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For me, Windows 3.x era buttons are the pinnacle of buttons.

Nice. The earliest jaw-dropping water effect I saw (and somewhat understood at 14) was the awesome credits scene from the Iguana's Earthquake demo[0]. The code[1] contains the foll…

Politics, football (soccer) and religion are always very sensitive topics. Maybe the OP's "not that important" was an unfortunate way to put it. I think the answers you ask for are…

Catholics.

Exactly. I knew what the link was about and didn't study at ETH Zurich. I (mistakenly?) think Oberon is that kind of "roots knowledge" shared between all of us, like Lisp or Forth.…

Honest question. Where does one stop clarifying things?

I always loved that intro too [0] :-) I implemented the effect in Pascal back then. FYI, you can download the source code [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31311461 [1]…

What if the agents were trained by leaked Microsoft code?

Perfect answer, fellow cimmerian.

Honestly, I feel that everything UI related has gone backwards to the stone age. I wonder how hard would it be to go back to visual designers like we had with Delphi or VB6. There …

All companies I've worked at had (paid) on-call set up. The right to disconnect isn't incompatible with business needs and the law contemplates it. Also, nurses and doctors do it t…

Another kind of porn?

I remember not only running commands while debugging. I remember moving the program counter back, until a statement above my breakpoint, making live changes in the code and steppin…