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901.
by mhd 8y ago
I think the equivalent of the Voodoo in the soundcards-space would've been the Gravis Ultrasound. In both the evolutionary and soon-to-be-forgotten sense. PC Speaker vs. Soundblaster is more EGA vs VGA, something much more profound. An
902.
by mhd 8y ago
Every language in that list is vastly different from its 90s version.
903.
by mhd 8y ago
> The compiler produced hybrid PCode and native x86 assembly, traditional for MS applications at the time. P-Code? As in UCSD Pascal?
904.
by mhd 8y ago
TEXT PROCESSING DIVISION. PERFORM REGEXP-REPLACE "LETTER A; LETTER B; ONE-OR-MORE-CHARACTERS;" EMPTY-STRING .
905.
by mhd 8y ago
Of course that doesn't get you niceties like jumping to different parts of the template and mirroring edits. But having it universally available might be worth the trade-offs. How do you invoke it in Acme? Tag item mouse-click for ever
906.
by mhd 8y ago
One of the worst mistakes that the original web made was getting rid of the editing component in the early stages, probably once corporate entities and their cut-up picture sites got big (yet note that the reference web implementation &quot
907.
by mhd 8y ago
This is going to be awesome for React's apparent main industry: Training. A new set of videos and code camps...
908.
by mhd 8y ago
Yeah, the mere mention of blockchain/crypto was also the reason why my interesting in Red waned suddenly... Still waiting for kOS, too.
909.
by mhd 8y ago
There's more than just companies or people working in their free time. This might not be very popular for the libertarian fringe, but state support is an option that's probably better than other models. And we already got that to
910.
by mhd 8y ago
Wouldn't Bible software be mostly concerned about strings and/or UI? Putting scripture into arrays and matrices sounds a bit... TempleOS-ish.
911.
by mhd 8y ago
Am I missing something or are most submissions here mostly small landing pages and small form examples? Are there some more complicated CRUDdy showpieces?
912.
by mhd 8y ago
It's what people think of when they mean "compiled" in the first place: ahead of time, i.e. before you start the program, as opposed to JIT "just in time" where you compile (and re-compile) parts while other parts a
913.
by mhd 8y ago
This makes me wonder what someone with less computer experience would do, ie if you're not a former computer professional. Sure, open source makes everything rather accessible from a monetary point of view, but you still have to learn
914.
by mhd 8y ago
Speaking of concurrency, is there a current environment that does something similar to Linda? I always thought that sounded quite promising, but apparently that generally is a death sentence (I also liked Modula-3, the Palm Pre and Tcl).
915.
by mhd 8y ago
I'm right handed, and after experiencing some starting RSI issues, I've switched my workplace mouse to the left. I'm using a cheap upright mouse. At home it's right-handed, with a three-button IBM/Lenovo mouse (no s
916.
by mhd 8y ago
I miss IRC, too, but that's mostly missing the time and inclination to spend my evenings on #linuxger, not as much the tech itself. For practical purposes, I miss Usenet more. Topic-oriented discussion, my choice of client. Instead I&#
917.
by mhd 8y ago
New parts of old systems, mostly. There are some huge COBOL application spaces out there, and quite often writing new modules for that with a more modern COBOL mind- and featureset is still easier than writing it with a different technology
918.
by mhd 8y ago
Most Delphi software I've seen was more a replacement for Clipper than IBM/Oracle-grade Fortune 500 stuff. One step above Access. Heck, it seems to have kept Firebird alive. And in turn, you get a lot of job offers rewriting Delph
919.
by mhd 8y ago
Isn't this more an Idera issue? Buying up somewhat entrenched properties, outsourcing development, the squeezing for what it's worth. Same happened to ExtJs. Kinda weird for Delphi, as it wasn't really enterprise software dur
920.
by mhd 8y ago
When I was reading, it was a African-American woman. (NB: Look at the guest book)
921.
by mhd 8y ago
Base href is "i.annihil.us". Let's hope the Sony lawyers don't read source.
922.
by mhd 8y ago
It’s even more complicated, as even Bavarians use the articles by context, using the proper one when speaking standard German and the variation when using dialect. Alas, not everyone has the same level of dialect, especially in Munich, so y
923.
by mhd 8y ago
For a while SmartEiffel did enjoy some popularity, bindings to libraries where created etc. But it fell back, Eiffel moved on, and so did fickle OSS developers. And while Bertrand Meyer succeeded Niklaus Wirth as a professor at ETH Zurich,
924.
by mhd 8y ago
I was going for a more publicly visible presence with "we might see". Don't know anything about the numbers, but I'd put Eiffel Studio with e.g. GemStone SmallTalk or Allegro Common Lisp or even current Delphi. Or, heck,
925.
by mhd 8y ago
Some day, after every language has taken its bits, we might actually see Eiffel in the real world. Meanwhile, any of this available for Elixir, too? One of the languages on my 2019 list…
926.
by mhd 8y ago
In my experience, the opposite of the aforementioned 50-something hoodie wearer would be someone with a Oxford shirt and jacket, ie well-dressed, but not hip. And they might dress up similarly in their free time, when they're not with
927.
by mhd 8y ago
Peter's job self-given job description: "I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. You see, they wrote all this bank software and to save space, they put 98 instead of 1998. So I go through these thousand
928.
by mhd 8y ago
Masterscore? Wasn't too much into MIDI back then. GFA Basic was a popular Atari ST replacement Calamus? Although it never struck me as horrible as PageMutilator.
929.
by mhd 8y ago
I occasionally hear about Firebird on the intertubes, but the last time I've actually seen it used was alongside some Delphi app. Anyone got some experience with it? Seems like somewhere in-between SQLite and the big FOSS dbs.
930.
by mhd 8y ago
Or "npx".

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