zabzonk

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by zabzonk 2y ago
Get computer. Play with it a bit. Get book on programming in X. Write code. Books, and reading them and doing, are the only way of learning how to be a software developer.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I quite like "pair debugging". As someone that doesn't really like using a debugger, it's good to have someone that does use it to go through code (possibly not mine) with me commenting or suggesting problems. Probably i
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by zabzonk 2y ago
To quibble a little Gaea is not fully biological. For instance, at one point a particle accelerator is mentioned as being in the ship's shell, and both the original (well, latest) Gaea entity and later Gaby are obviously running on som
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by zabzonk 2y ago
"I f*cked up" is something I've had to say several times in my career as a dev. It's in the nature of things.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
If IBM had given OS/2 to their mainframe division to develop (and hired someone to design a better GUI, with much better icons - these things matter), I think it could have been a hit. I was using hypervisor stuff on VM/CMS in the
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I wouldn't be shocked at all. In the 90s I consulted for a couple of UK firms that used OS/2 - a training company I worked for used a (nightmarish) C++ compiler that only ran, very badly, on it. And I trained several batches of VM
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, good luck. But how many copies of OS/2 Warp do you think were ever sold in Slovenia? Heck, there were not many sold in English speaking regions! Perhaps a more interesting question would be: "how do I create a localisation C
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I think there is a bit wrong with this, IMHO: “only I can do” Sorry, friends, but this is incorrect. No, not incorrect - if you have the vision for a FOSS project then you are probably the only one that can steer it. That's not to say
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Probably needs to be settled before Trump gets in?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Clarity? And in C++ at least, I would re-write the functions.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Doesn't the name of the function select for the types and use of the parameters? But I haven't written in C for a long time, and this I think could be done more clearly in C++.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Have functions with different names and different numbers of parameters?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
This is an ad for a book.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
OK, thank you. But why do the functions have those unused parameters?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I hear crumpets are also frowned on - my favourite breakfast food!
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Purely out of interest, and probably my bad, but what is: (void)k_sz; doing? I've seen fussy people doing: (void) printf( "hello" ); but not what you have written. As I say, probably ignorance on my part.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
How do you select for "those without a stable source of above living-cost income?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> made use of exciting C++ casts before ever defining the variable’s types an example of this, please?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Like much of what i wrote before the days of distributed version control, this is now lost in the mists of time. And the code wouldn't belong to me anyway.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Don't know about the biggest, although it was quite big, , but the best shell program I ever wrote was in ReXX for a couple of IBM 4381s running VM/CMS which did distributed printing across a number of physical sites. It saved us
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Most expensive Christmas tree ever Would have been even more expensive if the USA had UK laws- in the UK disturbing bats is an offence. Also, unless you really think you need it (just finding a bat is not enough), you don't want t
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, "senior leader", if this is the kind of incomprehensible stuff you routinely come up with, I'm amazed your teams produce anything.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
since the late 1950s
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by zabzonk 2y ago
"no really" is about right. even if you have managed to produce sustainable fusion with a good bit of output energy (a very big if), you still have the problem of producing useable electricity from it, which as I understand it is
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A Mouse Utopia(theguardian.com)
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by zabzonk 2y ago
yes, that's what i did on the C++ implementation i mentioned. it was for writing the action parts (not the parser etc.) for a text adventure system.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Very fast (faster than naive assembler) but not at all high-level; having to look after the stack is a bit of a pain. Writing your own FORTH is fun - it doesn't need to be in assembler - I once wrote a FORTH-like scripting language in
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by zabzonk 2y ago
As someone who learned most pf what I know about programming in BASIC back in the very early 1980s, this is sad news. We seem to be losing good people all the time these days. However
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Have you seen the end of "The Thing"?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
you don't put extra raw eggs in it, you simply don't fully cook it on the reverse side of the pan and then fold it so the uncooked egg oozes out somewhat.

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