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by whobre 1y ago
One of the things I like about Odin is the features it doesn't have. Package manager is the big one, but OOP constructs and macros are not far behind. Good job!
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by whobre 1y ago
> C++ is very old, in fact, it came out in 1985, to put it into perspective, that’s 4 years before the first version of Windows was released Nitpick, I guess, but Windows 1.0 was released in November 1985: https://en.m.wikiped
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by whobre 1y ago
I don’t use Java often, but many developers at my workplace do; they universally hate the new FP features.
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by whobre 1y ago
You can hardly hear about design patterns nowadays. A couple of decades ago they were much more popular. And yes, it’s all smoke and mirrors…
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by whobre 1y ago
Tried a couple of times and gave up. Just didn’t work at all for too many containers
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by whobre 1y ago
C was not designed at all. It evolved from B, by adding types to it.
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by whobre 1y ago
> Don't let a bad implementation ruin a good idea. It would certainly help to see at least one good implementation of the “good idea”
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by whobre 1y ago
> The Visigoths had Roman Emperors on their coins even in 580 for example. The Franks had them even longer.
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by whobre 1y ago
A very nice retro machine! I still think they should have not included the floppy disk drive - there is no old Commodore 65 software that could use it.
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When the IBM PC Came to Town(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
2 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
Business is much better for long flights. For flights under 5 hours it almost does not make any difference.
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by whobre 1y ago
It probably will benefit your resume. At least that’s my experience.
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by whobre 1y ago
It's generally true even for CPU instructions: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/280673/why-d...
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by whobre 1y ago
Yep. I swear I liked the old Netflix with DVDs better. I could rent pretty much any movie I wanted.
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by whobre 1y ago
> The cool thing about OS/2 2.1 was that you could easily boot off of a single 1.44 Mb floppy disk, and run multitasking operations, without the need for the GUI. It was cool, but don’t forget that you could do the same thing with M
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Counting Leading Zeros in a Byte(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
1 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
Even "human-readable" formats are only readable if you have proper tools - i.e. editors or viewers. If a binary file has a well-known format and tools available to view/edit it, I see zero problems with it.
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by whobre 1y ago
> Win2K did multiple users more or less the same No, it didn't. You had to use some 3rd party software for that.
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by whobre 1y ago
Multiple users on a same machine out of the box and way faster boot time. Didn't care for the UI, though - looked childish...
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Alan Sugar of Amstrad Speaks to Practical Computing (1985)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
2 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zoroastrianism
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by whobre 1y ago
S&P 500 as always. Timing the market is a fool’s errand.
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If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
130 points by whobre 1y ago|111 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
(2011)
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by whobre 1y ago
And QL, which is much more important!
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by whobre 1y ago
It was ridiculous. They seriously wanted to rewrite everything in Java, including office and web browsers. It was 10 times worse than the recent “rewrite in Rust” mania and way more unrealistic.
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The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 Is Coming to Kickstarter This Saturday(specnext.com)
3 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271725...
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by whobre 1y ago
DRI did not have CP/M-86 at that time which is the reason Tim Paterson developed 86-DOS in the first place.
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by whobre 1y ago
It was IBM who set the price. According to Kildall’s right-hand Tom Rolander, they were shocked when they saw the price difference.

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