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Thank you!

I'm struggling to find any information about this, either from Siedersleben or others, at least in English. Can you find any sources you can point me to? Or, can you explain furthe…

Maybe I'm odd, but even having more experience with AWS, and even with the UI on AWS being superior, Azure's jargon and organization seems easier to learn than AWS.

Maybe in this case "ELI5" stands for "Explain it like I have 5 yrs experience in software development but gave up in year two"?

If civic government contractors are anything like military contractors, then many of them haven't even heard of a version control system like Git or SVN – instead, naming file vers…

Yeah, I use DDG by default now, and only use Google for hard searches – and even then, I'm continually surprised by the frequency of terrible search results on Google these days.

I've been around to compare them all (and used to spend countless hours doing search engine research on Fravia's "web search lores" website). Google represented a huge step up in s…

Not saying this is what happened necessarily, but sometimes as a startup, you find yourself in a position where you must either sell to someone/anyone or the business must shut dow…

On the other hand, Micro supports the Ctrl-based text nav/manip hotkeys (such as Ctrl-arrow, Ctrl-Backspace, CTRL-Home/End, also optionally combined with Shift for selection). More…

Tables first came to be used for displaying tabular (spreadsheet-like) data – which was what it was designed for. And for that purpose, it's still the best option.

I've become a big fan of using something like a `main()` function to act as the one conventional place where pure functions are piped together at the top of a module. You get this …

I think there is some level of hardwiring limiting the palatability of sweetness, at least in some people. Anecdotally, even as a kid, I found Skittles to be unpleasantly sweet. To…

I've used LaTeX in ebook production, but on this occasion, I needed a process which could be handed off to a much less technical person.

I didn't test on Linux, since we only permitted BYO Linux machines exceptionally. And the PDF feature support landscape may have changed in the last year, since it was Q1 of last y…

Microsoft Word can do it, but you must _save_ the document as a PDF. I know this because I've done it dozens of times, as recently as a year ago. Notably, you _can't_ use PDF print…

Users seldom or never printed it. I was told that we needed it (a computer requirements document) in PDF for legal reasons. I pushed back and legal confirmed that they did, in fact…

Even if you did get it working, there is a very good chance that only Adobe Reader/Acrobat would support it. This severely limits valid use-cases because users have become acclimat…

Oh, I guess Markdown doesn't work. Huh. Well, shoot.

The funny thing is that it's _not_ more parentheses, roughly, than one would expect to find in any Algol/C-inspired language, like C# or JavaScript. The opening paren is simply rel…

The fish are _red herrings_ – even the dolphin.

For me it was this: > Normal purposeful speech makes different opinions closer, while speech under the feedback of the like button makes similar opinions even closer and different …

Anyone up for starting a programming language with me to farm data about programmers?

I still make it a point to disable AutoPlay and AutoRun on every PC I possess. No, operating system, thou shalt not be permitted to seek and run executable code automatically on ev…

Do you mind clarifying what you're referring to?

This might be a function of how passively many people read, though – particularly as compared with the highly interactive posture of speech. There are reading strategies which we c…