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One that knocked me upside the head once was, upon remarking "That's going to take a long time, like a year" to accomplish something, as if that made it not worth doing, being told…

And this: https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-whe...

Back in the 1990s, when I was a software engineer at a database company in the Bay Area (rhymed with "PsyBass", if you pronounce "bass" as a musical instrument :), there was a joke…

dotnet interactive (aka Jupyter notebook with a C# kernel). Been using it along with XPlot.Plotly to chart various CV datasets from JHU, the NYT, etc,

Still love the retro theater design - so fun: http://www.csszengarden.com/202/

Didn't do a great job on this AP News article on coronavirus - only four bullet points, two of them repeated: https://apnews.com/545af824f44a22f7559c74679a4f1f53 .

I worked from home full-time from 1996-2000, part-time from 2000-2005. My main advice would be, "Learn how to go home at night." In other words, if you have an actual home office, …

I am old (I have seen things). I still have my first program from college, in FORTRAN, on a card deck. I also worked as a "computer operator" (an extinct species) while going to co…

My ex-wife worked for a legal software firm. One thing to note is they were threatened with lawsuits ALL THE TIME, because, after all, their customers were lawyers. So any bug or w…

AND teaches you all the cool names for facial hair! :)

Nice. One thought I had is it would be cool to be able to click on any (non-zero) point on the graph and see a list of the articles from that day, sort of a drill-down on WHY was t…

Yes. Two teachers (one elementary, one college). A former boss. Each helped me by not just expecting more of me, but mentoring me in ways that allowed a bullied kid with little sel…

Thanks for the reply. I see my comment got downvoted (I figured it would), but I was still curious as to what your response would be and I appreciate it.

Would be interested in hearing more about your views on this. I use Firefox and Thunderbird almost exclusively, and every time I think about donating money I then remember all the …

OK, if I go bankrupt now because of discovering JetPens, it is your fault!

Here's one from a vendor I currently integrate with - have multiple APIs (in this case, a SOAP one, a REST one returning JSON, and then some language SDKs that wrap the latter for …

Space Cadet on the old versions of Windows supported bumping, too. You could avoid tilt by alternating which side you bumped. Two in a row from the same side would tilt, but altern…

Back in the day, StorageTek, a company started by ex-IBMers, used something along the lines of "This page left intentionally almost blank." Which is, of course, more accurate. :)

Yup - this was the CA (Computer Associates) working model for decades. And as further commenters in the thread show, sometimes for enterprises reliably staying the same year after …

Yup, Crashplan. I pay for the small biz option, but that let's me back up the machines I need to backup. AND, I have restored a total of three different machines from Crashplan ove…

I am here to tell you, however, that the spectacle promised by a local county fair of a “combine demo derby” (as in, a demo derby with old combines) did NOT live up to the hype. Cr…

I am a long-time fan, and have owned all three editions of his book (which started out titled "Systemantics"). Back in the day you ordered it from his pediatrics office and he sent…

Note he uses both, even in the same paragraph - asterisks typically mean "bold," whereas underscores typically mean "underlined."

Meant to be underline the word between.