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Trick in getting 99% satisfaction is asking you about it 30 nanoseconds after you bought it or before you even received it.

There are actually four "outlook" implementations now. 1. Outlook desktop - old MFC / win32 crapfest 2. Windows Mail / Calendar - new WPF crapfest. 3. O365 online outlook / outlook…

That's a vast difference in the number of layers of abstraction though. Digital electronics is not.

Probably the wrong way to look at it. Digital electronics doesn't really exist outside of theoretical spaces. It's all analogue underneath and any experienced digital designer will…

They aren’t terrible as long as you have a supply of wall warts available. I ended up powering mine off a little Meanwell switching supply in the end as they don’t blow up as often…

Netgear do some half decent fully managed switches. It’s not all blue crap off Amazon. The worst switches I ever used were HPE ones in the old C5000 blade chassis. Absolute turds. …

> But at the same time I can remember basically every small block of code in a large saas I single handedly built a few years ago, even today. Trying to replace that with something…

I haven't done any productive work for about 5 years so doing something and failing would be an improvement.

This is really great marketing for Microsoft and .Net

This sounds less stressful than an average half a decade working at my current position. It is actually motivating. Whether or not that was the desired outcome, I don't know. At le…