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ProfSarkovon Obsidian mirror used by Elizabeth I’s court astrologer has Aztec origins

This is rather off topic, but maybe you BÖC fans are interested in the Albert Bouchard Demo of Imaginos. At least I was :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOHIaSyqtU

ProfSarkovon Exotic Programming Ideas: Module Systems

Nice (altered) Anna Karenina quote.

ProfSarkovon Old CSS, New CSS

Unless you have something unique to offer, you likely should not publish.

ProfSarkovon JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

I know a couple of people holding the same opinion as OP. Can't say they are more productive.

The percentage of people that are hard to work with is higher in this group though.

And I know, what I'm talking about here. Started with a Commodore 64 in 1982, first Linux 1994. Did everything in emacs, calculated mode lines, Unix was my IDE, you name it.

I'm a very happy user of CLion and IntelliJ IDEA now. Wouldn't want to go back to the dark ages.

ProfSarkovon Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission in 1982

This post is about what was believed at Exxon then. What are you on about?

ProfSarkovon Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

It's also in the spec.

People might not like the spec or it might be incomplete, but adhering to it is a very important part of improving it until it's a good one.

Now I'm no webdev, but I could very well imagine that the spec is already a good one. So the situation might be even worse.

ProfSarkovon Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

It's like Internet Explorer 6 all over again. SAD.

ProfSarkovon The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight

Completely new plane designs are being introduced into the market all the time. What are you talking about?