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Awesome. I wasn't sure if anyone else remembered those. Formative stuff for me :-)

Ooh, those are nice! Thanks for the tip.

I believe so. I mean, I care a lot about the end result and whether it solves the problem. But I'm motivated more by how one does the work, the quality and aesthetics of (say) the code I write, and so forth.

Most people I work with are more in the 2nd camp. But I've known people in both.

It's here.

Definitely trying this out. I've always had the problem of "but what is the compiler thinking?" with C++ in particular.

I'm glad we can roll it back, but wonder how long that will be the case.

That was beautiful. I sincerely hope you are writing a book about your experiences.

Nice! That's a new one for me.

I was always soooo tempted to say "pretend I can't see whatever you're looking at right now..."

In theory, sure. For me personally... not so much.

Seconded. It's almost encyclopedic in scope. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that the hilarious chapter on English slang of the time was my favorite.

That's really going above and beyond. Hope it helped them.

My friend calls it the lump under the carpet. You can move it around, but you can never get rid of it.

Yikes, must have missed that one. Horrifying thought.

This one of my favorite speeches for being both educational and entertaining. It's especially gratifying to learn the background story for the mysterious Alice and Bob.

You can still ride a Shay-powered train at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Scenic_Railroad_State_Par.... It's an old-time logging railroad that goes up into the mountains from a former https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town founded in 1901.

Nice! That Windows 95/98 GUI design wasn't the most beautiful ever made, but it was quite usable. You never had trouble telling what was what.

Ooh, nice! This very much appeals to the historian and former GUI developer in me.

Update: The Pixel Perfect checkbox makes a noticeable difference in appearance. I presume this is because older systems were developed before the advent of anti-aliasing, and were designed pixel by pixel.

Interesting site. As a non-Web developer, I've vaguely wondered about the various frameworks and where the "look and feel" that I see on different sites' user controls come from. This be will fun to explore.

For tools that don't support -0, you can add the NULs yourself without much fuss. It's a one-liner in awk/perl/sed. Very handy.

That's a new one for me. Do you happen to have any pointers to more info? I found a few mentions, but nothing substantial.

In fact, he loves us!

> time is now part of the io interface [...]

Nice, didn't know that! Sounds like this could be extremely useful for some of the simulators we work on (though we mostly work in C/C++).

> Why? Because I can.

Always the best reason.

> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.

It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.

I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

> 1948 was an interesting time for computing.

Not a commonly seen statement :-)

Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.