lepicz

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1.
by lepicz 1mo ago
when i'm feeling blue i go read and toy with geoworks source.. it's kinda weird to read TODOs from 1900 :) and one wonders what could have been if there were not incompetency of microsoft etc..
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by lepicz 3mo ago
depends on artillery.. i mean canon: F5 is for save game F9 is load :)
3.
by lepicz 3mo ago
hmm, yes it's interesting but honestly - not much of the stuff is usable IRL the only thing i was regularly using (Loki library) for was the assoc_vector
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by lepicz 4mo ago
this compatibility sucks sometimes. for example you want to add nice feature to c++ with nice syntax, but there is a similar syntax somewhere in C that nobody uses, but you have to support it. you end up with nice feature with horrible synt
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by lepicz 5mo ago
> It's a magical feeling. hehe working with this TV library scratches my nostalgia itch :D it probably saved me from futile efforts like writing apps for GEOS or joining the one person Hurd team.
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by lepicz 5mo ago
i mean: for example you have a problem 'how do i create scrollbars two squares wide' (not a real problem, can't think of something now) if you work with qt for example so these days you ask google/stackoverflow/qtfo
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by lepicz 5mo ago
it is still very well usable - i used TV 2.0 year ago to do some prototype. i wanted (and mostly succeeded) to create turbovision front end for LLDB debugger... you know, that would behave like Borland's Turbo Debugger. few quick notes
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by lepicz 7mo ago
i gave up on stacking - no matter what i do, i get passive-aggressive comments from my wife 'raccoon on cocaine' she calls it :)
9.
by lepicz 8mo ago
MUDs were the fentanyl of university students :D
10.
by lepicz 9mo ago
cool, i was looking for something like this to try on my own puny hw - thanks!
11.
by lepicz 10mo ago
'We have D at home' :) c:\> subst d: c:
12.
by lepicz 10mo ago
Stacker compressed volume ;)
13.
by lepicz 10mo ago
LOL :D somebody has high opinion about himself
14.
by lepicz 10mo ago
heh, i have seen programmers using virtual everywhere, because they were lazy to use declspec(dll_export) on windows system :)
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by lepicz 10mo ago
mafia2 used that as well (at least for cars appearing into your bubble)
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by lepicz 11mo ago
they have their own pain - there are those different mosquitoes, that tries to enter your every orifice. eyes, ears, nose, urethra. very annoying. after long journey we arrived into the camp. we wondered why we were the only ones there, so
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by lepicz 11mo ago
of all the encoding i like BER the most as well (i worked in telecommunications when ASN.1 was common thing)
18.
by lepicz 11mo ago
some people simply like pain :D (i worked with asn1c (not sure which fork) and had to hack in custom allocator and 64bit support. i shiver every time something needs attention in there)
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by lepicz 11mo ago
as a programmer you have (almost) no control over cache. that's not what i meant. registers ok, but i want at least one megabyte of them :)
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by lepicz 11mo ago
i did a bit dev on ps3 and i remember there was a small memory on the chip, like 256k that was accessible to programmer. i always found this very appealing, having a blazing fast memory under programmer control so i wonder: why don't w
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by lepicz 1y ago
it was not always named Midnight Commander, it was Mouseless Commander it was renamed somewhere around 1995
22.
by lepicz 1y ago
m602
23.
by lepicz 1y ago
volkov was a great virus detector its size was right at the edge of segment (64k) so when a virus appended to the .com binary, volkov stopped working
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by lepicz 1y ago
Mouseless Commander :)
25.
by lepicz 1y ago
my childhood dreams include gravis ultrasound
26.
by lepicz 1y ago
that would be very sad christmas :D
27.
by lepicz 1y ago
that system was never that rigid, for it has feet of clay (and limestone)
28.
by lepicz 1y ago
heh, sorry, but intellisense was the first thing we (in a game studio) turned off immeadiately after install (by deleting the dll as there was no other way) because it was unacceptable resource hog. this was around VS 2003/2005/20
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by lepicz 1y ago
if anyone wants to go through it: https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric... possibly recent video from Curt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AThFAxF7Mgw and that's like 95% of ava
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by lepicz 1y ago
to put lipstick on the wrong end of a pig :) this is a mystery to me: ms has all the money in the world to make it right.. yet they can't. windows ecosystem is like one of those eastern european barnyards, where animals live and die be

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