mrkite

One of our data providers gives us hundred megabyte json files. Whenever there is a problem with the data they request examples, jq is invaluable in those instances.

Interesting. I didn't realize Wayland was so extendible. I wonder if that means we can do a konfabulator clone.

There was a ton of software sourcecode posted to the comp.sources.unix usenet 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.

Isn't that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/

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.

Search for Floyd Steinberg dithering. That's the algorithm used by a lot of classic Mac software.

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: https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

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.

Focus more on stability in terms of apis. We can't be rewriting our apps constantly because they keep updating frameworks every year.

C. I've been programming for over 30 years and it's the only language to survive. Imagine if I was asked this question 30 years ago and picked perl or Pascal, I'd be screwed today.

Expect isalpha is part of the standard library not an arbitrary function, a compile should be able to optimize standard calls.

Someone should build a search engine or something....