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–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/14
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Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/10
[WayBack] Abtruse Goose: Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days…
Via: [WayBack] “How to learn programming in 21 Days” – CodeProject – Google+
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Git man-page generator (“Git is easy to learn”)
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/08
Somebody didn’t believe the claim “Git is easy to learn” and wrote a [WayBack] git man page generator (of course with a repository: github: Lokaltog/git-man-page-generator), for example generating
git-complete-tipNAME
git-complete-tipcomplete all non-committed downstream tips opposite of a few rebased remote indicesSYNOPSIS
git-complete-tip[ –maintain-log | –lecture-violate-history ]DESCRIPTION
git-complete-tipcompletes a few staged tips inside any forward-ported non-staged unstaged indices, and a few checked out subtrees fscked by histories in the tree, but that are not inHOLD_SUBTREE, are checked out in a temporary pack.…
For the same reason there is [WayBack] XKXD: Git (image on the right), which is [WayBack] explained for a reason. Just see this little summary:
The difficulty of using Git in common situations is belied by the apparent simplicity of its use in tutorial-style situations. Committing and sharing changes is fairly straightforward, for instance, but recovering from situations such as accidental commits, pushes or bad merges is difficult without a solid understanding of the rather large and complex conceptual model. For instance, three of the top five highest voted questions on Stack Overflow are questions about how to carry out relatively simple tasks: undoing the last commit, changing the last commit message, and deleting a remote branch.
Actually the “easy to learn” means “there is easy to find documentation for it“.
–jeroen
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MS Paint IDE
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/10
Oh boy:
Ditch IDEs like Intellij and glorified text editors like Eclipse, and switch to a real IDE, MS Paint.
It wraps around MS Paint.
You can get it at [WayBack] MS Paint IDE and source code at [WayBack] GitHub – RubbaBoy/MSPaintIDE: Programming in MS Paint.
A long thread discussing it, including a tutorial: [WayBack] Resource – Programming in MS Paint [UPDATED] | SpigotMC – High Performance Minecraft
–jeroen
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“Functional programmer: (noun) One who names variables ‘x’, names functions ‘f’, and names code patterns ‘zygohistomorphic prepromorphism.'” — James Iry on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/04
“Functional programmer: (noun) One who names variables ‘x’, names functions ‘f’, and names code patterns ‘zygohistomorphic prepromorphism.'” — James Iry
- Quote: [WayBack] https://twitter.com/CanvaTech/status/929840109066772480
- Original: [WayBack] https://twitter.com/jamesiry/status/598547781515485184
- Haskell indeed can do [WayBack] Zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms
–jeroen
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THE PRINT VERSION
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/19
Conference Call Bingo, the viral meme created by E Gilliam. Designed to bring hilarity to your daily drudgery.
Cool: [WayBack] THE PRINT VERSION – PDF
Other versions:
- [WayBack] The original picture
- [WayBack] The T-Shirt
- [WayBack] On-line app (should be there by now)
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] This is one game I hate playing. – Steven Vaughan-Nichols – Google+
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Cable salad is of all times: 1964 analog computers; Moog syntesizers
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/01
This picture on Flickr of Engineer Karen Leadlay in an analog computer lab at General Dynamics, January 1964 shows that cable salad is of all times.
Via:
- [WayBack] Engineer Karen Leadlay in an analog computer lab at General… • Xiss UFO today
- [WayBack] Engineer Karen Leadlay working on analog computers at General Dynamics, 1964. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
- [WayBack] Engineer Karen Leadlay working on analog computers at General Dynamics, 1964. – David McKeever – Google+
The above threads have really nice comments, including pointers to for instance the [WayBack] Moog synthesizer – Wikipedia (lots of you remember the songs by Keith Emerson).
–jeroen
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Laptop fan profiling, and debugging them – related to Profiling | CommitStrip
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/23
A while back, I posted the “profiling” CommitStrip on[WayBack] Profiling – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+. Boy how did I not know that within a week, I bumped into a “laptop fan profiling” artefact.
A coworker noticed, that when starting a thread based equivalent of [WayBack] TTimer Class (which cannot be used in services as it depends on the VCL), then sometimes the laptop fans would spin up.
What basically happened was that for certain combinations of Enabled and Interval the Execute would loop burning 100% of one CPU core.
With 3 or more – sometimes 2 – of these threads active on a 4+4 core (4 are hyper-threaded), the processor fan would start to spin like madness.
Finding the solution was somewhat easy too:
- Process Explorer would show the thread IDs burning the most CPU cycles
- Delphi shows the Thread IDs in the Thread Status pane (if they are named, the ID is at the end of the name in parenthesis)
- At around Delphi 2010, you can Freeze or Thaw threads. This allows you to debug only a single thread by freezing all others.
Focussing on one thread, allowed a close inspection of the loop, quickly finding the actual cause and repairing it.
TTimer Thread
A similar and better class is at [WayBack] multithreading – TTimerThread – Threaded timer class – Code Review Stack Exchange, based on [WayBack] timer – Using VCL TTimer in Delphi console application – Stack Overflow.
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XKCD – Making Progress: lots of problems
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/10
I think the alt-text is even better than the cartoon itself:
I started off with countless problems. But now I know, thanks to COUNT(), that I have “#REF! ERROR: Circular dependency detected” problems.
Source: [WayBack] XKCD 1906: I started the day with lots of problems. But now, after hours and hours of work, I have lots of problems in a spreadsheet.
–jeroen
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+Stefan Glienke at EKON21: I don’t count sheep, I count references.
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/08
+Stefan Glienke at EKON21:
I don’t count sheep, I count references.
Response from +Roald van Doorn:
When you reach -1 you wake up from a nightmare.
Source: [WayBack] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – G+
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