the_hoffa

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by the_hoffa 4mo ago
I've always told my Jr Engineers to "think twice, code once". If I gave them a task and they immediately started typing it out, I would tell them to stop typing and ask them to explain to me what they were doing; they'd
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by the_hoffa 7mo ago
You'd be surprised how many SE's would love for this to happen. The biggest reason, as you said, being able to push back. Having worked in low-level embedded systems that could be considered "system critical", it's
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by the_hoffa 11mo ago
I don't know if it's really that remarkable .. I don't think we can really attribute losing one specific type of memory over an entire civilization in about one generation such a "bad" thing. The phone wasn't a
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by the_hoffa 1y ago
That's 18k a year, or about equal or cheaper than "outsourcing", minus the tax and legal ramifications. I agree it's wasteful, but from a long-form view of what spending looks like (or at least should/used to look l
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by the_hoffa 1y ago
Ok, but can your tacos run DOOM?? I kid I kid ;) That's a commendable effort and nice job! Question though: was it an effort to make TacOS using DOOM as a "standard" or was it an effort to make an OS dedicated to running DOOM
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by the_hoffa 1y ago
Not the parent, but thanks for answering those questions, I had the same ones. I'm a Vet who's been doing SE for over 20 years as well, count me in!
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by the_hoffa 1y ago
Me too .. but at this point in our timeline it's not exactly for "nostalgic" reasons.
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
It sucks too because with streaming they can track so many finite details; with "old school" TV it was mostly self-reporting (i.e. Neilsen Ratings). And so much of the TV-streaming budgeting took "Hollywood budgeting" to
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
I mean, steganography has been a thing for quite a while. Not disagreeing, just saying this is how some programs/ideas were passed around the internet decades ago by "less than upstanding netizens" ;) Wanted to pass a secret
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
Nah! I agree that plugin/component systems will be built out, no matter the language, more just trying to point out that C++, as-is-designed, in my opinion, seems like they're trying to go that route without actually going that ro
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
Agree it's a non-sequitur; as is any idea of "game-engine" code in C++ (as the post I replied to mentioned), hence the argument. And 100% out of scope of C++, like the std::thread?? I've worked on many an embedded system
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
I'm not sure if you mean to have a /s in there, but personally I never really liked reflection. C# had it but it was also in part because it interop'd with .NET which had C++.NET, VB.NET, F#.NET, VBScript.NET, ASP.NET, Core.N
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
My contribution was adding "scrollable tabs" to it way back in the day and fixing a nullptr reference .. I did enjoy how simple the code was to actually grok and maintain, especially compared to some other FOSS projects of the day
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by the_hoffa 2y ago
One of the first things you learn in survival training is the difference between hunger and thirst. Most of the time when your stomach starts to "grumble" you might be surprised how often it's thirst and not hunger. Personall