It’s such a classic, I say it every day to myself when I wake up.

Sounds plausible.

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This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.

Oh yeah, that’s pretty standard.

Well, it’s still a hack, not something officially supported, I wouldn’t really consider them DRM-free when you still need Steam to run the game officially.

I’m not ruling out Steam either, they’ve done a lot of good for gaming and I buy games there if I really want them and there’s close to no chance they’re coming to GOG (like the recent Dragon Age), but more and more often I decide that I don’t actually want that game that much.

Indeed, there are many tools to do that, one of them of my own making: https://github.com/RikudouSage/GogDownloader

But even if you don’t back them up, at least you signal that DRM-free is important to you by buying there.

For games, always buy from GOG if you can. Unless it’s a game I really want I only buy from GOG.

No idea, but I would hope so.

Yeah, Excel does that, it always fascinated me. It was so weird writing =KDYŽ instead of =IF in Excel. Different times, I guess.

I did, thanks!

Didn’t seem that bad to me (though I’ve definitely read books with better flow), I had that exact same thing with Game of Thrones.

Can’t wait! I’m really glad I discovered it through the show, now on book 10 and on one hand I can’t wait till I finish and at the same time I’m dreading it.

Given the person said they’re 28, I’m actually older. And I decided to not be a dick about it and to not pretend that everything was better when I was young. Everything was different, sure. Some things were better, some were not. But I decided to not do the whole “back in my days” thing because I always found it stupid and luckily that didn’t change with age.

Eh, if you’re into computers, you’ll find your way. My first “programming” adventures were writing batch/vb scripts and putting them in the startup folder and watching the teacher lose their shit when when their computer turned off after five seconds. Or watching all of the classroom open and close the CD drives 50 times when we were the first to have an IT class that day.

Glad you can read and repeat stuff! I presented it as such to avoid wannabe smartasses, guess they still arrived. Since we’ve touched on the subject of managers and hiring, do you often hear the phrase “not a cultural fit”? Wouldn’t surprise me.

If an old geek argues with a senior architect about architecture, I kinda think the architect is the one who’s right in 99% of cases.

Sure, sure, old man. Everything was better when you were young.

There never was a majority of people who were into computers. It was always a minority. And I’d argue that nowadays there’s more developers because there’s simply more people with access to computers.

Some of them won’t like them, some will be neutral and some will be “geeking around”.

And having seen some code from people both older and younger, the younger ones are better (note that it’s my anecdotal evidence). And you at least can train the younger ones, while the “experienced” will argue with you and take energy out of your day.

I’m so tired of the stupid “when I was young, everything was better”. You know what else was exactly the same? The previous generation telling you how everything was better when they were young. Congrats, you’re them now.

Pff, just use the numbers directly:

${1} = "value";
${2} = "DOGE";

That makes it possible to do stuff like:

for (${152} = 1; ${152} <= 2; ${152}++) {
    ${666} = $${152};
    print(${666});
}

This is a valid code, btw.

Exceptions are now illegal and therefore won’t occur, so no need to check for them

Ah, I see you’ve met C++ developers.

Can it hurt you, though? My guess would be every sane compiler and interpreter optimizes this.

Loved that browser, it was so amazing compared to all the half-assed default browsers. Good old days of J2ME.

I also used its bigger brother on Symbian because it rendered the web better, but it was way too memory-hungry.