AsthmaBoy

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by AsthmaBoy 3mo ago
Python is dynamically, strongly typed. It cares a lot about the types of its objects, you can't just mix and match at will. Perhaps you meant statically typed?
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by AsthmaBoy 1y ago
Back in the day, around 1998/1999, Oracle had tools to develop Web-applications served directly from the database. To produce HTML one would use a variety of PL/SQL functions, one function for each HTML tag that was available at t
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by AsthmaBoy 2y ago
I like to structure my code as an outline. Helps readability, quick visual hint of structure and i don't have to keep track of open-end brackets. Though i much prefer spaces to tabs.
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by AsthmaBoy 2y ago
I like this approach. We did something similar, but for a position as support engineer, where coding ability was one of the requirements, though not the only one. They were given a piece of code on a toy, easy to read, english-like pseudo-l
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by AsthmaBoy 2y ago
I agree and I don't fully understand the why of it. I remember coding PL/SQL to emmit HTML in Oracle around 1999 or 2000 and using functions to code the various elements. That got old and repetitive very quickly - for instance
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by AsthmaBoy 3y ago
One or two decades ago I read on some newsgroup on the internet (and having experienced it myself), that Neal Stephensons storylines never actually
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by AsthmaBoy 3y ago
Apparently, Reason 12 runs well https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
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by AsthmaBoy 3y ago
Here is an example of an old technology TAL -Template Attribute Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language which happens to have an (also old) implementation i Go https://github.com
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by AsthmaBoy 3y ago
Wouldn't readlink -f $0 work to get the actual location of the script, and from there get the base for relative scripts?
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by AsthmaBoy 4y ago
Would love to be able to run this on "junk" hardware, say, a super old, 32-bit obsolete Netgear router, etc. Not necessarily for networking purposes, but just to be able to leverage the hw for fun. Though a Contikibased router OS&