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You’re quite clearly wrong. You write code to fit the immediate business need and that shifts rapidly over a year or two. If you do otherwise, you’re wasting your time and the mone…

All code is legacy. Business needs shift. The likes of Copilot are ok at boiler-plate if it has an example or two to follow. It’s utterly useless at solving problems though.

Lagrange? I see your point. I’ll get my coat.

Such as deduplication.

throws faeces Nonsense! Source: Engineer

I heard that, in the Netherlands after WW2, the descendants of people who starved were shorter in height even though they were born after the war. Admittedly this was from a Dr Kar…

Heh. I worked on the Mac version of ViaVoice. I joined as I was already an expert in AppKit and Obj-C. We were given old Macs running Classic to run Notes so we had two computers. …

That’s very interesting. Typically a Rabin fingerprint is used to identify identical chunks of data. Identifying similar blocks and, maybe sub-rechunking isn’t something I’ve ever …

I assume he’s clipping hidden surfaces?

I see what you did there :-)

:-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background. It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t rec…

My personal favourite unit converter is here: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...

Heh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf. I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.

Back in the day on the Mac, the order of source files in your project would determine locality in the binary. If memory serves, this was with MPW C or maybe CodeWarrior. You could …

In a car they’re a distraction from driving. You have to look at the iPad stuck to the dash and not on the road - where the driver’s focus must be. With knobs and buttons, you can …

People also don’t get the idea of an appliance.

Interesting. We went through a similar process and ended up with Yugabyte to deal with the locks (cluster). It’s based on Postgres but performance was not good enough. We’re now mo…

Have you had a look at SeaStar and how it works with coroutines?

Here’s a link to a video about loading games on the C64: https://youtu.be/YUigiY53YCs

I miss 68k assembler. Doing Amiga demos or Polytechnic work on a ST. I ended up doing Mac 68k and C after Poly in the early 90s.

I used to crack C64 disk games. They were mostly trivial because I wrote a disk sector editor that would disassemble blocks on demand. One that comes to mind were Ocean’s copy prot…

I’m inclined to agree with you. Having a great product is meaningless if you can’t get people to buy it. If you’re a one person shop, you need to learn the skills needed.

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts t…

Pascal was a first class citizen. Indeed, quite alot of the original Mac was Pascal and 68k assembler. For example, strings were prefixed with a length byte as is popular in the Pa…

Users don’t understand your app as it’s not been built using workflows an end user follows. As for code not being understandable, that’s just poor coding in a team.