hernandipietro

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   by hernandipietro 6mo ago

   I use WTL with modern C++ (smart pointers, Microsoft WIL for scoped handles is a good point) for suitable Windows native apps. Yes, this seems to be old but it’s the only thing that fits my mental model as a 30 year old Windows programmer
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   by hernandipietro 8mo ago

   Greed is making humanity go towards worldwide idiotism.
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   by hernandipietro 1y ago

   Innovation at the expense of crushing workers and increasing the gap between parasitic management compensation and worker wages. No, thanks. Europe may need reform but it’s not the USA way of doing things, except for the elite for which “ t
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   by hernandipietro 1y ago

   Congratulations man, great work.
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   by hernandipietro 1y ago

   I learned a lot with this tutorial, decades ago
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   by hernandipietro 2y ago

   Right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5468462
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   by hernandipietro 2y ago

   Originally, Windows NT 3.x was more "microkernelithic" as graphics and printer drivers where isolated. NT 4 moved them to Kernel mode to speedup the system.
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   by hernandipietro 2y ago

   Windows NT 3.x had graphics and printer drivers in user-mode for stability reasons. Windows NT 4 moved them to Ring 0 to speed-up graphics applications.
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   by hernandipietro 2y ago

   awesome algorithm, curved features seem to be perfectly reproduced by each ASCII character density and geometry.
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    by hernandipietro 2y ago

    I remember looking at MSDOS binaries with hex editors and seeing "MS Runtime Library", like many tools were written in C -- may be my memory is completely failing ... but probably MSDOS 5.0 included many utilities written in C? I
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    by hernandipietro 3y ago

    I just use FanControl , and I'm very happy with it. Windows only, unfortunately.
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    by hernandipietro 4y ago

    If you are already at systems level programming field (C/C++) you can tackle on Rust, which is becoming more and more popular (Linux Kernel, Microsoft in the future, etc)
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    by hernandipietro 7y ago

    Here is another comparison. 9980XE multithreaded performance seems to be better. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9980XE-v...
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    Show HN: CartelMania: A more-or-less remake of the old 80s BannerMania software(github.com)

    3 points by hernandipietro 9y ago|0 comments
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    by hernandipietro 9y ago

    Nice!
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    by hernandipietro 10y ago

    I will see if stability improved. At least in Win32, I got pissed off so many times with crashes and hangs.
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    Show HN: Linkom: A single-header C command line parsing library with COM binding(github.com)

    2 points by hernandipietro 10y ago|0 comments