thesnowdog

We didn't get MTV until the late '80s in Australia and it only ran for a few hours late at night and didn't move to a dedicated cable channel until cable really took off here in the mid '90s.

There's nothing comparable to something like progarchives.com and similar in my experience of the '80s and early '90s. You had to combine muso friends, music store recommendations and random selections, magazines, artist and genre scheduling on Rage (better than MTV here) and you still barely scratched the surface.

I was recommending the playing of Neil Schon to a guitar playing friend recently and we both observed that neither of us had even heard of Journey until well after their popularity had faded. That you could miss a massive US stadium rock act like that seems preposterous in this day and age.

I recall sitting around all afternoon to tape Layla off the radio, during a repeat countdown, after hearing it the day before for the first time. The DJ cut in during the fade out with "Indeed..." and forty years later I still can't listen to that song without hearing him at the end.

My musical discoveries exploded with the internet, I can't imagine what I would have missed without it.

That sounds like too many people; three or four usually works best in my experience.

I read The Awk Programming Language shortly after K&R and came away with the idea that I should consider reading whatever Kernighan (co)wrote. I don't think I got further than The Practice of Programming but that was three winners in a row...

You can't think of one single 'healthy' reason to invest years of effort in cultivating a social media presence?

I remember it quite fondly and even remember its predecessor Blue.

With a captive audience in Stockholm?

I've always been told the same thing but my experience pretty much matches yours.

I can eat what I want as long as I keep up my daily 7km walk which takes me about an hour or so. I've always found walking easy but I've never been able to run more than 500m probably due to being a somewhat sickly kid with annual bronchitis and a limited lung capacity.

The handful of times I've stopped walking for various reasons over the last twenty years I've quickly got up to about 120kg (I'm 6'7") but as soon as I start walking again the excess 20kg falls off pretty quickly in a month or two and maintaining 100kg is simple.

I've never had any luck modifying my diet.

Thanks, now I've been chirping like Dale all day much to the irritation of my holiday companions.

"Fb is a shunk (flattened) pure functional programming language."

How to Design Programs: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

"You must think in Russian"

To be fair Conkeror, the FF extension, came first and while there's certainly been a two-way exchange of ideas since it's unlikely that Vimperator would exist without the pioneering work done on Conkeror.