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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Where exactly did this "supposed to" come from? I've never met anyone who expected (or needed) a CS degree to teach them programming.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> nothing that would prevent me from writing "C with classes" using the modern version. Or indeed "C without classes", just with some extra type-checking. And of course K&R used Stroustrup's C++ compiler to b
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
Anyone know what "expressive" means here? Also, you could have provided a link to the wikipedia article this is from.
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
seems strange not to mention andy warhol - famous cookie jar collector
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by zabzonk 7mo ago
> TUI runs in a text session. A GUI runs in a graphics session What do you mean by this? I have never heard these terms before. I can launch and interact with a GUI from a text application, or a text application from a GUI.
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Bone (B-1 bomber) deployed to the UK(theguardian.com)
3 points by zabzonk 8mo ago|2 comments
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Well, I'd go for a sharply dressed lady too, but ... what I get is very cheerful Tesco drivers in hiviz, who unpack my groceries and stash the chilled stuff in my fridge. It's a great (UK) service, and they quite often ask if the
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
I'm not convinced that Unicode fixed anything. I was kind of hoping, way back when, that everyone would adopt ASCII, as a step to a more united world. But things seem to have got more differentiated, and made things much more difficult
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
It's not "the value", it's "the values".
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Well, I would say something like "We seem to be having some performance issues the business has noticed in the XYZ stuff. Shall we sit down together and see if we can work out if we can improve things?"
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
How do you test "safe bio-weapons"?
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Among many others: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2178935/uk-issued-conscrip...
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
> Unicode is a requirement everywhere human language is used Strange then how it was not a requirement for many, many years.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
> no one here needs to worry about being drafted into a war Lots of talk in the UK recently about conscription.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Oh, how I hate these horrible job descriptions. But thanks for the info.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
What is an "EM"?
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Can I ask what you and others that posts things like this here -"What are you actually developing?" People are posting about pull requests, use of AIs, yada yada. But they never tell us what they are trying to produce. Surely this
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Please, a simple web page that tells me what this does, and why I should use it. Links to github have never done this for me.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Don't remember that, but I do remember the one for Gupta SQLWindows. I had a discussion about with its designer on reddit some years back, and he admitted it was a horrible mistake. Programs are text, folding is not a great way to repr
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Either this is sarcasm or you and me are the only two people here that actually like Win11.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Well, I am not exactly a hotshot 8086 programmer (though I do alright) but if I was asked to reproduce the IBM BIOS (which I have seen) I think I would come up with something very similar but not identical - it is really not rocket science
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
> It does not mean "as long as you never read the original code, whatever you write is yours" I think there is precedence that says exactly this - for example the BIOS rewrites for the IBM PC from people like Phoenix. And it wo
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
People like the language - I like it though I have only written a few bits and bobs in it. They also like Fortran, Prolog, and (dare I say it) Haskell, and many others that don't appear here so often. Just because a language is not thi
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
they weren't promoting an OS, they were promoting a user experience - A GUI that competed with the Mac. There were OS improvements too, but I have forgot what. The real improvements came with Win2K - one of the best versions of Window
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Perhaps aesthetic - both Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were (to me at least) very ugly. Things got a bit better with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 (and easier to program) but it wasn't really until Windows 95 that the whole thing came together. One thing
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
They don't want to clean the toilets either?
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
> most easily compilable I think it was more that it would be easy to write a compiler for, which meant that CS students could write one. Don't have a source for this that I can remember, though.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
I didn't mention "evil" or violence. > Empathy is inherently tribal. I have no idea what that means, and I suspect neither do you.
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by zabzonk 8mo ago
Well, yes, but still quite interesting, IMHO. It's not like GCC is one of the least used compilers.
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Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak(theguardian.com)
47 points by zabzonk 8mo ago|32 comments

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