Most of my work is in either embedded systems or Linux device drivers. In both cases recursion is a Really Bad Thing (tm) if you can't promise not to wipe out your stack.

Plug it into my TV, then let me stream music/video from my laptop. My laptop is harder to lose than a small remote (hello Roku, lost your @!#$$ remote over the holidays), usually within arms reach, can access my 3 TB NAS, and is easy to get content onto. My TV is plugged into my stereo, and the stereo remote is not only nice and big, but gets used several times a day. Currently the only way to play my music on my stereo is to burn a CD.

/ not picking on you Roku // I seem to have issues with small, seldom used remotes

I run Thunderbird on my laptop. It connects to gmail, downloads my mail, and lets me sort the mail into folders. Not to mention always having a local copy of my mail. Couldn't tell you the last time I went to gmail.com from a browser.

Don't even get me started on tags. I hate tags, don't understand why anyone would like them. Put my mail into folders and leave me be.

It's a no-brainer. We just need to take it to the next level to turn this into a win-win situation. The best practice is to get rid of the low-hanging fruit first. Ping me with an agenda so we can go flag up on this thing

to "finger", cuz someone put a ring on it.

About a year ago I had a craftsman socket driver I bought in the 70's crap out on me. Took it to Sears, showed the clerk the ratchet mechanism no longer worked, he gave me a brand spankin new one.

Yeah, a month or so ago I picked up a few USB and HDMI cables from the 99 cent store. Not because I needed them, but because I saw them there and those things are handy to have around.

Some 20 years ago I worked for a small company who's lead programmer was legally blind. He wasn't 100% blind, but had very little vision. He worked on a Linux box that had one of the biggest screens available at the time, and his font size was huge. I could easily read his screen from across the room.

Guy was a phenomenal programmer. His code seldom had bugs. He knew the entire code-base inside out. Basically, as it was so hard for him to read code, he memorized it when he did read it.

My top priority is being able to have Thunderbird connect to the mail server. I much prefer having my email local, rather than in "the cloud".

We figured out the Atari cartridge was nothing more than a popular PROM (2716?) with one of the control signals reversed. We made our own cartridges that used an EEPROM, then used our EEPROM burner to read cartridges and store the contents on a floppy. We'd then burn EEPROMs of the games we wanted, and pop them into the ZIF socket on our home made cartridges.

I remember 7-8 years ago I was lead on a new project and we were deciding on a scripting language. I wanted Python over Perl. It was clearly easier to both read and write, and had object orientation.

What shot it down? My boss telling me "we have a thousand engineers world-wide who know perl, and you 6 will be the Python experts. You really wanna support a thousand engineers learning Python over the next 5 years?"

Wanna simplify the tax system? Declare anyone in Congress must do their own taxes. No CPAs, no accountants, no advisers. I'd be tempted to say no tax software, but that might be going to far.

Guarantee, within 1 year taxes will be greatly simplified.

Get yourself a better CPA. Mine is a tax expert. First few years I used him I did my taxes in TurboTax to compare, he always found enough magic such that he paid for himself in taxes I saved. Not to mention I just had to shovel data to him, instead of spending a few hours in TT myself.
Gotta find a new guy though, last year he told me he was getting married and moving out of state :(

My dad used to go to church Saturday to mimeograph the Sunday bulletin. I still remember the smell and sound of that thing.

Let's try two hours of exposure to pornhub and see what sorts of jeans expression changes are detected.