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Well, MessageBox() in the Win32 API is just a simple C function call: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...

I wrote a blog about this many years ago: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/simple-windows-dial...


It’s everything leading up to the MessageBox() call that VB makes trivial.

I thought this was pretty good, not least because it attempts to explain isolation levels, something I always found pretty tricky when teaching SQL. Mind you, I was only teaching SQL, and so isolation, as part of C and C++ courses so that our clients could do useful stuff, but explaining what levels to use was always tuff.

I thought this was a misspelled article about Kokinelli, the Greek red wine, fairly accurately described here: https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Kokinelli

I used to drink this stuff back in the late 1960s, when my Dad was an RAF pilot based in Cyprus and I was about 15. You had to take it with a Sprite mixer if you wanted to retain your teeth.

It would be a good name for a project, though.


They are cognate: cochineal is a red dye derived from a red insect a little bit like a ladybug.

> But that seems pointless.

Making notes for your own consumption?


If you are going to post a link to a site like this, please also say what point the link is making.

> things that FAANGs would have paid billions for 10 years ago

such as?


I can only assume the grandparent means Google+

I mean literally anything that leverages modern APIs.

WYSIWG Site Builders, text Chat bots, audio Transcription, voice synthesis.

Yeah building from scratch would take longer, but you can slap a UI, a DB/schema around modern APIs and output something that would be science fiction 10 years ago.


WYSIWYG sure builders existed 10 years ago and did not cost billions. Chat bots were a novelty since the NFT bubble hadn't popped yet, and they would invent NFTs to stake the economy on instead. Audio transcription and synthesis existed and did not cost billions.

You think people would pay billions for a site builder??? Or that it would have been SF 10 years ago? I take it you were not around much 10 years ago.

Borland's debugger (came with Borland C++) was very good, if you can get hold of it. I removed copy protection from several games I owned using it, and actually fixed mouse support for another game.

In the UK I'm currently getting:

Hmmm… can't reach this page

Check if there is a typo in annas-archive.li.

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN


> "I'm a Rubyist", "I'm a Pythonista", "A rustacean"

it suddenly struck me that there has never, AFAIK, a single-word noun for a C++ programmer. not sure what, if anything, this implies.


I think it’s because C++ programmers tend to define themselves by the domain they work in. Game developer, embedded systems engineer, firmware developer, etc.

I feel like it implies "it's harder to make a word out of 'C++' than it is for things that already naturally evolved as words people say like 'Ruby', 'Python', or 'Rust'".

I'm a Swiftie! Oh wait... oh no...

A Seymour

“I’m a null pointer exception debugger.”

> “I’m a null pointer exception debugger.”

NullPointerException is the Java world. In C++, dereferencing a null pointer is rather undefined behaviour.


So it's perfectly fitting the noun for c++ dev is undefined behavior :D

> WITHOUT ANY kind of swapping to the disk

how?


I would guess that you just remember at which file offsets you need to insert what, and which offset ranges you need to delete from the original file — and on file save you just do a single linear sweep to update the file contents on disk.

you just load data that is on your screen.

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