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by mhd 6y ago
Seems this will come up every few years again. I remember when I was part of the "Linux Interface Project" in the 90s, which started out as a bunch of fledgling Qt programmers trying to create some missing widgets. This was in the
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by mhd 6y ago
Note that even with Windows you often had to install some standard libraries, like MSVCR .DLL or the DirectX version du jour (and I think some VB runtimes, too). Most often redistributed with the software, so done by the installer. Although
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by mhd 6y ago
"...what can be saved from the ruins" What ruins would this apply to now? I see that the mission statement of the magazine is "defending Western civilization". Erm...
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by mhd 6y ago
Okay, first of all let me say that I don't want to poo-poo anyone's choice of environment. If it "sparks joy" for hours every day, it's probably a good personal investment. On the other hand, it does require additio
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by mhd 6y ago
That's a lot of money between screen and GPU just to get crisper fonts (as the rest of the GUI is scaled x3 and thus you don't get that much more screen real estate). Is this really worth it for you? I regularly switch between a 5
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by mhd 6y ago
"And now"? Pressure in most societies has been huge, and every available stress relief was sought. That's how we got the gin epidemic in the 18th century. One might say that most "design" concepts are there to escap
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by mhd 6y ago
Doesn't MPW count?
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by mhd 6y ago
Really? I thought it was quite garish, plastic-y, especially the blue version. I still think that in the Windows timeline, original Win95 (with actual toolbar buttons) was the best. It got all "designy" with each official iteratio
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by mhd 6y ago
Kinski's Third Law: Any sufficiently robotic voice is indistinguishable from a Werner Herzog impression.
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by mhd 6y ago
Also Amos, Haskell, Idris, Joy, Miranda or Yorick. Arguably Dylan or Pascal. I'm more confused by a name starting with a capital "J" not being associated with Java, as once was custom. As for kid's names, definitely[1].
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by mhd 6y ago
I switched to Safari as I've got my default browser set up to ignore all fonts (right now using Computer Modern for everything), but the display gets a bit weird -- while fonts are rendered the way they're meant to, it seems the l
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by mhd 6y ago
"Conlang" for a constructed language (Esperanto, Klingon, Dothraki) has been around for about 30 years. I think the confusing part here isn't the informal abbreviation, it's the general concept that a programming languag
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by mhd 6y ago
I ran my first blog way back when it was in the pre-1.0 stages. Worked quite wonderfully, Textile was a joy to work with and I had a lot of fun delving into the referer log page, wondering at how others found my posts through seemingly rand
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by mhd 6y ago
SLRN used to be be a pretty popular newsreader implemented with S-Lang, never mind that S-Lang, sans the language part, was a quite common alternative to ncurses as a terminal interface. The language itself is... interesting. C-like, but wi
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by mhd 6y ago
Joe is still around, and actually quite usable/performant. If it's invoked as "jstar", it gets even closer to WordStar/TurboPascal keybindings. It can also do "jmacs" which has Emacs keybindings, the defau
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by mhd 6y ago
Well, it could be a game written in the IBM RPG language, if that's possible at all…
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by mhd 6y ago
There have been many, many "Fixed C"'s. That's the problem. This isn't a technology issue, it's a social one.
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by mhd 7y ago
Camino was awesome, one feature that I missed when I had to switch away from it was that its download list actually noticed when the files weren't there anymore (it's the small things that add up). I even had a short look on how h
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by mhd 7y ago
It's not like bringing features you get for free from dynamic languages into static languages doesn't involve an crazy amount of work, either.
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by mhd 7y ago
You're reading this on Hacker news. Too show it's possible, to have some fun. I think they're perfectly aware that this won't replace their current browser-host.
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by mhd 7y ago
Never mind that they're wrong, this isn't even a proper spartan helmet.
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by mhd 7y ago
The primary dependency I'd like to get rid of when developing JS would be the big corporations. Between my compiler, my linter and my frontend tool, there's quite an empire of evil.
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by mhd 7y ago
What version of TP? The linked articles is about TP3, which lacks common prog lang features that later versions definitely had (like proper modules or objects). If you take a look at later versions or even early Delphi, I'd say garbage
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by mhd 7y ago
I think there's a decent amount of hyperbole, but even taken at face value: Every single data change should require careful planning. Especially if it's a schema change, and not just a query. You can do a lot with generated code
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by mhd 7y ago
In related news: Portnoy's Complaint isn't about too many time signatures in a song.
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by mhd 7y ago
Another formalism that's quite interesting is Petri Nets[1] (of which exist several variations, colored, hierarchical etc.). Just, please, don't implement them in Oracle stored procedures. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by mhd 7y ago
One possible syntax for PLCs looks a lot like Pascal[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_text
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by mhd 7y ago
Or the lament configuration.
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by mhd 7y ago
People who got slapped on their fingers by Nuns for doing that? (Because it's too lazy and you don't have your fingers raised to the Lord, or because that's "the Protestant" way etc.) I don't think there's
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by mhd 7y ago
I thought the modern equivalent of a Geocities page is a Medium blog post with spurious motivational unsplash images, meme gifs and random youtube videos...

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