Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/19
Google Privacy settings van be changed from A privacy reminder from Google.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/18
Since I’m not that fast at updating List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 [WayBack] (which I should rename into something containing the word Version in it), here are some useful links to stay up-to-date:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/18
Empty arrays are not used often as arrays usually are about the presence data, not about the absence.
Here are two ways based on the int data type in C# (the original [WayBack] examples [WayBack] are using string, but since string itself is also a kind of array…):
Specify a size of zero:
int[] a = new int[0];
Specify an empty initialisation:
int[] a = new int[] { };
Though many people think arrays are a thing of the past, I think it is one of the first generic types and have their place. For one, enumerating over arrays using foreach is a lot faster in many environments than enumerating over other data types. Another thing is that the fixed nature of arrays can be very beneficial in setting constraints.
That’s why I like the balanced view from Eric Lippert [WayBack] in Arrays considered somewhat harmful – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs [WayBack]
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
If you see the error below when running brew update, then you bumped in a small brew glitch [WayBack]. The solution is usually to just run brew update again [WayBack] (thanks Ashley Willis [WayBack]) and it will likely run fine:
$ brew update
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
/usr/local/Library/brew.sh: line 32: /usr/local/Library/ENV/scm/git: No such file or directory
Error: update-report should not be called directly!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
After yesterdays post on Testing and static methods don’t go well together, I read around on Source (kunststube [WayBack]) a bit more and found these very nice articles on encoding,Unicode and text:
Related on those, some other nice readings:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17
A while ago, testssl.sh [WayBack] needed Darwin binaries (for OS X): Supply Darwin binaries + install documentation · Issue #127 · drwetter/testssl.sh [WayBack]
So I created the small Bourne shell (sh) script below to deliver them.
It allows me to update these gists:
The build script itself is in a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/f4de3937630b87753133.git [WayBack]
It helped me to contribute to these testssl.sh issues:
Not all of these binaries are in https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/tree/master/bin [WayBack] as it makes the testssl.sh repository too bloated. Some (including non-OSX builds made by others) are here:
Eventually the script might get merged into https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/blob/master/utils/make-openssl.sh [WayBack] as there is a Darwin switch in this commit: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/commit/6efc3e90f52e5926b0853d3b2fb221b631dcf452 [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16
A few links as, in code I’ve inherited, I see way too many static methods hindering testing:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16
From a while ago:
David Ratnasabapathy: The VIC-20 programmer’s manual was the best intro to programming I’ve ever read. I’d love to find a copy online, the new generation could use it.
+Isaac Kuo that book is wealth. I loved marginal explanations that expanded on the main text, it’s a tactic I use in my own class notes.
The manual was called Personal Computing on the VIC 20 and it is online! This is amazing! Ah, memories.
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
+Tomasz Machalski there’s a motherload here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/
Including VIC-20 User’s Manual.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User’s%20Manual.pdf
and VIC-20 Programmer’s Reference Guide.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:+David Ratnasabapathy thanks a lot!
Downloaders: that site is slow. Not as slow as the New Horizons uplink, nor as slow as 1980s modems, but be prepared for some serious wait time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#The_Smartmodem_and_the_rise_of_BBSs
Note that the wayback machine has them cached:
–jeroen
via It’s our third birthday! What better present than the VIC-20 [1] (“A Real… [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15
Solitaire Collection display issues on older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards
If you’ve installed Windows 10 and the Solitaire Collection looks like the picture on the right, then there is a good chance your machine has an older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter (or mobile one).
At least these categories are affected:
Despite Microsoft knowing this (heck it fails on some Windows 8 systems as well), it keeps luring people into upgrading their working systems with Windows 10 resulting in non-working systems.
Not a smart move…
–jeroen
via: solitaire collection display problems radeon – Google Search
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15
The culprit is usually the mds [WayBack] process (metadata server).
Simple command-line solution:
sudo killall mds
A more convoluted way with the Activity Monitor is in the link below.
–jeroen
via: Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues [WayBack]
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