Notes and debris, part 4

[tangaroa]

More things found in old files:

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At one point, I bzipped a 1,392 byte file to save space. I probably bzipped *.c, but that's still a sign of desperation.

Bzipping *.c in general is still a sign of desperation. Or of trying to do something else and never fixing the mistake. Or of dicking around the filesystem after midnight before I started drinking coffee. Or of the same before midnight after I started drinking coffee.

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The people at ziwethey must have convinced me to look into Delphi programming because I found a registration key for the now-discontinued Kylix Open Edition. They didn't convince me enough to actually try it.

This reminds me that I used to read ziwethey. A backup forum is being hosted on another site.

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I have some c++ code for manipulating lists of lists, including functions named car, cdr, and cons, dating back to about three years before my first introduction to these concepts. Did I have an earlier class that I forgot about that could have covered this? The code looks bad enough to be mine.

The code is confirmed to be from the later class, but the timestamps are several years early. Here's what probably happened: the code is the teacher's which he wrote a few years before the class. The assignment is to create a new file which implements functions using the teacher's code as a library. The timestamps stayed when I unzipped the tarfile and I hadn't begun to work on it yet, and I did the assignment on a different system. Thus, the old timestamps.

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While practicing PyGame, I wrote a game that used sleep(.07) for a timer. That's embarassing, but the game is simple enough that everything should run fast enough to not need the precision. The recommended method for setting the frame rate is to use Clock.tick() for a timer.