retro64

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by retro64 10y ago
1995 is a stretch for anything modern but I have kids playing Minecraft on Pentium 4’s (with decent graphic cards though - that is the critical part). These boxes would have been new around 2003 or so.
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by retro64 10y ago
I think something the generation today is missing is in the 80’s we had a belief that we were truly on the cutting edge of the Star Trek future. But PCs were not yet really for the masses (despite what Mr. Tramiel claimed), but totally for
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by retro64 10y ago
To be fair to yourself, kids often disappoint their parents, but this is more on the parents. This is true, yes! But I am concerned about what this does to them as a person. Life will kick them down (and then in the head for good measure
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by retro64 10y ago
What used to be a trigger for inventing a game, building a den, or making something new with lego is far more filled with minutes on YT. This hurts to read because it really nails it. This very thing has been on my mind quite a bit late
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by retro64 10y ago
Absolutely, but when you enter that room for an interview, there may be a bias already built up against you. Somehow you made it through the door, but now you have to overcome the skeptics, maybe a team member who refuses to believe anyone
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by retro64 10y ago
and imposter syndrome haunts me You’ll get over it. However, you will forever be cursed with having to keep your wiz-kid credentials up to date as you will never have that degree to help wedge the door open for your next opportunity. Ul
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by retro64 10y ago
The greatest works of humanity were written without a VCS (novels, operas). Using a VCS is only mandatory for multi-person projects. Code is different. There are many times that I have been developing and I do something to my code that
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by retro64 10y ago
This reminds me of a bug I had back in ‘98 or so. I was using a Parallax BASIC stamp and could not understand why when I put it to sleep it would sometimes using only 30 uA, and other times 300uA. I kept narrowing down my code until it wa
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by retro64 10y ago
He may not have had a concept of what $30 million really is. I know I don’t, even at my age. If he has his needs met, what does it mean to him to have his needs met more? I know logically this can be worked out that lots of money buys lot
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by retro64 10y ago
The previous owner(s?) must have really like sandwiches. I think it would be fun to try all of the recipes somebody had previously checkmarked as a way to stretch back into the past and connect with part of their life (and maybe gain some i
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by retro64 10y ago
I did this once back in 2003. It was text only rendered, with mouse support so you could click on the links instead of tabbing around like Links. I built it off of the IE object model (Internet Explorer Browser Extensions? Can’t recall).
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by retro64 10y ago
And this is the #1 reason I rejected D&D 3rd edition when it came out: higher was always better. (okay, not really) In truth though, in previous editions it was not consistent, so you never knew if higher or lower would be required of
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by retro64 10y ago
I realize you are joking, but this is why I was in frantic mode in my early years. I do not have a degree in CS, so I had no idea what I was missing. Consequently I read up on everything . I still have a bookshelf filled with books on a
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by retro64 10y ago
Ugh. I tell you, I keep trying to pick it up because I hear so much about it. However, when I code in it I feel completely uninspired. I can only get so far into a book or tutorial before my eyes glaze over and I'm thinking about so
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by retro64 10y ago
I would have to really dig for the emails the company sent out (I should have them archived someplace), but I thought the issue wasn't discounts, but a revoking of the license to sell Windows if the OEMs didn't comply. I did a q
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by retro64 10y ago
BeOS is the reason I learned C++. I don't recall exactly, but either I didn't understand how or there was no other option but C++ if one wanted to hit the BeOS API. Pity Be Inc. got shafted so bad by MS monopoly abuse. They had
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by retro64 10y ago
I find myself occasionally thinking about the fate of Mr. Albert Alexander who was the fourth patient to be treated with penicillin (who died because of the lack of sufficient quantity). He was a constable who happened to be scratched in th
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by retro64 10y ago
You could try CBM prg Studio with Wine/.NET (or mono). I doubt the integrated debugging would work though unless you also ran WinVICE. Wine really is quite impressive. Even for many games it is very solid.
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by retro64 10y ago
There was no "Oh, let's be stupid and omit <safety feature du jour> from our language. Exactly. I think once you drop down into assembler it becomes very apparent what C's goal was - to standardize assembly language
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by retro64 10y ago
When I find that I am falling into the trap of emotional highs from buying crap I don't need, I just remind myself that I grew up with only the essentials and I don’t need more toys. If we (my siblings and I) wanted anything, we made
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by retro64 10y ago
but provide telemetry data back to the coder.
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by retro64 10y ago
In 1938 Poland invaded Czechoslovakia together with Germany and Hungary to "protect" Polish population in Zaolzie I have a keen interest in WWII, so I had to do some brief research into this claim as I was surprised and had neve
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by retro64 10y ago
It is also good to acknowledge to yourself, who you are, and stop looking around at others, feeling guilty and making excuses. If you want to code 12 - 18 hours a day, and you are not neglecting other responsibilities, then go for it. D
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by retro64 10y ago
I would think it depends on his objective. Was it to fight a war or bring about rescue/escape? Leaving the moral considerations aside, stealing something vs. stealing something [i]and[/i] shedding blood brings an entirely differ
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by retro64 10y ago
You may want to also consider refactoring this code. A function should do what it says, not have unexpected side effects. Not only can this be surprising to a client, but it also makes it difficult to leverage the code for reuse elsewhere
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by retro64 10y ago
...? Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but nowhere in Christian Bible does it teach that somehow the human race can either "usher in" or prevent the end times.
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by retro64 10y ago
I think this endorsement should be qualified. While it's true there is more space here in GR, there is a reason for that: people leave as soon as they can (for various reasons; the lack of sun ( http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov&#x