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by mhd 7y ago
Or just good sections, not just stream of concsciousness rambling. That would also be sticking perfectly to the metaphor, swapping floppy disks should be familiar to everyone who every held one in their hands. As long as the podcast doesn&#
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by mhd 7y ago
This looks usable for desktop tasks, does anyone have tips for a good display to pair with it, optimized for energy saving (in the 24", FullHD class)?
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by mhd 7y ago
I would agree somewhat with pure textual matter. Incidentally, the one thing where SGML doesn't totally suck, as it was pretty much invented for this. It still has a pretty writing experience if you're going beyond just paragraphs
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by mhd 7y ago
320x240 was one of the benefits, but the more important part was that it allowed you to use all the memory, double buffer, use split screens (for HUDs) etc. Addressing became more complicated, though. (And IIRC, Doom ran in 320x200 Mode X,
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by mhd 7y ago
Reading the title my mind immediately went to mov ax, 13h int 10h I'm old.
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by mhd 7y ago
Can I have one as a desk accessory like the original Macintosh (or some DOS TSRs), ie. a floating window while we're doing wish lists?
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by mhd 7y ago
It's interesting that these days it's quite easy to get into deep terminal emulator inception: xterm/Terminal.app/WSL -> tmux/screen -> vim and now aerc.
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by mhd 7y ago
As MacOS is a certified Unix, like the workstations of days gone by, they should've gone all out enterprise and switched to ksh. Heck, the new Mac Pro is even priced like a SGI/AIdX box.
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by mhd 7y ago
Yes, then we'll get native J2EE in the browser instead of JS copies… The whole interaction model is just a lot more tedious than desktop UI development. One of the few approaches that I actually liked (not just tolerated) was Seaside
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by mhd 7y ago
I've been burnt by the non-Euclidian enormity of ExtJS, so I understand the desire for something simpler. On the other hand, when you leave the world of progressive enhancement and widgets (ie. jQuery), you find yourself needing a lot
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by mhd 7y ago
I quite liked Arena and Chimera (the Xaw one, not the predecessor of Camino) in my early Linux days. Although Netscape 2/3 quickly took over.
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by mhd 7y ago
Emacs, when it's just part of a larger application using a different language, or when the whole environment is even more effed up than usual for JS (eg. ExtJS) and you could parse the code as well as Perl anyway. VSCode as a stop-gap
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by mhd 7y ago
Most of those I saw were pretty much the same. Towers with windows and those ugly LED wall triangles, often aiming for a "vaporwave"/CGA look. There was definitely more variety when beige cases were the rule and you had to pa
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by mhd 7y ago
I was talking about the nuclear version/free energy thing mentioned by the parent. The language itself is probably more popular than the "tech", at least it demonstrably works.
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by mhd 7y ago
Here in Germany I knew basically no one who had an 8-bit Atari, it only became popular enough with the ST. And even then it led a bit of a pariah existence behind the Amiga, just like the Midgard RPG was behind the Dark Eye RPG (to keep wit
886.
by mhd 7y ago
Huh, is cold fusion still a thing? I thought it went the way of the bussard ramjet.
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by mhd 7y ago
The problem is that even with serial numbers things aren't as fixed. You might have a different type of serial number, zip code, etc.. A check constraint can be expanded to do the appropriate length and formatting checks for most types
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by mhd 7y ago
If only we would've reached and saved Usenet in time. A lot of the current web is a bad proprietary replacement of it.
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by mhd 8y ago
Did anyone ever do something really interesting with table inheritance? This is one feature that looks like I might have use cases for all the time, but they never quite fit or offer a good benefit. Foreign data wrappers on the other hand a
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by mhd 8y ago
Terminus Est.
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by mhd 8y ago
Am I the only one who really can't stand the expression "easy to reason about"? Everywhere you look everything that isn't exactly CORBA, ASN1., EJBs or XMLs is E2RA...
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Ask HN: Languages Worth Relearning?
5 points by mhd 8y ago|1 comments
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by mhd 8y ago
> DevOps is all about consistency and readability As opposed to any other field of programming? Again, what weird single-approach programming language are we comparing Perl5 with?
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by mhd 8y ago
Sorry to say, but I find the criticism in this form to be quite meaningless. What does a motto have to do with any kind of validity for a certain purpose? Python has the "Zen of Python", does this inherently make it a better solut
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by mhd 8y ago
The problem is that "shell scripting" is "bash scripting", and the focus of that particular outgrowth of the original Bourne shell isn't really focused on that. It was mostly about interactive improvements, and whil
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by mhd 8y ago
I’ve been using this for internal work documents for quite a while, and I’ve been very happy with the workflow, and the look of the docs has been well received.
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by mhd 8y ago
Going back to 2D was my sincerest wish back then, when they tried shoehorning everything into 3D. There was no reason back then for having e.g. jump and runs, adventures or RTS games in 3D. It worked fine enough for FPS, which is why that g
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by mhd 8y ago
While my primary wish would still be something that targets novels ("Learn enough Italian to read Eco"), something similar for TV shows wouldn't be that bad. Preferably not a dubbed version, so that it's clearer that you
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by mhd 8y ago
Yup, ligatures gone wrong, I guess. (Safari/Chrome on MacOS)
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by mhd 8y ago
If I remember correctly, in 1994 the STL and its associated patterns were in its utmost infancy, so compared to the old "Modern C++" or today's lambda/task/auto C++, any language will be strong & stable. Still,

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