macjohnmcc

Joined 11 years ago

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C/C++ Windows programmer since 1989 Python

BASIC, RPG II (System 36), COBOL and various assembly languages in my distant past

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Comment · 1 year ago
I buy some just to support the developer if they are small.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd love for an interface like that on VSCode that runs in a terminal even remotely.
Comment · 1 year ago
And still shoot yourself in the foot.
Comment · 2 years ago
You were spared the killer robot?
Comment · 2 years ago
Cross compilation.
Comment · 2 years ago
People are 99% of the problem I have at work. Doing things poorly. Not caring about processes just wanting to get things out the door with little regard to quality unless the customer complains. Abuse of agile has made me hate it. 15-30 minutes a day wasted as the program manager leads it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Teaching yourself programming is important on many levels as the job is a continual learning type of job. What you learned 5 years ago might apply today or you may have to learn something completely new to stay on top.
Comment · 2 years ago
They don't want to use the term rent because you would then see it for the temporary period it will turn out to be and not be willing to pay what they want you to pay for it.
Comment · 3 years ago
I only use it to track what I am reading and my progress. I don't use it for recommendations from others or to see what the authors I read are doing. Maybe as a social network around books it sucks but as a way for me to track my reading it's fine.
Comment · 3 years ago
He traveled on his stomach.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah even Microsoft's compiler aligns values on appropriate boundaries for performance reasons. DWORDs on DWORD boundaries etc. And if you want to pack the data structure to avoid the gaps in structures there are methods to do so via #pragma options. I think their complaining about what was done for performance reasons shows a great lack of overall understanding. More time researching and less time griping would have served them better.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can also use TheC64 (Max) as a USB keyboard to the PC to use in Vice if you decide you want the keyboard and want to take advantage of some of the functionality of the emulators. I found a page that shows how to add a USB connector to the Max to allow this.
Comment · 3 years ago
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only versions of the product (Systems Management Server) were for the X86, Alpha and MIPS.
Comment · 3 years ago
I also found during these kinds of sweeps large copy and pastes of code. It really lowered my opinion of those working on the same project.
Comment · 3 years ago

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