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dBase: 1979-2026 2 months ago

One of my first jobs had a legacy application that was based on Clipper. I never had to work with it directly (since I worked on the SQL successor) but reading the source code was still fascinating.

Semi off-topic: The wikipedia article on Ed Esber is in dire need of a clean up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Esber

s/bash/zsh/g 5 years ago

Fish is really great for an interactive shell, I love using it. Not so great when it comes to scripting though. For example I think there's still no way to easily exit a script on error except to manually check exit codes.

However I haven't tried writing scripts in zsh yet, just sh/bash.

I like the general idea. I haven’t got the time to do more than skimming right now but I already feel that a single markdown file (especially without a table of contents) isn’t the right medium for this.

Megadesk 6 years ago

The Idasen does look a lot better. Do you think it would handle a move (or two) well?

My clients — oncological institutions — license Oracle and so they prefer my solutions to use it as well. Really simple, and sad.

As for why they use it... as far as I know it‘s the old tale: historical reasons. Classical lock-in.

Regarding your second point: This sounds similar to .NET‘s CancellationToken. It works very well there.

What are those nuances in JavaScript which aren’t handled by it?

Rust 1.26 released 8 years ago

You're right, I totally missed that link. Thank you!

It shows off Chapter 3, and yes, it really looks great.

Rust 1.26 released 8 years ago

impl Trait and the second edition of the book; very nice! Congrats on the release!

Question: Is there any way to preview what the book's typesetting looks like, since there's praise in the release note?

Is there anything equivalent for Windows? I heard of ProxyCap and Tunnelier, but I don't know the technical details of how those work - i.e. if they avoid TCP over TCP tunneling.

I agree with your post. TV shows and movies helped a lot, and many wrong things just sound wrong. Pure grammar exercises can only teach so much.

However a solid understanding of grammar helps. For example in your post you wrote "like if doing". Correct would be "as if doing" since "as if" is a conjunction and "like" is a preposition. It was probably just a typo, and you would have caught it during a proof-read since it sounds "wrong" but actual grammar knowledge will confirm any suspicions.

Vim After 11 Years 13 years ago

> IntelliJ (which I do use for C++ ;))

If I may ask, how do you use it? The C/C++ plugin was unusable, last time I tried it.

Filco Majestouch 2 Tenkeyless with MX Brown switches for me.

Besides the advantages of the mechanical switches (the Browns are also not that loud as others) I really dig the compact size. The only time I ever used the numpad was when I had to work on spreadsheets. Thankfully I was able to graduate from that.