ek hornbeck’s Comments

• Dec 28th, 2016 @ 4:59pm

  What Windows 11?

  on Microsoft Finally Admits Its Malware-Style Windows 10 Upgrade Sales Pitch Went Too Far
  It's a rolling release rent factory now.
• Mar 25th, 2016 @ 10:08pm

  As a coder...

  on Namespaces, Intellectual Property, Dependencies And A Big Giant Mess
  from back in the day, I wrote tons of crap like left-pad (inherently obvious if you code at all) and I'd re-write it for every stinking project. It wasn't really so bad, it gave me a break from the hard stuff.
  
  After a while (and reading some things about structured programming) I first put it in a searchable text (Basic, gotta love it) for cut and paste and then later (C, now there's a language) in headers and link libraries.
  
  Were I to code today (and I don't because there is no money in it) I think I would still be a little leery of depending on a library I did not completely understand and control.
  
  I know that's not the style now- use an API! To me that's like putting in a jump to a subroutine in the Apple ][ Rom.