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by wvenable 1y ago
You know you're referring to ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500?
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by wvenable 1y ago
> Unfortunately, while an XML schema can be simple, it can also be unnecessarily complex, bloated, convoluted and difficult to implement without specific knowledge of its features. One could now use that exact sentence to describe the mo
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by wvenable 1y ago
It might be a trivial difference but it's literally the thing that makes something a compiler. It should make sense. How a piece of software works doesn't make it a compiler or not; it's input and output of the software t
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by wvenable 1y ago
You can continue to argue the point but that goes against every single definition of compilation that exists. Compilation is a transformation of programming language into another form. For example, taking `3+x*(2+y)` and transforming it i
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by wvenable 1y ago
I do read my migration scripts generated from an ORM to make sure my source code is correct. Liquibase starts with "Write your database change code in your preferred authoring tool in SQL, YAML, JSON, or XML." So instead of just
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by wvenable 1y ago
Tokenizing is a necessary but not a sufficient task for compilation. I could tokenize this comment to efficiently store it in a database but that would have nothing to do with compilation.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Early BASICs didn't compile a program before interpreting it. The interpreter read the code as written and executed it step-by-step. There was some tokenization; keywords were turned into single or double bytes and that was literally
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by wvenable 1y ago
Amiga OS no longer better than anything. There is literally no chance of anyone building a better OS than Linux. Even if you could, you'd just end up with an OS that doesn't have any software. Why does this need to happen again?
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by wvenable 1y ago
Lockwise? They killed it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-of-support-firefox-...
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by wvenable 1y ago
Why do you assume that personal ideas are exempt from consequence and criticism?
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by wvenable 1y ago
> modern amiga operating system This is an oxymoron. If retro hardware is a novelty then so is retro software. So is retro inspired software. It's novelty all the way down. You can emulate anything; you don't need backwards c
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by wvenable 1y ago
https://www.ami64.com/product-page/the-c64-maxi and https://myretrocomputer.com/
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by wvenable 1y ago
I don't know why you were down voted this is exactly correct. The system is not working as intended though; it was designed to be adversarial with each branch expected to want to keep its own power. The whole system falls apart when
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by wvenable 1y ago
Airport security has rendered passengers equal. There is no imbalance of power that exists in all the examples that you provided.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I dare you to use a different icon than the floppy disk for save. People still use "click" terminology for tapping things on their phone and I doubt that will ever go away.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I'm not explicitly talking about just "click here". I'd say it has it's place sometimes but it's rare. But a lot of developers have issues with redundancy or explicitly spelling things out for users for thing
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by wvenable 1y ago
If "I forgot my password" is visibly a button then it's more effective than a link in that context. I remember when Microsoft removed many buttons from their UI and replaced them with vaguely colored text (links) and it becam
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by wvenable 1y ago
I have this fight with some developers all the time. Users are dumb, impaired, fearful animals and if you don't spell it out to them they have no idea what to do. "Click here" might be superfluous noise but that doesn'
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by wvenable 1y ago
Prior to 9/11, hijackings occurred with mild frequency and the official policy was appeasement: get the plane safely landed and then negotiate with the hijackers. In any ways, 9/11 was possible due to exploiting that particular p
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by wvenable 1y ago
Murdering all the passengers made another 9/11 impossible -- nobody is going to sit quietly while their plane is hijacked anymore.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I was “getting out there” too! So many major life milestones. But actually it has never stopped. Most of my major career changes happened after the second child. I have entirely new interests now. I feel like I do have the unique perspe
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by wvenable 1y ago
Maybe people who are bad at pre-planning are also potentially poor parents.
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by wvenable 1y ago
My children are 12 years apart in age and being a parent in my 20s was a much better experience. I had less money, but I had more time. I wiser now, but I had more energy. I could relate to being a kid more. I'm not suggesting it&#x
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by wvenable 1y ago
Penny wise but pound foolish.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Bankruptcy. The people who profited the most will not see any consequences. That's the beauty of our system: companies are at fault, not people, and companies can be destroyed and remade at will.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> I have an LG TV now that also runs WebOS and... it's still trash! 14 years later. The fundamental idea of using web technologies for an entire OS is bad. I don't think the idea is flawed; in fact, I think modern software deve
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by wvenable 1y ago
We pulled out an old Windows Phone from a drawer at work a few years ago. I had never used one before but I was actually quite impressed with the fluidity and design of the UI. The design was a little dark but I could understand now what
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by wvenable 1y ago
I was mandated to use VSS in a university course in the late 90s -- one course, one project -- and we still managed to corrupt it.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> Software people really have endless creative ways to spend hardware resource quota. If we have the hardware then not using it is wasteful. My iPhone doesn't get cheaper if I don't use all the power it provides.
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by wvenable 1y ago
They were not thinking about various exploits and vulnerabilities but rather making whatever compromises were necessary in order to form the union. It was negotiation, not planning.

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