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mrkite

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Should focus on getting rid of undefined behavior.

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I spent about 10 of those in roles where my primary function was to write code. The other 10 have involved managing programmers, coaching them, consulting with organizations about how to manage them, running a codebase assessment practice and these days, well, actually content marketing.

Therein lies the biggest lie in development. There is no career path. I’ve been programming professionally for 25 years, and in all 25 of those years my primary function was to write code, because I turned down any promotion that would put me in management and away from doing what I love.

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Isn’t that what Gists are for? https://gist.github.com/

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So it’s not really a problem with for loops, it’s a problem with closures inside for loops.

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I’m off two minds. On the one side, there is far too much reliance on black box libraries to do trivial things.

On the other, this complaint is decades old. Back in the late 80s there was a software developer for the apple iigs called FTA, which stood for Free Tools Association. They claimed that the tools in the os were too slow and you should code to the raw hardware.

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One of the people reverse engineering the M1 GPU for Asahi Linux is a catgirl vtuber: https://www.youtube.com/asahilina

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Nah these days with wsl, I prefer windows over Mac. At least you get packages that have been updated in the past decade.

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A decade ago I reverse engineered the Macventure game engine, allowing you to play Shadowgate and Deja Vu etc on modern oses. The current copyright holder then paid me to iron out the rough edges and create the official ports currently on steam.

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