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I had an interviewer once interrupt me and say that there was no way I could remember the techincal details of a 10 year old project I was the architect for, thus any details I did…

Kiki's themes can be edited to suit one's personal tastes. The theme .css files are about 120 lines long.

There is a network of Memory Labs (1) and many more that are not part of the network. Check your local libraries to see if they have one. The Kansas City area has one at the Johnso…

I too had a crossing of paths with one of the micro kids. She was descibed in the book as the lone female engineer on the team. She is a very sharp and talented individual and was …

I once worked at a shop that supported their product on a variety of Windows, UNIX, and Linux platforms. Most of the development was done on Windows, but there were some there that…

I'm not sure I'm the best person for advice on this matter, or maybe it is great advice for some. I took a leap, believed in myself, and it worked out okay. I'm self taught when it…

Doing embedded development using C. Thoroughly enjoy it. I was once in a group that was switched away from the work we were doing and repurposed to do web work. It was a bad experi…

Happy Thanksgiving all. Mostly a lurker. Been here over 10 years, but created my HN account 9 years ago. HN has been an invaluable source for me over they years.

There is such a sci-fi plot. Unfortunately, I don't recall the story's title or the author. What I do recall was the use of gravitational lensing (a neutron star) to observe an ali…

I had the pleasure of meeting (virtually) Andrew through his work with the Squeak community. I also ran into Robert Woodhead (also virtually) through the game StarWeb[1] which he p…

I find this basics of this story believable. I worked at a place that manufactured IR lasers, and where the owner (the "Doctor" as we called him) set up similiar impromptu demonstr…

I had not heard of uiua before, but I'm familiar with both APL and stack languages, so it should fun to explore it its capabilities.

I think it displayed correctly for me. Still I switched to reader mode for comfort, due to the small font size and narrow column.

Ditto here. C, Pascal and Forth were what I was using in those days. I did some 6502, 6800 and 68000 assembly, but only when needed.

I was fortunate enough to start learning C, in 1983, using one of the compilers reviewed in that issue. BDS C for CPM. Learning C definitely paid off. Here it is nearly 40 years la…

I'll admit that I was assuming that since many civilizations at that time knew how to make gold and silver filigree, that copper wire was also possible. One can probably replace th…

Pretty sure the Greeks have all the materials for these. Create batteries from dissimilar metals, using clay pots, weak organic acids, and copper wire. Once you have batteries, win…

In all the years I've used Consumer Reports I've never seen them rate moving services. I just jumped on their site now, and there are no reviews for moving services.

I've been wearing hearing aids for almost 8 years. The brain training process is real and I'm glad the audiologist explained it.

My personal favorite was "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

Yes, that is what it's talking about.

Just so it's clear, that truly frightening stuff is on haven.org, and not on the OP's havenweb.org site.

Good memory, there was a Megamax C, but I never used it. When Lightspeed C (renamed to Think C) came out most of the Mac developers I knew that used C switched to it. I was still w…

The action is easy to miss after nearly two minutes of nothing happening. If you fast forward you might not see it at all. 1:54 What I believe is the signal flash near the fencing.…

Well done. My first experience was with Smalltalk/V. I still have my well worn copy of the blue book.