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Very good point, I do that all the time, because I can have about 2 games installed at any given moment.

I am blown away that auto suggest is so wrong. I simply have this feature turned off.

I tried TikTok in 2020 to understand why young people were so much into it. What is so appealing? I've been using the platform, even publishing some videos and commenting a lot, an…

This is an excellent question. There were many "Aha!" moments in my journey. Here is a couple of honest examples: * Action Script 3.0 - It may sound stupid and unlikely place, but …

I have never touched Fortran, but my wife worked on 50 years old code for atmospheric physics / boundary layer modelling. I have no idea how stable it is, and my wife is not cs but…

For me, working for a small/medium company building something real. None of social media, Microsoft, Amazon or Google. Something that builds precision lasers for engineering, somet…

I would like the publishers to understand that I use the blocking software because their JavaScript is so poorly written that it consumes 90% of my CPU power, which is not acceptab…

Learn languages (human languages). Important for mobility. You won't have time to study a language for 2 hours every day later in life. Build big projects steps by step, 30 minutes…

At a Fortune500 company, I work for the Global IT departament, developing tools, providing top tier IT support, reporting, access management, change control and management, network…

http://www.fonerbooks.com - because of the "content first" design, and because its demise was caused by a major change in the Google search algo that promotes social media hype and…

I absolutely agree - it has to be something in the browser, because it has to be familiar and visual. No theory. Open the source, show people how simle html 1.0 elements work. Bold…

Definitely NO! Not another calculator!

Do you remember that Major Major's father made a good living by not growing more alfalfa than anyone else in the county? But let's put things in order: I think your assumptions are…

David Kushner's ''Masters of Doom'' about John Carmack, John Romero, id Software, Scott Miller and Apogee and the game industry in the 1990s. Well written and, as far as I'm concer…

After someone tells me her/his name, I always say: "I'm terrible with names, so I will ask about yours a couple of times, but that's the only way for me to remember," and I smile v…

I'd second that. Ukraine in general is just ridiculously cheap. Lviv is a beautiful city with great history, but has a rather continental climate, cold in the winter, humid and hot…

Although I am a white heterosexual man, I have always refused to provide such information as gender (I have recently made a new passport without gender information). Your gender sh…

I have recently tried to connect my old iPhone5 to my very old MacBook with Snow Leopard, and I could not open the phone to transfer some photos. I connected the phone to PC and go…

Movies are, in my humble opinion, not the best "standard" yard stick to measure fluency. First thing is that films most often use quite limited vocabulary, and it's wildly differen…

Seducing a partner is a good one ;) But very true! I'd add: understanding a joke...

Do you remember the 10 000 hours principle, popularised in Malcolm Gladwel's Outliers ? Well, it comes from research by Swedish-American scientist, Anders Ericsson. I talked with h…

Have a look at Diaspora, it could be at least an inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)

It would be great to see such a collection from 1990s...

on the meta level: Older people don't understand what is an operating system, is it different from Office? Or between an Icon and a Program. It's truly amazing that they actually c…

I would simply say: there are too many changes in the interfaces. And I agree with that - every new device and operating system changes things, and most often those changes are not…