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by zabzonk 9mo ago
the standard c++ committee is extremely resistant to introducing new keywords such as "func", so as not to break reams of existing code.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> c++ threw pre-ansi argument type declarations out they never were in C++.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> a lot of stations just have stairs Very few, if any. They may not have escalators (Covent garden, for eg., but no-one in their right mind uses that - just use Leicester Square and walk on the street) but there are almost always ways o
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Ah, but what if one your clients needs to use, let us say, Excel... My mistakes with the training course code would have been fixed if the company would have bought Excel licenses fof our customer workstations. And I just remembered it was
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
In my experience, not a good idea to write both the client and the server for a given protocol which use each other. Far too easy to misunderstand the protocol. I remember doing this for a training course I wrote for OLE (later COM) years a
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
My Dad had one of them. The first machine I actually purchased myself was a Dragon 32 (6809 processor, 32k RAM) sometime around 1981 - i can remember everything about it, including all the terrible cassette games I bought for it and the mo
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> Linux should consider paying Microsoft and Apple Who or what is the "Linux" entity in this context?
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
probably him
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> Coding agents are really good at tasks where you can define a concrete goal and then set them to work iterating in that direction. Wholly based on other people's work. Which is OK.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Starting with the 6502 is going to bring you up hard against its addressing modes. Better IMHO to learn about memory and how to access it using arrays in BASIC first.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Much easier to start with BASIC. After all, why not?
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
It buys the launch missiles from the US, the submarines and the warheads are home-grown.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
I really don't mind Windows 11, and don't recognise many of the problems other people here claim to have. For example, I simply don't see all (or any) of the ads that many complain about.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Seem to be missing some plausible definition of "intellectuals".
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> I know it’s just a joke Yeah, sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm not Welsh but I lived there when I was a small child, and happily holidayed there after. It is a great country.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Thermonuclear weapon detonated in orbit
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
EMP attack
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
I know little about china (except i like the food and art) but do they actually write code in their native language(s)?!
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
i've always given the advice "program in english, comments, variables, function names, everything", and "always use a uk/us keyboard unless you absolutely have to enter localised strings, and even better get someo
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
whenever you would use 'l', you have to use 'll'? i'llll get my coat
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Having been in hospital in the UK NHS for three weeks before Xmas last year, for a painful condition that needed constant dressings and attention, I can only say that you can't possibly pay nurses too much. NHS nurses (and junior doc
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
So, basically a less-readable Forth?
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
or perhaps a pointed stick?
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
10 lines of working and tested code per day has always been considered the realistic maximum, in my experience. Anything else is pure optimism - which might of course work for the project in the short term.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
if you don't like those things, then don't use them
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Why would they have ethernet sockets? Only one of the four computers I own has one, and I've never used it. I don't think this is unusual.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
> Most underlying technology is timeless (see TAOCP, SICP, CLRS, K&R, GoF, Dragon Book, True enuf, but how often do you actually refer to the books underlying ideas? I've had (now gone, presumably) TAOCP on my bookshelves for ye
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
Yeah, well, I do kind of miss "The Design & Evolution of C++", but I can't convince myself I actually need it.
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by zabzonk 9mo ago
I had a couple of thousand books in my flat in london, including about 500 technical computing ones (design, languages, other stuff). I got my nephew to fix up the flat, for sale. He asked me "Which of these books do you want to keep?
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A History of TV Programming (BBC Based)(theguardian.com)
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