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by mhd 5y ago
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad?
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by mhd 5y ago
I'm on vacation, so I've got an old Elitebook with me, 1600x900. That font is bad. And picking the right font for the medium is one of the first abilities you should learn for, well, typography. Even for print there's huge di
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by mhd 5y ago
Back in the days, I was seeing Python basically as the anti-Perl, where "There's More Than One Way of Doing Things" is the core mantra. Sure, a for loop is a blunt tool, but there's something to be said about not having
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by mhd 5y ago
I'm still not sure that list comprehensions in Python 2 were the right move...
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by mhd 5y ago
I haven't kept up with Dart, as I kinda fail to see the point right now, so can you elaborate a bit on how you think the current design is going against Gilad Bracha's convictions? Language evolution is an interesting thing, espec
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by mhd 5y ago
Reminds me of "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook, where a programmer is summoned into a fantasy world where the magic is highly volatile, and he tames it with Forth.
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by mhd 5y ago
That's an interesting take. It would've been interesting if Motif were open sourced a few years earlier, as there would've been fewer wars about the correct Linux X11 toolkit (amongst the commercial Unices, this was just sett
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by mhd 5y ago
Is there any large body of public C code that uses/used m4? I'd really like to see what the m4 equivalent of the original Bourne shell code or the APL Incunabulum would be.
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by mhd 5y ago
A while I tried to use both Arena and Chimera (a Athena widgets based browser, IIRC) mostly, but even then I was forced to use Netscape (3 or 4) for a lot of pages.
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by mhd 5y ago
I bet you could put "Libreoffice Calc" into most of those categories…
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by mhd 5y ago
So, Objective-C #import plus some linting rules and minor syntax adjustments? I somehow doubt that this would be worth the change (especially if you have to "extern" stuff like a C++ programmer). People can live with all kinds of
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by mhd 5y ago
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
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by mhd 5y ago
Interesting, so pulse dialing in Sweden was zero-based (one pulse for 0 instead of 10 as here in Germany)?
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by mhd 5y ago
Yeah, three cheers for modern IDEs like edlin.
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by mhd 5y ago
It gets really bad once you need to support a libc5/a.out executable. Linux never cared that much. If you're living in an open source world, binary compatibility isn't seen as important. At least that was my impression in the
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by mhd 5y ago
Tcl had a very short time in the fickle web dev spotlight, mostly due to Aolserver and Philip Greenspun. Something between CGI with Perl and whatever Java had to offer in the deep end of the 90s. At that time, a few lucky folks made way too
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by mhd 5y ago
How an actual author (Vernor Vinge) uses Emacs: https://i.imgur.com/G6HXGCw.png (CW: Emacs^2)
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by mhd 5y ago
For parsing/protocol handling the implementations where this was distributed amongst several files and/or classes have usually been the worst, in my experience. But now I want to see how badly you could Uncle Bob this thing. My sc
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by mhd 5y ago
Honestly, the amount of work that's spent in the industry to (often needlessly) avoid GC has stopped being funny a long time ago for me.
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by mhd 5y ago
I've always been fond of the sheer nerdiness of http://www.avespfade.de , a route planner for the German fantasy RPG "Das Schwarze Auge" (The Dark Eye).
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by mhd 5y ago
Not to be confused with C-Refine[1], which is a refinements preprocessor (similar to Elan, ABC; a sadly lost tool) for C. [1]: https://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/sw/crefine.3.0.tar.gz
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by mhd 5y ago
Ah, "native" and "firefox" really makes me miss Camino, which was a pretty great mix between OS X standard UI features and the FF rendering engine. But apparently keeping that up to speed with Firefox main releases was w
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by mhd 5y ago
That's always been the case. After Win95 came out, every OS revision and Office release changed the default look and feel. It was most noticeable in the toolbars. Started out with visually raised buttons (like regular interface butto
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by mhd 5y ago
There are latin Disney comics, just like Asterix. Probably more done for general educational purposes than for the Vatican market, but hey, you got to pin the name somewhere (and IIRC, for modern words in Latin the Vatican is often the offi
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by mhd 5y ago
Apparently in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary. According to this neat map: https://mapologies.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/scrooge-01-3....
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by mhd 5y ago
The retro designs that I really want to see made real would be the ones done by "Arne"[1]. Most of the designs would be impossible, being pretty steeped in trademarks, but they've explored some interesting ideas, like alterna
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by mhd 5y ago
It's even in one of the screenshots of the Readme. https://github.com/TomHarte/CP-M-for-OS-X/blob/master/Images...
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by mhd 5y ago
Note that "GUI" in this case can often mean "web page" and/or cross-platform mobile views. (Also because a company might up to three non-coding jobs being entangled in this mess before it even reaches a programmer.)
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by mhd 5y ago
The game Starflight (1986) was also written in Forth. The only game of that complexity I'm aware of where this was the programming language of choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
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by mhd 5y ago
This is about archival, not contract law. You can seal contracts with handshakes in Germany, too. But for certain types of records, you need to ensure longevity, and there are norms for that regarding paper, ink or even digital storage. I w

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