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One aspect not covered is how varied and wide ranging across the code and deployment platforms maintenance is done. One day you are tracking down a problem that's found to be cause…

And yet low-speed vehicles are allowed.... Low-speed vehicles are coming to Rhode Island streets https://turnto10.com/news/local/low-speed-vehicles-are-comin...

See also Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/technicals-9781472822512...

Clotted cream is my greatest loss moving from Dartmouth, Devon to the US. A vanilla ice cream cone with clotted cream and a Cadbury flake is unparalleled. And a Mother’s Bread sand…

One of DEC’s later line of VT 100 terminals introduced white text and smooth vertical scrolling. It was totally unusable due to the CRT ghosting. Well, unless you like reading text…

Writing tools do influence expression. I recall Jerry Pournelle saying how using an early mobile computer with its 40 character screen width had made his sentences shorter. Others …

You can get lots of metadata from Crossref.org. See https://www.crossref.org/services/metadata-retrieval/

Yea, let’s use an weak and undisciplined markup language in a powerful and highly disciplined programming language ‘cause a few HTML tags is too much.

It also stopped at the first compilation error. You didn’t mind as it placed the cursor at the error in the editor and a recompile was a keypress away.

I liked this article. We are, I think, quibbling over the author's terms and conflating person experience with industry practice. Fundamentally you will see the broader landscape o…

Please, no. Let's not intermix code fragments with html elements. Have you witnessed the nightmare of reading and updating JSTL, for example?

If I had a nickel for every time I have used this pattern ... | perl -ne 'print "$1 $2 ...\n" if /some-regex-with-capture-groups/' | ...

No one has yet mentioned that the Design Patterns uses UML to elucidate its patterns. I think those diagrams work due to their limited scope. I hope those I have drawn with similar…

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Writing is used for understanding and for communication. These are two different activities. Ie, the prototype is not the product. Highly recommend the book Thinking on Paper, http…

> I find it inspiring that it has such readable and space-efficient interface, compared to current trends in many web apps. Agree.

Always missed Pascal’s typed scalar ranges.

Undo and Save. Every application allowed you to reverse or abandon a change.