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rbanffy
194,606karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
email: username at that google mail thing
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Aztec-C on the Apple II had a vi editor that ran on a 64K machine, but you had to exit it before you could run the compiler.
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I currently use AI to help me decipher software that was written two years ago.
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> I can resolve complex [mathematical] divisions [and] multiplications A claim far too many people these days can't make.
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9/11 eroded American democracy in ways that wouldn’t be considered possible. What we observe now is just one more chapter of a long fall that has started in the mid 1980s. Increasing income inequ…
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Along with BlackBerry messenger.
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It’s not really their fault. It’s just the world we live in.
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One thing I dislike is that the installer wants super user permissions. That’s a big no-no with JavaScript apps installing global components. All global machine state should be managed with package ma…
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I write command line tools primarily with Python and one thing I always try to do is to limit myself to the standard library, which, with Python, is quite sufficient for most of what I do. Anyway, mos…
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Hear that? It’s the sound of an empire collapsing.
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Yes, but they are suboptimal on screens, unless the resolution is very high.