NCG_Mike

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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
Right On Commander!
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
I assume they had a scaled up integer sin and tan tables and used matrices for scale, rotation and projection? I do remember seeing this in 68K.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
I'd suggest that someone who thinks that UTs are over-rated are over-rating their ability. I'd also suggest that those people are the exact people that should have extra testing done on their code.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
Good. The NHS has a terrible history of software development.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
I had it too ;-)
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
A couple of things a C++ developer can do is to put template instantiation code into a .cpp file, where possible. "#pragma once" in the header files helps as does using a pre-compiled header file. Obviously, removing header files
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
Ta.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
I remember Dr Dobbs, way back when, having an article on the search algorithm. I think they had C code for it. I did a version in 68K on the Mac (MPW Shell days) for a SGML editor I was working on.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
If you hit shift+run stop at the end of the command it'd load and run.
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by NCG_Mike 6y ago
Wow. Going back a long time. I was in the MPW Shell camp but did use ThinkC With Objects and it was so much faster than the C compiler in MPW.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Requires some kind of sign-in to read the article. Not going to happen.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
The way I built MacOS applications in Obj-C was to use a dictionary with key/value pairs held inside either a NSDocument or a controller of some kind. I'd bind the views to the model, via the controller. No sub-classes of views. I
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
I know them as "roger beeps" from CB radio terminology.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Smog pollution was a big issue back then. You'll have seen the old movies where London is "foggy".
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Not sure but there may be two bugs in the code. The use of notify on the condition outside of the mutex lock. I know this would cause problems with boost, not sure about std::.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Nice. Reminds me of printing related software that'd optimise the use of film by sorting the postscript output of a renderer to make best use of the film.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
You might look at the Linux version of CFLite, the Apple reference counted C library. Has other things than just strings which would be useful to a C programmer. https://github.com/fjolnir/CoreFoundation-Lite-Linux
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Time is an illusion. Tea-Time doubly so.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
There's a kind of pizza that I've had at a Turkish restaurant that comes without tomatoes. Really nice. I'd assume a common origin with the Italian variety via the Romans (ancient).
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
HP Z800 with 96GB of RAM, 2TB of RAID 0 rust and a 1TB SSD. C++ dev using Fedora 29.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
Objective-C with AppKit on MacOS 10.0. Even Apple had problems finding people and they'd bought NeXT (where my experience was from).
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
It seems clear from the article the developer isn't that clued up.
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by NCG_Mike 7y ago
As someone who worked in the US with a H1-B, in my case it was because you'd not find someone with my particular skill at that point in time. I was also paid more than the employees at the company I was contracted to work at - because