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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

Bresenhams line algorithm 😁, you could invert it to speed it up (Bresenhams slice algorithm)! Also: fill area algorithms!

Fun times

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Yes, written by hand. A few years later I was taking courses in high school on an IBM PC in basic and to draw a line with literally a command called line with two points as parameters.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago

Yeah, no fun at all!

Loads of implementations were buggy too, IIRC.

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