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lepicz

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    Comment #49228593

    when i'm feeling blue i go read and toy with geoworks source.. it's kinda weird to read TODOs from 1900 :) and one wonders what could have been if there were not incompetency of mi…

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    Comment #48477203

    depends on artillery.. i mean canon: F5 is for save game F9 is load :)

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    Comment #48416478

    hmm, yes it's interesting but honestly - not much of the stuff is usable IRL the only thing i was regularly using (Loki library) for was the assoc_vector

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    Comment #48265001

    this compatibility sucks sometimes. for example you want to add nice feature to c++ with nice syntax, but there is a similar syntax somewhere in C that nobody uses, but you have to…

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    Comment #47900792

    > It's a magical feeling. hehe working with this TV library scratches my nostalgia itch :D it probably saved me from futile efforts like writing apps for GEOS or joining the one pe…

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    Comment #47900538

    i mean: for example you have a problem 'how do i create scrollbars two squares wide' (not a real problem, can't think of something now) if you work with qt for example so these day…

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    Comment #47898872

    it is still very well usable - i used TV 2.0 year ago to do some prototype. i wanted (and mostly succeeded) to create turbovision front end for LLDB debugger... you know, that woul…

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    Comment #47127918

    i gave up on stacking - no matter what i do, i get passive-aggressive comments from my wife 'raccoon on cocaine' she calls it :)

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    Comment #46541687

    MUDs were the fentanyl of university students :D

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    Comment #46204725

    cool, i was looking for something like this to try on my own puny hw - thanks!

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    Comment #46105029

    'We have D at home' :) c:\> subst d: c:

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    Comment #46098613

    Stacker compressed volume ;)

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    Comment #46033268

    LOL :D somebody has high opinion about himself

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    Comment #45943144

    heh, i have seen programmers using virtual everywhere, because they were lazy to use declspec(dll_export) on windows system :)

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    Comment #45925779

    mafia2 used that as well (at least for cars appearing into your bubble)

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    Comment #45697681

    they have their own pain - there are those different mosquitoes, that tries to enter your every orifice. eyes, ears, nose, urethra. very annoying. after long journey we arrived int…

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    Comment #45692145

    of all the encoding i like BER the most as well (i worked in telecommunications when ASN.1 was common thing)

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    Comment #45681656

    some people simply like pain :D (i worked with asn1c (not sure which fork) and had to hack in custom allocator and 64bit support. i shiver every time something needs attention in t…

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    Comment #45640747

    as a programmer you have (almost) no control over cache. that's not what i meant. registers ok, but i want at least one megabyte of them :)

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    Comment #45625025

    i did a bit dev on ps3 and i remember there was a small memory on the chip, like 256k that was accessible to programmer. i always found this very appealing, having a blazing fast m…

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    Comment #45278298

    it was not always named Midnight Commander, it was Mouseless Commander it was renamed somewhere around 1995

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    Comment #45271838

    volkov was a great virus detector its size was right at the edge of segment (64k) so when a virus appended to the .com binary, volkov stopped working

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    Comment #45271805

    Mouseless Commander :)