neverartful

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by neverartful 2y ago
To be fair, you have to pay the Apple tax to use Apple Numbers. It's not monthly (or even a subscription), but it's not a one-time payment if you want the ability to use it over a long period of time.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Qt is competition (perhaps not direct in many cases) and it's not the only one. Also wxWidgets, Lazarus, Delphi, C++ Builder, WinForms, WPF, Xojo, etc.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Have a look at their github repos. They have a fair bit of sample code sprinkled about.
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by neverartful 2y ago
They do have a free tier. It's nice having more dev tool options than fewer options.
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by neverartful 2y ago
"incredibly fast and responsive compared to what we have now" Agreed! Also, typically far lower memory usage.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Yes, Remobjects makes some nice tools. I absolutely adore their Oxygene language.
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by neverartful 2y ago
This is the first I've heard of twinBASIC. I'm happy to see it on the dev tools scene.
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by neverartful 2y ago
The funny thing is that even for devs who don't want to declare their types will still have think about them to some extent. Even if it's correcting run-time errors indicating that some function or property doesn't exist for
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by neverartful 2y ago
I interviewed with Canonical in 2023. It was an enormous waste of time. I would never suggest anyone interview with them while they still have the same interview process.
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by neverartful 2y ago
When you say 'this line of work' are you referring to my handyman business or work to develop a new software product? (I'm happy to discuss either)
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by neverartful 2y ago
I'm in my upper 50s and I resigned from the corporate employee world in spring of 2024. I've been working my handyman business since then. I don't have enough business to keep my schedule full (and not enough income), so I de
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by neverartful 2y ago
Interbase is still around and it can store the entire database in a single file or across multiple files. There are also 3 versions of it available: IBLite (in process DB engine), IB-To-Go (in process DB engine), and Interbase (server based
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by neverartful 2y ago
Notice I said as a systems programmer. A systems programmer is the one who would configure system settings (possibly for the whole lpar). Is IBM letting people change settings on the LPAR as part of the course?
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by neverartful 2y ago
Reading about z/OS systems programming is one thing. Being able to practice with it on a real system is what would likely be missing. You have to have a safe environment to learn on and it's hard to get access to those.
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by neverartful 2y ago
IBM has many decades of innovations (and patents) on making their mainframe hardware super resilient.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Years ago I developed for iOS as an employee. In my case, it was the product managers that wanted the data. I saw it as a pattern and I hated it. I made my plans to leave that space.
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by neverartful 2y ago
I can imagine where it would be really nice to have an expiration date on a filesystem. The behavior I would want to see for expired files would be: to show up on a report and maybe display in different color in directory listing. It could
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by neverartful 2y ago
If there are any, you can be sure that they're not using z/OS. More likely would be one of those rack-mounted models that only run z/Linux (and possibly z/VM).
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by neverartful 2y ago
For being a user of the mainframe that may be true. For being a systems programmer for the mainframe not true.
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by neverartful 2y ago
I believe that from Microsoft's perspective, it most certainly had a purpose. The purpose was marketing/advertising the OpenGL/3D capabilities of NT.
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by neverartful 2y ago
This post is coming to me at an odd time regarding friends. On the one hand, I've rekindled some friendships with friends from high school and I'm so happy to be reconnected with them. I wish I could see them more often and spend
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by neverartful 2y ago
Can you elaborate on 'useful shell that accelerated some special purpose tasks'? I'm curious about the types of things that people have done with their own shells.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Because Python doesn't place any restrictions on the data types of function parameters.
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by neverartful 2y ago
One of the resources to be aware of is 'From Nand to Tetris'. It's online and it's free. It's of very high quality and very eye opening.
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by neverartful 2y ago
When I was a young parent, there were moments when I would have strong feelings of inadequacy and feeling paralyzed about what I should do and what I should not do. The most calming thought I had at the time was to remind myself that humans
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by neverartful 2y ago
I wouldn't want to live a structure shared by such a large number of people (fire hazard risk).
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by neverartful 2y ago
I'm building a native Windows application for exploratory data analysis with SQLite. Much of the functionality is present but still have a lot of clean up, testing, and loose ends. I also haven't decided on product name yet and do
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by neverartful 2y ago
Because Python isn't a statically typed language. Many will argue that this is a huge benefit of Python since you don't have to declare types. There are newer developments like mypy that allows you to add types as annotations, but
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by neverartful 2y ago
Semi-pedantic point -- Python is not untyped. In fact, it's strongly typed. It's not statically typed, but rather dynamically typed.
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by neverartful 2y ago
True, but C and C++ are not the only statically types languages available (thankfully!).

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