justinian

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   by justinian 7y ago

   I haven't used Perl since writing CGI in the 90s, and I'm not a fan of the syntax among other things. But I'm great with regular expressions. It seems like everyone around me swears regexes are an impossible black magic, and
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   by justinian 8y ago

   Man, I thought personal attacks against other users were against the guidelines.
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   by justinian 8y ago

   I've seen a number of "build an OS" tutorials pop up recently, and that's awesome! Building an OS will definitely help you understand how to write better user-space programs, and it's fun. One thing I wish is that m
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   by justinian 8y ago

   Escape-meta-alt-ctrl-shift!
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   by justinian 8y ago

   Since I hadn't heard of it and had to Google: https://kallithea-scm.org/ (typo in the link above)
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   by justinian 9y ago

   I applaud your goals with your community, and wish more game developers and game-adjacent companies would think similarly. I've worked on games that didn't care, or didn't put the effort in, and so ended up with fairly toxic
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   by justinian 9y ago

   Maybe you don't, but I often have a very similar discussion in C code reviews: The unfortunately ubiquitous use of void pointers.
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   by justinian 9y ago

   The interesting thing here would be seeing some form of aggregation of various projects to see what effects the language does have on style. Would love to see something that shows the effect of e.g. Python's whitespace or Go's boi