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Insightful summary. Thx.

> So what I'm saying is that your actual potential has been exactly what you observed! +1; How close is my paraphrasing to what you were thinking? achievement(person) = potential(p…

This is good news: it means your plan is actually innovative.

> “execution there was the problem” Thoughts on this devil’s advocate perspective? “Don’t design/propose what your org can’t build.”

(iirc) I think I used `-fomit-frame-pointer` with DJGPP on DOS on a 486. It was an [unimpressive :)] software-rendered 3D graphics demo, and I was very happy with the substantial f…

s/countries/counties/g thoughts?

(not the author) The metadata is a contiguous range of disk blocks. I think the intuition is that such layouts are likely to require simpler filesystem code to manipulate. [versus …

the kids are alright (GenX'er fwiw)

Haha I can totally relate to copypasting a rule and later finding out how it actually worked :)

Thanks! Do you have any thoughts to share on reasons for the migration to Bazel? 3-6 mo of one engineer to migrate to something so hardcore as Bazel seems very good actually, espec…

Thanks a lot! +100 to your second point about language support being uneven.

Thanks. Good points. Follow up: I was wondering if bazel's hardcore declarativeness + opinionatedness-about-reproducibility might help increase confidence in some situations, e.g. …

(i'm the submitter) +1000 to this. "Every import you write you have to write in two files or three if you have to export it." Others are good points too. Thanks!

Anyone using bazel at startups? Or is it thought off as too heavyweight? Context: I'm ex-Google and I think blaze/bazel brings enough to the table to be worth the complexity even f…

Brought back some memories. Turbo Pascal 5.5 is the greatest IDE ever made. Editor, compiler, debugger (separate full-screen output buffer alt-f5 iirc), graphics. And oh complete s…

(not OP, but another Brother fan) I've bought two Brother multifunction monochrome lasers, both are still running fine. I have the Brother MFC-L5800DW and it's predecessor (~$450).…

Same. Where I landed is that it's simply not worth the risk given the relatively small amounts involved. IIRC I bought an off-brand toner once -- the smell when printing was defini…

yes it can be difficult to find people to work on others’ ideas for free.

Thanks for posting. Interesting tool -- I'll take a look at this. "Saving streams" is killer. I've been "meaning to build something to solve that" for a looong time. :) :) But you …

Great points. Agreed. In certain situations though, the readability/maintainability gains from using this library might outweigh the added complexity of a layer of indirection. Sit…

I agree with everything the author said. I could have written that. But having said that, I’d add this. I’m astounded at the customization that’s still possible. Gnome-tweaks still…