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by nobleach 8y ago
The biggest problem I ran into (while supporting these old systems based on DOS and Netware 3.1) was keeping them inline with newer tech. I had a client (an accountant) with several old DOS based apps. Getting their network of printers to w
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by nobleach 8y ago
CA Clipper, FoxPro.... those systems were awesome.
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by nobleach 8y ago
Well... I gave it to a child who subsequently tore the keys off of it. Overall, it was mostly okay. Superdrive rarely worked (it'd just eject discs randomly - started happening day 2) Logic board went in the first year. It was replaced
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by nobleach 8y ago
Then I most likely have the timeframe wrong. It was RIGHT when the Core 2 Duo came out. It was just the MacBook though... not a Pro. November 2006 sound right?
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by nobleach 8y ago
I think that's the highest interest rate I've ever had on a credit card. I applied for financing on my brand new 2005 MacBook Core 2 Duo. I made the minimum payment on it every month and ended up paying nearly twice the cost! (thi
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by nobleach 8y ago
CA Clipper app that I updated to Visual Fox Pro back in 1998 is still chugging along running an oil company's accounts payable/receivable.
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by nobleach 8y ago
I feel the same way about ASI as I do about forgiving HTML parsers. They're built to handle mistakes made by your average weekend warrior Grandpa building a website about his grandkids and pets. ASI is built to handle an "oops&quo
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by nobleach 8y ago
I keep considering it myself. I've done some things with OCaml, so I doubt the learning curve would kill me. I am a little dismayed that it's still a client side only language. (there are efforts to bring it to Node)
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by nobleach 8y ago
Hmmm, the TI-99/4A. Any chance you made Mr. Bojangles dance? (I read that BASIC manual cover to cover)
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by nobleach 8y ago
From a point of view, I might even agree with Zuck's asinine statement. When I was in my 20's, I had no idea how many things I truly did not know. So, in my limited "fresh out of college" way, I was pushing maximum intel
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by nobleach 8y ago
I sure do love Elixir, the language, the dev experience (code as documentation!!!), the docs themselves are something of a gold standard to me. (If you've ever tried to wade through OCaml docs... you feel me) The only gripe I've h
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by nobleach 8y ago
What happens if people seem to prefer the babel-esm semantics? I'm not saying that babel's semantics ARE better, but what if developers prefer them?
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by nobleach 8y ago
I think it can be a bit difficult for users of compile-to-JS setups to understand why this is better. As of right now, one can just `import foo from './bar';` and the compiler just makes it work. This has become fairly tried
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by nobleach 8y ago
I recommend this post as well: https://medium.com/@gcanti/introduction-to-optics-lenses-and... The author of the post is also the author of a TypeScript port of Monocle for Scala.
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by nobleach 8y ago
Did you get fsi with that? That was the one thing that made me eventually install Mono.
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by nobleach 8y ago
It seems no matter what stack I use these days (Kotlin/Java Spring-Boot, Node/Typescript) I end up using Flyway for the DB migrations.
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by nobleach 8y ago
I think that's where I was coming from: "if you don't have several years...." I learned enough C++ in school to complete my assignments. But the C++ PRs I've reviewed contain FAR more than those rudimentary basics.
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by nobleach 8y ago
After having dropped Angular in the 1.3.x days, I was pleasantly surprised by how much it's changed. There are still a few mental concepts a new programmer would have to grasp (DI, observables, OO, type-safety) but overall, it's n
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by nobleach 8y ago
I hear a lot of complaining like this from Java devs. Oddly, they are often okay only knowing one language (Java). The exact words from a Java dev were, "well, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
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by nobleach 8y ago
If I had to guess, it's the "I'll figure it out" mentality. The problem here is, with C++, you probably will NOT figure it out! I did the bare minimum C++ in my classes. I can write trivial little "code challenge&qu
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by nobleach 8y ago
I'd say a rudimentary knowledge of the Java ecosystem is required, Maven or Gradle are the preferred deps management and build tools. It's a bit of a bummer as quite a bit of 3rd party docs assume you have already written things i
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by nobleach 8y ago
I see people buying all these old machines (everything from old DEC/IBM to newer non-mainframe SGI) and I'm super jealous for a few minutes. Then I consider the power-consumption. That's what makes me think, "hmmmm, mayb
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by nobleach 8y ago
Having tried, and failed to use MySQL Spatial Extension (which some might argue is PostGIS' analog) and failing miserably at some pretty basic things, I agree totally. I'd take PostGIS over ESRI's SDE and Oracle Spatial as we
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by nobleach 8y ago
More like I don't truly consider ChromeOS a viable OS. I do own a Chromebook, and for me it's more like a dumbed down tablet (Like a Nook) with a keyboard. But you're right, it's not right that Google does it either.
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by nobleach 8y ago
This annoys me, but in the end, I can click the "no thank you" button and it all goes away. I do think their claims to be the "faster and more secure" browser are dubious at best. But at least MS allows other browsers to
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by nobleach 8y ago
That sounds like a sweetheart of a deal! I managed to get a 2014 Dell for about that price (after RAM upgrade to 16gb). One SSD and one spinning disk. But the thing was great for popping off the back and plugging and unplugging things. I&#x
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by nobleach 8y ago
Add the fact that copy/paste into/out of vim gets a little more annoying. (not impossible, just more annoying)
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by nobleach 8y ago
Having to share Gists instead of inlining code blocks, and (of less importance) reaction gifs, was a huge non-starter.
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by nobleach 8y ago
I'm going to guess it's a reference to a language that sells an IDE. Even though Delphi could feasibly be written in any text editor (It was really just Object Pascal) the VCL was the big selling point. I've yet to write any
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by nobleach 8y ago
A younger more daring me set up SportsDevil back in the day (like a couple of years ago) so I could watch the Florida Gators play while living across the country. It was SUCH a pain to get a reliable stream. And even then, it was potato qua

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