scottlu2

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by scottlu2 5mo ago
Minor trivia: the original motivation for adding SetWindowRgn was for Microsoft Bob characters and speech bubbles.
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by scottlu2 10mo ago
Very impressive. Nice work.
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by scottlu2 11mo ago
rePalm and the numerous projects on your home page are quite impressive. Nice to see WI running on it!
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by scottlu2 11mo ago
Very nice to see new PalmOS apps being written, and good job on your strategy game. I co-authored Warfare Incorporated, an RTS originally on Palm devices, if anyone remembers that. We had to pull out all the stops to get the perf and get it
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by scottlu2 1y ago
Good times.
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by scottlu2 2y ago
The article suggests json patch is idempotent, but it isn’t idempotent for array mutations. JSON merge patch on the other hand is fully idempotent (in the array case the array is replaced).
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by scottlu2 4y ago
Thank you. I was wondering that.
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by scottlu2 4y ago
Love it - my wife and I enjoying playing that - on an iPad. Nicely made.
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by scottlu2 4y ago
Comment from the presentation: “Worked with fido alliance to work across platforms”.
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by scottlu2 5y ago
+1 impressive independent of anything else. +1 for doing this as an intern.
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by scottlu2 7y ago
That's a fair point, I'll restate: the level of abstraction that developers were exposed to was 95% the same. Exposed message loops, window classes, window messages, unpacking window params, post and send message semantics, painti
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by scottlu2 7y ago
Once Microsoft agreed to the graphics api change, it was open season to redesign the window manager api because backward compat was moot at that point. The OS/2 window manager api was designed by the same team who designed the win16 wi
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by scottlu2 7y ago
This is an important point. Being easier to create means faster to market, faster to create new features, easier cross platform, more value for users in less time. Not all apps can be web based but for those that can be, faster dev time has
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by scottlu2 7y ago
I’ve seen the open plan sold as what engineers are asking for, but anecdotally I don’t see them asking for that, so I wonder what drives it. Does it attract people right out of college? (if so, it would be important for recruiting?)
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by scottlu2 7y ago
Why are open plans (among software engineers) so common in the industry? Is it really that most software engineers like them?
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by scottlu2 8y ago
I think it’s an economic reality for for-profit companies that make apps. If company A doesn’t go the html app route, and company B does for the same effective product, company B will have an advantage. It’s almost to the point where if you
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by scottlu2 8y ago
It’s about time to market and iteration speed being important success factors, coupled with users accepting the costs in exchange for the benefits.
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by scottlu2 8y ago
GHEdit was released ~2 years ago: https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit/blob/master/README.md
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by scottlu2 8y ago
Another reason to go public is because the SEC forces companies with 2000 stock owners (used to be 500 pre-2012) to file public disclosure documents similar to being public, so companies typically go public at that point. I’ve heard that so
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by scottlu2 8y ago
Nice demo. Reminds me of a well done Galaxians clone for Atari 400/800 that used programmable character set animation for the aliens. It was impressive.
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by scottlu2 8y ago
A Javascript based one: https://codesandbox.io/s/2px9y0p480
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by scottlu2 8y ago
STUN is part of the story. The overall process is called Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).
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by scottlu2 9y ago
What year did you receive the cease and desist and was it from Brinks Hofer / Brinks Gilson & Lione?
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by scottlu2 9y ago
Try cgdb.
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by scottlu2 9y ago
I’m curious how Apple will balance PWA support with the business case for the App Store.
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by scottlu2 9y ago
Not selling is hard too. People underestimate that a decision was made each day not to sell.
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by scottlu2 10y ago
Try GHEdit, which is web based VSCode over your github repos: https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit
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by scottlu2 10y ago
I had a similar experience: keeping my hands warm while keyboarding made all the difference. Before this I was at 20% use for 3 years, tried multiple things, went to multiple doctors, etc. I also: wear a pil-o-splint while sleeping so that
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by scottlu2 10y ago
I worked on both OS/2 and NT and can say they were never the same code base. The NT kernel was 100% new code. At one point there was an effort to port the OS/2 GUI apis on top of the NT kernel. That effort was abandoned when it wa
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by scottlu2 10y ago
I saved money from lawn mowing and paper delivering to buy a trs-80 model 1 level 1. I remember it being around $525 which was a really tough goal to reach. It was awesome though to finally reach it and bring the trs-80 home.

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