masternight

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by masternight 4mo ago
They shouldn't ask such questions, but people also need to learn to push back against unreasonable behaviour too.
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by masternight 6mo ago
> I was in a group and we were writing small intros for BBSes with a couple of friends Ah that would have been such an awesome time. Thanks for sharing!
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by masternight 6mo ago
Ah wow. I really enjoyed the demoscene back in the 90s. Was never a part of it but I was always fascinated by the effects and music and ascii art that these guys created. A BBS in my city always had the latest e-zines like Reality Check Net
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by masternight 1y ago
I'm in the same country. Another big reason to use a CB over a phone is that it's illegal to touch a phone while driving. No such restriction applies to CB radios. The tech is very much alive and well.
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by masternight 1y ago
> will be counted heavily against you. Yes, that's the problem Though, as someone who's done a number of those interviews over the years, I'd replace the word truthful with manner that the interviewer regards as truthfu
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by masternight 1y ago
They're hard for me because the events that a lot of people consider achievements don't really stand out in my memory. Often I tend to forget they happened. I've solved some programming problems that I considered quite mundan
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by masternight 1y ago
Yeah, Drepper said the same thing.
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by masternight 1y ago
So what if it's using unbounded strcpy's all over the place? It has basically no attack surface. He wrote it for himself, not for criticism from the HN hoi polloi I didn't point that out so I could be the smartest person i
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by masternight 1y ago
Yup. Lots of good security & safety innovations came from OpenBSD.
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by masternight 1y ago
Those functions explicitly? I can't find any definitive explanation on why they exist. It looks like nowdays ZeroMemory() and RtlZeroMemory() are just macros for memset(). Here's an article on some of the RECT helper functions. R
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by masternight 1y ago
Yep, that's intended use case for strncpy(). It's not really suitable for general purpose programming like the OP is doing. It won't null terminate the string if the buffer is filled, which will cause you all sorts of proble
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by masternight 1y ago
Heh, and if you use strncpy() you'll have to suffer through me lecturing you on why strncpy() is the wrong function to use as well.
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by masternight 1y ago
There is something I like about win32 gui programming. It's a little idiosyncratic, but if you read Raymond Chen's blog you'll see why. The win32 API has its origins on the 8088 processor and doing things a certain way result
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by masternight 2y ago
Back end coder for about 18 years. I don't have one, and no employer in an interview has ever really expressed interest in something like that.
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by masternight 2y ago
So, Autocomplete, Lang Server and Copilot. I don't use any of those, and I've never felt the need for them really. Is Make and Vim not an IDE? None of those existed when I started to code at my first dayjob and I've never re