I did some research on this about 6 months ago. I had an opportunity to do some long term traveling but I can take that much time off and I couldn't take my full 4 monitor set up or work effectively from a tiny laptop. I also work with confidential information and can't have people looking over my shoulder. VR goggles would have been fantastic! I can't quote any specific articles or videos, but my overall impression was that the tech just isn't ready yet. I really couldn't chance it. I'm not sure about the new Apple goggles, but who has $3,500 for an experiment?

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Abstracting the reality is usually very hard.

Abstracting reality may be difficult but its absolutely essential. If you see a chair that you've never seen before and you don't have an abstract concept of what a chair is, how would you ever know its a chair? It sounds like this professor had a difficult time with the abstract concept of a class. It can be a difficult concept but I would think it would be a prerequisite to being an IT professor. But what do I know? I'm self taught and assume there a plenty of abstract concepts I'm just not aware of.

I got to play this in 1976 when I spent the day at work with my uncle and never got to play it again. The next year when my Dad got a TRS-80, I tried (and failed miserably) to write my own version since I didn't have access to a mainframe to play it on.

Never trust a quote you see on the internet. - Ab Lincoln, 1492

True and True

When I was in college, back when most folks had to go to the computer lab to get on a computer, I was early to class and talking with a girl who was also early. Another girl came in and said, "I just sent you an email." The first girl got up and jogged down to the computer lab. When she came back she said, "I sent you a reply." The second girl then got up and jogged down to the computer lab to read it. Maybe its not laziness, maybe its just stupidity.

I told my wife a joke about the NSA spying on us. She laughed and I laughed and Alexa laughed...

That all sounds reasonable, if it only happened occasionally. But whenever I talk to my wife about any "advertisable" product, we both get hit with ads for that product within the next hour or so. We've even tested it and said the name of some project we've never searched or even considered, and boom, there's the ad.

I always take lunch (sandwich or whatever) and watch whatever show I'm binging. Its like a mental flush and lets me come back fresh.

Computers are like air conditioners. They don't work right when you have windows open.

you might be right, but I read somewhere that fortune favors the monsters.

I'm not really saying anything, I don't have any facts. But IMHO, I don't think that is coming from Elon. That's probably management freaking out and trying to be proactive. I once had a VP ask way so and so wasn't at their desk. This resulted in managers demanding that no one leave their desks for any reason. If you had to talk to someone 2 desks over, you had to call them. We had people written up for going to the bathroom. None of this was directed by the VP, they just asked an innocent question. So I would reserve judgement until things settle down, management begins to breath again, and Elon has more than a couple days on the job.

That's just people projecting because they are in a panic that their woke paradise might be brought back to reality.

A day in the life of a Twitter dev: If you chose to go to the office today... Arrive at 8 am Go to the gym for a workout Head to the meditation room to relax Take a shower and change into something comfortable Head to the cafeteria to get some breakfast Get some Starbucks and go to the roof to enjoy it on the patio Ponder why Twitter needs 5 times as many devs as any other company for the same work Now its about time for lunch... Elon is expecting devs to "work" at the office for 8 hours a day. How outrageous!

Maybe I'm way off base on this, but when it comes to style I ask 2 questions: Does it affect the functionality? Both ways would compile exactly the same, so no. Does it make the code harder/easier to read and understand? Any dev confused by the curly braces or lack there of needs to find a new line of work.

When you run your PC it gets warm and all of the tiny components expand. Shut it down and they all contract again. Over time your just asking for trouble. Not sure if that's really true but it seems safer just to leave it on all the time (or off all the time if it was my choice).

string STRING = "String".ToString();

The most efficient methods would be important if you're just keying thousands of lines of code, but the average programmer writes 50 lines of code per day. It sounds like what you're really saying is, "how dare people be different from me".

So it sounds like everyone's argument for why Win 8.x is great is because you can ignore all the crappy 8.x features and treat it like Win 7. It's like saying spinach is great because you don't have to eat it. If you ever do want to use an app built for Win 8.x, you better have a lot of spare time. Since solitaire is basically a time killer anyway, I guess it shouldn't matter that it take 10 tries and 30 minutes just to open the app. And they should have named it Window, because you can't have more than one. If you toggle away from a Win 8 app and try to go back, that app will crash. I'm just hoping Win 10 is to Win 8 as Win 7 was to Vista.

Experience without introducing new ideas is just repeating the same mistakes. If you put bad code in a loop, does it get better over time?