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I use this (sometimes) and it's consistently given me good results, and it feels great to use everything up. Each meal plan typically contains three meals and has ingredient quantities for two or four people. As I live on my own, it's pretty easy to either prep and do the 'final' bits of cooking over two days, or for some recipes just freeze the second portion. Recommended.

I can't be the only one a bit freaked-out with the laughter at the end of that first video?

Frustratingly (to me, anyway), the article fails to define what 'UPA' stands for. I looked it up - United Productions of America, apparently. (I guess it was assumed the intended audience knew that.)

Thanks to this link I'm now aware of Cookie Clicker and have been 'playing' it for the last couple of hours. I now have no life.

I've not heard of GOAL before - do you have a link to any references or articles about it?

This is definitely how it works with the IEC - I can't imagine the ISO are any different.

This has always frustrated me. I sit on a number of IEC working groups as a technical expert (as part of TC 80 for maritime equipment). None of us get paid by the IEC (which is fine), but we all donate either ours or our company's time to attend meetings and produce input papers, etc. Meeting rooms tend to be provided by either national standards bodies (like BSI here in the UK) or companies who are providing technical experts to the meeting. In pre-COVID days the meetings were face-to-face, which meant somebody (not the IEC!) stumping up for travel and accommodation as well.

Even as members of these working groups writing standards that refer out to other standards, we don't get free access to these and have to pay for them. It's crazy.

I'm really proud of the work I've done over the years helping to get these standards published, but it's really annoying that there's such a barrier of entry to people who want to use them to produce compliant equipment.

Whenever I think about upgrading my system these days, I start looking at processors and graphics cards and find it just so hard to understand the differences I end up giving up. (Plus I've got no spare cash, but, you know...)

That would be amazing. :-)

Thank you so much for posting this - can now work through all of the programmes while stuck indoors! Such wonderful nostalgia.

Our teachers certainly did (comprehensive school from 1981). I guess because the subject was computer studies (think it was 'studies' rather than 'science') and the curriculum was about programming and how they worked, I guess they had to hire people who knew their onions.

Born in 1970 as well - seems incredible reading the comments here about ICT and how lucky I was to born at the right time in the right place.

I was also super-lucky that my dad was the caretaker of a primary school and I was able to go in while my dad was cleaning in the evenings and use their BBC Micros.

Such happy days and pleasant memories!

Not sure why you're getting downvoted - that was how I read it as well.

I'm so glad somebody else thinks this! I've always hated that style of notation.

He is high functioning enough for that. This is something we'll probably try down the line if things don't improve.

'I remember back then I even had a small addon that was constantly showing me ads and I was getting money for doing nothing.'

AllAdvantage? I got a few quid from them back in the day. Strange times...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage

My son (autistic and generally sensitive to noise) point-blank refuses to go into public toilets/restrooms just in case one goes off. :-(

Was trying to look at it on the desktop...

Thanks for the advice!

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Likewise. I'm devastated about the news, and it's brought back my demons to the fore.

<raises hand>

(Well, added to my iTunes library, actually, but - you know.)

I feel the same way about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27%C3%A9tait_un_rendez-vous. Lots of my friends adore it, but the first thought I had when watching it was 'what if somebody was crossing the road?'

This is also quoted in a Joel Spolsky's article:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

I love the 'Raymond Chen Camp's way of looking at things. xx

Obligatory Infocom Cabinet link:

https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.

That's a good point, and I don't really understand what we were doing wrong.

I guess the candidates could 'talk the talk' when we were asking them questions on their CV, or general high-level questions on, say, threading or design patterns; but when it came to the crunch they couldn't write code.

Maybe the candidates were just good at generating CRUD applications and binding data to forms, and have rarely needed to process data. Not denigrating that aspect of software developement at all - it's just not what we need in our department.

The whole for loop thing - absolutely!

We used to ask people to right a function in C that converts an array of doubles from degrees to radians. It was amazing how many people had no idea and who had sailed through CV/resume screening, telephone interview, and 'technical discussion' part of the interview with ease.

Shipping is a Feature. The most important lesson I've learnt without a shadow of doubt.

I particularly enjoyed the thoughtful and reasoned critique of Windows 10: http://toastytech.com/guis/win10.html.