linuxlizard

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by linuxlizard 8y ago
There's a great Bloom County from way back that summed this up. https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/11/14/
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
How do D and Rust stack up against each other? Both seem to quite attractive as next generation compiled languages.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Found the Libertarian!
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I've been using the Microsoft cpprestsdk, too, but for client stuff. I've been enjoying using it.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I found Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay a really fun book to read about natural colorants and their history.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
It's a pretty amazing problem--a wifi chipset. The driver runs on Linux and Windows, also supports 3x different CPU architectures (x86, mips, arm) and multiple bus interfaces (SoC internal, usb, pci). Supports disabling optional featur
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Yes, I definitely learned it from a Spolsky & Atwood podcast. Not my own term (I'm nowhere near that clever).
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I work with a large vendor code base that is ~300k lines of C. There are 515 different #ifdef conditional symbols (thank you, grep). The code base started probably >20 years ago and has has who knows how many engineers working on it. The
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
> I really don't understand Apple's obsessions with thinness. We engineers will work on the same thing over and over until we're told to work on something different. The last input the Apple mechanical, etc, engineers were
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Looking at my monitor pixels with a good loupe, the gray is made of red+green pixels in a Bayer pattern. So the scrolling is making a purple effect, probably in our aforementioned weird human visual system. update: Bayer pattern is wrong te
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Perhaps record video (with phone), see what happens in the playback. Or look at the screen pixels with a loupeor magnifying glass. Human visual system is kinda weird so could be either.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I know a lot of local politicians. I've met a few state level politicians. I know people who work professionally in politics as part of the machine. I'm consistently told one thing politicians are most afraid of is phone calls. Wh
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
As a programmer in Idaho, I breathed a sigh of relief.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I hacked the source slightly so I don't take any damage in combat. Is a simple one line change so it's a cheat but a tiny cheat. I still cannot get past level 10-12 or so. (Wow, I suck.)
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
My family had government cheese growing up. Was very very soft, only lightly more dense than cream cheese. Was hard to cut because was too hard for a butter knife but too soft for a carving knife. Taste was like a blander Velveeta. Was not
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Oops. Sorry. I had completely forgotten HN markdown. I usually use the underscores around book titles with cleartext in mind. I'll remember asterisk in the future.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I've been in the same boat--relearning C++ after using C++98(!) for a long time. My first go-to book was _A Tour of C++_ , 2e by Stroustrup. Also _Effective Modern C++_ by Scott Meyers (of _Effective C++_ fame). Other books I've b
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Developing software for Linux is like painting a moving train.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
C++ is a little like the English language: a bunch of different pieces gathered together over a period of time, new features added to replace/fix old. I like it. (My comment copy/paste from another C++ thread.)
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
C++ is a little like the English language: a bunch of different pieces gathered together over a period of time, new features added to replace/fix old. I like it.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Me, too! Last job I loved working in CMYK and CIELab in Photoshop. Was the killer feature that made Gimp a no-op for me.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Honest question: what sort of C++ dev are you looking for? I'm curious how C++ is being used in industry these days. I'm re-learning C++ after 10+ years away. I'm tired of how squirrely Python is and how much extra work I hav
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
A US military budget of $660,000,000,000 means each person the USA is paying $2030 to fund the military (including children). At the Federal minimum wage, after taxes, that's 47 full working days to pay it off. So that seems like a lot
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Agreed. Was fantastic. And their man pages were super complete and easy to read.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Turbo Pascal was my first. You never forget your first. Turbo C then Turbo C++ were also amazing. My fingers still remember the copy/paste ^KB ^KC.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Brief, the text editor, from Underware. It's still the best code editor I've ever used. Super fast, underpins written in a Lisp-y dialect (later C-ish). The ^G feature would pop up a list box listing all functions in the file and
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Ouch. True. So weird for me to feel that way.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
Also had a Tetris that is still the nicest clone I've ever played. For years after, I'd load my GeoWorks onto an old PC just to play the Tetris. I probably have the GeoWorks disks in my garage still.
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by linuxlizard 8y ago
I was in college at the time. Wrote a /lot/ of technical papers with GeoWorks. The word processor and draw had great integration.

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