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Great history on Rod Serling, I used to duck and cover watching TZ when younger. His voice was so convincing to me.

Here is a youtube clip of my favorite TZ episode 'Obsolete Man' which oddly reminds me of todays struggles between the tech vs non-tech workforce.

http://youtu.be/oADlQPJ_Zfc


I installed on VS2013 Ultimate wo/Resharper and here is how it worked for me.

The '///' then tab does nothing but when I start typing in the IDE however it kicks in with a much better Intellisense complete with the Bing snippets like depicted on the VS Gallery. So perhaps they limited the slash+tab sequence?


Try writing more at least everyday to regain your old penmanship, this is what I do and it helps to a certain degree. Im not sure taking penmanship guides would teach you anything you don't already know?

I thought I was alone in this because I've noticed over the last 10 years my handwriting has become horrible!


C# obviously... do I win anything?


I posted this here a while back and since its show hn day, thought I would give an update. We are now at 103k registered users and went to a paid model last month.

As always, would love feedback from the crowd here.


http://www.timetrackturbo.com ...Best I have found so far, easy to use and the developer is easily accessible. (No affiliation, I just use the product)


Depending on time of day

I either listen to Reggae (Banton or Tosh) or Swedish House Mafia (Techno) all via Youtube Channels


Great seeing this again. I remember in its day Cray was like a mythical beast we only heard of since Gov was the only one with enough money to buy one.

The C configuration with hard wrapped wires were awesome. Hard wrapping was the fastest path for electrons from point A to B.


What is "hard wrapping"?

PS: No kidding, can't Google it. I only find articles about jewelry instead.


Back in the bread boarding days, hard wrapping was using a tool to physically wrap a hair thin insulated wire from one pin on an IC to another pin on an IC.

Not using the PCB foil electrical path but rather a direct short path as possible wire connection between two points.


Do you mean wire wrapping? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap


Is this another term for wire wrap, or is it something different?


Yes wire wrapping and hard wrapping the same thing.

Hard wrapping was something the current day mags called it (Popular Electronics) for one.


A Bit Off Topic: If anyone has interest in how it was before smart steering wheels, here is a vid clip of the master Ayrton Senna at Monaco in real-time as it happened.

http://youtu.be/rh6bwZ4ooTI

It is deemed the best in car F1 vid of all times by fans. It is raw and not sped up.


That's unreal. I remember watching the Senna documentary and at the end of one of the races they had to pry him out of his car, starting with his fingers. His teammates were giving him pats on the back and he just screamed out not to touch him.

Insane.


Forearm and leg pump battling lateral G forces, current day Fernando Alonso/Ferrari describes this during his race season if you following him.

During the Senna video above, he takes his hand off the steering wheel with 2+ lateral G’s to shift which is insane also. Today’s drivers paddle shift with both hands on the wheel.


And back in Senna's day relatively little attention was paid to the physical performance of the driver — nowadays all the drivers spend far, far more time on their fitness.


That was most probably in Brazil where in treacherous wet conditions his gear-box got jammed at 6th gear. And he drove his car in 6th gear for several laps towards the end.


Yes those were the details I was missing, thank you.


BTW, even if you're not an F1 fan (I wasn't), check out the Senna documentary, a great movie: http://www.sennamovie.com/


That video never gets old. Taking your hand off the wheel to manual shift one of the most powerful f1 cars ever made around Monaco... That f1 era was quite insane.


Monaco is scary.


Postman is exactly what I have been looking for. I used Fiddler for years and always thought it to be heavy and awkward to use. It's strange I never heard about Postman before this post.

I like working out of the browser and Postman has just the right amount of features I need.


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