I know someone that still uses ed for all their code editing.

• America 3000
• Shaolin vs Evil Dead
• Battle Beyond the Stars

Double click the exe, pending update blocks the installer, reboot, click the exe, go through a wizard that ask questions you don’t know the answer to (usually defaults are ok though), be prompted for admin password, get blocked by corporate policies, fill out the IT ticket, have them remote to your box and install, reboot, find the program in the menu, run it, have it blocked by HBSS, put in ticket for that, update antivirus, reboot, manually pull group policy updates, reboot, more updates install, reboot, run the program.

Obviously silly, but also real.

To add a couple of issues with Dynamic Libraries, and why someone would choose Static Libraries:

• The dynamic library being updated can break a program due to a change in the library. Think a math call goes from divide(a,b) to divide(a,b, precision), so now the old call doesn’t exist.
• Some languages don’t have a “stable” way to talk to itself. This means that if you have a program and library compiled with compiler version A, then later compile an update to the library with compiler version B, the program won’t know how to talk to the library correctly, even though the call is still there.

Like a lot of things, there are tradeoffs, and there is no universal correct choice.

Feral Developer Level 3

When they said, “Don’t write self modifying code”, they obviously didn’t mean me! /s

Lisp gang rise up! uses inhaler

Emacs with evil-mode or when I am banging around the console, neovim.

Of course I say it because I’m old. Now get off your PlayStation so I can dial in to the BBS and post about some dames thou hast seen.

Wait, there is nothing after second life? What is the point of second life without third life to give it meaning? /s

They made distros after Slackware?

If you hate the taste of scrum give SAFe a try! (but really, please don’t)

My main complaint with how Gnome does stuff is in environments where it is the only option (e.g. RHEL).

The backend dev has seen into the depths of COBOL and JCL that keep the world from imploding.

And the code looked back.

Do people actually do the spoon thing? I always hit them on the edge of the counter.

Sundered. I would love to see the equivalent of Rogue Legacy 2 for that game, where the sequel completely supplants the original while expanding upon the storytelling and lore.

I’m working on it. Just waiting till Christmas.

Marketplace on NPR. I like the more economic view of the news.

Here are some cool/memorable games:

• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Braid

As a vim user who recently started with Emacs, if you ever want to try it, use evil-mode to get vim motions.