Novel writer myself. Losing words sucks. But it might be good practise for making the cuts you need to :) All the best.

They get a physical look at prospective applicants before they look at their resume. Well played, McDonalds. No ugly front-end people.

That struck me as odd too. If the colours in digital photos or movies don't look right, I would try to display them with different software. It's more likely that the software that displays is reading and interpreting the format of the file differently than bit-rot would only affect the colour pallette and not make the whole file unreadable.

This is the problem with maintaining your own hardware, and a really useful use case for cloud storage, so long as you can trust the provider to keep the hardware up to date while your files stay clean, private and available.

What type of file is it? It might be a media format the player software no longer recognises (find an older player). Or if it is an exe it might be a 16 or 32 bit exe that won't run in a 64 bit environment. (find an older operating system). If it's not confidential, could you post a link so we can try it?

A lesson always learnt the hard way. Those of us who have learnt it the hard way have known the feeling before: I'll trust that this is correct and the feeling after: Shiat!

If you're not making an impact while not under mortal threat, you might not be the hero you think you are.

The people who invented computing had a grounding in the "basic" sciences. I don't think a person who only needs to know how to code can bootstrap even more advances in computing. Unless they bang the blocks together in a new and imaginative way.

I can watch the credits full screen by arrowing to the small credits box and pressing select. Your particular button selection might be different.

Oh, OK. They were using ADE651s.

Not sure why this got modded down. Thinking outside the smartphone is a good way to help many of the elderly of our generation. Lit signs all over the place that can be turned on and off is another idea.

I wrote a sci-fi novel that involved reincarnation called Transcendence.- shameful plug

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If you want to keep a changing source code base as easily understandable as possible over time without confusing future programmers who have to work with it, you will need to refactor and rename as you go.

As requirements and thus code changes, the names of your functions, classes and files will become less correct, and lead future maintainers on a wild goose chase.

Keeping names appropriate by changing them is protection against future confusion and wasting of time.

It's actually a long-term solution to a long-standing problem and has little to do with crippled attention spans. It requires concentration to keep the names of things accurately matching their content. This investment of concentration will pay dividends on non-throwaway code.

I take that back after reading all the one letter variable names :)

Well he might be following Uncle Bob's Clean Code concepts and not filling his code with comments that could become crufty and misleading over time.