Posts by DeathStation 9000 16 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2016
IMHO the bit of Solaris that makes it UNIX hasn't changed much over the years. The system calls I was taught on BSD at Poly in the late 80's still work fine on my Mac and even now a socket is still a socket. It's more the things built on top of that POSIX core have changed hugely over the years. And to be fair the Win32 API hasn't changed much over the years in the other camp, but the UI layer in Window keeps changing with the tides.
Don't know. While I agree that Apple is a bit precious over replacing hardware they seem less so over software. I doubt that in the Intel days they'd have given us Bootcamp unless they were happy to have Windows running on it. I'll be interested to see if something similar comes on the M1 Macs to install an ARM based OS alongside MacOS.
Thanks, didn't know about that. I can handle C++ without screaming in agony as much as I do in Java ;-)
The only thing that stopped me trying to use the NDK was the big warnings from Google saying something along the lines of 'Don't use this just because you prefer the languages involved', so I assume that can be taken with a pinch of salt :-)
Good lord, I do hope this works out well! I may finally be able to write something for my phone.
This isn't intended as flame-bait (it is just my personal opinion), but by god do I hate Java as a language to code in. I'd rather code in COBOL. C# is one of the few decent things Microsoft invented IMHO and is my language of choice after C.
The Xamarin stuff was always awful to try out -- I grabbed the trail version and I couldn't even compile an Android Wear project before I actually added any code to it! So if it ends up in VS (and it must make the community editions), I for one will be a happy camper.
It's almost certainly not a negative problem, and probably a zero problem. time_t is 64 bits on OSX, and most UNIX and UNIX-like systems are very happy with negative numbers. Or at least they are in the C libraries, unless it is some new-fangled nonsense they're using:
time_t t = -10;
printf("%zu\n", sizeof t);
printf("%s", ctime(&t));
Gives this in UTC land:
8
Wed Dec 31 23:59:50 1969
Completely agree.
I'm sure if I fiddled in a detrimental way an MOD or government computer I would be looking forward to doing some porridge, so why should it be different for *our* computers and corporations (or governments for that matter)? I'm looking at you Sony* and Leveno for example.
* Yes I realise I'm being two-faced there by owning all the PlayStations. But I like video games, so what can you do when you want something a bit flashier than Manic Miner?
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