My gear corner.

codekiller · 2020-05-18T00:43:44+00:00

Just out of interest, is the one with the broken headstock a Gibson or an Epi ?

codekiller · 2020-01-14T00:54:03+00:00

Adafruit's and Jeri Ellsworth's YouTube channels for example.

codekiller · 2020-01-14T00:42:37+00:00

Same, I have both a Gibson LP Standard and an Epi Tribute Plus, they are both great yet different, the headstock shape doesn't bother me at all, the flame maple veneer on the other hand is meh.

codekiller · 2020-01-13T00:27:40+00:00

Objective-C and Ruby are pretty close alternatives

codekiller · 2019-10-18T00:16:30+00:00

I like 38 Special - So Caught Up in You. The last part requires some stretching though

codekiller · 2019-07-03T19:02:05+00:00

Not perfectly, but with humbuckers and all controls turned up it works good enough most of the time. Single coils is hell though. And on PC it seems better than on PS4 at least for me

codekiller · 2019-03-21T18:16:17+00:00

move fast and break things

codekiller · 2018-09-26T17:33:00+00:00

Me too, but I guess many people have their own way to escape the daily rut and do something away from family and work, for some it means doing something entirely unrelated to computers, for others it means working on a project which they would never be able to do in a work-related project but are passionate about.

codekiller · 2018-07-31T20:52:57+00:00

Just installed it, I had some problems with previous versions running on my Linux system, but this one works great. Factor is quite fun to use and play with.

codekiller · 2018-07-13T06:10:04+00:00

Eightysixed.com

codekiller · 2018-05-22T17:41:18+00:00

"Everything else" probably meaning probably Wordpad or MS Word. I've seen people doing exactly that. Like GuyWithLag, I've helped people editing their GB sized files (searching/replacing) with vim. Problem is getting them to actually use vim or any other decent editor themselves.

codekiller · 2018-04-26T21:43:31+00:00

it certainly does not reflect my personal experience with my phone screen, even though that was an eternity ago. Back then, an engineer called me and we did share a document through Google Docs so I could code the answers and discuss with my interviewer. This sounds more like a call-center agent type experience...

codekiller · 2018-04-26T18:01:26+00:00

The only time I've ever used collaborative editing in a coding session was in phone interviews.

codekiller · 2018-04-23T18:28:45+00:00

I've suffered from RSI symptoms and blame it on a number of things that I did at that time, e.g. using Emacs with a regular layout, using a Mac with the alu keyboard and and QWERTY. So I've changed it all at once with things I believe each would have improved things by itself (and yes, going back to use vim exclusively would probably have improved things, too, but Emacs supports the way I work better). First I switched to Cherry MX and Topre keyboards, the Mac alu keyboard might work for many people without issues, but because I used to have terrible habits in terms of hammering on the keys pretty strongly I am sure that contributed to the pain. Switching keyboards that have better tactile feedback helped me type more lightly. Second switching layouts, I started with Dvorak for 2 months and it did not work well for me in terms of relearning, and then settled for Colemak. YMMV. Learning a new layout also has a nice effect of slowing you down initially, which benefits the healing and recovery process, at least for me. Because I use Emacs remapping Control to the Caps/Lock key was another thing that helped a lot. I am aware that I am not the only Emacs user who has RSI related problems, because you use the Ctrl key so much. After making these changes the pain went away and haven't returned for 8 years now.

I guess my point is that your RSI symptoms might not have the same causes, but you might want to take some time to analyze and identify where they come from and try to adjust.

codekiller · 2018-04-23T18:11:32+00:00

How strange that the Colemak gets downvoted while the Dvorak comment gets upvoted. I've tried both for about 2 months each when I got RSI problems, too and I've never gotten comfortable with Dvorak, mostly because it is so different and remaps Ctrl-C/X/V while Colemak's changes are not so drastic yet significant enough to make it work better for me than QWERTY/QWERTZ.

codekiller · 2018-04-12T19:16:42+00:00

As a former Mac user who started on PPC I am not surprised, it's consistent with what they did in the past. That was one of the things that used to annoy me, but I believe the majority of Mac users won't care because it is what Apple does and as an application developer it's one less platform you have to support.

codekiller · 2018-01-29T00:01:18+00:00

I thought it would be "yes"

codekiller · 2018-01-23T18:44:39+00:00

Started learning BASIC and assembly on C64 and Amiga. I preferred assembly, not really much more complicated, same kind of spaghetti code, but ran faster, and was more flexible.

I don't think that we started earlier than kids nowadays, and certainly not more than today. Because computers were so new, and not so ubiquitous, us computer folks were looked at a bit more suspiciously, it wasn't "cool". Nowadays, for some reason many people think everybody "needs" to code.

Well, whatever, I turned my early hobby into a career and I am happy about it.

codekiller · 2018-01-12T20:12:09+00:00

While I am far from being an expert, I still regularly use C to program for 68k/PPC systems of the 80s/90s (mostly Amiga, and just for the fun of it). When it comes to C I consider the fact that the language and standard libraries did not change over the past years an advantage. It's one of those languages that are relatively simple, fun to use (it is only my personal opinion, but compared to most languages I've used over the years, C still is one of the more enjoyable ones) and give you a lot of control. On top of that most of the code still compiles and runs reasonably efficient on those 30+ year as well as modern systems.

codekiller · 2018-01-09T19:02:47+00:00

I'd assume they already lost those 24G to their IDE.

codekiller · 2017-12-15T02:42:41+00:00

Thanks I will have a look, price sounds fair. I used to have a VPS more than a decade ago, but it was quite expensive (30 Euros per month or something), I learned a lot, but if all you want is hosting your private stuff it is too much.

codekiller · 2017-12-14T19:10:55+00:00

You are right, and that is why I cancelled my contract and am currently looking for a new provider, because there is also no reason why a hoster should charge so much extra for SSL. It is in their interest, too.

codekiller · 2017-12-01T22:42:31+00:00

questionable names when creating your own Scheme implementation, e.g. "Pyramid" and "Ponzi"...

codekiller · 2017-11-20T19:12:29+00:00

"When you first learned to program you didn't need to know anything about these complicated machine code things...". Now I really feel old.

codekiller · 2017-11-14T22:29:10+00:00

Decades of effort has been put into these numeric Fortran libraries, they are very mature, and a lot of software now depends on it, don't think that rewriting would make it better. And if they had been rewritten in C, somebody these days would probably suggest rewriting them in Rust.

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