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by mhd 2y ago
My onions, let me show you them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
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by mhd 2y ago
Both SNOBOL and its spiritual successor Icon did some interesting things with control flow.
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by mhd 2y ago
> 3. While upgrades aren't hard, they're not easy either. And in my experience, apart from ease of use there's also a major trust issue here. If you're upgrading your app server framework/language, it's easy
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by mhd 2y ago
Honestly, I doubt that a Strength 20 D&D barbarian cares about the wrong weight of his Greataxe, given that they can probably deadlift a horse. Their player probably does care that the chosen implement of murderous doom looks cooler t
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by mhd 2y ago
I used this a lot when I wasn't doing any other Ruby at the time, to do some more involved SQL automatization and ETL. I tried to stick with SQL/psql as much as possible, but if that fails or would've lead too much into tempo
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by mhd 2y ago
https://github.com/claesjac/pjvm
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by mhd 2y ago
"Moom 4 is available now, and requires macOS 10.13 or newer." Always glad to see software that still aims for some backwards compatibility. Sure, it might require a bit more testing and/or handling some customer complaints, b
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by mhd 2y ago
I really have to install an old system with the Infinality patches again, I remember them to be quite excellent, but that was a few years, monitors and contact lense upgrades ago… Maybe I'll put RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi at the same tim
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by mhd 2y ago
> Not clicking yes for every language server. How many language servers are we talking about here for the average dev? Three?
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by mhd 2y ago
I assume they turned it off intentionally: "These notes may be compiled into a pdf file through Quarto. As the result is rather large, we do not provide that file for download. For the interested reader, downloading the repository, in
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by mhd 2y ago
Oooh, HTML 4.01, table layout homepage…
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by mhd 2y ago
FreePascal/Lazarus or Tcl/Tk. If more time is available, then a core of <favorite language> plus a view part in the native platform language and API.
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by mhd 2y ago
Oh, embarassing, I used ci" quite often, but always maneuvered to the starting quote beforehand. Didn't know that it just took the next one the line. Of course, now I wonder how to quickly express "change within 2nd text de
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by mhd 2y ago
For Perl4? Not that likely, IIRC CPAN was started in '95, after Perl 5 came out which introduced most of the packaging semantics. I think Perl 4 basically had an "include" equivalent. Don't remember anyone doing OO back
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by mhd 2y ago
Looks a bit like "Tcl from first principles".
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by mhd 2y ago
I thought this was about making things enticing to the scrum overlord, but sure… Not everything has to or can be be cross-platform, not everything has to be web-visible. And I'd argue that serving the same view to everyone is quite oft
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by mhd 2y ago
Great thing is that as opposed to the web, the platform/library designers already took care of a lot of that, so the biggest overlap between GUI libraries and CSS is usually the layout (these days, where CSS isn't utterly abominab
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by mhd 3y ago
I liked other cathedrals better, too, but I got a lot out of it by contrasting the medieval versions with this. I mean, you got a lot of the same motivations, just with different art styles and materials. Reflecting on that, it made me chan
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by mhd 3y ago
IIRC, the D forum also offers direct NNTP access. Would be interesting to compare web access with e.g. tin on a variety of devices…
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by mhd 3y ago
I don't think every solution in the webdev space is supposed to be a one size fits all panacea. Especially this, which seems more like an incentive to think about structuring webapps. Sometimes it's interesting to see how far you
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by mhd 3y ago
I thought it was just a couple of years ago when we started moving away from the age-old "three bullet points" formula to the "one slide per HUGE Helvetica word" template so beloved by TED talks. So I obviously can'
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by mhd 3y ago
I see three reasons here in this thread: 1. The post is already about an alternative to the mainstream (Spring), so adding another alternative seems perfectly valid. 2. I know neither Spring nor this alternative, but want to add the one f
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by mhd 3y ago
Algol 68 had a loop where pretty much any part was optional, so both "TO 10" and "FOR i TO 10" (if you needed a loop variable) were possible. (Back when Go came out, there were some Algol 68 comparisons, IIRC)
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by mhd 3y ago
Last time I tried it, it didn't add features I really felt would change my workflow, and the memory consumption was rather high. In general I notice a lot more resources used for terminal multiplexing, starting with GPU-focused termina
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by mhd 3y ago
To be fair, if you're young enough, nothing is familiar anymore, because that's no longer a goal for UIs.
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by mhd 3y ago
And it was based or at least inspired on the previous XForms[1] toolkit – the one with way too many bevel shapes for buttons etc., not the XML thing. Probably at least partially done because XForms wasn't open source, and to provide a
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by mhd 3y ago
As Gibson said, "The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed". And in IT, sometimes the future takes a long nap. I wouldn't be too surprised if e.g. descendants of Linda spaces get re-discovered bec
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by mhd 3y ago
Is Flink used that much? Last time I've seen it in the "news" it was related to Adobe's CMS, which, well, doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation, so it suffered a bit by association. And boy, Kafka more and more
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by mhd 3y ago
Wait, is Idera involved somehow?
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by mhd 3y ago
I remember when TVs had special features regarding teletext, like some sort of page cache where you didn't need to wait for pages to load. Weirdly enough, contemporary TVs don't do this, despite memory and parallel processing powe

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