I was the system tester for "a modern Internet-based application" in 1996 used by a global logistics company. Fast forward 25 years and I went to local logistic branch to ship out some packages. Out of curiosity, I peeked over the desk to look at what software they were using. It was the same 25-year old "modern Internet-based application".

If it ain't broke I guess. Long live ELMO!

There was also 3DFX that led the way, before NVIDIA, with their Voodoo cards. The night and day difference of gaming on a Trident card vs a Voodoo card made grown men cry.

First encounter with NeXT was when a lab full of black cubes appeared in school over a summer. Immediately became my favorite lab and I spent as much time as i could in that lab messing around on those cubes.

Second encounter was with my first tech job. This time, Pentium Pros was the hardware and the company used OpenStep to develop a paperless hospital solution. Spent about 2 years working on different bits and pieces. Great times!

You almost had me in the first half ... yeah it's plain old 2D checkers with this administration.

Microsoft would not have exploded with success if they had not gotten the DOS contract from IBM.

Says who?

They made great products, fit the market over decades, and we're ruthless.

It seems more likely that Gates couldn't fail, than that if one contract went another way, he must have failed.

I'm playing ME: Andromeda now on a handheld and I don't get the hate. Sure it's not ME2 but graphically more polished though the storyline lacks the impact of the first trilogy. Otherwise, I think it's a fine game.

Crowbcat brought alot of people to hatewagon the game due to its video knit-picking on details.

I don't know about "factory" but I've built personal libraries, templates and methodology on how to solve problems or create stuff across different tech stacks. I don't think those were a waste of time then or now.

Taking deposits for a product that may never be manufactured and delivered is an accounting hack to boost revenue numbers.

Sounds like a potential attack vector for a compromised phone ... just saying ...

This government rides on the wings of blackmail and secrets trading. This is obviously their source of power. They don't ever tried to hide the weekly insider trading and market manipulation.

If you are somebody, would they try to install malware in your laptop (that they can take out of your sight and have full access for an hour while you are kept distracted answering silly questions)?. Maybe not, but we can assume a yes just to play safe.

They had top secret documents in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago so everybody with access could read it (for a fee?). Russia paid for the weeding of the USA President's son. Trump is aggressively blocking an explanation to his real role in a hideous sex ring child honeypot built by Israeli spies to blackmail every rich people in US and Europe, etc, etc...

Ordering somebody to fullfill a quote of poisoning 20 phones a day in the fly returning from Qatar would not even be a thing for them.

That leads me to wonder. Lets imagine that a journalist dd clone two laptops identical, pass a frontier with one of them, don't do anything with it, and use diff on both after returning home. Do you think that any potential malware would pop or is totally undetectable?

"Vibe-coding rescue" is a new industry. Check it out.