At one point my company made us buy Eclipse from a vendor because free software was not allowed. It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get

Often times when you pay for the product, you are still the product.

My issue is C++ will "let me do it", and by that I mean "you didn't cast here (which is UB), so I will optimize out a null check later, and then segfault in a random location"

Have you ever used wheel-el in emacs? It really sets a high bar.

I liked Urth of the New Sun, but I can also see why it is separate from the others. For me it felt like a step back for the main character.

The Book of the New Sun (really 4 books) gave me the feeling of reading Dune, Hyperion, and Lord of the Rings kind of wrapped into one.

I would also recommend the 4th Dune book (God Emporor), as it wraps up where the first 3 books were going with the Golden Path. After that, he starts a new trilogy, which doesn't get finished, so results may vary.

I don't like Gnome, but I am glad it works for you. At the end of the day Gnome is better than Windows, Mac, and CDE.

Oh no, back to the shadow realm with me!

I'm selfish. I want people educated, housed, and cared for so they don't rob me.

I don't want to dump sewage in the river, so I can drink the water when I visit down stream.

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I don't think the Atari Chess program is as optimized as you think.

I don't eat cereal without milk, so why would I eat my bugs without saltwater.