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by retro64 6y ago
Neverwinter Nights nwsync tools are written in Nim and the source is available to tinker with. I've compiled and used the tools on my FreeBSD box to break apart the modules and prepare them for nwsync distribution (nwsync is used for
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by retro64 6y ago
¡pǝǝɹƃ∀
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by retro64 7y ago
Orion is one of my favorite constellations. Where I grew up, the winter sky was often clear and I spent many hours as a youth gazing up, wondering about it all. Even now, when I saw a pic of Orion after following links from the article, I
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by retro64 7y ago
Ok, here’s one for you. This is almost too painful to repeat it’s so bad. When I went to college, the university implemented at 4 digit prefix that students would use when dialing from a campus phone so they could charge long distance cal
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by retro64 8y ago
Maybe a cultural thing? For me, "you're over thinking it" is a familiar/friendly way of expressing an idea, similar to how you would approach a friend. It was not intended to be dismissive.
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by retro64 8y ago
You’re overthinking it. I have had a similar experience. The worst were the “stop light” questions. Does it mean the pole, the light, the tiny corner overlapping another square? I used to try to include everything as it was technically
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by retro64 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. For myself, as an aging coder who has zero plans of moving into management, I find his story inspiring.
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by retro64 8y ago
I bow to your paranoia. Although I have often wondered if retro computers will become more valuable in the future as the final bastion of electronic privacy.
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by retro64 8y ago
This reminds me of something that happened to me several years ago. I was in living in a small town and a new cop moved in. He became very diligent about enforcing the law, and I was pulled over for a rolling stop along a lonely country ro
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by retro64 8y ago
I've been coding heavily in C++ for now over 2 decades, and when I interview someone I typically can get a pretty decent picture of within a general 3 - 5 year range of how long they've been coding based on the various details the
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by retro64 8y ago
Here's an interesting tidbit from my experience. My son was looking at purchasing a Udemy course. He was asking my advice about it as we chatted over the phone (he lives a short distance from me). I visited the site and found the co
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by retro64 10y ago
Or won't again in the future. I finally bailed on MS completely (at home only unfortunately) when 10 came out and telemetry was first reported. I let myself get too comfortable with Windows 7, and will not make that mistake again. No
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by retro64 10y ago
I certainly don't condone plagiarism, but I've come to appreciate that people fail and as an outsider it is doubtful you will ever make sense of everything that is going on in their life that led to their failure. A repeat offens
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by retro64 10y ago
And here is the book. First edition published in 1992: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920637.do#top
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by retro64 10y ago
No joke, I have a printed book somewhere that lists out the entire World Wide Web, and it is actually quite thin. Of course it was published in 1995. (I will have to verify the date)
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by retro64 10y ago
Funny, I was just researching this very thing this morning. I don't think it's as bad as you may believe. Here are a couple of quick links that contain all the data you may want on the current understanding of population growth.
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by retro64 10y ago
Haha! If only it were true. I think it was more like once every 2 months. (I'm kidding of course, just in case anyone else is offended by my lame attempt at humor)
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by retro64 10y ago
I used to do this for years, just because I realized it didn’t matter (to me). It drove my colleagues nuts though and they tried to pressure me into “changing my shirt” or making fun of me because I could care less about wearing jeans on F
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by retro64 10y ago
A couple of years ago I was misdiagnosed with lung cancer. It was only a preliminary diagnosis from an x-ray, but after several nodes were circled on my chart with “malignancy suspected” written next to them, I thought I had late stage ca
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by retro64 10y ago
Exactly. I'm older than you by a few years and I don't even waste my time considering my age. Too much to do to worry about this nonsense. This constant rumination about age discrimination in the industry is the only thing getti
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by retro64 10y ago
Welcome to HN! I feel hopeful when I see passionate comments like this from newly minted adults :)
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by retro64 10y ago
I'm not sure what to make of this comment. Are you implying the US didn't have cell phones in the late 90's? Even I had a cell phone, and still have my original (looks the one midway down on this page ( http://www.
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by retro64 10y ago
Wow – why the downvotes? I agree 100%. You do need to make a real choice and sacrifice when it comes to open source. You will not have commercial support like Windows or a Mac. Depending on what you do, even your future career and job o
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by retro64 10y ago
I used to run a few miles a day, almost every day for about a year. During that time I had runners high exactly 1 time. It was truly amazing - I felt like I could run forever. Had no muscle pain, no shortness of breath, it was like running
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by retro64 10y ago
Whoa now friend. The 1541 is a computer onto itself. The slow loading was because of Commodore’s desire to keep backwards compatibility with the VIC-20 drive, which used a buggy 6522 chip, not because the 64 couldn’t go faster. BTW, if yo
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by retro64 10y ago
I find this statement hard to imagine. I've been coding professionally in C++ for just shy of 20 years now (and in C for a few years before that) and have only resorted to assembly when I needed to actually use assembly for performa
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by retro64 10y ago
I have been coding in straight C lately on an embedded personal project and have loved it immensely. I know what is going on and have a good shot at predicting the resulting assembly. However, for me, C falls down on large projects. I kno
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by retro64 10y ago
It's funny - reading through some of these interviews he seems like someone fairly easy to work with. I always imagined him to be like a typical rockstar, but he presents himself rather humble and introspective.
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by retro64 10y ago
That's...horrible. This is not a comment on you or your experience, but is this typical for Python? I’m used to working in C++ code bases with several million lines of code. Does Python really begin to fall down that early? I’ve be
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by retro64 10y ago
>TabSanity - For projects that insist on spaces for indentation, makes the left and right arrow keys jump a full indent level instead of one space. Hold your control key down while hitting right/left arrow. This will jump to the be

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