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·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
If you count the sections of your four fingers with your thumb, you can count up to 12 on one hand!
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·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yes I suppose it's not! My time sense in recent decades is very fugitive :)
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·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Not a recent movie, but it was mentioned in Shooter, a Mark Wahlberg film from way back when
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·tahun lalu·discuss
This is why (apart from being Irish) I drink a fair bit of tea throughout the day.

Going to the kitchen, boiling water and letting it brew, gets me away from my desk and gives me an opportunity to start thinking out loud while I wait.

Sometimes just getting up out of my chair will shake loose some tough problem and the answer will be clear.

Alas, even after all these years, I occasionally grind away on things rather than remembering this.
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·tahun lalu·discuss
Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.
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·tahun lalu·discuss
Ah yes. I remember having to do something similar. My connection was via 3G on an old Sony Ericsson K750, which was acting as a Bluetooth modem.

I think I did manage to get about 5k/s by placing it at various points around the room, but it was mostly dropped packets and 1k down.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Presumably expressions of interest?
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
My dad got us an Atari 130 XE for Christmas back in the 80s.

On Christmas day, it ran a program which asked for our names (my sister or I) and then printed out a personalised message and small game.

Only years later did I really think about him setting up this program days or weeks before hand, learning to code it all in Atari Basic, for that big reveal on the day.

He always had menial blue collar jobs because of his working class Irish Catholic background, and he died before I really got into computers/dev later on in life, so I never really got to ask him about it.

Enjoy the day everyone and hopefully build up some nice family memories!
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I’m sorry to say that some of the gnarliest and most boneheaded codebases I worked on were ones where I was the ‘architect’.

It was a startup environment and hectic, but I had total control over everything, more or less.

Just to say that having the luxury of a greenfield start doesn't mean you'll end up with a nice result.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
This is one of the features I like most about F#, after some years experience with it. The project is structured with a specific file ordering, and there's no forward referencing. Similar within a file/module as well, most of the time.

So to understand a project, you start at the top and work your way down, you wont encounter anything you haven't come across yet as you go.

Ironically, this 'feature' so annoyed me when I first came across the language in 2015 or so, that I put it down after five minutes and forgot about it for years.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Yes likewise!

We had a mobile library (a big van would park up a few streets over every Tuesday) and I have very fond memories of their Tintin books.

There's something about the 'album' format as well, you can fit a lot more on a page.