Yeah, but ask a stupid question get a stupid answer!

In the private sector, I once was asked to come up with 12 uses for a kettle. I said make 12 cups of coffee. I didn’t get the job.

It’s more about their practices, the same for Microsoft and Google. I still have my trusty Nokia 8110 4G but I know it’s going to die one day and then I’ll have to choose between Google and Apple :(

But you’re using a Mac and my conscience won’t allow that!

Yes I do. It’s pronounced th.

The very first computers were programmed using physical switches and buttons. Punched cards came later. Being a programmer in those days was a lot harder than it is now!

You could say they got ahead of the game.

They were a nice-to-have!

So not really on a phone, using a phone as a CPU. You may as well get yourself a computer and work in a proper IDE. You’ll be just as mobile and more productive!

Developing on a phone sounds like one of the most unpleasant experiences I can imagine. And I include dinner with my ex.

Pretty much any ide will spot that. Maybe you can use it to teach your colleagues not to use a plain text editor.

I’ve been using Linux on the desktop for more than twenty years, and there are people who have been using it for longer than that. So if this isn’t an old article, it’s factually incorrect.

It is awesome, in the same way a planet killer asteroid heading straight for us is awesome!

For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

At home, Atari ST and at work IBM System/38 where the manuals had their own office.

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.

You have backups? Right?

Ah! The glory days!

Found the Java programmer…