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Right On Commander!

I assume they had a scaled up integer sin and tan tables and used matrices for scale, rotation and projection? I do remember seeing this in 68K.

I'd suggest that someone who thinks that UTs are over-rated are over-rating their ability. I'd also suggest that those people are the exact people that should have extra testing do…

Good. The NHS has a terrible history of software development.

I had it too ;-)

A couple of things a C++ developer can do is to put template instantiation code into a .cpp file, where possible. "#pragma once" in the header files helps as does using a pre-compi…

Ta.

I remember Dr Dobbs, way back when, having an article on the search algorithm. I think they had C code for it. I did a version in 68K on the Mac (MPW Shell days) for a SGML editor …

If you hit shift+run stop at the end of the command it'd load and run.

Wow. Going back a long time. I was in the MPW Shell camp but did use ThinkC With Objects and it was so much faster than the C compiler in MPW.

Requires some kind of sign-in to read the article. Not going to happen.

The way I built MacOS applications in Obj-C was to use a dictionary with key/value pairs held inside either a NSDocument or a controller of some kind. I'd bind the views to the mod…

I know them as "roger beeps" from CB radio terminology.

Smog pollution was a big issue back then. You'll have seen the old movies where London is "foggy".

Not sure but there may be two bugs in the code. The use of notify on the condition outside of the mutex lock. I know this would cause problems with boost, not sure about std::.

Nice. Reminds me of printing related software that'd optimise the use of film by sorting the postscript output of a renderer to make best use of the film.

You might look at the Linux version of CFLite, the Apple reference counted C library. Has other things than just strings which would be useful to a C programmer. https://github.com…

Time is an illusion. Tea-Time doubly so.

There's a kind of pizza that I've had at a Turkish restaurant that comes without tomatoes. Really nice. I'd assume a common origin with the Italian variety via the Romans (ancient)…

HP Z800 with 96GB of RAM, 2TB of RAID 0 rust and a 1TB SSD. C++ dev using Fedora 29.

Objective-C with AppKit on MacOS 10.0. Even Apple had problems finding people and they'd bought NeXT (where my experience was from).

It seems clear from the article the developer isn't that clued up.

As someone who worked in the US with a H1-B, in my case it was because you'd not find someone with my particular skill at that point in time. I was also paid more than the employee…