Bill Hicks on Marketing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

After Pascal Niklaus Wirth designed Modula-2 and then Oberon which is even tidier. Oberon is both smaller and more capable than both of its predecessors.

https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html

In regards to Modula-2 and Oberon, there are also the linages that he wasn't involved and are equally cool.

Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Zonnon

"Accept everything"

Turning off Javascript made the dot go away.

And knowing how to get the version of an application (which used to be in Help -> About).

For group chats in Microsoft Teams with more than seven participants, if you click on "View and add participants" (an icon with two people and a plus sign) you see a list of seven participants. At first I didn't know that you could scroll in this list.

Then it turns out that the book was written by an LLM.

I checked! Copyright 2013. Phew.

Why don't we instead focus our energies on the user. For some very important software applications the customer is not the user. Let the sales department focus on the customer.

The user is always a customer of the product in my mind. I don't use the term to mean a purely financial relationship.

The hospital information system Millenium from Oracle was bought by two regions in south of Sweden for around 400 million USD. It turned out to be unusable for Swedish healthcare and had to be shut down after just three days. Actual users of the software (doctors and nurses) were not involved in the procurement.

Something that would be useful in my case is a monitor stand stand. Does anyone know why almost no current monitor can be raised so that the upper edge is at eye level? Is it due to incompetence among the current breed of designers? Quite a few of my colleges have a stack of books beneath the monitor stand.

I bought this Hyper HyperStand some years ago:

https://techaeris.com/2020/11/01/hyperstand-review-solid-por...

It's perfect: nice looking, highly functional, beautifully designed, and collapsible.

$29.99.

Alas, discontinued.

Perhaps eBay?

Edit: I just found a tricked-out version on eBay here:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226769239456?_skw=Hyper+HyperStand+...

Law suits / claims, I'd expect, as tall is unstable.

If I sell a Monitor With Really Tall Monitor Stand and then you lightly bump your desk and break your monitor, you might want a replacement and call my stand "an unstable PoS".

If I sell you a Monitor and you stack books under it and your monitor falls... well... dummy, tall stuff falls over. Time to buy a new monitor.

Isn't the manufacturer to blame if I get neck problems then?

Nonsense, that's your seat height. Lower your seat and magically the monitor is the right height.

Your keyboard may be chin-height but hey, your monitor height is no longer a problem. ;)

That sounds like shoulder pain.

Many monitor arms on gas struts have extended range and this is no problem. Ergotron was one of the first

Try getting “Enterprise” monitors like Dell UltraSharp or HP EliteDisplay. Not they only come with better feet (height adjustable & pivoting), they are calibrated and have really good panels which you can stare at for hours without fatigue.

Monitor arms are cheap enough and better than a stand. Clamp the arm to an edge and you can put things under the monitor, plus put the monitor where you want it.

Postconditions are in conflict with programmers' love of early returns.

Formally, it doesn't appear to be so (tests can be added to each early return); in practice, encouraging the reorganization of messy early returns would be zero cost developer reeducation.