That’s what casual gaming is about.

I used to dig a large room with stone pickaxes in Minecraft. With “large” meaning I could not see the ends in the long direction.

Thanks for the update, I somehow missed that.

TeX. Best documented source, and last bug found was 12 years ago.

To be able to code is what brings a developer to be on top. But from a certain point, you mostly herd junior programmers.

I would not call it often, but it happens.

As soon as the rollout for BMW dealers starts, Chinese toolmakers will churn out compatible bits and screwdrivers. They might even be on the market before the BMW dealers have them in the mail.

Well, if you are a top developer, you don’t write lines of code. You leave this to your underlings.

On a building site, the architect is not laying bricks, either.

I like lossless compression. But not because I’d be a audio nut. I prefer it from a data retention and archival viewpoint. I could cut and join lossless data as often as i like, without losses accumulating.

For me, it was not while moving, but while sitting on the beach.

I remember using telnet on a Palm Pilot, linked to the internet via IRDA to my (pre-smart) cell phone to log into my companies’ server to fix something while I was on holidays.

Mine didn’t. What did you do for “moving around”? Trampoline? Rope skip?

Tell this to the people who try to sell it as the one big computational solution.

This “everything” was meant as an exaggeration. But it comes close for nearly every article (or press release disguised as an article) in the press.

For years, quantum computers are only good for doing quantum computing benchmarks. They promise to solve everything, but I’d bet that we get both power from fusion (cold or hot) and have a concious AI decades before a quantum computer solves significant real-world problems.

When I designed an adapter to use a 32k EEPROM in a C64. All electronics I needed sandwiched between two IC sockets.

That’s why I, as a seasoned programmer, keep my fingers out of UI design. I leave that to the professionals.

One needs a study for that?

From my time in tech support I know there are two kinds of cases where people can’t open a PDF. In one group, the PDF is broken, usually an interrupted download or otherwise corrupted file. The other group, well, one wonders how this kind of people can walk and talk at the same time.

Quite easy. It was either King Salomon or King David who in their later years “had virgins in his bed every night.” In that time, you can assume that we are neither talking about 18+ women nor that this was in any modern sense consenting…

Outside the US, about nobody cares about this “Superbowl” thingy. The only interesting topic about this stupid pub brawl in a stadium is the halftime show.