Another benefit from working from home: I will happily spend my own money on a good chair, keyboard, etc. I spent 20 years working in an office and there’s no way I would’ve ever brought in my own chair during that time… I would’ve had to become the chair police to prevent it from getting “reappropriated”

So it won’t work for 0.0001% of all github projects.

Interesting. A year ago I was looking for something exactly like this for distributing data between multiple servers. Everything required a ton of overhead or was too big to use. I ended up just using json. I did discover that Brotli can compress 3 gigs of json down into just 70 megs nearly instantly.

One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.

Isn’t that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/

A decade ago I reverse engineered the Macventure game engine, allowing you to play Shadowgate and Deja Vu etc on modern oses. The current copyright holder then paid me to iron out the rough edges and create the official ports currently on steam.

Very cool. I wonder how portable the theory behind it is. That’s one problem with the m1 macs, gdb doesn’t support them.

Search for Floyd Steinberg dithering. That’s the algorithm used by a lot of classic Mac software.

I thought it was well known that the studies about Dvorak being superior were fabricated by Dvorak himself… but apparently that’s forgotten knowledge.

Here’s a magazine article about it: https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

I suppose… but when you have frameworks like Angular that update every 6 months, even the best efforts for backwards compatibility fall by the wayside.

Focus more on stability in terms of apis. We can’t be rewriting our apps constantly because they keep updating frameworks every year.

C. I’ve been programming for over 30 years and it’s the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I’d be screwed today.

Expect isalpha is part of the standard library not an arbitrary function, a compile should be able to optimize standard calls.

Someone should build a search engine or something…

I spent 20 years working for my local newspaper. It was a ton of fun and I constantly got to do new things. I did everything from making a palm pilot game to accompany our coverage of the Sydney Olympics, to an Apache module for a custom cms to iPhone and Android apps.

Now I can’t say that working for a news company is a good idea in 2023, but the point is there’s probably a company local to you that needs a wide variety of programming and isn’t a “tech giant”.

I still have plots from using the MSDOS version of AutoCAD back in highschool.

Typing in basic listings from magazines was pretty much the only way to get software.

It’s funny because, I’m probably the minority, but I strongly prefer JetBrains IDEs.

So does anyone who was forced to use eclipse.

I’m off two minds. On the one side, there is far too much reliance on black box libraries to do trivial things.

On the other, this complaint is decades old. Back in the late 80s there was a software developer for the apple iigs called FTA, which stood for Free Tools Association. They claimed that the tools in the os were too slow and you should code to the raw hardware.

if I take my c code and add a cpp extension it works

and I pointed out that it doesn’t if your C code has a variable called “class”.