PREGANTE

IIRC I was prescribed like 30 ejaculations over the course of two months. I could be wrong about the exact number but I remember thinking I had to actually put an effort and some consistency into it if I was going to hit the target.

With the left hand. You don’t need that much dexterity to click thumbnail images.

I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.

Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to “jumpstart” female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn’t need affirmative action anymore.

He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm’s airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren’t that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I’m still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.

trasgernder

The Mirror’s Edge theme was written and performed by Lisa Miskovsky who was part of Cheiron Studios and worked on several hit songs including Backstreet Boys’ “Shape of my heart”. One of my favorite songs of hers is “Why start a fire”.

I could post messages on FidoNet with my 8Mhz Atari ST in 1988 too

I use mine as a toy and as a device for making phone calls

On the other hand, we don’t need nanoscale transistors to achieve most of the usefulness of CPUs. Most of that high-tech performance is wasted on things of questionable usefulness for society. The C64 CPU had an 8 micrometer process that likely does not require ISO class 1 or 2.

unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.

Brits don’t actually use spices in their food so they probably couldn’t think of any.

So is Facebook and Instagram

“In about two weeks”

Technically it’s a bunch of LANs that are connected to each other

I know how it must sound but it wasn’t like that when I graduated around 2002. 80% of my classmates were self-sufficient and had gained experience and self-esteem through various demanding group projects and their thesis work. Many of them already had more value to offer than the tired self-educated colleagues they met on their first job.

When you have developed and simulated your own ad-hoc wireless routing protocol, implemented distributed two-phase commit algorithms and built your own compiler, you don’t need to ask your colleague fifty times how to use React state. You google it and figure it out. You’re trained to always learn new things and be comfortable with it.

• Developing an Android app that doesn’t pass review

My experience as a senior dev who is often involved in the recruitment process (admittedly in Sweden and not Silicon Valley) is that there are hundreds of people applying but they all lack sufficient skill. We still have a severe shortage of people who can actually do the job without requiring so much hand holding that they have a negative impact on productivity. There seems to have been a surge in “quick-fix” educations that are a couple of months long, and the new iPad kids are already behind when they start the education because they don’t understand how a computer works. They have no interest in the craft and don’t enjoy it, they just want to check off a detailed todo list and get a fat pay check. We need people who can think, extrapolate from unclear requirements, and ask smart follow-up questions.

The demand is still there, the supply isn’t. Half of these applicants couldn’t even implement FizzBuzz.

Why does everyone assume that programmers can just go and fix stuff they don’t like without getting shot down in performance reviews for lack of focus or for overstepping their authority.

We have a prioritized list of work items coming in from the PO and that’s what we work on. There’s generally no room for creativity. Supporting larger files in Notepad in particular would increase maintenance costs due to requiring much more complex memory management, and it would label you as not being a team player for increasing complexity for everyone. It wouldn’t pass code review.

One of the best features of notepad was that it starts quickly. That feature is now gone. :(

You can store a private/public key pair on a smart card and use it for digitally signing or encrypting things like email, or just for authenticating to your PC. Some banks also support authentication by client certificate; web browsers can access your smart card for authenticating to web sites.