rlv-dan

Hard to compare. The internet and its audience is so much different today.

I grew up playing Nintendo. Later I moved to PC and arrow keys. It was never a problem for me. But using WASD as arrow keys never worked for me. It is not intuitive for me.

Still listen to it and loving every time it pops up in my playlist!

If you are looking for a simple time tracking app for Windows you are welcome to try CCTime: https://github.com/rlv-dan/CCTime

Does anyone know of something similar for Windows?

I remember getting a new version of (now classic) NES emulator Nesticle and finding a new menu option simply called "Pentium bug". Of course I had to try it out. Nothing happened. Literary nothing, because my whole system had of course freezed up...

Title should be American Open Source Tax Software.

You are not hired to have fun, coding new cool exciting stuff. You are probably getting paid to maintain a product and keeping it running, stable and bug free, to keep customers happy thus earning the company money. Just a guess of course. But that's the reality for most developers.

Why do people pay insane amount for a box copy of Super Mario Bros, a game you can play one pretty much any device. ROM dumps are literary the same data.

I guess rarity is hard to set a price on. And people like being rare and unique.

I was recently asked to do a simple order page for a company where I know a guy. It would be a simple page with a few web forms, emailing the order to them. That's all they needed. I chose PHP because:

1. Even though I haven't used it in a while it is super simple to get in to. 2. They did not pay me to learn new stuff. They did not need a fancy web framework. They don't care about code elegance. 3. They already had a web site hosted on server with PHP. 4. Development environment is easy to setup locally (just download a portable PHP dev env and run). Everything is built in. 5. Passing it on to them, it's just a few text files to upload that they can easily modify as needed. Nothing to compile.

In short, it's just the simplest way to do it sometimes (KISS). And not all projects are big enough to justify more complex solutions.

EGA has terrible colors yet I am strangely drawn to this esthetics. Of course a big part of this is that the artists at Lusasfilm where amazing.

If you think this is old, you should see the mainframes running our bank systems...

Unless you are an expert, you probably shouldn't roll your own security. Let trusted libraries and frameworks do the work.

It is my browser of choice because: 1. I feel in control. No auto updates in the background, no SoftwareReportingTool, no Pocket, no nonsense. 2. It has a certain "feeling" to it's use that I like. hard to explain. 3. It is more stable/predictable than other browsers in how it evolves.

Shameless self promotion: I got tired of using Excel but could not find a simple way to track my time so I built my own and I think many here would find it useful:

https://github.com/rlv-dan/cctime

He made a decision and assumed when making future NT versions this would be revised and updated with the times. I can only image that future teams looked at this and thought "someone chose 32GB for a reason, better not change it"...

Autoplaying videos. Especially when places in "popup" boxes that follow you down the page.

After using DDG for years, I sometimes try Google when DDG does not seem to deliver. Every time I am disgusted by the sheer amount of crap it shows me. Videos, shopping, news etc. I'll take DDGs clean result list over that any time! (And usually, Google has the same results as DDG anyway)

Considering the amount of money the christian churches have confiscated from the people for thousands of years, UBI seems like an opportunity to start giving it back...

Title should say US Army

How long do you need to fast for benefits? Is water the only supplement allowed? Curious

Good effort, but this is not Google Translate, just Translate.

Edit: I see the title of this post is changed now

> Pick up multiple books from the same area to go deeper in an area. That way to genuinely learn about a topic.

My problem with this is that when I encounter something that I think I already know I tend to skim it, making it hard to pick up additional knowledge that I might have missed.

Does not work in Pale Moon browser (blank screen, JS errors)

I mostly write about tips & tricks and tutorials related to my work (SharePoint, Office365 and Azure). Sometimes I put up opinionated texts too.

https://www.rlvision.com/blog/

> buses not taking cash is perfectly fine

I guess, if you are ok with leaving an electronic trail whereever you go...

I pay more often with cash today than some years ago, as a statement.

Interestingly, if you talk about cash in Sweden the comments you will get tend to be very hostile. It's like talking about meat in a vegan community.

Yes, ArtGem (https://rlvision.com/artgem_about.php). We were a couple of guys that tried at making shareware, but sadly failed. I continued running the site to host my own utilities, some of which eventually turned into shareware. I don't earn much money from it, but I enjoy making software and it makes me happy when other people find them useful as well!

> It's a good reminder of the original goal of WWW: share information.

That is what I miss the most about the old web. We wanted to build something better by sharing knowledge. And for a while we did. Then mainstream came and corporates took over.