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New comment by gekkonier in "Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code"

gekkonier — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 19:20:15 +0000

I never got what what to do in that room with the sleeping dogs :D Failed hard!

Good times.

New comment by gekkonier in "Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity"

gekkonier — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 05:20:15 +0000

Another story that leads to my conclusion to not use such and similar services. For me it‘s always better to hoard data on my selfowned drives.

New comment by gekkonier in "Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years"

gekkonier — Wed, 05 May 2021 20:29:16 +0000

There were times we enjoyed slaying dragons in a 40 player raid. But yeah, time passes, you get older, and interests shift. It was great!

New comment by gekkonier in "Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]"

gekkonier — Sat, 01 May 2021 13:16:06 +0000

In this situation here google is not willing to check if an automatism failed. I do not think that problem applies to selfhostetd content. But who knows, its a world where everything is possible....

New comment by gekkonier in "Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]"

gekkonier — Sat, 01 May 2021 09:21:47 +0000

It's google. I can live without it. Do you?

New comment by gekkonier in "Sublime Text 4 [video]"

gekkonier — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:47:09 +0000

I love Sublime. I use it for ruby coding, and I think I will buy an upgrade to version 4, just to support this great editor. I don't know how long I have my license.... Must been 5 or 6 years now I guess.

I hope there will sometimes a feature to load the actual selection into irb (and irb should be inside Sublime). That would be great! Dr. Racket is very cool for this, well for Racket. Repls for the win!

New comment by gekkonier in "Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)"

gekkonier — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:40:09 +0000

Yes, as far as I remember it was really only in WfW 3.11

New comment by gekkonier in "Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)"

gekkonier — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:14:56 +0000

Back in stoneage, while using Windows 3.11 (I think it was calles Windows for Workgroups or so...) there was a bug in calc: 0.02-0.01 resulted in a flat zero. Perhaps it's time to open an issue.

New comment by gekkonier in "The Future of Perl"

gekkonier — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:57:08 +0000

It was my first programming language I got things done with - until I discovered ruby. After a ride into lisp/scheme/racket world I'm on ruby again.

I have good memories with it, but I wouldn't jump train again.

New comment by gekkonier in "Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server"

gekkonier — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:08:47 +0000

this is outstanding! speechless.

New comment by gekkonier in "Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step"

gekkonier — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:25:55 +0000

It was my first role playing game. I went into every house and stole everything I could find. Then the kids in town started to throw rocks at me. After that I deleted the game, because a deinstallation routine was not necessary. Great times!

New comment by gekkonier in "Racket: Lisp for Learning"

gekkonier — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:37:41 +0000

#lang racket is here to stay parallel to #lang racket2

Racket is a lot of languages, not only one. You can mix in Racket as you like. You can mix #lang racket and #lang typed/racket with #lang datalog in one application if you like. With racket2 those options will not fade away I guess.

New comment by gekkonier in "Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems"

gekkonier — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:54:45 +0000

I needed a tool to sync my files across different platforms. I learned that I don't need that. You can say lessions learned. I now use a proper backup tool, and don't spread my digital life through every cloud thats there and not here.

New comment by gekkonier in "SBCL – Past, Present, Future [pdf]"

gekkonier — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 08:31:15 +0000

It depends heavenly on what you want to do. All of them SBCL, Racket and Clojure work platform independent, and have different strengths. I'd choose it based on type of application.

New comment by gekkonier in "Land of Lisp (2010)"

gekkonier — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:55:14 +0000

I do recommend Practical Common Lisp not only for Lisp newcomers. The concepts teached apply to programming in a bigger context. Lisp is here only a vehicle (a very good one).

New comment by gekkonier in "Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (2008)"

gekkonier — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:12:26 +0000

Hey! Why so angry! :-)

New comment by gekkonier in "Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]"

gekkonier — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:44:42 +0000

Yes, I'm sorry. It was meant as an answer to 'Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp.'

New comment by gekkonier in "Let’s LISP like it’s 1959 [video]"

gekkonier — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:21:48 +0000

I would consider writing a small standardlib for your lisp. While writing it you will encounter things you can optimize perhaps.

New comment by gekkonier in "This Cat Does Not Exist"

gekkonier — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:10:27 +0000

And if, it's on lsd.

New comment by gekkonier in "Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS"

gekkonier — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 07:44:00 +0000

I think that's nothing anyone can say for sure. You need to compare them for yourself and deside if you "need" the one or the other tool for that purpose. Something like a perfect language for all things to do does not exist.