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dardeaupon Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies

Impressive work!

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

Thanks!

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

Thanks!

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

Thanks! I'll look into that as an option.

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

Nothing! I was asking from the point of you that you don't know what you don't know.

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

This is a timely topic for me. I'm just beginning the writing of a technical book. I plan to target epub/mobi. My research thus far has pointed to markdown -> html -> epub/mobi. If you were going to write a technical ebook would you use markdown or an alternative?

dardeaupon Markdown is holding you back

Wow! TIL!

dardeaupon Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

Would you expect a WinAmp clone to comply with Apple's user interface guidelines?

dardeaupon Problems with C++ exceptions

Yes, it would. It would be trivial to add errno as an instance variable for File_Handle class though.

dardeaupon WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS

Missing reference to 2015/2016.

dardeaupon Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

What type of business was it? What kind of functionality did this TUI application provide?

dardeaupon Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

Yes! I was just pointing it out to show that they had at least thought of Japanese users (in some small way).

dardeaupon Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

Yes, I'm quite sure that's true in most cases.

FWIW, dBASE IV version 1.5 does support Japanese for date format. It's one of the options for 'SET DATE' command.

dardeaupon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

  Location: Austin, TX
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ceph, Software-defined storage, C/C++, Python, Go, SQLite
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11B15ApyF8ybu7K8KHw6ArPyGYQubtvTb/view?usp=drive_link
  Email: pauldardeau@gmail.com
  Github: github.com/pauldardeau

dardeaupon Writing FreeDOS Programs in C

Curious as to whether there are any real-world use cases for doing this (other than curiosity) in DOS. If so, I'd love to hear about them.

dardeaupon PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

He's horribly blind to this. His arrogance and ego prevent him from doing the right thing.

dardeaupon PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

Same! Unreal that he keeps digging the whole deeper and deeper. Apparently, he doesn't know how to either keep his mouth shut or humble himself to admit a mistake and ask for forgiveness to those they burned by saying 'free forever'.

dardeaupon OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

Or while formatting a floppy disk!

dardeaupon OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

"IBM who just didn't seem to know how to sell software like OS/2"

Clearly, IBM was never that great at marketing much of anything IMO. However, many at the time also believed that in addition to not being that good at marketing, IBM (collectively) wasn't really overly interested in marketing OS/2.

dardeaupon OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

In the OS/2 2.x days my primary means of interacting with other OS/2 folks was the Canopus (Wil Zachman) forum on Compuserve (75060,264 checking in). Weird that I still remember my Comuserve user id!

At that time, there was a somewhat common saying "Annoy IBM, support OS/2!". This was essentially mocking the ineptness (disdain?) of IBM marketing for OS/2.

dardeaupon OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

REXX was very powerful albeit a little quirky.

dardeaupon OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)

Yes, stability! It was very nice when doing DOS or Windows 3.x development.

The only stability gotcha was when some OS/2 PM application hung the input queue and then the whole of PM became unresponsive. The base OS continued running fine but PM was then unusable.

dardeaupon 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea

Yep! Or a plasma torch!

Many locks fail quickly with just an angle grinder and a cut-off wheel. (as you can see on Storage Wars)

dardeaupon Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon

I'd like to hear more about the Oberon languages and compilers used.

dardeaupon I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D

Or he may just be tired of explaining his views over and over.

dardeaupon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

Granted, I never used Kylix, but it seems that it had all sorts of problems when it was first released. I don't remember, was Kylix available for Mac?

dardeaupon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

I'd bet you never seriously used Borland's Turbo Pascal for DOS versions 5.5 or 6.0. That IDE was extremely FAST. A lot of really good software was written in it back in the day (pre-internet).

dardeaupon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

Some do and some don't. Have you ever used any to develop an application?

I suppose a lot of it is also relative. When I started with TUIs decades ago, we didn't have too many options. Turbo Pascal 5.5 or 6.0 was extremely nice to use back in the day.

dardeaupon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

Delphi is still very impressive. However, they missed out on a much greater opportunity. Part of Delphi's crown jewels is VCL which can only be used on Windows. If you use Delphi for an OS other than Windows you have to use FireMonkey/FMX. Lazarus has LCL which is VERY similar to VCL, but LCL on Lazarus is not limited to Windows. One can write a LCL application and it works the same on Windows, macOS, and Linux. If Delphi had extended VCL to macOS and Linux it would have become much more valuable. Just my $0.02.

dardeaupon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

A few others not mentioned:

DOS: FoxPro 2.x, dBASE III Plus, dBASE IV, Turbo Pascal 5.5/6.0 was probably the pinnacle for me

OS/2: Watcom VX-REXX - extremely powerful and productive

Windows: Delphi before .NET