Haus

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

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.

sccs, rcs, cvs… after that it’s a blur of new systems every year or two

I hope this is cubic meters…

Yowch, Django was 20 years ago? That hurts.

https://youtu.be/oikCkGFK1bk?si=iSGjmhxYXN6OfLEv

Nice seeing Mathematica and Lisp mentioned. I feel like Marvin the Martian after reading.

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)

I adore the energy behind these comments.

Mandatory alt-text.

I have never had any patience with variable names when I realize I have to do a 3-way swap: c=a, a=b, b=c. I’m sure there’s 40 years of goddamit=a and fml=a in the wake I’ve left behind me.

100% agree. Emacs macros take much more space.

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