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by rpeden 10y ago
Maybe Java? It's everywhere, can fulfill just about any role you throw at it, but isn't really the world's absolute best tool for most of those roles.
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by rpeden 10y ago
I think at least some of it is the Windows on Windows stuff to allow 64 bit machines to run both 32 and 64 bit software. Weren't the 32 but versions of Win7 about half the size of the 64 bit ones? There's still a lot of size growt
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by rpeden 10y ago
Looks like an interesting product, Tim. I've always enjoyed Pascal so I'll give your trial version a try.
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by rpeden 10y ago
I hope we don't still have to make IE11 work in 2107, but considering how often some enterprises seem to keep ancient software around, it just might happen. :)
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by rpeden 10y ago
Depends on your definition of terrible, I suppose. I never feel more alive than when I go for a walk on a crisp, sunny -20 degree morning. I used to get mornings like that quite often in Ottawa, and I've missed them the past couple of
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by rpeden 10y ago
I used to have that feeling. Reading The Shallows[1] made me stop and think about what might be causing it, and forced me to think about what I might do about it. My solution was to drastically cut back my internet use most of the time I&
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by rpeden 10y ago
I also noticed a ton of Windows phones in the latest House of Cards season. I'm not sure why they'd have used so many if it weren't a paid product placement. The phones were much more numerous in HoC than they are in the real
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by rpeden 10y ago
Over time, I've come to notice that once any online forum reaches a certain critical mass of programmers, nearly any mention of a specific programming language will devolve into a flamewar about that language. I find it frustrating, bu
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by rpeden 10y ago
I don't think you deserve to be attacked for implying that about WhatsApp. You're right, in that the truth is that in the vast majority of cases for the vast majority of cases, programming language doesn't matter all that muc
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by rpeden 10y ago
Avalonia is a decently nice cross platform C# + XAML GUI toolkit. It doesn't cover every use case WPF does, of course, but I've still found it pleasant to use.
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by rpeden 10y ago
Does that mean you're interested? If so, let's get some people together, organize an in-person or virtual meetup, and get the ball rolling.
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In Defence of Hierarchy(aeon.co)
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Apple's quiet iPad launch proves no one cares about tablets(cnet.com)
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by rpeden 10y ago
I agree to a certain extent. There are times when I've seen great beauty in something as mundane as pre-generics Java, when someone put together a well factored set of loosely couple objects to accomplish a task. Other times, though, b
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by rpeden 10y ago
I don't believe Meier had any influence in it. Chris Sawyer built the entire game by himself in assembly language.
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by rpeden 10y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it. I've interviewed plenty of candidates in the past, and if someone I was interviewing asked me a whiteboard question when I asked 'do you have any questions for me?', I'd b
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by rpeden 10y ago
This mechanic's shop in Ottawa always made me a little uncomfortable for the same reason: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3389992,-75.8980172,3a,17.7y,...
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by rpeden 10y ago
I think that in some cases, it can even be helpful for source code. There have been a couple of times where I wanted to understand how an interesting library or bit of code worked, so I printed the code out and made notes right on the page
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by rpeden 10y ago
The difference is that the Inspector shows the page exactly as it exists now, including any DOM changes that have been done via JavaScript. I typically use 'View Source' when I want to see the original page content before anything
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by rpeden 10y ago
I'm not an expert, but I've looked into this in the past when I was curious about it. There's quite a bit of working that goes into preparing and grading the land. There's also the added expense of building bridges and t
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Java 1.2.1 and CORBA in production. In 2017(medium.com)
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by rpeden 10y ago
I feel the same way about Electron, because I don't like shipping subpar applications to users. I've found the development experience using TypeScript and React to be fairly pleasant, though. I know some people gripe about JSX&#x2
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by rpeden 10y ago
No, and ReactOS has been around for much longer than React and React Native. Its first released was 13 years ago.
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by rpeden 10y ago
I was young, writing very simple games in Color BASIC on a TRS-80 hooked up to the family TV. It didn't have a floppy drive, but it did let you save your programs to an audio cassette tape so you could load them up and reuse them later
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by rpeden 10y ago
There was also J#, though it wasn't really anticompetitive. Maybe it was just the opposite, now that I think about it. Microsoft obviously felt that .NET, C#, and the CLR were viable competitors to Java and the JVM, and offered J# as a
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by rpeden 10y ago
This approach doesn't solve the problem of Electron and NW.js apps being terrible for laptop battery life, but this appears to be something that typical end users aren't terribly concerned about. On the bright side, React Native f
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by rpeden 10y ago
Another reply to your post added the quote. I sincerely hope that posting such a quote isn't cause for a ban - since it's pulled directly from the film, and does a good job of emphasizing the point you're trying to make.
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by rpeden 10y ago
Fortunately, there's a JavaScript package for that! https://www.npmjs.com/package/timemachine :)
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by rpeden 10y ago
Sounds a bit like what John Sculley did to Steve Jobs.
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by rpeden 10y ago
I intended it to be more prescriptive than descriptive, more of an idea that people should take and adapt to fit their circumstances. I fear I did a horrible job of describing it in those terms, though. Or perhaps the thoughtful responses l

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