mrkite
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- Comment on Can someone explain why authors do this? 8 months ago:
Tradition is just dead people’s baggage. Doug Stanhope.
- Comment on `not di` does not seem to perform bitwise negation 9 months ago:
I’m not great with gdb but I think using the x cmd shows them.
- Comment on `not di` does not seem to perform bitwise negation 9 months ago:
Your result is correct, is just not displaying the leading zeros.
- Comment on Introducing OpenD 10 months ago:
It was definitely DDJ… back in the early 90s, right? I once asked Walter Bright (creator of D) if they were related and he told me it was just a naming coincidence.
- Comment on Introducing OpenD 10 months ago:
♪I went to school and I got OpenD♪
- Comment on My coding skill V/S My GitHub Repositories 10 months ago:
Yeah back before github existed, we used sourceforge to host opensource, and you had to use CVS. Then later Subversion.
- Comment on Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb) 11 months ago:
Another benefit from working from home: I will happily spend my own money on a good chair, keyboard, etc. I spent 20 years working in an office and there’s no way I would’ve ever brought in my own chair during that time… I would’ve had to become the chair police to prevent it from getting “reappropriated”
- Comment on GitHub - couchbase/fleece: A super-fast, compact, JSON-equivalent binary data format 11 months ago:
Interesting. A year ago I was looking for something exactly like this for distributing data between multiple servers. Everything required a ton of overhead or was too big to use. I ended up just using json. I did discover that Brotli can compress 3 gigs of json down into just 70 megs nearly instantly.
- Comment on To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON 11 months ago:
One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples,
jqis invaluable in those instances. - Comment on GitHub - FriederHannenheim/cthulock: Wayland screen locker focused on customizability 11 months ago:
Interesting. I didn’t realize Wayland was so extendible. I wonder if that means we can do a konfabulator clone.
- Comment on what caused you to get into Linux? 11 months ago:
There was a ton of software sourcecode posted to the
comp.sources.unixusenet group that I wanted to check out. The problem is all that software was in shar format, and there was no way to extract those files on msdos. I found Yggdrasil Linux on CD at a local software store and decided to check it out. Been using Linux in one form or another ever since. - Comment on How do you manage code snippets? 11 months ago:
Isn’t that what Gists are for? gist.github.com
- Comment on What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why? 11 months ago:
A decade ago I reverse engineered the Macventure game engine, allowing you to play Shadowgate and Deja Vu etc on modern oses. The current copyright holder then paid me to iron out the rough edges and create the official ports currently on steam.
- Comment on Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers 11 months ago:
Gdb doesn’t work at all on m1 macs
- Comment on Implementing stack walking in an x64 Windows debugger 11 months ago:
Very cool. I wonder how portable the theory behind it is. That’s one problem with the m1 macs, gdb doesn’t support them.
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
I thought it was well known that the studies about Dvorak being superior were fabricated by Dvorak himself… but apparently that’s forgotten knowledge.
Here’s a magazine article about it: reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
I suppose… but when you have frameworks like Angular that update every 6 months, even the best efforts for backwards compatibility fall by the wayside.
- Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech? 11 months ago:
Focus more on stability in terms of apis. We can’t be rewriting our apps constantly because they keep updating frameworks every year.
- Comment on I would like some advice on where to go after university 1 year ago:
I spent 20 years working for my local newspaper. It was a ton of fun and I constantly got to do new things. I did everything from making a palm pilot game to accompany our coverage of the Sydney Olympics, to an Apache module for a custom cms to iPhone and Android apps.
- Comment on MS-DOS applications: AutoCAD 1 year ago:
I still have plots from using the MSDOS version of AutoCAD back in highschool.
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
Typing in basic listings from magazines was pretty much the only way to get software.
- Comment on Browse and Discover Manpages 1 year ago:
There’s also
aproposwhich searches man pages on keyword. - Comment on Bruno HTTP client, offline alternative to Postman/Insomnia 1 year ago:
Doesn’t support OpenAPI… sigh.
- Comment on How to store user's access tokens/API keys without hashing them? 1 year ago:
The issue with JWTs is that there is no way to revoke them.
Except you can have a nonce in the JWT that corresponds to a field on the server… which is revokable.
- Comment on How to store user's access tokens/API keys without hashing them? 1 year ago:
Feels like you want JWT.
- Comment on What would it take for you to move away from Github? 1 year ago:
He shouldn’t be. Elon doesn’t give massive payouts. If he really wanted that domain, he’d trademark it and sue the owner for it.
- Comment on What would it take for you to move away from Github? 1 year ago:
Same. Our whole team switched to gitlab. The whole point of git is that it’s distributed. We could host it ourselves over ssh if gitlab became a problem.
- Comment on Historic Personal Computers in Japan [1982-1998] (Stephen Maurice Graham) 1 year ago:
We definitely need more computers that are red.
- Comment on Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root 1 year ago:
Maybe read the article and not look like an idiot. All they did was move the certificates into a signed package that is updated through Google Play. They can revoke certs even faster now because it doesn’t require a system update.
- Comment on Programming for kids 1 year ago:
I know John Carmack got his kids an Apple II and taught them BASIC.