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Just a guess, but I think the answer may be in another post he links to. He wants to move to a tool that will work out of the box. He's deliberately moving away from an editing too…

A quick web search suggests that you are probably paraphrasing a newsletter [1] that Joel Spolsky published in 2001. He was talking about software like Excel (of which he was the P…

Sad, but not surprising given his age, that his son predeceased him by about a year. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressdemocrat/name/rand...

Not sold out at braun-clocks.com. Currently on sale.

It's probably mostly idiomatic. For native English-speakers it is more natural to use "number" when talking about things that are counted units that would be represented by integer…

Off topic: I thought (probably incorrectly) that the EU required that the cookie preferences for sites were supposed to offer "Reject All" if they offered "Accept All". I realize T…

Noted (I'm actually rural, and have an easement on my own property), but an easement is quite different from a public right of way in the UK. An easement does not create a public r…

Slightly off topic, but related: I'm always interested in the different approach to public "right of ways" in the US (and Canada) versus the UK. Given that the concept of public ri…

Canonical example? The Enemy Within https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek:_T...

Your product is legal, but we don't want you giving people ideas that they could use it in a way that is "irresponsible." And yes, we decide what's "irresponsible."

Does anyone see/hear this quote without thinking of Jack Donaghy using it in 30 Rock -- where he specifically cites "Hans Gruber, Die Hard" as the source?

My original point, posited slightly provocatively, was to suggest that one should think about whether the "destruction of capitalism" would leave anyone interested (or able) to per…

I applaud those who contribute to open source projects out of passion and curiosity. But presumably they are still participating in some "capitalist" endeavour that puts food on th…

Hopefully, after you "destroy capitalism and wash away the weird bourgeois conception of having a 'career'", there will still be some people around who want to be in Operations and…

The Serve The Home articles inspired me to go this route. I want to improve my understanding of Kubernetes for work. I picked up an HP EliteDesk 705 G4 mini desktop and an HP Elite…

I like my OnlyKey.

The TI-36x is a solid choice for a fairly basic "scientific calculator" and is still widely available online (about $20). Mine is holding up well. If you have the money for a "guil…

As of 2017, Casio FX-9860GII. Overkill for actual usage, but cheap -- so why not? Before that, TI-30XS from 2013 and the TI-36X from 2011. The 36X is still in my laptop bag. Can't …

You did not ask for feedback on your resume (found through your profile), so I hope you won't be offended by my observations. Your resume looks good: format is clean and will proba…

I like this heuristic! It captures several important aspects of "seniority" in a clever way. A lot of the other comments are defining seniority in terms of years of experience or b…

I reviewed your CV as well. I am a former programmer/analyst/architect, now an IT director. I have reviewed a lot of CVs as a hiring manager. I agree with the feedback you have alr…

A physicist wrote it. a=dv/dt

Same here. Good memories. And the companion book is still on my shelf. So interesting to see how modern inventions depend on a network of connected ideas.

I think I want any effort of this nature to be open source and managed as a public good. Nothing against MS specifically, but I think the only way to get broad acceptance of result…