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by ryl00 8y ago
Reddit. For me, it's reddit. And just like back in the day with Usenet, I'm addicted to reddit...
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by ryl00 8y ago
I suspect the advent of recorded sound has had a huge effect on slowing down the drift or oral languages as well. Just think, in the 1930's people wouldn't really know what people sounded like in the 1850's, unless they had a
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by ryl00 8y ago
I've got a Windows phone, and sometimes I feel like the gradual decay of its ecosystem is a blessing in disguise. Since app support is spotty, I'm relegated to sticking to the core features only (Edge, maps, music player, texting,
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by ryl00 8y ago
What's difficult about hierarchial data structures in Perl?
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by ryl00 8y ago
What about this analogy? You have a piece of paper with a street address on it (the pointer value). You go to that street address (derefence the pointer), open the mailbox, and inside is another piece of paper with what you're actually
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by ryl00 8y ago
There's support for >260 char path lengths now without the \\?\ prefix, but I think you need to modify the registry, plus the application needs to opt into the new behavior via a setting in its manifest.
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by ryl00 8y ago
I think cool tech stretches farther back than that. Sure us Gen X engineers didn't have the Internet growing up, but we had Star Trek, Star Wars, the space shuttle, arcades, Apple II's, etc to inspire us to become engineers. And d
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by ryl00 8y ago
I write Perl scripts for Windows and Linux, and I don't find portability to be especially onerous. Of course there are platform differences to keep in mind, but is that any different from any other cross-platform scripting language?
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by ryl00 8y ago
If Python's considered playful, what does that make Perl?
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by ryl00 8y ago
SMS is already available on Win10 desktop, but it's confusing to setup (I think it involves tying your SMS messages to Skype on Win10 mobile, at which point you can see and reply to SMS via Cortana on your desktop)
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by ryl00 8y ago
Maybe a monolith? ;)
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by ryl00 9y ago
Because it's a lot easier to find them. To me, Reddit is the modern day Usenet...
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by ryl00 9y ago
Jumped on Windows phone back when Microsoft started throwing in the towel (some of those sales were just too hard to resist). I know at some point I'll need to leave (probably back to Android), but for now my Win 10m idol 4s is holding
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by ryl00 9y ago
This sort of sounds like the Europa Universalis series, where history affects the various countries you can play. There's nothing stopping you from trying to reverse the decline of Byzantium upon the onslaught of the Ottomans, but the
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by ryl00 9y ago
It's not, unfortunately. But how are you "keeping the lights on" with your old MS Fortran based code? Still using an ancient Powerstation? compiler, or Compaq Visual Fortran, or ... ?
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by ryl00 9y ago
Ah I see, makes more sense. It would be a massive undertaking to abstract that API into something else.
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by ryl00 9y ago
Sounds like your IT department botched the wrapper. Wouldn't a more successful candidate likely just have used an abstraction layer between the .net conventions you were expecting and whatever the native code was doing?
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by ryl00 9y ago
I may be mistaken but I believe the Intel Fortran compiler supports the MS Fortran extensions
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by ryl00 9y ago
Back when Microsoft started started throwing in the towel and put their phones on fire sale I loaded up on $30 Lumia 640's (how could you not at that price for a 5" LTE in 2015?) They've served me and my family well since. Th
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by ryl00 9y ago
And it is with IE and Edge on Windows phone, funnily enough.
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by ryl00 9y ago
From https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n... Therefore, be sure to follow these two rules in order to avoid losing files, and/or corrupting your data: DO store files in your
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by ryl00 9y ago
> I'm really looking to _build_ something rather than just going through a book or tutorial (although they have a place and time). ' It might be worthwhile to start 'small' by taking one of your C# projects and conver
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by ryl00 9y ago
Recently modified a legacy C++ program at work that was using 'bare' socket code, that now needed to support multiple connections. First approach using Asio worked, but as you mentioned involved scattering logic in various callbac
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by ryl00 9y ago
But isn't that the case with basically ANY programming language? Once its use becomes widespread, escaping the confines of the highly skilled early adapters, you can be sure a whole lot of dodgy code will be written in it.
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by ryl00 9y ago
In my experience, this only works in DSLs where a more graphical representation fits a particular problem space better. One good example is Simulink in control systems work; this to me is the real 'killer' part of Matlab, the abil
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by ryl00 9y ago
Fortran?
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by ryl00 9y ago
I suspect English is the world's first language right now because of the British Empire, and the Pax Americana that followed (and continues still)
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by ryl00 9y ago
.compact is still my preferred way of browsing Reddit on my phone. It seems to be slowly losing functionality (e.g., can no longer submit links or text posts), but the compactness of content is a big plus for me...
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by ryl00 9y ago
In my experience, it often means variables that are used before they are initialized, or dangling pointers.
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by ryl00 9y ago
Perl is the reason my bash knowledge never grew beyond a rudimentary level...

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