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by to3m 10y ago
The UK still had a hangover from the 1970s at the time, local phones calls cost money, and Americans have always been a lot richer anyway. I suspect America had the inherent advantage here.
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by to3m 10y ago
It's got 256KBytes of ROM. If that's memory-mapped, the 16KBytes of RAM is much less of a limitation. Most data and virtually all code - especially on ARM - is read-only. Python might not be the easiest way of working with this se
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by to3m 10y ago
I'd have expected most people to have a laptop at home. Maybe I'm unusual, or maybe the people I know are unusual, but I don't know many who use a desktop PC at home any more. Desktop work PCs are still common, but you'r
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by to3m 10y ago
But whitespace was banned from file names decades ago, and look what happened: people wanted it added in. So it was added in. That's progress! If the shell can't handle this well, the problem is that the shell is not very well des
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by to3m 10y ago
Neil Bradley did a vector arcade one as well around that time: http://www.emuviews.com/cgi-local/show.cgi?SERIAL=99 For consoles the earliest ones might have been Virtual Gameboy? Or one of the Atari 2600 ones? I'
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by to3m 10y ago
Himself set's wrong's write in the middle of the night, hes the hero Britsol deserve's. But I suppose at least you'reselve's got the comma in the write plaice
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by to3m 10y ago
That sounds unusually short. I bought 1pt milk from tesco on 2nd April and its use by date is 11th April; the 4pt cantainer i bought last week sometime (so 27th March or so?) is use by 6th April. Perhaps 3 weeks would indeed be stretching i
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by to3m 10y ago
OK... but what does that mean?
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by to3m 10y ago
What would your preferred non-socialist article look like, if it were based on the same data?
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by to3m 10y ago
I'm sorry you're having a bad day.
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by to3m 10y ago
Right, yes. I guess a 4-value enum could be an option too, but I've never tried. For gcc and clang I've also had some success with the diagnostic pragmas, which I stick in pshpackN.h-/poppack.h-style header files. For example
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by to3m 10y ago
Why do you switch off -Wreturn-type?
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by to3m 10y ago
Emacs.
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by to3m 10y ago
Why should anybody have to put up with non-standard UI and behaviour? (Case in point: the very website's scrolling. Works great on desktop Firefox, not obviously distinguishable from any other website. On iOS... a sad joke, made at the
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by to3m 10y ago
It's definitely interlaced output, though in most display modes the content is progressive (i.e., both fields look the same) - which is a bit of a dumb arrangement, really, since you get all of the flicker and none of the benefit. Fort
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by to3m 10y ago
Well, alternate fields have a 0.5 scanline offset, so that's sort of true. But you definitely don't see them both at once. Are you sure you've ever used a proper CRT TV? ;) - you can get the alternating effect with LCD TVs,
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by to3m 10y ago
Try it and see!
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by to3m 10y ago
If the TV displays N fields per second, and the C64 produces N fields per second, then you'll see one at a time. The only effect of the interlace is to shift alternate frames down by 0.5 scanlines. TV phosphor decay is too rapid for an
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by to3m 10y ago
What I've typically done: output things as groups of lines, separated by blank lines, then use C-<up> (backward-paragraph) and C-<down> (forward-paragraph) to move between the blank lines. Also an option: C-x [ (backward-pa
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by to3m 10y ago
Emacs is much worse with long lines than it is with large files, and the test here uses 1,000 char lines. I'm not even sure I'd dare open a file that consisted of merely a single one of those. However I've had no difficulty u
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by to3m 10y ago
What are you talking about? Next year is the year of Linux on the desktop, and here's Microsoft barely even ready.
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by to3m 10y ago
A contrary view: http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programm...
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by to3m 10y ago
Funny... I dumped Catch after a couple of days due to the terrible build times ;) The fact it took over my programs' command line options and wouldn't give 'em back didn't help either. (Many of my tests are data-driven a
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by to3m 10y ago
I'm sure you could come up with a more charitable response than that.
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by to3m 10y ago
Do you have any evidence that it isn't true? :) A wealthy family, if you have one, would be an excellent source of money for a startup. It's sometimes hard to tell which bits are for real, and which bits are the play-acting, but I
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by to3m 10y ago
This nearly tells you all you need to know. The other bit of info you'll want to note is that head -c +N produces as many bytes as you ask. So if you try to get the prefix using "head -c +N" and the suffix using "tail -c
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by to3m 10y ago
Also, 71.5 stone for UK readers (nobody seems to have heard of this unit elsewhere, but it's the standard Imperial unit for human body weight)
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by to3m 10y ago
Dude .
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by to3m 10y ago
The trade-offs are that the language implementer has an easier time of it (once), then every programmer has to expend extra effort writing the code (a lot of the time), the computer has to work harder running it (every time), and code brows
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by to3m 10y ago
This is the sort of thing the mouse is actually rather good for. Though you're probably better using Ctrl+B to embolden than you are the toolbar or menu.

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