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"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"
"No! But they'll only let me warn you. Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
"Really! If you are fussing around with void *, just go home or at least back to your editor!"
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
Maybe the daughter sued for copyright infringement when she turned 18. ;) Serious question: Is this possible when a guardian gave consent earlier?
AFAICT, kids own the copyright to things they create[0], but guardians are responsible and can use it on the child’s interest. IANAL, consult an attorney, etc., etc.
0 - https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-who.html#:~:text=Can%....
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
> The compiler is 324k in size Playfulness isn't the only thing we've lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
I couldn't find this elusive picture of a cat on archive.org, but I found this dog instead:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030113144310/https://www.amazo...
June 2016 appears to be when Amazon adopted the current error pages with the large dog images.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160612232820/http://www.amazon...
I miss this kind of playfulness in computing. When I was at Amazon my manager told me that several years earlier he was responsible for updating the 404 page so he scanned a picture of a cat his daughter drew and made that the body of the page. In 2009 when I started, that was still the image, but at some point someone must have noticed and replaced it with a stock photo of a dog. The asset was still called kayli-kit…
> The compiler is 324k in size Playfulness isn't the only thing we've lost. Software bloat has reached comedic levels.
void outchar (char c) {
c = c | 0x80;
asm volatile ("jsr $fbfd\n" : : "a" (c): "a");
}
void outstr (char* str) {
while (*str != 0)
outchar(*str++);
}
void main () {
outstr("Hello, world!\n");
}
lda #$c8 ; ASCII H | 0x80
jsr $fbfd
lda #$e5 ; ASCII e | 0x80
jsr $fbfd
...
My favourite syntax error message produced by the Glockenspiel C++ compiler (a cfront derived piece of junk that I used in a training company in the early 90s) was simply "core dumped". This was slightly tricky to explain to people already struggling with C++, and who had paid us money for the course.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238928 To inline my comment in the previous thread: Just for some context, the MPW C compiler that produced those messages was actually not developed internally at Apple, but was rather done by Green Hills Software [1] under contract as mentioned on the wikipedia page [2] and its source [3] which is funnily enough about this exact same topic. [1] https://en.…
...also remember 45 minute builds when a header file changed.