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by zabzonk 4mo ago
I hated the top deck when flying east from NY to London. The rising sun poured in every time a crew member opened the cockpit door, waking me up. Best seat for me was the single one in the lower deck at the very nose of the aircraft. The 7
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Or, as the original article suggests, blame someone else.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> The good news for the shell32 team is that they are off the hook; they are the victim. The bad news is that we don’t know who the culprit is. The story of software development through the ages.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Well, I don't think farmers had to worry so much about those things back when I was a chid - they seemed to just like shouting. It's not like there was much we could wreck - the last use of Dunholme Lodge (as far as I'm aware
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
We seem to be regressing to the overuse of classes again.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Using its text mode, WordStar made a pretty good programming editor.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Can be very dangerous: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37115032 Actually, a large kite (I know fighters are not large) can be dangerous without glass on the string.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
IMHO, you can't do better than The Penguin Book Of Kites: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguin-Book-Kites-Original/dp/0140... Covers history, and building kites using all sorts of easily available materials.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
One reason that alcohol is so popular is that it is easily, legally obtainable, and a social drug, unlike (say) heroin, which this article seems not to mention (I may have missed it)and might have done less damage (look at the long-lived W
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Or the "wrong kind of snow": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> I have spekl check disabled on all my devices. Obviously :-)
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
MS Word has a "check spelling as you type" option which can be turned off - same with grammar.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> Same two-letter command in my muscle memory. make run. make test. make migrate Should surely be "two-word"?
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
In my experience ALL Lincolnshire farmers are grumpy. But we may have escaped as one of us was the local Police Constable's son.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Dunholme Lodge was defunct RAF base near the then active V-bomber base RAF Scampton. It was a favourite place for us RAF kids to explore - the concrete of the torn up runway provided all sorts of caves, and there was a deserted multi-store
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Makes for a target-rich environment, I guess.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> I had never run into compatibility issues with programs or games built for older Windows version Try running a real-mode Windows program on a modern version of Windows.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> having to add a bunch of random fucking try-catch bullshit around every function call Not the person you are replying to, but did you see where he said: > When exceptions are misused
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Worth pointing out that the iostreams library is the work of many hands, so Stroustrup is not solely to blame. I just found this old SO question which I answered many years ago (I am anon/Neil) which addresses this: https:/&#x2
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
If you think programming in Win16 (or whatever we want to call it), you should try teaching people to do it. I worked as a commercial trainer on C and Windows way back when - C and the Windows API were no bed of roses, but the different mem
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Well, most of the addressing modes of the Z80 used a 16-bit register pair (i.e. 0 to 64K-1 bytes) to address, the 6502 used a somewhat stranger set of addressing modes, but once again you could address 0 to 64K-1 bytes.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Chess?
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Badly designed things get replaced. For example unique_ptr replaced auto_ptr. I'm not sure if the language standard actually supports the term "deprecation" though. Edit: Also not sure what can possibly be downvoted here.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> a lack of general "stamina" I guess so, particularly the "getting started" problem - I don't even like to think about setting up a project or dev environment.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
I find it a bit scary too - I simply cannot write programs anymore (mostly motivation, I think) though I'm not conscious of decay in my other mental functions. But I suppose those poor people that go wandering off into the night would
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
I don't spend anywhere near the time on HN today that I used to spend reading books back then.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Well, if this is supposed to be something like C++, and if "new" is dynamically allocating memory, then simply don't do that - this kind of thing has been solved years ago.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
Oh god, I once had to program in C++ on a French keyboard.
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> Saying "using RAII for memory management" is insufficient - with just RAII, you cannot even assign a class into a passed-in variable. What exactly do you mean by " assign a class into a passed-in variable"? Please p
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by zabzonk 4mo ago
> but the notes have the most beautiful verses in the history of literature, even more beautiful, far more beautiful than the poem. An example, perhaps? I've always found the poem full of beautiful things (makes you wish Nabokov wr

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