mrkite

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[–] mrkite@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A decade ago I reverse engineered the Macventure game engine, allowing you to play Shadowgate and Deja Vu etc on modern oses. The current copyright holder then paid me to iron out the rough edges and create the official ports currently on steam.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Very cool. I wonder how portable the theory behind it is. That's one problem with the m1 macs, gdb doesn't support them.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I thought it was well known that the studies about Dvorak being superior were fabricated by Dvorak himself... but apparently that's forgotten knowledge.

Here's a magazine article about it: https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I suppose.. but when you have frameworks like Angular that update every 6 months, even the best efforts for backwards compatibility fall by the wayside.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Focus more on stability in terms of apis. We can't be rewriting our apps constantly because they keep updating frameworks every year.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

C. I've been programming for over 30 years and it's the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I'd be screwed today.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Expect isalpha is part of the standard library not an arbitrary function, a compile should be able to optimize standard calls.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I spent 20 years working for my local newspaper. It was a ton of fun and I constantly got to do new things. I did everything from making a palm pilot game to accompany our coverage of the Sydney Olympics, to an Apache module for a custom cms to iPhone and Android apps.

Now I can't say that working for a news company is a good idea in 2023, but the point is there's probably a company local to you that needs a wide variety of programming and isn't a "tech giant".

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Typing in basic listings from magazines was pretty much the only way to get software.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

It's funny because, I'm probably the minority, but I strongly prefer JetBrains IDEs.

So does anyone who was forced to use eclipse.

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago

I'm off two minds. On the one side, there is far too much reliance on black box libraries to do trivial things.

On the other, this complaint is decades old. Back in the late 80s there was a software developer for the apple iigs called FTA, which stood for Free Tools Association. They claimed that the tools in the os were too slow and you should code to the raw hardware.

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