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by to3m 9y ago
I can't believe that this is described as unadventurous, when it's a laptop that's covered in Alcantara right where you're going to put your sweaty palms.
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by to3m 9y ago
It's less of a problem with 2560xN than 1920xN, in my view. I also prefer 16:10 to 16:9, but 2560x1440 has enough pixels vertically not to be disagreeable, and 1440x2560 is wide enough not to be cramped. I'd never buy a 1080p moni
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by to3m 9y ago
Typically the whitespace rules are part of the standards as well. Spaces after if, spaces after commas, spaces before stars, after stars, around stars, alignment, newlines, two spaces after a full stop in a comment, the full works. People h
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by to3m 9y ago
Note that the latest npm has changed its behaviour for folder links - if you refer to a dependency by a folder name ("fred":"file:../fred", that sort of thing) rather than npm version or git link (etc.), npm now cre
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by to3m 9y ago
> Behind that interface, replace it with network calls that fulfill the interface's contracts Just like that?! You can encapsulate work fine, without making microservices at all easy to retrofit. There's a big difference betwee
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by to3m 9y ago
Overlays? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming) I used to use Turbo C++ 3.0 (I think it was? - this was 1993) and overlays was one of the touted features, though I never used it.
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by to3m 9y ago
I've written a few small no-dependency things like this for Windows. Some random notes on writing them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011857 These are all no-dependency, and all <100KBytes: Keyboard layout
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by to3m 9y ago
C/C++ breakpoints still appear to be line-based in VS2017. (C# breakpoints have been statement-based for a long time...)
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by to3m 9y ago
Which debuggers for C or C++ do this, and which compilers do they work with?
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by to3m 9y ago
I've never watched this particular stream, but I've watched a few others. I expect many (most?) people are like me: they watch the stream on their TV while doing something else, or they stick it in a corner of their desktop, or on
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by to3m 9y ago
I can't believe you're complaining about people not being able to read or write super-effectively, when you admit you can't even read the expression on somebody's face. Have some sympathy. People do write what they mean,
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by to3m 9y ago
> CD's scratch and then skip easily I imagine they are not!
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by to3m 9y ago
Yes, you're right, sorry.
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by to3m 9y ago
I claim it can be +EV even when it's a punt. Suppose you make 3x on your first bet, as I did - and it's a long story why i settled for such a poor return ;) - you can then "invest" 2/3 of your winnings, and even if
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by to3m 9y ago
The 6502 definitely reads or writes every cycle! - consult the data sheet (or VICE's 64doc) for more info. This is also not hard to verify on common 6502-based hardware. Suppose it executes a zero page read instruction. It reads the in
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by to3m 9y ago
And the 1979-1982 period is exactly when the original PC was released, hence the problem!
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by to3m 9y ago
The 68000 has a 16-bit bus but the 8088 is only 8 bit. I don't know about today, but RAM chips of the time supplied 1 bit per address, with the capacity being a square (since column and row are addressed using the same pins). So if you
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by to3m 9y ago
You do need Comment Reflower.
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by to3m 9y ago
You might also do this to improve debuggability and unoptimised build performance. The VC++ stdlib is particularly bad, as its authors have gone down the ultra-DRY rabbit hole even for simple stuff - a pain to step through, and it relies en
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by to3m 9y ago
C doesn't let you have destructors that automatically clean up whatever got initialised in the Init method (if it was called), but C++ does.
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by to3m 9y ago
Sing it! I wonder what purpose it is even supposed to serve? The weird thing is that all people have to do to make this stuff work is: nothing at all . But for some reason that's just too much effort.
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by to3m 9y ago
So counterintuitive that perhaps it has to be true! From around the same time, so presumably an alternative regurgitation of the same press release: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/cannabis-could-h...
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by to3m 9y ago
Another criticism: https://prestonbyrne.com/2016/08/12/against-crowdsales/ As for DeRose, if he isn't actually an asshat, he's certainly doing a flawless impersonation of one. But many of his p
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by to3m 9y ago
This happens to me in these main day-to-day cases, comparing Emacs to Visual Studio and Xcode: - VS/Xcode don't support keyboard macros - VS/Xcode don't support piping selection through a shell command (I had to write an
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by to3m 9y ago
The comment about practicality is well made. The Challenger was a good device for the time, but for the modern day I prefer my current setup: Master 128 with 16MHz copro, plus home-made mashup of http://zeridajh.org/software
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by to3m 9y ago
My dad bought one of these in 1985: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Opu... - the 256K one. Unsure of price but I think it was around £200? I used it quite a lot when I got a bit older - the RAM
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by to3m 9y ago
As always, if your curiousity is piqued by one of these articles, you really might as well do exactly what the journalist did and go to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis... (My fav
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by to3m 9y ago
Another option is RDM, which is free: https://github.com/avibrazil/RDM (RDM has never had an official home, I don't think, and I don't remember where I got my copy from. Think it was a link from reddit. So I
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by to3m 9y ago
ShiftIt is alright: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt It's rather limited - make window fill quarter/half screen, make window fill whole screen, move window to next monitor - but it's very easy to conf
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by to3m 9y ago
I use my align_window3 utility on Windows: https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window3 It divides the screen into halves and thirds horizontally and vertically, with one keypress setting size and position on one dimens

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