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For me, the original fidget spinner. I solve them and scramble them as I think about programming problems at work when I'm deciding on best solutions. Each Rubik's cube solve for me averages 40 seconds... give or take 10s - while thinking about other things. It it very peaceful.

Definitely truth here. My son's high school has an average ACT of 25. He was homeschooled thru 7th grade, and he scored a 34 composite at the beginning of his junior year... and I know it is more to due with his homeschooling and fundamentals learned through it than his high school teachers.

I love my combustion engine car and don't plan to go electric next time... but this article made me think. And while perhaps a little too optimistic on timeline, I have to concede that his premise regarding moving parts has merit.

Rant on, but I tuned you out.

Ah, promotion of virtue signalling. I don't disagree with the sentiment but the requirement to post gets to me. Sigh.

I guess we have different definitions of minimum viable product- without knobs and sliders its an instant "oh well".

Dave Baggett wrote a couple of nice text adventures for the TADS system before he worked on Crash back in the early 1990s, I remember enjoying both "Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme" and "The Legend Lives!" (Unnkulian episode 5)... and I also remember some fun conversations on natural language text parsing with him back on rec.arts.int-fiction in the same time period.

But the author 'made' this article - an artifact that he presumably sold. Perhaps he has too narrow of an idea of 'making'.

That's fine, Italians will just go buy their iPhones in a neighboring eurozone country.

Furthermore, I doubt the politicians involved understand the benefit to device security a walled garden can help enforce.

Starting to downvote all bloomberg articles because their ads stop my music on mobile when i try to read their articles. Not a new behavior but I'm sick of it.

Really don't like the loss of the majority of the clip color into tiny little bars on the side of the clip. It may look prettier, but it is far less functional -especially for those who use Live "live" in addition to studio production.

What gets me about this article is the header graphic showing an Atari 2600/VCS, but the version of Pac-Man on the screen is clearly the Atari 400/800 version!!! (grin)

Love your work, Spencer. One of these days I'll get around to forking/pushing changes I've made to Chuck to support DirectX 8 and later while still allowing Chuck to build with the older DX5....

Read about "imposter syndrome". I only really started getting over it in my early 40s.

Every single item on the list is said tongue-in-cheek...

And I do work from home on bad weather days so this isn't an issue

I don't want to work from home, thanks anyway. Except on bad weather days.

Then again, I'm at a senior principle engineer level, and need to have face time with my VPs and directors in addition to other devs. I don't believe it would be possible to work at the level I'm at remotely, nor to be promoted to such a level. And my commute isn't horrid at ~25min.

I first saw a link to this Ableton page from a group I'm in on facebook on April 24, so Ableton's had this up at least since then....

Based on the timeframe, I bet the software that found/cleaned the virus was F-Prot.

Thanks for that link.

No, I run rhe browser at a much smaller percentage of the screen - perhaps 60%.

On my 24" monitor, you body text feels immense (at 1920x1080) and I have to scan my eyes left and right too much - annoying enough that I scaled the page to 80% to read it comfortably. It is important that column width not be too wide to avoid too much eye travel, while maintaining 60-80 chars per column.

This brings it down to normal text size comparable to a comfortable-to-read novel page size on my screen.

Comparing to WaPo, they unwisely have 100+ chars per line at that immense size. I've stopped reading the site at all because the balance of the width and font size combo is too much work. Most of the others have wisely kept to 60-80 chars per line, and scaling works to read them, but all feel a bit too large.

The fonts (Briem Handwriting and Briem Handwriting Italic) are in the .zip package on this page:

http://briem.net/4/4201/4201_4051.html

".. However, StackOverflow’s survey on age shows that there are just about 13% of developers after 40. Where are the others?"

Obviously not on StackOverflow. Perhaps they have enough experience and knowledge to not need the site because they either know how to read tech books and sites to get the info they need when they have a problem using pre-existing docs, or conversely, are fully able to debug issues themselves.

That's what I do, anyway. (I'm 46)

You didn't see this part in the article?

> "Third-party XMPP clients will continue to work with Hangouts for 1-on-1 chats."

"Third-party XMPP clients will continue to work with Hangouts for 1-on-1 chats."

For me, this means it basically still exists and my user experience is the same.

Just tried it. It has fired my old capture tool, thanks!

Beyond Compare

https://www.scootersoftware.com/

Especially with integrated source control and remote sessions to manage source on multiple server types and platforms. Very customizable rules for compares and folder structure / filename case etc.

I used to use Araxis Merge, but Beyond Compare, with a tiny bit of customization, is in my opinion a far superior tool.

Calling her a nun is overkill. A novice isn't a nun (hasn't taken any vows) -- and is just trying it out. She left before she ever actually became a nun.

Never used Kontact or EZ Drummer, but seems like it would be hard to beat Ableton Live Suite's combo of drumracks and stacking effects per drum sample... Do you have experience with both? Any reason I should look into the former when I've invested in the latter?

edit: Nevermind, after looking at Native's offering (Kontact), I can see it has a lot of advantages for a certain kind of music, but that isn't the music I'm writing...