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1. Retired. Mostly I read and surf the web. Take care of my health. 2. I left because I got old. Twelve hours of concentration just isn't worth it any more.

Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced…

Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced…

Writing code in a commercial IT shop in the late seventies, the manager though he was progressive since he guaranteed that we could get as many as one compilation per day. We'd sub…

I got old and retired.

I've written many tens of thousands of lines of C, but retired 15 years ago. The two best books I know are: 1. C: A Reference Manual, by Harbison and Steele. https://www.amazon.com…

One trick that works well for a limited set of situations: When reading a math or science textbook chapter, read the questions before the text of the chapter. The keywords in the q…

Most computers have only one instructions set. It might have hundreds of instructions, but it's only one set. Perhaps you nitwits mean the "One instruction" computer?

I'm pretty sure those M3's are around-the-ear. Unless you have gigantic ears. I'm wearing the M1 right now and it's around-the-ear.

If the company goes belly up that can be a good point for you. You left "Because it was becoming clear the company could not survive." Don't put all the blame on the managers, put …

I've been using Lastpass for years now. It's good but not perfect. Occasionally I have to fiddle with it. There are a few web sites that Lastpass can't deal with. I opt for big pas…

Programming languages are like culture. If you're embedded in one then moving to another sometimes seems like a maze of funhouse mirrors. I once had the misfortune of changing from…

The most fundamental things in learning to make software: 1. Alternate writing programs with classwork or book-learning. Back and forth. 2. Learn a programming language that a frie…

Google Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.

The one thing you probably haven't been doing is having friendly work-oriented talks with your boss. A couple of times a week you should have been raising some easy issue just as a…

Of course, the optimal way to respond to this is a contradiction: Raise a big stink, but secretly. This is not easy. I think the history of the "Tempest" security bug should be re-…

Your description of git raises a 'code smell' with me. I've found git to be far too complex to rely on. No, I don't have a replacement for cooperative development, but the thing is…

And therefore you learned that wisdom can be most obscure.

70.17 years: Last big thing was the programming language Go, a few years ago. The last thing was differing opinions of Maimonides and Yehuda Halevi on primeval substances with rega…

For a real software developer, PHP is a horrible language. And Javascript is almost as bad. The software tools to help you build and deploy are also a painful mess. You'll have to …

Learning Fortran II programming in 1965 on a super-computer at a local university. It had almost a megabyte of memory! Actually, it was a CDC 6600, which had 131,072 words of 60 bi…

Work with friends or whatever to find a new position before you end the one you have. Unemployment is very depressing. Avoid it. One week or two is okay.

Google Keep is free, has multiple subsections, and automatically syncs between my smartphone and my PC with no intervention on my part.

To cool summer bedrooms, blow the air out the kitchen window, and open the bedroom window. This will draw cool night air in the bedroom window. You may be sweating at 7 PM but you …

As you get older, it gets harder to learn new stuff.