gekkonier | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code
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gekkonier | 4 years ago | on: Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity
Another story that leads to my conclusion to not use such and similar services. For me it‘s always better to hoard data on my selfowned drives.
gekkonier | 4 years ago | on: Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
There were times we enjoyed slaying dragons in a 40 player raid.
But yeah, time passes, you get older, and interests shift.
It was great!
gekkonier | 4 years ago | on: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
In this situation here google is not willing to check if an automatism failed. I do not think that problem applies to selfhostetd content. But who knows, its a world where everything is possible....
gekkonier | 4 years ago | on: Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]
It's google.
I can live without it.
Do you?
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: Sublime Text 4 [video]
I love Sublime.
I use it for ruby coding, and I think I will buy an upgrade to version 4, just to support this great editor. I don't know how long I have my license....
Must been 5 or 6 years now I guess.
I hope there will sometimes a feature to load the actual selection into irb (and irb should be inside Sublime). That would be great! Dr. Racket is very cool for this, well for Racket. Repls for the win!
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)
Yes, as far as I remember it was really only in WfW 3.11
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)
Back in stoneage, while using Windows 3.11 (I think it was calles Windows for Workgroups or so...) there was a bug in calc: 0.02-0.01 resulted in a flat zero. Perhaps it's time to open an issue.
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: The Future of Perl
It was my first programming language I got things done with
- until I discovered ruby. After a ride into lisp/scheme/racket world I'm on ruby again.
I have good memories with it, but I wouldn't jump train again.
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
this is outstanding!
speechless.
gekkonier | 5 years ago | on: Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step
It was my first role playing game.
I went into every house and stole everything I could find.
Then the kids in town started to throw rocks at me.
After that I deleted the game, because a deinstallation routine was not necessary.
Great times!
gekkonier | 6 years ago | on: Racket: Lisp for Learning
#lang racket
is here to stay parallel to
#lang racket2
Racket is a lot of languages, not only one. You can mix in Racket as you like. You can mix #lang racket and #lang typed/racket with #lang datalog in one application if you like. With racket2 those options will not fade away I guess.
gekkonier | 6 years ago | on: Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
I needed a tool to sync my files across different platforms.
I learned that I don't need that.
You can say lessions learned.
I now use a proper backup tool, and don't spread my digital life through every cloud thats there and not here.
gekkonier | 6 years ago | on: SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]
It depends heavenly on what you want to do.
All of them SBCL, Racket and Clojure work platform independent, and have different strengths.
I'd choose it based on type of application.
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: Land of Lisp (2010)
I do recommend Practical Common Lisp not only for Lisp newcomers. The concepts teached apply to programming in a bigger context. Lisp is here only a vehicle (a very good one).
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008)
Hey! Why so angry! :-)
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]
Yes, I'm sorry. It was meant as an answer to 'Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp.'
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]
I would consider writing a small standardlib for your lisp. While writing it you will encounter things you can optimize perhaps.
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: This Cat Does Not Exist
And if, it's on lsd.
gekkonier | 7 years ago | on: Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS
I think that's nothing anyone can say for sure.
You need to compare them for yourself and deside if you "need" the one or the other tool for that purpose. Something like a perfect language for all things to do does not exist.
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Good times.