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Comment Re:Every boomer programmer just shrugged (Score 1) 135

Wash, rinse, repeat.

I remember I inherited some code with all kinds of these hand-tuned SSE things, luckily guarded by ifdefs. Turned them off, and boom, my code was nearly 2X faster. Because SSE had gone the way of the dino, and the compiler was able to take the straight code and do better with newer/wider SIMD registers.

Hopefully AVX-512 will be around long enough to actually matter for them; however I have my doubts because I saw in other comments Intel is dropping support for it in some CPU families.

Comment Re:Those Borland languages (Score 1) 26

I learned OOP principles from reading Borland's Object Pascal manuals. I had "acquired" Turbo Pascal but saved enough from my newspaper route to buy Object Pascal when it came out and that set me up for a lifetime of documentation disappointment in everything after that. I guess a decade or so later O'Reilly started to close that gap.

Comment Re:Horrible Idea (Score 1) 122

Guess it depends on the government.

For years, Maryland has had an online questionnaire-style website that I have used every time and never had it disagree with TaxCut/HRBlock.

And every year in the feedback, I ask for the simple "fill-in-the-blanks" like a PDF of the actual MD502 form, because I already did the heavy lifting and just want to enter my answers without giving somebody $20 for the "privilege" of e-Filing.

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