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With experience and ADHD I learned to think in units that can be debugged separately. The experience tells me where those lines should be drawn, and the ADHD taught me to avoid cre…

One minor thing to consider is that hobbyists weren't distributing the source code (as posted in the OP) but trading the paper tape of the executable interpreter. They wanted the i…

I had the same reaction to the site - but I could've been won over if there was a link to E1ite and C@@L basic source for the effects (at least the text effects which could've fit …

OSINT (not a term I was particularly familiar with, personally) actually goes back quite a ways[1]. Software certainly makes aggregating the information easier to accumulate and fi…

Going through my junk box the other day I found a USB to two port RS-232 converter from that era - that came with 4 colorful snap on front pieces to match your iMac.

Kind of like CAR CAAR etc.

Of “Небезопасный”?

Where are they promising it then? Board meetings? I don't think lying (or creating unsubstantiated truthyness) is the same as saying the quiet part out loud.

I was refactoring a 700 line recursive C function (!) - one of those with all variables declared at the outer scope while the function itself was mainly a one pass switch with goto…

I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Rosetta Stone that is infinitemac.org - it’s “just” compiled to JavaScript or whatever but really well done. From their “About”: >>>Infinite Mac …

If you ever used MPW shell, a lot of those characters were part of the syntax of commands and the regular expression parser so it was common to learn to compose ∫,® ∂ etc. The debu…

I love using x macros with c++ to create static types and hooks to disambiguate from basic types. This is more applicable to final executables than libraries - I would never provid…

With all likelihood anyone still producing commercial (or free!) software today, or in the last 40 years, has users that they would love to see eaten by crows.

In 1988 I was working on a Mac software package and I remember the thrill of his returned “Customer Registration” card arriving. We had a small display cabinet and it went in there…

The big loss for me was when many apps took over the windows 3.0 MDI interface style. (Specifically thinking of code here). I was doing some hacking in codwarrior on Mac OS 9 a few…

Heard a rumor that seven ate nine, which sounds scary.

I always thought that a near learning project would be training an ML on “real” cards and then detecting fakes. I don’t play the games but I was always thrown by how much effort we…

Why not put out the fires first? Imaging being a first responder hearing this political nonsense takes precedence over your safety. The fires are here. They need to be dealt with.

I’m with parent - what if you don’t have the tool? What if there’s a syntax error in some implementation or dependency such that the tool chokes early? Human readable headers are a…

From the blurb at the top: “ The app is 95% complete, […] I intend to clean up the rest of it, and go GA within a few weeks. ” Assuming the last 5% is going to just take a few week…

> people probably already having a lot of tools that they use and prefer. Another tool adds to their work load. Further, a lot of providers are very strict about what tools their o…

Worse than that, they change the design and location of the handle every other year, and then replace your toilet paper with 3 sea shells.

adafruit used to sell a little pi powered thermal printer[1] but I always found the case a little fiddly and fragile. And my office mate didn’t care for the thing coming on at rand…

Sir Terry Pratchett’s _Reaper Man_ offered that snow globes were effectively seeds for dispersing awareness of new cities / malls.

Women’s rights, gay and trans rights and human rights were hard fought for. Defending them is progress.