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by mhd 4y ago
Unrelated to the content: I really like the phrasing of the title. Not "…you should follow", not the tired "best practices", simply "Things I do".
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by mhd 4y ago
Paizo now might be able to, but Paizo wouldn't be what they are with a) the OGL and b) WotCs backing. I can't believe any scenario where WotC goes to D&D 4th edition, and some company just makes a continuation of 3rd edition
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by mhd 4y ago
> If not who on earth needs OGL to publish anything they would want to publish? Fear keeps the local publishers in line. Wizards of the Coast is basically the only big player in the industry, backed by an even larger corporation. &quot
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by mhd 4y ago
What I'd like to have brought back is basically the extended version of the numbers/kebap-case: Ignore white space in constants and identifiers if possible, like Algol-68 did. That means you can write your number as "1 000 00
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by mhd 4y ago
Maybe someone really wants to annoy German musicians?
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by mhd 4y ago
Looking at that beauty, I notice that I kinda miss woodgrain right now, makes me wonder whether I'll miss translucent plastics in another 10 years.
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by mhd 4y ago
Interesting, I'd say the legacy parts are the actual good things and most of the corporate giga-scale add-ons are what's bad about it, but then again, I'm sure that we get the same for C++, too…
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by mhd 4y ago
There's a version of the tutorial[1] online, but the 2-dimensional, nested document setup doesn't really map that well to other formats. It does support various exports, from a quasi-WYSIWYG equivalent using HTML tables to more ab
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by mhd 4y ago
Isn't that the very point of picking m4, as it's always there on a POSIX system, whereas a proper scripting language might not be? It's been a while since I saw someone pick m4 when alternatives were present. These days it mi
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm quite fond of stories about people using editors besides the Big Two or the Newfangled Brigade. Keep 'em coming, you usually learn something about regular use and what others deem necessary – or can live without. Nano is inter
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by mhd 4y ago
Visually it's not that different, of course, but I don't see a more unified interface in the terminal these days. The Amiga might have had it, with its TRIPOS arg parsing, and of course you got your language-integrated text UIs li
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by mhd 4y ago
> The icon font is wrong, too: it's clearly IBM's VGA font, not Commodore's Topaz. A sloppy oversight, especially considering that versions of Topaz are readily available in TTF format. I don't think this is an oversi
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by mhd 4y ago
I wonder if people actually remember how native apps are supposed to look like on any of the major platforms… Mac users, maybe. For all other platforms, churn and barely contained web apps are really wreaking havoc on the benefit of a unifo
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by mhd 4y ago
Back when Modula-2 came out, that wasn't as much an issue as it is today, where BCPL family style is just seen as "normal". Pascal being seen as normal, and Modula-2 not having that much an unique selling point beyond that. S
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by mhd 4y ago
It's a cute format. Better than most RLE images, if I remember correctly, getting you a good way towards PNG. So might not be best for every situation, but why not have that in your toolkit? Especially if being able to understand all o
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by mhd 4y ago
True, more languages should include a simple 2D canvas in their standard library. Even something totally unoptimized is better than having to hunt for basic game engines or a 3rd party SDL2 binding.
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by mhd 4y ago
Given sufficient languages and pronunciations, any word is indistinguishable from a common one. ;) Apart from what others already pointed out about this not being "Unico_r_n", what's the alternative? Acronyms? Names? Compound
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by mhd 4y ago
Back in the (DOS) days, Targa/TGA was somewhat popular for the asset usage. Simple format plus RLE for a small size benefit.
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by mhd 4y ago
That's the nice thing about the RiscOs way of saving and loading files, you never get in trouble because your file requester doesn't emulate all the features of your default file manager.
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by mhd 4y ago
It's rather hard to get rid of some old CAD systems in the automobile industry. I was part of a bigger migration almost 20 years ago, when a rather big org moved from CATIA V4, basically running on all the Unices, to the new V5 version
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by mhd 4y ago
I wonder if the street will find a use for that.
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by mhd 4y ago
I think it's male name -> female name -> flower named after that -> song named after that. I honestly doubt that that's the first thing that comes to mind and thus would besmirch the good name of, erm, git. ;) (Not that I
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by mhd 4y ago
What's your level of comparison here? Japan? New economies? If you contrast it with the US, you'll find some technologies earlier in use in Germany, like texting, and some stuff that just went different (credit vs. debit cards). A
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by mhd 4y ago
I wonder how much this is solely technical. Sure, if it's something like asthma medication or insulin, its' completely superfluous. But if I remember correctly, doctors have a few incentives for this. Part of them rather good, lik
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by mhd 4y ago
As mentioned in the article, the German health services already adopted Matrix for their "TI-Messenger", which is supposed to make secure communication between health care professionals easier. Or, well, possible at all. Right now
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by mhd 4y ago
> Also, missed opportunity, Codeberg folks. Why Not "Erika"? ;) Oh wow, that's a deep cut. I'm deeply impressed and amused. Almost to the point of yodeling ;) (For those lucky enough not to be this old and/or Ger
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by mhd 4y ago
> It is not just nostalgia. I recently bought a dual core Pentium 2.2Ghz motherboard[...] Yeah, the Core Duo age is probably outside my limit for "retro". At least for now, although this is also at the point where a) you can st
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by mhd 4y ago
The sad thing is that once, a while ago, there was an attempt to compete with the new market of scripting languages (Perl, Tcl) from a shell perspective. The result being Korn Shell, especially ksh93, and tools like dtksh (which allowed Mot
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by mhd 4y ago
This seems more about retrocomputing than a history of the lessons of the death of workstations and their vendors. Which is sad, because I think there's a lot to bring to mind. Although I'd argue that the CDE "collaboration&
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by mhd 4y ago
I thought it's the other way 'round. Everyone loves their cool new reactive framework, until they have to tackle the state library/library helpers/library alternative/other library alternative/library helper ma

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