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Yes, Windows 7 was the sweet spot. Clean, uncluttered and functional.

I second the Garmin Instinct Solar as a really good everyday watch. I got tired of charging my Apple Watch everyday and getting annoying notifications all the time. I just wanted something to keep track of my walks, track my sleep and give me basic watch functions such as alarms, timers and stopwatch. The Instinct is perfect for that.

I also have it set so that the backlight turns automatically on when it's dark and I flip my wrist. I wear it to bed (sleep tracking) and I can always check the time if I wake up in the middle of the night.

He was one of my favorite authors. I remember reading "Eon" many years ago. I thought it was the best book I had ever read. Then I read "The Forge of God" and found it even better.

No one is forcing you to upgrade. I still have a 2008 Mac running El Capitan and I can do everything I need to do on it.

Yes, I hate the trend to apply mobile paradigms to a desktop OS. I will stay on Monterey for as long as I can.

I am one of those people who still have a lot of PostScript files. I have many scientific papers from college in my collection. I know I should convert them to PDF, but it sucks that they quietly removed support for a file format that's been around for a long time.

This is a very cool use for a watch. You can use any watch, but some watches, like the Seiko Alpinist, even have a rotating bezel with the compass points. This makes it a lot easier to find the other directions. One thing the article forgot to mention, is that the trick works only for standard time. If you are on daylight savings time, the direction will be off.

I also work from home. I only use my laptop when I travel once or twice a year. I much prefer my desktop computer.

Very useful. Thanks!

I say this as a Java developer, but I hate UIs written in Java. Native UIs are always superior. IntelliJ comes to mind. I used it for many years, and it always felt "different". There were weird inconsistencies in rendering, focus and behavior that were annoying. Same with NetBeans.

On the other hand, I think server side Java is still great.

As the article states, many developers have degrees other than CS. I have a BS/MS in Mathematics and have worked as a developer for the past 20 years. Interestingly, back in the early 2000s, it seemed that having a degree in Math was actually an advantage for me. I think I got a lot of interviews because of that.

This makes me sad. I thought the Microsoft Store at the Domain in Austin was very cool and I visited from time to time. There was also an Apple store in the same location so I could visit both! And there was a Borders Bookstore, which I loved browsing in, and is also closed now :-(

I can say the same thing about a legacy Java codebase that I had to work with at a big "enterprise" software company a few years ago. The code was so convoluted, with some files over 12k lines long. You can write spaghetti code in any language.

That's good to know. I will definitely check it out. Thanks!