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IBM really, really does not want anything to do with further developing or supporting Lotus software products. I believe that they gave that whole business over to HCL not long ago.

Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...

Nay. I do not understand the obsession with whiteboards. I've had coworkers that went gaga when they discovered that whiteboard paint was a thing, and they could cover their office in whiteboard surface. Doodles and doodles and doodles all over the place, but not very much working code ever makes its way into production from those offices. Lots and lots of movement and noise and grandiose planning, signifying nothing, too often.

Lock me in a dark closet under the stairs with just the glow from a couple LCDs and throw pizza and requirements documents through the slot, like you're feeding the Rancor. /s

If it's running well, he might never have to touch it. We sell some Notes-based products with some considerable customers (still!) and only get a couple emails a week or month. Annual support and maintenance fees just keep rolling in.

Man, if you could cash that voucher in for other educational materials, that would be an idea. What a library I could have had... Even in the broke, rural, low-cost-of-living area I came out of, the last school budget works out to more than $14k/year per student, mostly funded by local taxes.

I am far too old and uncool to have any idea that that kind of thing existed. I'm more in the barstool sports/onion/fuckjerry/animalsdoingthings wheelhouse. Pure stupid entertainment, hearkening back to a simpler internet. Pepperidge Farms remembers...

The only part of the New York Times worth paying money for is the crossword. I was a subscriber for a couple years, but after a while you start noticing that all the opinion pieces and non-A section articles seem to be on about a six week loop, and you just keep reading the same piece that's been dusted off and reworked over and over and over again.

> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook).

We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of meme shitposting to laugh at.

If you do have broad shoulders however, narrower keyboards are rather painful to use. Right now, I'm using a Logitech G710+, which is a full-sized IBM-syle keyboard, with an extra row of garbage buttons on the left side. If my left hand is in line so it is comfortable and inline with my shoulder while on the asdf keys, my right hand wants to be half off the right side of the numpad. Makes typing left-handed and mousing right-handed very comfortable, but typing with both hands on the homerow somewhat cramped. It'd be interesting to try a keyboard that had the keys split apart so that asdf was in line with one shoulder and jkl; in line with the other.