I wonder if Amazon delivered it. Was the box five times too big and mostly empty; was the box dented and crushed; was it half sealed; was it stolen by porch pirates….

Dave Cutler, the legend of VMS and the NT kernel.

Like google, I’m sure Jeff has a near unlimited supply of money to pay lawyers.

Too late!

I think Java was first released just after I graduated. I do program Java at my day job though, and I don’t mind it. It has its quirks but I find I can express myself using Java, but I probably try to think towards much in OO paradigms when I design and code.

Isn’t that the point? The service department makes more money.

Surely Grok would make a better president and be more human and intelligent?

“Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.

Umm, no thanks.

I don’t know, I don’t have a Facebook account. But I can believe you’re right.

And we’ll doom scroll through ads as though they’re shorts, which I guess they are anyway.

“Write a program to launch a rocket”

I’ve been using Microsoft products since the early days of DOS, and the only product that truly impressed me was NT; it was a breath of fresh air as a developer, with its new kernel and much improved stability. Finally, we could develop for windows and not have the OS crash!

Everything else has driven me nuts, and their quality had definitely gone drastically down hill. Their software now is a bloated mess of ugly, especially windows. How did we get to an OS that installs so many gigs of files? Holy crap!

I try to always use Firefox and never use Edge.