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by philluminati 4mo ago
Whoever posted the request for Notepad++ on MacOS... ... I was feeling generous, so here you go! https://github.com/PhillipTaylor/notepad_plus_plus_mac_os I copy and pasted your prompt into Augment (Opus 4.7) and told
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by philluminati 3y ago
> Another fun part of building WinGPT was designing the icon in Borland's Image Editor, which is really just a clone of Microsoft Paint that happens to make ICO files instead. Wow! 40yo me forgot how much time I used to spend creati
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by philluminati 5y ago
I bought a usb-c dock earlier this week. "Selore 8 in 1" (£44) with a separate usb-c power charger and an extension cable (2 meter male to female usb-c cable) it seems to work great. Out of the box on Debian Stable. I installed au
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by philluminati 14y ago
http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/
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by philluminati 14y ago
I've gotten to the end of the level. Then I remembered that in the top corner of the Maze is another treasure chest. I go back there to the !! marks and type b but cannot enter that area. The message reads "Remember: these are not words"...
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by philluminati 15y ago
C is a beautiful language. I agree that with the assertion that it doesn't do abstraction. It only does two things: * group code into functions * group primitives into structures. However, it's simplicity is it's strength. You can write cle
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by philluminati 15y ago
€45K = $65K = £39K In my eyes that IS a really good salary. I earn £36K (€39K) with 6 years of experience in London. It's certainly enough to have a quality of life in the region better than most. Personally I think you're lucky to get the
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by philluminati 17y ago
The same point was made in the book "Clean Code"
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by philluminati 17y ago
Missing almost every single local newspaper in England / Scotland.
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by philluminati 18y ago
Can we keep these programmers separated through the use of forks and patches? For instance, I'll add feature X for $ and provide a patch or new RPM as the result. The intrinsic developers can avoid demotivation (!) through "lack of awarenes
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by philluminati 18y ago
This is the part of the article which bothered me. There are consistent references to creativity being a child putting every object in their mouth or a dog eating everything because of it's natural curiosity whilst simultaneously arguing th