job for exactly a week before the company decided I wasn't working out. One of the things they had me doing was logging in to Azure and trying to debug something - even though Azure never came up during the interview
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've found that the understood meaning of .NET has changed from when the term was first defined by Microsoft. Originally it meant the C# language and the multi-language library that it employed. Now it means specifically the parts of
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've known about the yellow dot patterns on color printers for a long time. If you've ever wondered why the yellow ink on your printer goes down faster than you think it should, now you know. But this article seems to imply that

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