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by memsom 2y ago
I remember writing a pretty complicated "guess the number" program in 16-bit DOS assembler in the 90's for a college course. It used colour and everything and I spent a number of long nights getting tasm to do what I wanted o
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by memsom 2y ago
IIRC PalmOS prc and pdb are similar, in that they both contain PalmOS data, but pdb was meant to just for data and prc was meant to include executable resources too. PalmOS borrows a massive amount from 68K Mac. Codewarrior used to be the d
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by memsom 2y ago
I have both a PalmPilot Professional (with serial) and a Palm m500 (with USB), the latter is a lot easier to pocket, but the USB support is horrible in modern OS. I keep wanting to get back in to Palm dev. I even managed to get Pila to comp
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by memsom 2y ago
Yeah - it is complicated. I had never heard "sequel" till I started my first day job in the late 90's. But I swear the closer people are to databases management, the more I hear "sequel". SQL being spelled out is se
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by memsom 2y ago
I wasn't talking about French speakers. We are speaking about English usage. I have heard French people say "Sourcecodes" or "Sources" too, but that is also something I would never personally use in English. Sourcec
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by memsom 2y ago
So, "sequel" as a name, as opposed to "ess-cue-ell" is pretty universally used in English . Most people who use it call the Microsoft RDBMS "sequel server" not "ess-cue-ell server" and I hear "s
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by memsom 2y ago
I honestly wouldn't have assumed any of those. "Clarks" is a very famous shoe brand in the UK, and here, Clark is a surname. Ironically, Clark Gable's real name was "William Clark Gable" apparently. So, Clark w
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by memsom 2y ago
You would be rewriting history if we changed that now. It has been referred to K&R style C since the ANSI standard. The second edition of the C Programming Language was ANSI. My copy of the second edition has "based on the draft-pr
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by memsom 2y ago
Nope. Dianne Hackbourne was a key Be developer. You also have most of the Intent system, the Receivers and Handlers as well as a lot of the general Android API to thank Be Inc for. When you look at the Be API, you can find analogues to most
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by memsom 2y ago
This^^^^ (though to be honest, Android has a lot of BeOS concepts in it because the same engineers ended up working on it too. It has Binder, and Intents are basically BMessages - there are all the Loopers, Handlers and Receivers too...)
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by memsom 2y ago
> I suspect the company that created BeOS actually lost the source-code and that's potentially the real reason they don't want to share Nope. The source code exists. You can find rather corrupted chunks of it archived on a very
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by memsom 2y ago
My guess - BeOS and Haiku are not Linux based systems (not BSB, nor any other OS.) People that use Haiku probably do so out of choice and I guess they already know Linux exists. If they wanted to use Linux, they probably would. IMO, stating
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by memsom 2y ago
Don't want a pre-render, want it to be rendered on the fly on device with no internet connection. Think Android phone or Windows tablet on 2G network at best so bandwidth is not really there. We basically need a "tilesource"
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by memsom 2y ago
Replying to myself - this needs to be native code really. We are using various .Net UI frameworks, but the mapping is all via Mapsui and Brutile.MbTiles. The current renderer we have is not ideal as it is quite slow and incomplete.
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by memsom 2y ago
Having used raster MBTiles a lot for offline mapping, I would truly love a generic process that could take vector MBTiles, and then create a fully rendered raster tile from that data with the given stylesheet. If anyone knows of such a cros
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by memsom 2y ago
I would put Carbon in the list on the right. Zig is more worthy of being on the left, but even then I'm not 100% sure of that statement.
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by memsom 2y ago
You say no support for Win 11, but my Surface 2 Pro runs Windows 11 just fine. I don't think it even asked for the license key when I installed it. I probably used Rufus to make the image and turned off some of the more problematic asp
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by memsom 2y ago
I visited Pompeii and Herculanium last year. The thing you don't get by reading books about Pompeii is just how absolutely massive it was. It is HUGE. You are talking a small city. I believe we were also told that something like 1&#x2F
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by memsom 2y ago
> I don't know EU law, but I don't buy this argument. Some very common words are trademarkable (e.g. Apple) in certain trade contexts. You seem to be arguing only a neologism can be trademarkable. Apple is not a great example[1
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by memsom 2y ago
This is cool, but the latency makes it hard to make anything useful.
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by memsom 2y ago
It is probably a bit naughty, but Mighty Mac is no different than Big Mac really. Mac is an element of their name. I think they probably did it to see what McD's would do?
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by memsom 2y ago
If the trademark is weakened, this opens the door to having it removed. It should not be trademarkable. It is like trademarking "X" (where X is some common work or term) then going after anyone that uses the word "X" in
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by memsom 2y ago
I think it goes like this: McDonald is a name that comes from Gaelic, which is used in both Scotland and Ireland. Mc is shortened from Mac, mac is literally "son" in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, so "Mac Donald" means &quot
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by memsom 2y ago
No - they sell burgers. I have actually had one a long time ago. It was comparable to McD's offering.
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by memsom 2y ago
I'll come find you on Github, but I'd certainly be interested in getting involved in a Metrowerks compatible linker. The BeOS toolchain suffers from being so old that nothing modern compiles anymore and so this combined with other
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by memsom 2y ago
Question - looking at the code quickly, I see stuff about MWCC and Metrowerks object file format - is your tool chain in some way generating Metwowerks compatible object files? BeOS PowerPC uses the same compiler so you got me excited!
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by memsom 2y ago
Okay - this is not going to happen. WPF lets you do really complicated binding tricks that XF was just not capable of. Maui is just an evolution of XF, but so far I think iit is a step back from what we had before. We have some stuff workin
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by memsom 2y ago
Six months ago I would have argued with you, but currently doing a MAUI transition from a Xamarin Forms app, and you are very right. I wish Avalonia UI's mobile solution had had Navigation sorted a year ago when I proposed that we need
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by memsom 2y ago
Wow - it sounds very good on paper. It supports most of the features I would need to migrate to it also.
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by memsom 2y ago
Escom acquired the Amiga brand and distributed Amiga hardware (till they went out of business.)

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