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If you count the sections of your four fingers with your thumb, you can count up to 12 on one hand!

Yes I suppose it's not! My time sense in recent decades is very fugitive :)

Not a recent movie, but it was mentioned in Shooter, a Mark Wahlberg film from way back when

This is why (apart from being Irish) I drink a fair bit of tea throughout the day.

Going to the kitchen, boiling water and letting it brew, gets me away from my desk and gives me an opportunity to start thinking out loud while I wait.

Sometimes just getting up out of my chair will shake loose some tough problem and the answer will be clear.

Alas, even after all these years, I occasionally grind away on things rather than remembering this.

Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.

Ah yes. I remember having to do something similar. My connection was via 3G on an old Sony Ericsson K750, which was acting as a Bluetooth modem.

I think I did manage to get about 5k/s by placing it at various points around the room, but it was mostly dropped packets and 1k down.

Presumably expressions of interest?

My dad got us an Atari 130 XE for Christmas back in the 80s.

On Christmas day, it ran a program which asked for our names (my sister or I) and then printed out a personalised message and small game.

Only years later did I really think about him setting up this program days or weeks before hand, learning to code it all in Atari Basic, for that big reveal on the day.

He always had menial blue collar jobs because of his working class Irish Catholic background, and he died before I really got into computers/dev later on in life, so I never really got to ask him about it.

Enjoy the day everyone and hopefully build up some nice family memories!

I’m sorry to say that some of the gnarliest and most boneheaded codebases I worked on were ones where I was the ‘architect’.

It was a startup environment and hectic, but I had total control over everything, more or less.

Just to say that having the luxury of a greenfield start doesn't mean you'll end up with a nice result.

This is one of the features I like most about F#, after some years experience with it. The project is structured with a specific file ordering, and there's no forward referencing. Similar within a file/module as well, most of the time.

So to understand a project, you start at the top and work your way down, you wont encounter anything you haven't come across yet as you go.

Ironically, this 'feature' so annoyed me when I first came across the language in 2015 or so, that I put it down after five minutes and forgot about it for years.

Yes likewise!

We had a mobile library (a big van would park up a few streets over every Tuesday) and I have very fond memories of their Tintin books.

There's something about the 'album' format as well, you can fit a lot more on a page.