No. Once you put your data in the cloud, it's no longer yours. All the things you could have done with that data you now have to ask permission and justify your reasons.

I've played prog rock drums for almost 50 years, but when coding it's gotta be smooth ambient music https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/[^]

Turbo Pascal was such a pleasure. Now I use C# and thank Anders Hejlsberg for both. Kinda funny I started my coding career and will be ending it with two of his inventions.

I used the predecessor of Visual Studio, 16-bit Visual C++ 1.0 with MFC 2.0, back in 93. Before that it was MS C/C++ ver 7, and Turbo Pascal. IMHO, VC++ 6.0 which came later was such an excellent IDE to live and work in. These days, working in VS2017, having gone thru all those versions, I miss some things. VS2008 is still a fav, the way the child windows work is much more productive than later versions. Yes, I'm old.

I do this as well. It also allows me to control the sound quality better for podcasts.

It's very solid and fast, I've got zero complaints.

I switched to Opera couple years ago, never looked back.

Got mine in 1988. Didnt matter as much for the first out-of-school job, but for a job in the defense contracting world, a BS was absolutely required (as a minimum). Also, I think having a degree shows you have a level of stick-to-it-ness, you put the time in, showed up for class, did the work, studied, passed the tests. Something to be said for that IMO.

Never used either, I don't mind writing the code myself.

We did a suite of software for our County Prosecutor's Office to provide services for individuals with mental health issues, that keeps them from being arrested and jailed. It provides instead, a program that allows the individuals to connect with and get proper assistance from mental health professionals and remain free. The program was then extended to veterans who may be suffering from PTSD and other issues. Keeping people that shouldn't be in jail, out of jail, and getting them assistance that they need, well, that makes me feel good. We also did another suite of software so County residents can register and detail individuals with special needs with the County 911 system, so any responders can be more sensitive to the situation. Glad I had the opportunity to create those vehicles. And it's surely better than writing code that registers AH64 Hellfire missile proscriptions and other stuff I've done.

I agree

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Me too, the VC++ IDE ver 6.0 holds a warm place in my little black heart

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It really was. Unfortunately for me, I read the book World War Z over a couple days lunch and break time and it totally weirded me out. I'd walk outside and no cars, no one walking, no one in the building. Poor choice of reading material during a pandemic. Otherwise, it was a very productive time, haha.

I agree with this. It was impossible for me to be anywhere near as productive working remote compare to in the office. After 2 days, I opted to go back to the office, which was nice as 99.99% of the people in my building were remote.

In a couple little utility apps I've made, I have a menu selection for this. When I do offer that option, I also offer one to make the window transparent when not top in the z-order, and a transparency percent. So even though it could be stay on top, you can still see thru it. It has it's uses.

I use a singleton, CLogEntry, so I can make 1 line log entries anyplace or time. Here, someone copied a folder from one place to another: CLogEntry.MakeLogEntry(CDefines.TYPE_FOLDER, pFolderInfo.nID, CDefines.LOG_ACTION_COPIED, pFileInfo.m_szTitle); It adds a date and user ID stamp when it write to the table. So any place something notable happens, I can pop in a single line call and save the info.

Lap Link (that takes me back)

Takes me back to Norton Commander, which my fingers knew at the cellular level