It's been 14 years since I did any graphics programming, and I was thinking back, "Yeah, I remember this being an issue back then."

The world is unfair in so many ways. I suppose it's not surprising that people forget that we can strive to make it better.

Honestly, I went the other way on this one.

Samsung has just had their product ruled demonstrably inferior by a court of law. Not exactly a marketing message they want celebrate.

Unless you've invented a device to transmit people's thoughts and intentions, then their words are all we have to go by.

Yeah, I'm over 40, and my father was a software guy before me (still working for Adobe).

I came here to say this. Language matters.

You have color graphics? I'm still using my monochrome 80 column card...

Another vote for Yii.

We've used it to develop a mission critical B-to-B site for a client, and it's been a pleasure. It's very well architected, and there are extensions out there for handling almost any need you might have (anything we've come up with, in any case).

I anticipate any future PHP work we do will use it.

When vim 6 was in testing I ran into a small problem with one of the release candidates. Something minor that probably only affected me and a small set of other users. I emailed bugs@vim.org, and in less than 24 hours I got a personal response from Bram who told me he had replicated it and thanked me for my example. It was fixed in the next candidate.

I would be pleased with that kind of responsiveness from a commercial software vender.

GUI? Dude, I can promise you that there was no GUI in Turbo Pascal back in 1986. Also, it was the most amazing development environment back then. A decent editor tied to a fast compiler that would run on computers with 4Mhz chips, 128k of memory, and a floppy drive. I wrote some cool *@#$ with turbo pascal back then.

That aside, I'm pretty sure nobody here is saying that they want to go back to coding in Turbo Pascal. It's more of a gee wiz fact.

I was skeptical, but my skepticism was misplaced.

Here's a research article from the NY Fed back in 2002 about how banks even avoid the checking account reserve requirements by using "sweep accounts" overnight:
http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/02v08n1/0205benn/0205benn.html

"In the most common form of sweeping, funds in bank customers' retail checking accounts are shifted overnight into savings accounts exempt from reserve requirements and then returned to customers' checking accounts the next business day. "

Personally, I find the zero reserve banking system to be pretty worrisome. I can't help but think that much of the bank deregulation from that last 30 years has gotten us where we are now.

The ray bounces!
The ray hits you!
You die...

Yeah, that was my first thought. I'm pretty long in the tooth myself, but for the most part, if something has been forgotten, it's because it is no longer of use.

Sure things come back (the mobile app market is a good example), and this becomes a great opportunity for the older generation to pass on information to the younger. But I'm not going to miss the days where you had to figure out how to handle your data set when you couldn't use more than 64k of consecutive memory.

You clearly didn't click on his link, where you would have been disabused of your notion.