Oracle is using this practice of firing low-performers for decades. That's great for HR, because they do not have to think about anything. When you fire the lowest performing person, the second lowest performing person will automatically become the new lowest performing person that you can fire if necessary.

Flame war for what? Who would use tabs?

How many people used Windows ME? Any stats?

But then, why did we moved away from mainframes in the first place?

Pfft. Recruiters are ghosting too. So what are they complaining about?

Hope you will recover soon.

New technology always starts like things. Things will improve.

$hit. I was just thinking about a career in QA :(

Let it rest in peace.

Thanks for the link to Amber Smalltalk! I didn't know this one. It's good to hear there's something going on with client side Smalltalk.

Maybe this is just me, but I stumble over a lot of this "old programmers" articles recently. What happened? Well, maybe it's just the Google bubble I live in. *sigh*

And what should we do with UBI? Play video games all day? I don't get it.

Emacs and Vim live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?

Where will all the data go?

Brick and mortar business? Whoa! Old school. My butt "everything online".