Enter our deferred retirement plan in 5 years, work 2-3 more years and really retired at 63 or so...

Started in '82 with BASIC on the TRS-80

I'm early 50s and my knees haven't felt this good since I was a teen.

Of course, I went from 180lbs then to close to 300 and a few years back started loosing it all again, so back down to 190....

According to the First Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised, Wen stepped out of the cave where he had received enlightenment and into the dawning light of the first day of the rest of his life. He stared at the rising sun for some time, because he had never seen it before. He prodded with a sandal the dozing form of Clodpool the apprentice, and said: 'I have seen. Now I understand.' Then he stopped, and looked at the thing next to Clodpool. 'What is that amazing thing?' he said. 'Er ... er ... it's a tree, master,' said Clodpool, still not quite awake. 'Remember? It was there yesterday.' 'There was no yesterday.' 'Er ... er ... I think there was, master,' said Clodpool, struggling to his feet. 'Remember? We came up here and I cooked a meal, and had the rind off your sklang because you didn't want it.' 'I remember yesterday,' said Wen thoughtfully. 'But the memory is in my head now. Was yesterday real? Or is it only the memory that is real? Truly, yesterday I was not born.' Clodpool's face became a mask of agonized incomprehension. 'Dear stupid Clodpool, I have learned everything,' said Wen. 'In the cup of the hand there is no past, no future. There is only now. There is no time but the present. We have a great deal to do.' Clodpool hesitated. There was something new about his master. There was a glow in his eyes and, when he moved, there were strange silvery-blue lights in the air, like reflections from liquid mirrors. 'She has told me everything,' Wen went on. 'I know that time was made for men, not the other way round. I have learned how to shape it and bend it. I know how to make a moment last for ever, because it already has. And I can teach these skills even to you, Clodpool. I have heard the heartbeat of the universe. I know the answers to many questions. Ask me.' The apprentice gave him a bleary look. It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That was the only thing that he currently knew for sure. 'Er ... what does master want for breakfast?' he said. Wen looked down from their camp and across the snowfields and purple mountains to the golden daylight creating the world, and mused upon certain aspects of humanity. 'Ah,' he said. 'One of the difficult ones.'

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

Guess it depends on your definition of Open Source but the one I'm familiar with requires that the license used doesn't discriminate against a individual or a group of people and that it must not discriminate against fields of endeavor

is the new quick turn around Form 4 NFA tax processing. What has traditionally taken months of waiting is now happening in days, I've seen several completed within 24 hours of submission...

Canvas also has a setting to hide student names from people who are grading which can be enabled per-assignment and I think even now per-course (been a long time since I've done direct support and extreme use, but I still have admin powers/rights/etc as well as teach a course with it)

It isn't so much a FERPA issue as it is a copyright issue....

Never served but from what I understand the officers ranks eventually hit an "up or out" moment so there is certainly some ageism involved there as well...

Maybe they are leaving stuff out - like $10k/day/address that should be serviced?

Fellow curmudgeon here... and yeah, I mostly agree.

20-25 years ago most of us would've killed for a 1.5mb T-1 line or even a 256k frame relay connection to our house. Even my place which is somewhat rural I have 25mb down/3mb up DSL service.

Think it is a combination of the commercialization of the web, and folks who do/did graphic design work "on paper" tried to move their absolute layout control over to the web, which caused a ton of javascript and css stuff to get created that as others have noted leads to a ton of bloat when a dev wants to use one method/function/tool out of the hundreds any given library provides, and then of course that library is doing the same thing with a few other libraries, etc.

I know a few kids of very rich very smart people who couldn't make it in a community college, much less any place with a competitive admissions process. Not trying to put you or your kids down, but did they make the academic cut or were there some other (probably not given) reasons?

Depends on what a "dev manager" does. We have a similarly named position - "dev coordinator" - and that person's job is to deal with the users, works up some/most of the specs and creates and assigns the work item/ticket. They are also responsible for dealing with QA and user-testing and all the user meetings, etc. - leaving us "just devs" to happily code away with minimal meetings etc.

I used to create accounts in our course management system (a community college) for students at a local state university to take remedial Reading and Writing courses. As a general rule, football players and basket ball players were about half the accounts, with foreign students from various parts of Asia (India, China mostly) making up the rest. About 120 accounts per fall term, university student body was about 45k ...

Sure. But to expand 5x ?

Assuming intake is about the same as output, and assuming that the physical facilities (classrooms, etc) and other resources (instructors, janitors, advisors, etc) are all relatively booked as things are, to increase incoming class size by 5x there will be a bunch of university-specific support/infrastructure increases needed and then a bunch more similar in the surrounding communities (all those new students and staff need places to live, etc too!). Even if you changed classes to be 24/7 in 3 shifts the housing, etc. would still be an issue (well, I guess the adjunct instructors and grad students could hot bunk like on a Navy ship) and then your incoming class could be 6k instead of 2k... still leaving 4k out.