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Agreed. There is a bunch reasons we are still reliant on chemical rockets, and this silly thing does not solve for any of them. There are so many things that can go wrong here. The…

Oh wow. I fondly remember DesqView (no /X) and being completely amazed. I think around that time the larger buzz was around SCO Unix.

YES! Agreed!

Canadian here, so I had my turkey fix earlier this fall. And it was not dry. What is "dry" anyway? For meat: Mostly the lack of water and fat. Water and fat provide flavor and impr…

Dang! Just saw this. Agreed!!

This reminds me, somehow, of "The Meaning Of Liff". A wonderful book you need to read. A sense of it can be found here: http://liff.hivemind.net/

Wood is renewable when you can grow it, cut it up into useful shapes, then at the end of its useful life, compost it. As soon as you add a shit load of processing and plastic and o…

This is a great leap ahead, and makes me happy. But I would also like to do a shoutout to a local-to-me company that has been around for decades and have always had a decent amount…

Fantastic job. Your analysis and documentation is spot-on...great to see.

Well said.

Exactly. I can't speak for laser, extruders, knives or such, but for subtractive work (i.e. milling / drilling operations with some form of rotary tool) this design would be an exe…

My bad. What I should have said was "Edward Tufte's books. They contain beautiful diagrams". LOL...Didn't know about "Beautiful Evidence" until you mentioned it. I know exactly wha…

Doesn't that feel incredible? Just one win like that can make a whole month or more of happy thoughts for me. I benefited from a manager like this early on...never forgot. Now, whe…

Happy to help...at least a bit.

I get angry too. I also struggle with it. I have found that thinking of myself as an Observer as well as a Participant has helped. Two very different hats. For example, when you ar…

I can tell you with certainty that there are indeed cultures that take code quality seriously. In fact, almost above anything else. However, the work itself may be uninteresting to…

I could do the same. But really, it's also my value proposition. "What's that you say? Your org has a dozen crappy systems of questionable lineage and you need to migrate to Someth…

>If programming languages were only about telling computers what to do, we'd all be coding in assembly. Damn. That is pure gold. Thank-you. Get this on a t-shirt or something, woul…

"Experience is all the little edge cases that cropped up over time." Absolutely. I will be using this one.

Sure. Let me clarify first: The craft I refer to is the ability to create clear, detailed diagrams that not only document a system (like a layer 3 diagram), but also to express a s…

Beat me to it. But yes. Especially the wastoids.

All of these points are relevant and in my experience, true.

I love this rule! I try to do the same thing. I look at it as an investment...long return. Arguing to win daily is a fools game. As you say, make your point and watch things unfold…

You raise a good point about ageism... and perhaps the concept of tenure. My advice to young guns is that never rely on your employer to take care of you. HR is there for the Compa…

Yes. New Stuff doesn't always supplant Old Stuff. And when it does, it does so at different rates. There will always be work available to bridge/replace Old to New. Heck, look at m…