Haus

ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming “How can she slap?!”

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

Three fiddy.

I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.

When I want to see a broken mod, I just surf over to Reddit.

This is what I call a ‘pro grammer move.’

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

M-x dunnet

Runs Colossal Cave Adventure in emacs. “YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.”

I’m in the other camp. The first time I squeezed my 155m spaceship through the tiny mouth of a rotating space station in VR, I wept like a baby. (An Anaconda in Elite: Dangerous)

There was a time when I had to switch back and forth between Fortran90 and C several times a day, and it messed me up so bad that doing simple tasks like counting apples at the grocery gave me anxiety.

I’d go PostScript, since it’s Turing-complete.

Bad variable names and then awful “temporary” log lines… I feel attacked this morning. ;)

In related news, Mrs. Cleaver is looking particularly lovely today.

If I’m thinking of the same device, the one I used in Sweden and Norway, it’s fantastic. It’s in the shower itself, so you don’t have to contend with 30m of cold pipes between a less effective water heater and the nozzle.

Damit, lolled at a restaurant like a maniac.

ChatKYS

MFW I’m using sh variant #7923 and trying to write a for loop.

On that other site, I compared it to being a lifelong English-speaking resident of Chicago and being unable to order a pizza in Indianapolis without a phrasebook.

I’d guess, in context, it’s a floating point price column that hasn’t been set, and the table designer didn’t specify the column to be NOT NULL.

The UK has always been on the leading edge of encryption, because they’ve got to work out what Northerners are on about.