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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
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10 Reason to date Programmer – I’m Programmer
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12
Happy programmers’ day.
I think the original was from https://teespy.com/app/campaigns/viralstyle/10-reasons-to-date-a-programmer-limited but last time I checked that domain wasn’t responding, nor was the page archived.
–jeroen
via: 10 Reasons to Date a Programmer
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Happy “Day of the Programmer”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/12
Happy debugging, suckers
Or maybe not…
(yes, this year it’s not on the 13th of September, but the 12th, guess why…)
--jeroen
via: Day of the Programmer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PS: The oldest reference I could find for define true (rand() > 10) was this one from 20121014:
// Happy debugging, suckers
# define true (rand() > 10)Source: codecrap.com – snippet #6
It reminds me of a 1990s prank I once put in central consts unit of a Turbo Pascal project somewhere way beyond the right margin in a search directory outside of version control:
const True = False; False = not True;
A lot more pranks are at Happy debugging, suckers : ProgrammerHumor – reddit
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+Kristian Köhntopp #awesomeCosplay
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
Trip down memory lane:
at the time of the videos release (1984/85), this was completely state of the art – I got my C64 in 1983 and an Amiga in 1986, so this is 8 bit level of tech in home computing time.
The video has been the work of Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson, canadian animators which needed the money and a test run for their animation software. What Gavin and Ian actually wanted to make is Reboot, a pretty groundbreaking early full-render animation series.
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Gavin_Blair
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Ian_PearsonFun fact: These people made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_in_the_Nutcracker and many other Render-Barbie-Movies.
–jeroen
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Space…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/08
50 years ago the first of an amazing series got broadcasted.
Space the final frontier.
Original series: Star Trek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image source: tumbex – adorkable-mandi.tumblr.com : #Star Trek
via: Source: Space……. :) For those who don’t get it… – “Space.. the final fronti…
–jeroen
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ThinkPad ‘Ultra Classic’ 780ZXL+
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/22
LOL: ThinkPad ‘Ultra Classic’ 780ZXL+ BZ4hQZi.png (1920×1080).
I lost my interest in ThinkPads long ago a while after Lenovo took over. But I could not resist posting this picture (:
–jeroen
via Peter Vones; Thinkpadders Rejoice (LARGE PICS) – Page 10.
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programmers humor – Google image Search
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11
An ever varying list of programmer humour images: programmers humor – Google Search.
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Insentricity :: This Letter Quality Printer Is Now Fully Armed and Operational ::
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03
Chris Osborn was finally able to open up his 1980s Smith Corona Memory Correct 400 Messenger and replace the fuse, enabling him to do letter quality printing over over the parallel port (and hopefully the serial port soon too).
Cool!
Sources:
- Insentricity :: This Letter Quality Printer Is Now Fully Armed and Operational ::
- Insentricity :: Wanted: Smith-Corona Service Manual – Reward Offered ::
–jeroen
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TDD: all unit tests passed.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/02
TDD via Dave Hulbert on Twitter: “Yay, all unit tests passing! http://t.co/ax2uxPsZqv”.
Dave Hulbert on Twitter: “Yay, all unit tests passing! http://t.co/ax2uxPsZqv”.
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James Newman built himself a 16-bit Megaprocessor using transistors in frames taking 12 by 2 meters. Wow!
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/07
It took James Newman more than one and a half years of actually building progress and more than that (thinking about it started in 2011) for designing his own Megaprocessor using transistors.
For like EUR 50000 and a lot of “learning opportunities” he built himself a room full of visual computing: you can see the LEDs on all the PCB boards indicating exactly what’s going on (heck: he even made the RAM visualise an actual tetris implementation).
All for the sake of understanding transistors and discrete logic after which things got out of hand.
Hopefully a tech museum will buy this.
His site as a truckload of information, for instance the Source: Megaprocessor – FAQ: good/bad/ugly linking to lots of technical details and decisions made (like throwing out surface mount components but using lead based solder or having dual output logic).
There’s a lot of video too (like Megaprocessor – How ?) but – especially these weeks – the downloading is slow, to it’s faster and easier to watch his Youtube playlists:
They are currently 6 videos each, but he has uploaded more videos and is working on more.
Finally, James even built an assembler for this 16-bit processor. How cool is that!
–jeroen
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