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Posted on 19-01-26, 23:20 in Ideas for coding a collection cataloging application
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 Post: #21 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Honestly, my bias is towards PHP given how long I've used it and how much experience I have with it and I also usually write PHP CRUDs from scratch rather than with some ORM library, but Python might indeed be the simpler solution to this. On the plus side, as long as your database is designed decently then it's totally possible to do both PHP and Python scripts to it to avoid Java bloat. |
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Posted on 19-01-31, 01:00 in Free project idea: The File Decoder
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Post: #22 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
There are a couple of hex editors that let you describe file/struct formats manually and/or highlight a set of bytes and see what the values are in various different data types. I know on the Mac Hex Fiend implemented it after I suggested it, and 010 Editor and Synalyze have it as well. I think a couple of Windows hex editors have it, but I don't often find myself doing hex editing on Windows. I have absolutely no idea what Linux and Unix have in this regard. |
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Posted on 19-02-12, 01:50 in Buying a new phone (not safe for tomman)
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Post: #23 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by Broseph I'm not Screwtape, but I've used Android RetroArch for SNES gaming before. The bsnes cores (including bsnes-next) are next to unusable on my HP Touchpad (yes, old) and most of my Android phones (including the not-so-old Nexus 4) but if I want to go frame-by-frame so I can save-scum 100 Super Jumps in Super Mario RPG it'll do. The SNES9x cores are pretty performant and on both the Touchpad and Nexus 4 can hit 60 fps on SMRPG, though I more often see 45-55 fps when there are many sprites on the screen. |
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Posted on 19-02-14, 02:10 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #24 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
I...don't know how to feel about this. I've beaten the original and the DX version so many times and have gotten used to the entirety of it and its presentation. While I do like how A Link Between Worlds-like style can potentially enhance something like A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, it seems like all I can really do is reserve judgment until the final result is in my hand since game feel played a huge part in why I loved the original. |
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Posted on 19-02-16, 03:21 in Minor complaint with higan on linux..
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Post: #25 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by Kawa *141.85 |
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Posted on 19-02-27, 00:23 in Revamping my Genesis/MD emulation workbench
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Post: #26 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
I know the UI of RetroArch is a polarizing issue around here, but AFAIK it's the only reliable way of MD emulation using the latest Genesis Plus GX (my go-to for SCD at least) on Win/Mac/Lin. Eke-Eke is pretty receptive to things like bug reports and some feature requests, even going so far as to compiling a custom version of the libretro core on Windows for me to help debug the sound output. On Linux before that I was also using the last Gens/GS, even going so far as to install the Intel i32 packages on my 64-bit Ubuntu to get the 32-bit application running, as the Linux Kega didn't quite work right for me (I wanted to play the Sonic 1 Megamix hack at the time and Kega wasn't having it). |
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Posted on 19-02-27, 00:31 in Nintendo Switch emulation is now among us
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Post: #27 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
The mail-order Funco listed Phantasy Star IV for the Genesis for US$110 at the time I wanted it, so I just kept renting it. Got Chrono Trigger SNES at Toys 'R' Us for $80-90 and wasn't gonna be able to convince my mom to drop another $80-90 through Funco for Final Fantasy III SNES, so as soon as we had dial-up internet through AOL it was the first ROM I DL'ed and played via ESNES (yes, THAT old SNES emu). FWIW, New York City at the time had FuncoLand (the physical stores for Funco), Software Etc., Babbage's, AND Electronics Boutique, all with nonsense prices for games. |
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Posted on 19-03-02, 06:19 in The Horstmann brace style
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Post: #28 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
As usual, JavaScript is the odd one out but for a really stupid reason this time (instead of just a regular stupid). Put the { on the same line as the (...) or risk potential automatic semicolon insertion. Same for . and any other operators with right-hand sides like + . |
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Posted on 19-03-07, 02:29 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #29 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
PS4 is probably the most popular of the current gen consoles in the US by a very small margin over the Switch (likely because of the head start, otherwise the Switch is tops here), I don't know where this idea that it's uncommon came from. |
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Posted on 19-04-03, 00:36 in Dear modern UXtards...
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Post: #30 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
I've also seen sites use JS to hijack scrolling to do stuff like make vertical scrolling scroll horizontally instead for nonsense like "portfolio sites." |
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Posted on 19-04-17, 02:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #31 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by sureanem Who the hell even heard of the Maldives? |
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Posted on 19-04-18, 02:03 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #32 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by sureanem +1 |
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Posted on 19-05-06, 01:54 in hiro vs libui (vs Dear ImGui?)
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Post: #33 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
I like hiro and use it in my own projects. I know byuu has put a lot of time and effort into getting hiro into a state where it's usable by more people than just himself and that's very respectable. Recently I found a similar project, libui by andlabs, while researching Angular and React libraries to practice with for my current job (libui is used by multiple desktop implementations of React Native, among other things). Its goal is also to abstract platform-specific UI programming into unified APIs for the users. Dear ImGui by Meka developer Omar Cornut/Bock also does this but everything is done with custom drawing in a GL context, so it's less of a direct match to hiro's features; Dolphin uses it and Adobe also recently forked it for internal use, among other users. Is anyone here acquainted with libui? Other than the fact that there exist bindings to it in languages other than just C, C++, or its source Go, would anyone here happen to know the significant differences between it and hiro and/or the pros and cons? |
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Posted on 19-05-26, 01:44 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #34 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Use the default theme instead, please don't theme our pixel-perfect sites. |
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Posted on 19-05-31, 01:57 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Post: #35 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Probably better would be to only apply the max-width to img inside the table cells that correspond to posts/PMs (I'm pretty sure they share some common CSS rule like a class that's only for them or something) and the userbit next to them (may need to apply to said img in profile pages too). While it may indeed be easier to apply a rule that mass targets and then add rules for exceptions, you'd have to keep track of all the exceptions AND have to look out for new edge cases. It's better practice to only target what you want and add new rules to target as you desire, ensuring that the rules are significantly less likely to unintentionally break other stuff. The long term better solution is to make a better theme with cleaner HTML (preferably less reliant on tables for layout) and CSS. Speaking of making cleaner themes, there's actually some issue in the theme I chose where there's a fixed position horizontal line one pixel thick behind the semi-transparent blues. I'll link to that once I upload it so Kawa can take a look at that. I'd actually like to see a theme that looks like a Win2K desktop theme or something, or would like to contribute a theme if Kawa would point me to a sample theme so I can look at the way this ABXD is laid out in its file structure. |
| neologix |
Posted on 19-05-31, 02:06 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Post: #36 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce 1. Already that trailer was better. Too bad he didn't figure out a way to replace the music. 2. The recommended video annotation card at the end pointed to a short Darkwing Duck in 3D test he made. No sound, but wasn't disappointed. |
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Posted on 19-05-31, 02:26 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Post: #37 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Super Mario Maker 2 might be the thing that leads me to actually pay for Nintendo Switch Online rather than just do everything offline on my custom firmware Switch. |
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Posted on 19-05-31, 02:45 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Post: #38 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Re USB tethering - in the past when I've done it I've had much more success actually manually setting router+subnet config to match what the phone is giving rather than relying on DHCP, especially if the tethering app isn't necessarily the most "robust" (i.e. does all the work for you but also lets you config EVERYTHING if you want) kind. PDAnet when I was using Palm Tree & Centro, I think some free WifiTether app whose real name I forgot when I was on Android because my plan didn't have tethering included but I still wanted to take advantage of the low cost unlimited data I had/still have (one of the few advantages of a carrier like Sprint or one of its MVNOs like Virgin Mobile). I don't tether much, if at all, anymore, partly because I'm currently rocking an iPhone 6 WITH THE HEADPHONE JACK and partly because I find wifi hotspots rather reliably if I need them (because New York City). |
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Posted on 19-05-31, 02:52 in Sales and giveaways
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Post: #39 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
How about you sticky it if you feel that it should be visible fairly often? |
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Posted on 19-06-04, 02:20 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Post: #40 of 49 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1901 days Last view: 1786 days |
Among other professional programming endeavors, I am a web dev and have been doing it professionally since 2006 though I've been practicing since 1997. There's a lot of conflation here of terrible "modern" practices, both front- and back-end web dev, like forcing the use of Node/Grunt/supposedly easy "package management solution" du jour or Angular/Meteor/other unnecessary MVC frameworks with reasonable practices like version control and usable IDEs or editors. There's a lot I'd love to write to confirm and/or dispel some misconceptions some people here seem to have about front-end and back-end web dev in general, and/or HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and/or even PHP specifically. I'll need to take some time to get these particular thoughts organized, as a lot of it has to do with my personal experience of having learned and practiced everything from scratch first without competent IDEs or editors and with having constantly studied and having learned how to properly filter and curate resources like blogs and videos and hardcopy books. The tl;dr is that (web) dev process is primarily bureaucratic, controlled by whatever resources the boss is willing to allocate towards what they potentially feel is something any monkey, freelancer on Fiverr, or outsourced Middle Eastern Asian/Indian can do for less (i.e. what they feel it's "worth"). Given that, a competent (web) dev will be able to succeed regardless of what environment they're forced to work with due to workplace politicking and/or red tape because they'll have learned proper fundamentals and especially how to adapt. That's why I've earned the reputations of being The Fixer, being The Finisher, and being The Reverse Engineer, and those underpriced monkeys haven't. |
