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by mftb 5y ago
He's not confusing it with something else. He's describing ~VB4-6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)
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by mftb 5y ago
I thought fb had moved on from being downloaded, to taking over whole countries, by co-opting their internet access?
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by mftb 5y ago
Both you're points and the gp's are good, but yours aren't refuting his, only pointing out that the master grew more generous. What's worth refuting in gp's post is the notion that humanity is "plundering"
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by mftb 5y ago
I'm happy to see that I'm not alone in my struggles with jq. I wanted to love it right out of the box. It appears to be very well engineered, but over and over again I have struggled with it's syntax. What I think I want is a
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by mftb 5y ago
You certainly can have a career that's lucrative, but not prestigious. I've been coding for over 25 years and in that time, have been referred to as a "nerd", "geek", etc... pretty much the entire time. Not pr
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by mftb 5y ago
Long article, so I had to bookmark it for later, but I'm glad this made it to the front page of HN. Digital preservation is important to me.
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by mftb 5y ago
Right and that's one of the ways that we can recognize it's an interesting area. Once it's understood, the problems well-bounded, the window has generally closed. Of course there is also risk, sometimes we've wandered to
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by mftb 5y ago
man bash, and search for, 'edit-and-execute-command', to launch a configurable editor for long commands. zsh has a similar facility.
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by mftb 5y ago
The title and opening paragraphs of this article are so aggravating and misguided I almost didn't make it to the end to find out about the interesting technology they have to talk about. Now I can't remember it's name because
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by mftb 5y ago
"Man cannot stand a meaningless life", Carl Jung. I've spent twenty-five years coding, solved some problems, made some money for myself, more for others, but what have I accomplished? It's unlikely it will be through a s
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by mftb 5y ago
Yes. Reasons; Project files going back many years and many versions of VS. These files may have been "auto-upgraded" several times. Dependency changes, locations, versions, etc... Login requirements, to SQL Server, IIS, SharePoin
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by mftb 5y ago
I don't know if you'd call him a theorist, but I think this gentleman maintains GHashTable and I found his posts comparing/benchmarking widely used hash tables really informative and entertaining: https://hpjansson
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I'm just about this person's age and my career has pretty much been entwined with the web since the very beginning (I started right around '93). I don't necessarily see it the way this person does. I don't think op