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seeker61··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
"the Brone Age of programming."

And that's being generous.

seeker61··on Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper
Come, my good fellow. Don't exaggerate. I'd bet good money that she didn't gain an ounce over ninety pounds.
seeker61··on A Dumb TV for Consumers
Unplug the (provide an expletive of your choice here)
seeker61··on Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic
It appears from this comment that you have not read the article.
seeker61··on Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?
I agree with this 100.000 percent. UX people in general have crawled up their own stacks and died.
seeker61··on Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the lab and math Olympiad
I think the language is Stata's built-in "do-file" language. The datasets are probably Stat's format as well.
seeker61··on A retiree who became America’s worst counterfeiter
I wonder how many storekeepers looked at the bill, then looked at him, then just accepted it and sent him on his way?
seeker61··on Al-Maʿarri
Looks like I'm on your radar now. By the way, the etymology of the word "fedora" that was offered by one of the posters is incorrect-- I think it's an attempt at humor. It was not named after a tailor, but after a French play. I hope this helps you in your duties.
seeker61··on Uber is a tinder box
What can be destroyed by paying its workers enough to live on ... should be
seeker61··on BonziBuddy
I can't wait to eat that monkey
seeker61··on Al-Maʿarri
Sick burn, bro. Too bad it's wasted on the dead.
seeker61··on Weird metal anomaly found beneath the moon's south pole
It's the Mother Ship
seeker61··on Minimum Viable Phoenix
Another framework. May merciful Providence deliver us.
seeker61··on Are you the lonely DevOps engineer doing 24/7 on-call? Change it
But that's what DevOps is all about
seeker61··on YTMND is down for temporary maintenance
We are all prisoners of time
seeker61··on Our database host messed up their maintenance
Your host warranted (maybe or maybe not in the legal sense, but still) that their personnel were competent to perform the work you paid them to do. But that turned out not to be the case. That is the real problem.
seeker61··on Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes
There's two lights, Mr. (or Ms.) Smart-Aleck! !! !!!
seeker61··on Foundations of Databases (1995)
Mao and Feynman
seeker61··on James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interpreter by a bankrupt company
Don't worry a little banner will appear in front of it telling the real truth about 9-11
seeker61··on A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys and Scoring Millions
Die, fiat currencies, die!!
seeker61··on Is It Possible to Beat Doom Without Firing a Single Shot? (2018) [video]
B-b-but shooting is fun!
seeker61··on Vigilantes Are Taking Scooters Off the Streets. Bird and Lime Are Pissed
Alternate Title: Brash Young Startup Disrupts Mobility Business
seeker61··on The Coming Corporate Brain Drain
One phrase that was being thrown around at my old place was "software manufacturing." Ah well. That was a long time ago.
seeker61··on Is a 'Stack' the Best Way to Understand Everything? (2017)
At my old company, one spiky-haired genius explained it to the simple minded as "monolithic architecture is like a wedding cake. Microservices are like cupcakes." This was after he compared it to Ben and Jerry's versus FroYo.

I sure hope the refrigeration doesn't go out, they'll have a real mess on their hands then.

seeker61··on Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)
Other people are smart, too.
seeker61··on It's Time to Disrupt Housing
And once we're done with that, let's disrupt food production and fire protection!
seeker61··on New Jersey Lawmakers Are Trying to Tax the Rain
The title is bogus, as the article eagerly admits: "To be perfectly clear, while the new tax is being referred to as the “rain tax,” it doesn’t actually tax the rain itself ..."

In a perfect world, storm sewers would fund themselves.

seeker61··on Sting Operations to Expose Celebrity Psychics
"Repeat after me" ... how sadly ironic. I trust it isn't lost on you ... is it?
seeker61··on Exposure to Glyphosate-Based Herbicides Increases Risk for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Email the authors, one of them will be delighted to email it to you.
seeker61··on The Gmail bug that’s been stealing $187M a year from Expedia
It's only theft if the money winds up someplace else. Expedia's competitors don't count.

"The first Googler who fixes it can genuinely claim to add billions of dollars of value to the internet." If by "the internet," he means Expedia, then I suppose I agree.

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