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Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:52AM (#50242769)
How did they get it to run well on the iPhone 2 I wonder if it was that slow
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:51AM (#50242756)
It’s not the working with people that I mind . It’s the lack of discipline in companies to spec anything out up front so your day is sprinkled with meetings and impromptu discussions absolutely murdering productivity . Then you have to work late just to get your work done. Maybe half days on site make more sense
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:49AM (#50242736)
Start in 91. It was so much better than it is now. Editor, compiler, and a few books. You built everything : windowing, dbase/ndx support, printer drivers, keyboard handling. It was the best of times. Desqview was peak multitasking ha. Don’t let anyone lie to you it was great.
Re:I Fixed Windows Native Development on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:55AM (#47024696)
If you are looking to rapidly build windows native apps just use Delphi. Superlative tool for this. Been using since ‘95
Re:Web development is fun again on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:49AM (#46489691)
Really like using alpine with a classical JS server rendered stack too. Most crud apps don’t need a spa app and now you are working out of one code base again. Codex chews through this kind of code
Re:If You're Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:32AM (#46217510)
Why have types? AI can infer everything. The ultimate ai language is as terse as possible to keep token count down but can still be understood by a human
Re:GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @02:41AM (#45036165)
Disappointed they didn’t use hiccup to generate html. Format?
Not seeing the "top talent" part at least from the H1B I have worked with which is probably in the hundreds at this point.
Re:ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library on Sunday August 18, 2024 @07:08AM (#41281615)
Delphi is leagues better and still supported
Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:20AM (#40844338)
Delphi is the superlative windows desktop development tool. It does support styling and just about anything else you would want. There is a free alternative in Lazarus but I don’t know if it supports styling
Re:Why Tailwind Isn't for Me on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:51AM (#39154798)
Seems like you can quickly build out what you want in tailwind and then convert to css using an ai tool
Re:How to Do Great Work on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:49AM (#36551379)
Why doesn't paul take some of that cash horde and put it into the LISP community? Maybe he does?
Re:How to Do Great Work on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:48AM (#36551354)
If your personal projects are "work" then yes do not bother. These are my creative outlet and where I get to enjoy coding again. My day job is massive .net/angular/sql projects that are just meh.
Re:The Rust I wanted had no future on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:39AM (#36195375)
ASP.NET AOT support coming in .net 8
Re:Why Lisp? on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:45AM (#35886511)
I consider not having types a feature. One of the reasons i like clojure. spec > static types
Re:Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:47PM (#35734330)
i've never had a single issue with dropbox on 3 macs in 10 years. Plenty of issues with google drive and one drive (or whatever it's newest name is).
Re:Understanding ChatGPT on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:37AM (#35314889)
What happens when half the publicly availble code is chatgpt output and its training itself on its own previous answers?
Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:35AM (#35230599)
Twitter has gotten better. probably for the reasons you mention.
I stepped into a project at work to help out knowing almost no typescript and wrote angular http routines that just worked in a few hours with chatGPT. first we started with any and then we built out an interface and it helped me use the map function in http to build out a result array without any intermediate array creation.

I 100% would not have written the code as well as it came out with gpt's help.

Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:04AM (#35167702)
And yet node.js scales without threads.
Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:02AM (#35167677)
Have a look at glamorous toolkit and you'll understand why separate documentation is an arcane idea.
Re:Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon (2020) on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:00AM (#35167662)
Build Glamorous toolkit in C++ LOL. The language matters.
Re:We're never getting rid of ChatGPT on Sunday March 05, 2023 @08:18AM (#35029363)
I just generated an httpkit clojure web app hat fetches coin and price info from coinmarketcap in 15 minutes. This would have been a minimum of 4 hours based on my current clojure ability. It's doesn't have to be 100% right. You are still expected to grok code. It's simply an assistant and it's bloody amazing.
Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program on Friday January 27, 2023 @07:31AM (#34545266)
It's all about the next quarter and until that stops being true it's going to hurt U.S. competitiveness
Re:Emacs Is Not Enough on Saturday January 14, 2023 @08:07AM (#34380028)
All I can say is "Glamorous toolkit"

https://gtoolkit.com/

Re:Java Is in Decline, and There's Data to Prove It on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:04PM (#34347640)
I've steered clear of c# my whole career but .net 7 is the bees knees. the minimal API makes it very easy to build endpoints without a bunch of ceremony code.
Re:Java Is in Decline, and There's Data to Prove It on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:52AM (#34206232)
C# grew and it's almost as old.
Exactly my thought. What I need though is a web front end to search and view my org files when I don't have emacs available to me. I have client laptops that will only let me access browser apps.
Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:16AM (#33607376)
You know all those DSL's you use to do templating, SQL, scripting? You don't need them in Lisp.
Re:'It's so liberating': The people quitting social media on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:15AM (#33518604)
Twitter is the least taxing of the social media sites to use and I actually get useful info from it. Just curate who you follow to keep the SNR up. I don't have any other social media accounts. The rest is just trash

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