Opinions of a technical nature that are unfit for Twitter.

[hirez]

I've just performed the Internet equivalent of lobbing the paper across the room and muttering 'Bloody charlatans should be bloody horsewhipped. And the Inspiral Carpets.' Only because the laptop's not mine-mine and the Linux box is too heavy to throw comfortably, I just closed the tab and resolved to write a stroppy post somewhere no-one will read

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[aoakley]

How we coped before decent online documentation? We were oreilly men, and our bookcase was our oreilly wall.

[steer]

Hah... Love this.

[steer]

Imagine there not being a Google or a superexchange to cut & paste from. (You can't. I mean, I can barely remember how we did it.)

God yes. I couldn't program without google now. In the old days where I had to try to work out what the hell four screenfulls of g++ STL garbage actually really meant rather than shoving it through google to get the stack overflow page saying "you fucked up the cast numpty"... god, you can't make me go back.