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It took me 15+ years in the business to realize this. If someone gave you a time machine to go into the past and give me your exact comment AND punch me in the face, it still would…

I hope so. I used to crush whiteboards but I really dislike these modern quiz platforms. I suppose I just need practice, but I'm like this old guy now with less time to practice on…

I worked at home for 9 years and then I had kids. (They are great kids but they make working at home hard.) That was enough for me to not want to work at home anymore. I then got a…

I'm speaking strictly technical here, but there have been features that have been removed. Trigraphs (I think), and the register keyword. Moreover, there are objects that are very …

Calendars and to-do lists matter, but the unpleasant aspect of these things is that I become a human scheduler, similar to an operating system scheduler. The scheduling function co…

Your design above with the private type being returned could possibly be useful. Perhaps outsiders to the class will be prevented from instantiating the nested-type without using t…

I was able to get rid of multiple computers and convert from physical to virtual and save on power bills. Once your build is complete you will be incredibly happy. AMD is killing i…

Worker pool for compile jobs and simulations. The cost to run this locally and with local storage (over 10g) is cheaper than to do it in the cloud.

I bought a 3900X also. I, too, would like a 3950X, but the 3900X is so fantastic it's hard to be too upset. I also have 4 Threadripper systems and I just could not get work done wi…

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So true. The rent forces you to be on the hamster wheel.

I'm in the same boat (but vegan). I supplement B12 and iron out of caution, but I am not sure they are even necessary. Just copy what the Indians do; they get by without meat and t…

So true. Always takes a bit of a spark to free your mind from the way the educational system makes you do things. Once you get away from the comfort of routine and embrace the dang…

I believe in the code dictator model also. However, the code dictator takes a lot of heat over style opinions. What I see is that, when the dictator emerges, he still has to build …

I work at a place where the culture is definitely "everybody should tidy this up" and it never changes, or it changes very slowly. What I'm finding though is that there's no real d…

I noticed years ago that I didn't have as much insight as other people who were much more close to the problems I was interested in. Even on non-technical topics, there was this re…

I went to summer camp one year and another kid brought the TV tuner for the GameGear to camp. We were doing some wilderness survival thing where we had to sleep out in a makeshift …

These days many languages are so expressive you can establish a dominant paradigm in the part of the code you work on. We have a kind of micro-level choice that even the most autho…

A friend had one of these and his dad tried to convince my dad to buy one. I honestly don't know what my friend did with this thing other than play a few games. I wonder what kind …

Nowhere is this more evident than in the editor wars. I have been trying to convert vi users to emacs for years. They just go running right back into the arms of their abuser.

That doesn't make them a target worthy of a lawsuit. You have to peel back the finances. Many times the cash flow from a rental is just there to minimize the monthly damage of havi…

The larger operators can also be sued. How does it work with AirBnB hosts? How do you even know if they have the assets to be worth suing?

People are hedging their answers. I'd go with the Bloomberg terminal and a lot of books.

I don't think the mass media is any better. I remember the hard pushes for things like low fat diets, ignoring the dangers of sugar and sugary drinks, etc. I don't recall the pre-i…

Agreed. A lot of those people got to veganism through some kind of eating disorder or some other social problem. They started out looking at the world with a different lens than yo…