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A great tool for understanding source code is Source Trail. Supports parsing of C/C++, Python and Java currently. I love tools that help understand a large code base.

I knew somebody who got national attention for making an energy drink named Cocaine. It did not last long on the market due to the name.

Yeah I remember when there weren't dozens of services running in the background just for basic OS functionality.

They were using SLM (Slime) but I did not have access to the server since I was on a different project (Microsoft Systems Management Server).

I just thought of something. At the time blank CD-R's were about $15 each and the fastest burners at the time were 2x burners. I'm sorry I wasted so much of time the person who burned these and the cost of the media!

And it was not compressed it was just a bunch of files and folders. My guess is it was around 15 CD-ROMs

Make that winning animation use the GPU!

It took ages to figure out where the code even was in the many files and folders. The directory structure did not make it obvious.

Many years ago when I worked at Microsoft I asked for the source code to Solitaire. A few days later I received a stack of CD-ROMs with the entire source code of Windows NT (4.0 maybe).

My son now regularly crushes me in all video games and has for more than 10 years. :)

When my son was around 4 I was playing GTA and was not playing it violently when I took a car from someone and they tried to pull me out he said "Hit him dad! Hit him!" but never in his life (he is 21 now) has he struck anyone. It was just a game to him.

I'm also confused as to why there are no Spider-man movies in the suburbs.

I loved the old flat crt grey scale vga monitors

No but something nearly as bad was typing on punch cards and having to feed them into a card reader to get the code into the computer. And all but one of the terminals was a TTY at 110baud and printed on paper. There was a single Dec VT100/102 terminal you had to get in early to use.

There are some labels developers use today that sound like a need to validate themselves. Is this a result of a competitive environment or a time when everybody gets a trophy? I'd like to understand this one.

When I was in high school we had a PDP System 10 and PDP 11 where I took a programming course on PDP-11 assembly language. It makes me feel old knowing these weren't antiquated at the time.

So many articles on Lisps on the front page. Did I miss something? It is Lispmas?

I took a 6502 assembly language class when I was in high school I already had some experience with it so I spent my time doing machine language monitor with disassembler and helped others. It was the best class I had at the time.

I don't have a degree. I feel that not having it has cost me some opportunities. Someone once said that when someone has put in years to get their degree they want the candidates they interview to have done that work as well.

I don't have a hard time being alone but I suspect it would be different if I didn't have at least online interactions with people. I start to talk to myself out loud after a while if not around other people.

I love the show. It grows on you. There is a lot of heart and story in it.

This is one of those stay off my lawn moments but involving computer resources.

How much could it possibly cost them to have an account doing nothing? Sure they don't make money if it is dormant but it costs them nothing.

Yeah if there are lives at stake that’s the important stuff.

I've worked on mission critical software over a long period of time and it can be a challenge to be performant and also not fail or bring down the rest of the apps on the computer at the same time. Nothing as mission critical as flight software mind you.

I think Apple should have to sell OEM parts at a competitive price to avoid hazards and take away the monopoly.

I like it for the most part but some apps take it such an extreme that I can't even tell where the window edges are when they are overlapping each other and buttons are indistinguishable from the window background color. The skin I am using on JRiver Media Center is that way and the other choices aren't really much better.

A house in our neighborhood burned to the ground and the fire was started by a laptop battery (replacement) charging. It shot up through the roof of the kitchen into attic and started a fire that quickly consumed the house. I would never put in a battery not from the manufacturer after that not that that is a guarantee.

I'm not trying to say you are anything not sure why you are taking it as an attack on you I was just stating that those people exist in Texas and aren't a quiet minority. I live here I have reference.

People who knew it is what it is right from the get go. They didn't do any bait and switch.