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RemObjects is not unknown. You're just new.

FizzleFade is also found in Microprose games from the era (e.g. Railroad Tycoon, Civilization), sometimes in full-screen transitions and other times to fade in single sprites. But …

It enables the coder to engage in some late binding without engaging in a lot of casts or more elaborate metaprogramming: the enum index used for assignment is itself an assignable…

My strategy for personal coding recently has shifted towards a sincere exploitation of automatic programming(in a manner similar to model-driven development or language-oriented pr…

I do microwave the sponge after use, for about 2 minutes so that it's bone dry. The reasoning is simple: most of the bacteria are going to hang out in the water. It's still going t…

The longest possible chess game: https://www.chess.com/blog/kurtgodden/the-longest-possible-c... Chess AIs, perhaps needless to say, are very good at computing at the depth necessa…

IME real users don't care about the app being aesthetically different, but they do care if the common idioms have changed(e.g. position of OK/Cancel). That shouldn't depend on your…

Some time ago someone recommended SpeedCrunch to me for calculator stuff and I use it all the time now. It's a little bit less intuitive since it takes a syntax instead of presenti…

Worse-is-better: we already "solved" it with altcoins.

Regarding smart contracts and other inventions of cryptocurrency: I think, most of all, the crypto market is absolutely vicious, in a way that both capital markets and technology c…

This is not a valid argument when the line in question is dealing entirely with abstract constructs(which it is) and all of the variables are function-local, declared on the very s…

I've been on the "sleep on exercise mat with some blankets" train for years, but a few months back, stepped it up by eliminating pillows. I still gravitate towards getting somethin…

The core is so important. Core + breathing exercises will improve any other activity.

Contrast with FPC's compiler mode pragmas for different dialects. [0] FPC shows the effects of this story in the long term: there are several major divergences in behavior supporte…

Here's an easy challenge: Ask the overengineer to solve problems without introducing any new classes or functions. This starves the overengineer of oxygen, reducing their abstracti…

I've been musing about these sorts of issues of "what is really complex" lately, too. I started evaluating new languages for low-level application code again after spending a lot o…

When the paper was written, the jury was still definitely out on good concurrency practices for applications: the computing world(apart from mainframes, which of course had learned…

I'm seeing it as a feedback loop problem, again. Managers and stakeholders have an easy time remarking on surfaced progress. The developer has to think and communicate everything e…

You wouldn't be alone as a philosopher-developer, there are a decent number of us out there. However - shipping code is often very organic, cultivated stuff which foils attempts to…

I followed Carmack's suggestion and never looked back. I write simpler code on average now, and I spend less time having to re-read it too because I'm changing the same lines less …

What tends to happen as you refactor bad code is that you gain some intuition about the way the code needs to flow. The longer you spend grinding away at the existing code, the mor…

I went through something like this. What your emotions are getting conflicted on is the idea of learning your real limitations. Because, despite appearances of competence and oppor…

Nope. Replaced by WASM within 5.

Real-time video composites were achieved on analog hardware such as Scanimate [0] starting around the 1970's; traditional film matte techniques [1] had also been used for well over…

Check the bitcointalk forums. There are lots of altcoin announcement threads. Most are absolute drek and not worth your time, and most of the comments are people deceiving others o…