memsom

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by memsom 29d ago
The umlaut does mean that to a Swede it is not the same word sound at all. I can only guess that is why it was allowed?
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by memsom 1mo ago
The first version I used was one of the previews, where the IDE didn't actually work and all the code was compiled from the command line. Kylix 1.0 was "okay", but it quickly became impossible to use because Linux moved on. T
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by memsom 1mo ago
To be honest, VB.Net was a very thin veneer of VB on top of the .Net runtime. It was not good. All of us that were doing Delphi quickly jumped to C#, because it felt a lot more grown up. The only truly terrible products I have worked on aft
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by memsom 2mo ago
I want native apps because I don't want to rely on the internet existing and I don't think hosting an offline web page in a captured browser is "good enough"
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by memsom 3mo ago
Even when CarPlay is full screen, it is possible to have a the manufacturer's UI available. My Ford Sync 3 will let me get back the the car UI via an icon that is the Ford logo - it loos like a regular app, but it's sole purpose i
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by memsom 3mo ago
I would recommend the audiobook - John Romero actually reads it so it seems a lot more personal. I did feel that Romero skipped a load of stuff, at least int he audio version. There was no real mention of Stevie Case, just one passing name
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by memsom 4mo ago
This makes no actual sense as a complaint. The M-series all have chargers with a USB-C socket on them that the cable is plugged in to, so you would have been able to use the PSU from any M-series MacBook - even if they were the models prior
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by memsom 6mo ago
A question I'm sure you might have been asked before - will this support mobile too? It would be nice if it did. I would certainly like to try it. It does feel like being able to use Avalonia and MAUI in mobile would be extremely ben
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by memsom 7mo ago
How much is Flex? It is free. You have 2 options - 1) physical card, which works like a credit card. 2) You can flex payments you made on your regular card. The rules are the same. If it was a card purchase it will more than likely flex (i
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by memsom 7mo ago
It depends. The more you use it the better the limit gets. Mine is nearly 3k now.
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by memsom 7mo ago
> Mixing C# with other languages in the same project is also difficult because it only supports MSBuild. No, this is not true. You can invoke the compiler directly with no direct call to MSBuild what so ever. Even using the dotnet comman
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by memsom 7mo ago
I would have said "true", or at least - I would have said "I do, but never incurring a charge on next month's bill", but with services like Flex from Monzo, you can actually get credit over 3 months with 0% interes
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by memsom 8mo ago
Legacy of BeOS.
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by memsom 8mo ago
"Queen" came from "The king and his queen". There is no common word for Queen in Germanic languages, and for what ever reason Queen became synonymous with royalty. Originally it just mean "the king and his woman&quo
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by memsom 10mo ago
I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.
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by memsom 10mo ago
Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.
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by memsom 10mo ago
WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.
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by memsom 10mo ago
MVC is a design pattern, ASP.NET MVC is a framework that used MVC as its go to pattern. But MVC is not in any way only ASP.NET MVC. There are plenty of other UI frameworks that use MVC and the Wikipedia article lists a lot of them for exa
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by memsom 10mo ago
> The only native contenders in the field right now are IMHO are [...] and flutter I wouldn't really call Flutter "native". I don't have a strong enough grasp of where React Native is at now. It was severely lacking w
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by memsom 11mo ago
Well - I used Archimedes computers with ARM2 and owned an Amiga 500+ and honestly, I couldn't tell you the Arcie was faster. It certainly didn't have the custom chips, so it is probably not a fair comparison.
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by memsom 11mo ago
Advent of computing podcast did a series on his computers, of which this is a link to one of the episodes: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=170d60ae-c534-46f6-968b-...
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by memsom 1y ago
> I think the thing I dislike about Duolingo is it sort of catches the casual person into a trap by misleading them into thinking that by using this app they'll learn another language But does it? I have learned other languages usin
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by memsom 1y ago
Inclusion. In the UK, especially on the BBC, there is a lot of inclusion. We don't tend to hide or limit people based on disabilities or differences. There is a fully blind guy that does a lot of political reporting for example. It can
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by memsom 1y ago
I half agree, but a passport is a mid sized paper book, and an ID card is plastic and credit card sized. A plastic card goes in my wallet. I do not want to carry my passport around with me - having done this previously in Europe (both to
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by memsom 1y ago
In fact - ITV had ORACLE till the early 90's, Channel 4 had 4-TEL and TELETEXT didn't replace ORACLE till about 93. I forgot about ORACLE....
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by memsom 1y ago
No, I was there. I'm British and in my 50's. I lived through this. I'm not remembering something I was told or reading you a Wikipedia article, I actually used this technology regularly in the 80's and 90's before D
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by memsom 1y ago
Teletext is one way. Your receiver decodes the page you request, but you have no uplink. Teletext was made by major broadcasters, so NBC/ABC/CBS in the US might have had a service. It is just broadcasted as part of the signal, so
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by memsom 1y ago
Ah - you are conflating Germanic for German. Germanic is not equivalent to German. German (deutsch) is a national language, Germanic is a language family. German belongs to this family, but it is not the root of all Germanic languages. Engl
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by memsom 1y ago
I have a Mac Pro 1,1 and trying this might actually be kind of cool and give it more life. It is pretty limited otherwise and the 3,1 it sits next to is way more practical.
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by memsom 1y ago
I stayed on Catalina for a long time as it was the last version my Macbook Pro 2012 supported natively. It is a pretty solid OS, though it is harder to get Apple services running on it now. I personally just use Sonoma now on my Macbook Pro

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