Even more real scenario: The first real visitor isn’t even a customer but a bored teenager who says nothing at all and instead takes a piss on the floor. (Anyone who ever published anything on the internet knows this scenario.)

The primary barrier for me: I’m not convinced that it’s a good idea.

There is a certain poetic glimmer in reading the phrase “documents of magnificent verbosity that accomplish precisely nothing” in a document of magnificent verbosity that accomplishes precisely nothing.

TL;DR: Very well made, but shallow and lacking in substance.

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn’t bought it.

I had never heard of it before but I now just finished watching it after reading your recommendation and it was really great, thank you!

You had me at “nuclear”.

Already with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there’s more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwide_Assembler

👆 This.

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

You know, CVS wasn’t really that bad, just primitive and outdated.

Luckily I’m young enough that I never had to use RCS.

The first version control system I ever used was CVS and it was first released in 1986 so it was already old and well established when I first came to use it.

Anyone in these past forty years not using a version control system to keep track of their source code have only themselves to blame.

Ananas? 🍍

I don’t believe that the US has any real high-speed rail.

Electrolux.

Casablanca.

Why do people find it acceptable to use the bizarre word “sideloading” for the fundamental operation of “installing one’s own software on one’s own device”?

10 movies in 3 days!? That’s impressive!