patrickg

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   by patrickg 13y ago

   Yes, I still have my book "Object Oriented Programming in the BETA Programming Language" by Madsen/Møller-Pedersen/Nygaard with a price tag of 80 DM in 1997 (> 40 EUR now) (I now live in Berlin)
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   BETA was the beginner's language at the University of Dortmund (Germany) back in 1996/7/8. Never saw it outside of these buildings.
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   BETA: OO programming language influenced by simula(daimi.au.dk)

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   by patrickg 13y ago

   +1 for mentioning BETA. Any actual user of that language?
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   I think that's how interfaces work. You define an interface by the methods a receiver has (a struct complying to the ReadCloser interface for example must implement Read() and Close()). While one has to get used to it, it works very n
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   ... then you've probably never used this phone :) http://www.oebl.de/D-Netz/Geraete/Siemens/P1/P1.JPG (IIRC this was the phone with the full size sim card)
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   Thanks for the info, I am obviously far behind ...
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   iPhone 5c + 5s require 'nano sim'. What will be next? I still remember using a full size sim card (the left one here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/GSM_SIM_... )
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   by patrickg 13y ago

   ... plus you get a (output) binary with very few dependencies, easy cross compiling, nice tool chain (go fmt is great) and much more that are good arguments (for me) to use go.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    http://wtpl.heroku.com/
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    I have a dual language database publishing system and I use English and German as a language source. While the obvious advantage of using english as lingua franca, I tend to use my mother tongue (German) system. It feels a bit more natural
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    But in most trades you can just start.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    1) You can run UG which starts at 1 EUR (+ 100-200 Euro for bureaucracy). 2) It is your money to spend. You never give it to anybody else. So "you don't get that money back" is completely incorrect.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Huh? What stops anybody from registering a company at the Handelsregister and start working? Who needs a certificate and a proof of experience? Or do you mean society enforces it?
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Thanks for the pointer! I remember seeing this, but I forgot about it. Glad to have it back.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Losing my karma: This article is (partly) BS. I have just tried the steps in the page, and it worked like a breeze. 2013-05-26, 23:10 CET: The link is not hidden, it is clearly visible and with correct description. Currently this works also
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    I have a git repository on the server & push to that repository. On the server, I just pull, compile the binary and use upstart (service xyz restart) to restart the binary. Not nice, because I kill all connections. I'll switch to s
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    We offer our database publishing software as open source ( http://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html ). It is used in many commercial environments as a better alternative to XSL-FO. Our software allows much more fle
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    How much effort will they put into assuring you will sign up with your real identity? Any info on that?
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    I use shared connections, that makes tab completion scp usable. Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPath /var/tmp/ssh_mux_%h_%p_%r ControlPersist 4h
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Not successful yet on the Mac Terminal.app command line... Thanks anyway.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    as I wrote: this is a simplified example ...
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Can you post your solution (or give a pointer)?
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Simplified example: mkdir foo, cd foo. I type in mkdir foo then press enter, type "cd esc-.". Doesn't work. Command completion in fish doesn't help here. In real life this is of course mostly more complicated than a simp
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    I have been using fish for a few months exclusively on my Mac. I really miss a few bashisms: mostly pressing esc-. inserts the last part of the last command. I have not changed the shell on my server, somehow I am afraid of breaking things.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    This is what the parent wrote. Edit: "it" refers to the Valve License (AIUI)
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    Why is there a difference if this is old or news?
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    I don't think so. I would have heard otherwise.
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    "Dear Mr. XXX, this is the NSA. We'd like to use the image we've found on your homepage as the logo for a secret massive surveillance and spying program called 'prism'. Could you please sign the attached 20 page lic
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    by patrickg 13y ago

    For me it's easy to deploy the code onto a server which runs the code. I am not the only administrator, but the only software developer. I want the other admins to be able to pull code from that repository (bitbucket offers "read only ssh k