what are we even doing here man

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gunstick @foone I vaguely recall someone like Atari having a patent on a register that shifts the entire screen left. So someone else (Sega?) made a register that shifts it right instead. It's really annoying that it goes the wrong way, but it avoided the patent.

[riley@toot.cat]

@somekindofgarf

• There’s a minimum crew requirement.
• What’s that?
• One, I suppose.

@foone

[petersommerlad@mastodon.social]

@foone

when i reached 50 skills on linkedin i was told that this was the limit. (most of those proposed by others)

So be careful what you announce as skill.

but handling sequences in programming isn't a skill, it is elementary.

[riley@toot.cat]

@h5e I have heard that there once genuinely was a young man from Japan who didn't know that keyboards existed, and became a proficient programmer of one of the early game consoles, possibly first-generation Famicom, by using the on-screen entry mechanism that came as a demo with some devkit.

And then, he got his hands on a keyboard.

@foone

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gunstick @foone (all these patents are way out of date of course DO NOT TALK ABOUT LIVE PATENTS)

[riley@toot.cat]

@h5e Sakurai Masahiro.

@foone

[llogiq@hachyderm.io]

@JSMuellerRoemer @foone same here.

[mo@mastodon.ml]

@akent keep looking forward, I hope you'll find it

@foone

[mrwedders@social.linux.pizza]

You laugh but I joined an org once where because passing arrays to functions required handling references they instead used big CSV strings in 99% of cases. Drove me insane.

[karpour@mstdn.social]

@foone Boy not only do I have worked with arrays, I also have extensive experience both pressing and releasing (!) keys on business workstation keyboards. Am I hired?

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@foone Doesn't Lua use only dictionaries for data structures? IIRC, its "arrays" are just dictionaries indexed by integers.

[ruawhitepaw@chitter.xyz]

@karpour @foone You can produce arrays of characters faster if you don't release the keys.

[gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@TomF @foone
I came up with the code many years before IBM filed their patent

[acmeworks@social.tchncs.de]

@h5e @foone Very distantly, but the details are too traumatic to elaborate any further.

[sdruskat@fediscience.org]

@JSMuellerRoemer @foone See above https://social.tchncs.de/@flxtr/116186768953309522, worked for me, need to switch via the currency selector.

[sdruskat@fediscience.org]

@weirdocollector @foone See above https://social.tchncs.de/@flxtr/116186768953309522, worked for me, need to switch via the currency selector.

[mwt@mastodon.nz]

@foone

well I mean... the first coding language I learned was Matlab, and it had matrices. I think even the 3D versions of these were just called matrices. Later on it had structs, which were nested matrices. And at some point I stumbled on cell arrays, which were like structs but different. Or something. Maybe 3D matrices were called "arrays."

Anyhoo, eventually I found my way to other languages that did have things called "arrays" (might've been PHP was the first of those.)

[lsamuelson57@mastodon.social]

@foone

Arrays are a slick gateway drug.

You haven't lived until you've met a well endowed hashtable...

/s

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@riley @foone wow that’s fascinating

[drquuxum@tech.lgbt]

@foone The GOSUB robot from "Computer Programming in BASIC" has lived rent-free in my head for 40 years